 Donegal County Council says he's hopeful today's rescheduled special meeting will go ahead as planned. Last week's meeting was adjourned after a number of disruptions and allegations that Councillor Gary Doherty's mobile phone was stolen by another councillor. The meeting is regarding a report into the council's purchase of five homes at the Encranla State in Boncran, where the local authority was fined to have acted properly. Care log of Donegal County Council councillor Liam Blaney says Gardie will be present today, but hopes all concerts will act with respect. I feel that it will be safe enough to hold the meeting again and I've required that Gardie will be present today and hopefully it will not be needed and we can carry on and finish our meeting and carry on our business as usual with our plan for that again. And that we'll be able to carry on as usual and everybody will act as a way they should act and respect each other and respect staff and hopefully we will get there because we don't want to see any scenes like we've seen the last day at all. A mobile phone bill and letter has helped identify those responsible for fly tipping at a scenic location in Inneshaun. Last week, a large quantity of household items was discovered dumped near Liston and Grawoods. While examining the find, a name, address and phone bill displaying a mobile number was identified. Donegal County Council has subsequently issued a fixed penalty fine. Councillor Terry Crossan says in this occasion the perpetrators would have had to travel further to dump in Donegal. In this particular instance, the telephone, this will be, it would have actually been much closer than having to drive across the border to dump in Liston and Grawoods. So that shows you just stupidly. Heather and I, any lingering mist and fog will gradually clear this morning, leaving a hot and mostly sunny day, highest temperatures of 26 to 32 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Attention all staff, clean up on aisle 4 please, that's a clean up on aisle 4. And Jacob who's popped in for a pint of milk has diabetes. We don't always know who's at risk from COVID-19 and other viruses, but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask, let fresh air in, get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell. From the HSC, for us all. Broadcasting throughout the Northwest and across the world online. This is Highland Radio, your voice, your station. And a very good morning to you. This is the Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. It's Donald Kavanaugh on the programme on Till 12 noon today. It's a Monday, it's the 18th of July and it has the makings of a very good day indeed. Now a couple of people around the Northwest were somewhat surprised when expecting a wonderful day on Saturday and starting to get the barbecues out and get ready for a lovely day in the sun. It suddenly started raining and stayed raining for much of the afternoon on Saturday. And today it looks as though that may not happen and we might be finally about to get that good day we've been expecting. If you want to make contact with the programme, it's 086-60-25000 for your text messages. You can call us on 07491-25000. Caroline is producing and taking your calls. Donna Marie, working on the programme this morning as well. You can also use comments at highlandradio.com if you're emailing. You can use social media, it's at Highland Radio on Twitter, it's Highland Hub on Facebook and of course we are broadcasting the programme on Facebook. So you can watch proceedings unfold on Facebook and on our YouTube channel as well at Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube. So a myriad of ways that you can experience and participate in the show. As we say, it's a Monday. So we began our paper review this morning with the Donegal News. Nice picture on the front, Keenan and Denham McCarron cooling down at Wrathmullen yesterday as temperatures hit the mid-20s. Nice photograph there and the main story contract awarded for Harbour Project. The contract for the 16.5 million euro peer extension project at Kili Beggs Fishery Harbour Centre has been awarded. It's now expected that work will get under way there within weeks. Also hottest day of the year today is said to be the hottest day of the year so far with Metair and predicting that temperatures in Donegal could reach 30 degrees Celsius. Daryne used this morning anger at shameful treatment of dairy supporters. Dublin residents hit out at overzealous and vindictive clamping of cars of Oakleaf fans attending all Ireland's semi. A number of Dary fans attending the recent All Ireland Senior Football Championship semi finally against Galway at Croke Park in Dublin were treated shamefully according to a number of the capitalist residents. It's emerged that vehicles belonging to Dary supporters were clamped, a move that's been described as overzealous and vindictive and there's more on that story inside. One nice picture of one of the street traders at the legendary street food festival that was staged on Dary's key side over the course of the weekend. A lot of activity in Dary over the weekend and a lot more to come because of course we have the Clipper Race, we have the Foil Maritime Festival in the coming days as well and tens of thousands expected to attend that lots of detail on that too within the Dary news today so it's a good time to be in the maiden city it would appear also of course if you're in Donegal can't let any reference to things happening go without referencing the Ergal Arts Festival and the fact it's so much wonderful cultural, artistic and musical experiences and events happening right across Donegal in all parts of the county a lot happening over the coming days you can check eaf.ie for all the details a lot has happened but a lot more yet to come. Nationals this morning the Irish Independent, lovely picture of garage Hegarty of Limerick celebrating after scoring his side's goal during the All-Ireland senior hurling final against Kilkenny at Croke Park yesterday. I mean what a match it was such a match to watch and I would have roots in Kilkenny and Waterford so I would obviously have an interest in Kilkenny and I was watching yesterday and it was a great game of hurling and Limerick around top then Kilkenny start creeping back and then Limerick creep ahead they'll kill Kenny catch up and Limerick creep ahead and Kilkenny catch up and then Kilkenny edge the nose in front then Limerick come back and it was just two great teams fighting. I saw a comment on Twitter last night that gave me pause for thought and it said why do we always finish the year with the football final surely after watching that hurling match that took place yesterday. It should be the hurling that is the climax and not the football. It's a very interesting question and it's a question I'm almost loathe to ask in an area surrounded by Donny Galdary and Terrone three of the greatest football teams in the country but it's an interesting one. I might ask Brendan DeVenny that one actually when he's in I'm sure we'd be touching on that among other things when Brendan drops in at 11 to preview the DL debate which of course takes place tonight after the seven o'clock news and his podcast on Highland Radio as well. Irish Times this morning made headline on the Times this morning is government may fund thousands of on-campus student beds. Carl O'Brien rights fears mount as accommodation shortages reach crisis levels in September. Now funding thousands of on-campus beds will be very handy for you know the future but at this point in time you know it does beg the question what about this year because we've spoken to so many people on news on the show and elsewhere about the whole question of student accommodation and you know funding thousands of on-campus beds for next year great but I mean you know it's going to be a real hot topic in the coming weeks as people try to get accommodation for the 22-23 academic year. Also on the Times Limerick Harlow's enter Pantheon of Greatness that's a three in a row of course and not an awful lot of counties have managed that Kilkenny being one of them and also minister says free meals should be extended to child care settings free meals expanded to child care settings meals on wheels programs ramped up in significant increases in welfare payments are among the measures that social inclusion minister Joe O'Brien wants to introduce in a bid to tackle what are rising levels of food poverty. Let's look at the Irish Daily Mail this morning. Finlay Gwale fear as squeezed middle is ignored yet again. The government has privately admitted its cost of living reliefs have not helped the squeeze middle. The Irish Daily Mail has learned the coalition is planning an array of emergency measures for the autumn especially in respect of fuel allowance. One Finlay Gwale source says there is a recognition that significant amounts of money will have to be allocated to fuel poverty. People are going to be called this winter. Also, another picture of the the McCarthy Cup being hoisted aloft by Limerick and jail no more as I'm Mrs Affleck now, which I presume means that Jennifer Lopez has married Ben Affleck. Is that Ben or is it his brother? I think it's Ben. Yeah, yeah, probably. Let's look at the tabloids this morning and it's the same program on each of the tabloids. Irish Daily Mirror player held at airport is the subheading and the main headline ex Ireland ace Stokes caught and cuffed ex Celtic footballer Anthony Stokes was taken into custody as he arrived in Scotland in Cuffs yesterday. The 33 year old striker who'd evaded Cubs for a year looked for Lauren as he was led away by officers waiting for his flight from Belfast to land. He was wanted for failing to appear in court to be sentenced for sending his ex girlfriend's dad's offensive texts and that's the Irish Daily Mirror this morning. Irish Daily Star Stokes not off Scott free footy fugitive nicked ex Ireland sucker star Anthony Stokes is due in court today after being arrested and flown to Scotland following a year of evading court there and Kylie's heroes another more coverage of the Limerick and Loch Nann. This was one of the best finals in history and certainly I don't think anyone who watched that match yesterday would disagree too much with that and front of the Irish Sun this morning shamed Ireland ace lifted fugitive Stokes busted and another story derdre quiz for Larry Pal. Gar thee will request to speak to a psychotic killer about his friendship with sex beast Larry Murphy Cubs probing the 1998 murder of Derdre Jacob hope that jailed Rory O'Connor will do the right thing to help the case and we know there was a an instruction from the DPP of no prosecution at the weekend and it's widely reported in the national media that Larry Murphy was the target of that particular gar thee investigation amidst suggestions that a person that was seen standing very close to Derdre Jacobs in a queue outside of post office resembled Murphy now my understanding is they have been unable to prove that it was him but that is the situation as it stands there so there your papers on this Monday morning it's 13 minutes past nine just to remind you if you want to text us oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand you can call us 07491 twenty five thousand and we're contactable across social media and email comments at highlandvideo.com as well as I say 13 minutes past nine back 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local dealer Highland motors mountaintop letter Kenny call now on 074 91 25 000 okay you know the way there have been roadworks in letter Kenny and we've all said look we'll just put up with it for a couple of months and then it'll be over and it'll be finished and we won't have to put up with it again if you're in or around about the high road area or if you're a business on the high road area it's going to close for six weeks from the second of August to the ninth of September in order to facilitate water mains works and for some businesses that spells very bad news indeed I'm joined in studio by D Stanislavov who is the co-owner of the Honeypot coffee house on High Road in letter Kenny D good morning good morning Donald um D put this in the context obviously you know Honeypot does a lot of business it gets a lot of passing trade but if High Road is closed what impact is that going to have it will be absolutely crazy the traffic will be atrocious and will impact a lot lots of businesses in in that that area uh we're not going to be able to get any deliveries and uh we won't get any passing trade so it will be bad news for local businesses what extent is disclosure going to affect the area how much of high road will close for instance can people use that new Ty Colbert car park uh beside the museum and walk down from there or does the closure actually extend beyond that to be honest I don't know because I found out on a Friday morning by a local business uh that the road will be closing uh we have no information at all so uh to be honest I can't uh tell you actually no I I can tell you I'm just looking at a briefing note here it it's closing from a new line road down so it's starting a new line so at least at least you know if someone wants to go at least they can park in the Ty Colbert car park now here's what's going to happen is cars that can't get down into town now presumably that's going to mean that car park is going to get really busy now because everyone's going to be leaving the car there and perhaps walking into town so you know that that could have its own effect but there is no doubt in your mind indeed that this is going to impact on your business it will be impact on my business I mean we we know that I mean there was a lot of work said took place just before COVID around 2019 and early 2020 uh on on water mains right around letter Kenny and there were regular meetings between the contractors and the council between the contractors and chamber are you saying that hasn't happened this time uh I to be honest I don't know uh I found out by a local business about it and uh I didn't have any information from any of the authorities so as far as you are aware the situation now as it stands is that road is closing from new line road down to the traffic lights the uh the upper main street traffic light junction there and your business is smack in the middle of that yes exactly in the middle of it um because you know if it's not access to lotters and stuff how are we going to get deliveries or you know our suppliers to get to us the other question is uh they're working on water mains which does bring up the whole issue of supplies is there potentially going to be disruption to your water supply because obviously for a restaurant to mean a steady water supply is vital we are coffee house we need water to make coffee and you know uh you need to have facilities for people to wash hands and you know so if it's uh uh if it's no water we can operate I'm joined on the line by councillor Jerry McMonagall uh Jerry good morning good morning don't know um Jerry it seems to me uh there's a certain case of deja vu here because I mean it seems to me that we were having this conversation in 2019 and we were uh told that the situation would change and things would improve yeah and uh hopefully that will be the case after these works are completed uh that what's what's happening at the minute I've been on to Eriswater uh this morning again just to get further clarification on on the works and how they're going to proceed uh and and as you said it's duty start on the 2nd of August uh they have put in for six weeks of a road closure uh but they they they they hope they have that the work's done in three and a half to four weeks they've informed me uh the six weeks is just to allow them in case they're running any difficulties which at this moment time they don't see and they're going to they said they're going to commit themselves to get the the contract done between three and a half of four weeks but from what from what do you say to us the first he heard was when he was told by local business and it appears the first public knowledge of this was when that uh request came into council to have the road closed did you have any pre-warning did you have any pre-discussions did you have any approaches made to you no and uh we we got an email sent to us there just that the the back end of last week they're probably Friday morning as well uh just outlining uh three works that were do we take in place in letter Kenny in the common months church lane port road and the high road uh we know now the church lane has been postponed until mid-september uh and uh the high road now is going to take the slot there the road closure applications have just got in the council now have the road uh applications uh road closure applications in front of them they're going to scrutinize them and and be as tight as possible to ensure that the least amount of disruption is is visitors on uh local businesses and the local residents it's it's from what i i was water being telling me don't know is that they're going to start the works at McGilligan's hotel and they're going to do 16 meters at a time that you will be able to access uh the high road all the way down to the barriers where the works will be taken place access will be uh allowed for businesses and supplies and and they would hope they would hope now that they told me this morning that they would hope to be with local businesses and residents today tomorrow and the next day to inform them and bring them fully up to date with the work schedule they've also uh offered if if the businesses and residents which they take it is uh to do an afternoon briefing either through the chamber uh and so that they can put any questions that they might have and that Irish Water will work with them as best they can now that's what i'm being told uh this this morning uh of course the it's a 190 meter uh contract and it's from McGilligan's to the new line road and it's replacing an old asbestos pipe so that that's the most updated information that i have got this morning i have d in studio with me d is co-owner of the honeypot coffee house which you'll know when of course uh smack on in the middle of of those works d yeah this is consider cherry mcdonough you know i'm i'm sure and what would you have to ask cherry this morning um like 2019 you know Irish Water did some work and they did work nighttime so the road was accessed during the day would that not be possible this time yeah well d i i put that to them uh on friday and today again uh in relation to the nighttime work uh they said because of the the whole the proximity of the hotel uh local residents that that would not be possible this time they also said the other reason for it being uh a nighttime would would uh extend the the the time of the contract by another four weeks and that would cause further and longer disruption for local businesses and residents so uh because they would have to every morning they'd have to fill in and reinstate the road for the open up during the day so they felt that a shorter uh sort of you know break and a shorter contract although it will disrupt businesses and residents it would be better in the long run for them and that's what they uh uh told me this morning when i asked them to consider the nighttime like they did before okay i want to go to ana who is owner of Holgreen which of course is on church lane now we now know the church lane works that were to have taken place in august have now been postponed until september um ana i suppose uh in in some ways it's an ill wind that blows no good you you're quite happy with what's been announced over the past couple of days uh morning guys um i wouldn't say happy it's definitely slightly better for us and back in 2019 when i believed it was sewage work maybe it was watered but they dug up the church lane for five weeks in july and that actually put us down 40 for the month which obviously we absorbed and it was difficult but we got through it and then we had two years of covid and then when i heard i will say compared to d i've had a lot more communication from um from the water board but um when i was talking to them there the last couple of weeks and i explained the whole situation to them and how much it hurt the business and after you know covid and things being tough with um inflation at the moment but i essentially said to them that there was a high chance that they could close my business if they did it in our two strongest months to lie in august and and they have agreed they went off and had a lot of discussions and have come back and said that they can do since september it's still going to hurt a lot but at least it's giving us our two best months to try and get some money behind us to get through the winter and i think that's what most businesses are scared of is these are our months to make money so that we can make it back until next year and and the tourist trade hasn't been as good this year i think everyone's noticed that as it has been our last couple of years so it's definitely a worry and we also heard essentially that we're going to have two more road closures by the end of the year so it's not even this it's it's what's coming afterwards so my kind of main problem is the fact that there's no communication between all these people digging up the road i mean i think this is going to be the fifth or sixth road closure we've had in five years and you know we just can't keep absorbing those costs especially when they're for you know three to five weeks at a time and andi what ana said there is exactly the situation that you're in that you you know you're looking at the next couple of weeks as potentially your best chance to make some good money before the winter and you now could watch that literally evaporate before your eyes yeah august is one of our strongest months of the year so um we we're basically relying on a summer trade to survive for the uh you know quieter months you know later on the year so um you know having the road closed for for so long will be very badly impact i mean obviously you'd you'd want the chance to speak to the contractors i mean from what council mcmonagall was telling us there the contractors have pledged that they will speak to businesses they will speak to the chamber and they will speak to the counselors now maybe it's a little bit late in the day for that to happen we don't know what the timeline was could could it be and jerry i might ask you this could it be for instance that because the church lane works were put back that that gave an opportunity for the contractors to do high road now and they've sort of jumped in to take the slot could could that be the situation we're in yeah looks like it don't know and uh as i say you know the the road closure applications i'm with council now and the duty of the council now to put strange and conditions on them road closures to ensure that uh there's there's full access and particularly for the legs of these business there for deliveries etc but there's a constant feed of of water because that's very important for for his business and you know the council have assured me that they are going to look at this very earnestly and ensure that they stick very closely to the contract and it's minimal disruption now you haven't said that the roads are still going to be partially closed for three and a half before weeks and that's a worry and a concern i can imagine for businesses but from the council point of view we will try and ensure as little disruption as possible and stay with the contractor to ensure that that happens it seems to me the most important thing that can happen right now is for you and the contractors to sit down face to face be it in the context of a meter with chamber and counselors or if someone calls your premises and you say to them look at the very least i need access for deliveries between these times i need a full water supply i need such and such water pressure i mean would would it ease your mind somewhat if you at least got the chance to talk to them and find out exactly what's happening and what guarantees they can give you yeah that will be that will be much better at least to have it clear what is happening yeah and uh if we're gonna get if we're gonna have water during that period and what the situation will be yeah and Anna from what you were saying earlier i mean you know D it you were still down 40 percent at the time those works were going on in church lane but at least you felt the level of communication seemed to be a little bit better and that somewhat eased the situation it didn't resolve it obviously from your point of view but it somewhat mitigated the situation that could have been worse i suppose so it's just we we've been through it before and i spoke i don't want to say the man's name but his name is on the card that came through the door he's one of the contractors and i also had an engineer around as well so i've had conversations with them and essentially it's the same process they're going to try and do the work at the bottom of the lane and then reopen half the lane and to get for us to get deliveries i don't know the situation with water coming on and off but we were told to be given at least 24 hour notice on that but the problem for us is that most of our seating is outside it's you know we you know there's dust there's noise people just you look up the lane and you see some sort of a barricade you're not going to come up and you're certainly not going to sit outside and have a coffee with the kango hammer going all day so you know it's it's it's just inevitable that that's going to happen my as i said my main problem was that i can't understand why it wasn't coordinated or why we couldn't wait till later months like kind of november or february i'm all for clean water everybody needs it but at the same time there is months that were all quiet that it wouldn't hurt so bad so i know the road works the reason our road works were put back was because we're connecting in with some other work that they're doing at the top of the lane so that was one of the reasons why they could push us back but essentially i just can't see why it wasn't done at the same time as other works coordinated with other works or why they couldn't leave it to really quiet times like november or february yeah and indeed at that point animate is a good one there that i mean you know if you've got building works going on on the street no one's going to want to sit outside and there is a lovely seating area outside honeypot and it's covered it's a great place to sit i i'm no stranger to it myself um but you know very few people are going to want to sit there when as anna said there's there's a kango hammer going a couple yards up the road oh yeah i totally agree uh all the dust and all the noise uh who would like to sit outside and have a chat you won't be able to to hold the conversation so um yeah that they could postpone it like for later on you know you know the quiet months and winter months or something so um i totally agree yeah well i mean indeed anna thank you very much indeed for speaking to us and andy thank you i want to give the final word to you a councillor jerry mcmonagher because you're you've been a regular commentator on roads and road works and a caller has made a comment and and this reflects what a lot of people i think are saying just in the whole town is a building site right now we've got the four lane which was to have finished i think in august but is being slightly delayed we've got the work going on around since union's college and that whole um the one-way system now around that sort of educational triangle in just above the cathedral and now the high road works and more works on pierce road traffic lights and and they're saying look there's so much happening at the moment you know people are sort of actually starting to avoid letter kenny because they're worried about traffic yeah look there's two ways you can look at that uh we can look and see the much investment that's being put into the town and how uh things are infrastructures being upgraded roads are being upgraded and it in the long run it will present a better access and and accessibility and better water uh quality and there is unfortunately it comes with that there's the pain of you know delays in traffic and longer waiting times getting home or getting to the shock and that does have its consequences but i would hope that it will be loyal to letter kenny and that when these works are completed that it will show uh aesthetically and and for uh getting about and for access that will be a better place going forward and look it's it's uh it's good to see the work it's good to see the investment in the town and and that there in conjunction with our urban regeneration monies that we've been granted i mean letter kenny has gone through a a phase of changing now and all for the better hopefully councillor germic want to go thank you very much indeed uh andy stanice above uh co-owner of the honey pot uh on high road in letter kenny thank you very much indeed andy we wish you well with the business and hopefully that disruption uh it it's inevitable there will be some but hopefully it can be minimized thank you do you thank you if you can join me brendan of any this monday for the dl debate it's a huge weekend for our senior ladies footballers as they take on myth in the all-island semi-final at crowbar with interviews and analysis from the big match joining me in the show veteran ga correspondent jerry mcgahen to discuss all-island hurling final and the two club semi-finals taking place in dunigawal this weekend also in the show frank roach of the endo sport to discuss all-island football series so far and the final to come that's the dl debate podcast on heilandradio.com and just have a seven day news this monday on heilandradio the dl debate with sister sarah's letter kenny serving food you'll love till 9 p.m. daily in sarah's kitchen and there's free admission entertainment every weekend don't sleep in and miss the very latest beds and mattress offers from dfimbeds.ie irland's leading online bed and mattress retailer you'll get a comfy irish made mattress a post-drag 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phenomenal and on on behalf of of everyone thank you um but we're here to talk about the fact that people are more and more likely now to go out and to go walking and to go exploring absolutely hi good morning donnie thanks for having me on um yeah especially in this sort of weather it's it's very tempting to head outdoors and very understandable to do so um it's unprecedented the temperatures that we're going to be getting especially today and tomorrow from the weather forecast so it's just very important to be mindful if you are heading out the door today and there are certain things that people can do to make sure that they minimize um if anything happens that they increase shall we say their chances of making contact and communicating with the outside world and absolutely key to that in this day and age is a fully charged mobile phone yeah that's very very important it's always um great to have a fully charged phone on you just in case anything should happen uh what's great to have on you as well if it's available is a charger pack um if you can have that fully charged and in your bag as well the heat can affect the battery life of your phone so having a charger pack there uh just gives you the option just in case you have any issues with the battery on your phone always to an idea to have uh some food with you and especially some water particularly in a weather like this of course yeah um no matter what the weather if you're ever heading out for a walk or up into the hills it's very important to have sufficient water and sufficient supplies of food with you um especially today and especially with the warm weather water is key and if for whatever reason you do get into difficulty making sure that you have an appropriate amount of food with you um some people may not think of it but actually having some sugary food maybe some sweets and some chocolate can be good as well just to keep the energy levels up and if you need to wait to get assistance or if you find that your walk has taken longer um than than you thought it might so yeah having haven't supplies in the bag is really important obviously in terms of um some of the popular walking routes they're thinking of Eregal for example Mukesh to a certain extent there are well-defined paths well laid out and a lot of people likely to be on the walk at the same time so it's a public and reasonably well laid out area a lot of work going on in Eregal at the moment to to improve that in a sustainable way but you know if someone is going to an area perhaps they don't know as well what precautions should they be taking to ensure that they minimize risk well essentially you should always be head and out for a walk knowing your route uh you should consult a map or there's great GPS apps on your phone uh that should always be first and foremost you shouldn't be walking into anywhere really where you you're unsure of the terrain or unsure of the route or unsure of what's ahead of you uh so always make sure that you know your route and make sure that especially if you're heading out on your own that somebody else knows where you're going what time you're leaving what time you're expecting to be back on what route you are taking a lot of those GPS apps are able to track your location as well which is always great for us for whatever reason if you do get into difficulty we're able to use that in any help that the casualty can give us to look at them as always helpful as well but essentially try not to go out for a walk or a hike on a route that you're unfamiliar with and would it be an ideal aura for for people going out particularly into the mountains or into the hills to have your phone number and your contact details on hand just in case or should they make contact with the 911 and have you taxed via the coast guard or via the Garde if anybody head and out ever gets into any difficulty and finds himself in any difficulty uh yeah absolutely do not hesitate to phone 999 or 112 and ask for mountain rescue uh our facebook page isn't man 24 seven and it is not an appropriate way to get in touch with us so absolutely 999 or 112 and that's Laura there from Donegal Mountain Rescue Laura thank you very much indeed obviously as well as people going out onto the hills and onto the land people will also be going out onto the water and we're joined on zoom this morning by john mccarter who's the lifeboat operations manager with the locks willy or nli john good morning to you good morning Donald good to talk to you and yourself as well again the or in the light do fantastic work which is appreciated right across the community and without the or in the lie uh countless people who are walking around today and are enjoying life would not be doing so and uh that's testament to to the wonderful light where the wonderful work that the or the liar are doing uh john in terms of um the advice you would give to people again if people are out swimming uh it's the obvious advice but it's advice that bears repeating and it's very important yeah but that's right donal i mean a lot of it as the day is common sense and i just it's a case of thinking about it and applying it um you know the the sort of if you're i mean when you take a day like today it's very inviting to go into the water and and that's that's great and i'm delighted that people can get to do it but you do have to think a little about it and you know when you're going in uh you know go stay in your own depth um swim when you go swimming you you don't need a lot more than your own depth factory swim so you can try and swim parallel to the shore rather than heading outwards and if possible if you're if you're you know go with go with somebody go don't go in your own uh where possible um and then if you're if you're going for sort of but a serious swimming or that try and wear uh a brightly colored uh uh you know a swimming cap or a toe or toe a flotation device because the flotation device would it would just you know tied around your waist doesn't the Henry swimming or anything but it lets you be seen by other other water users and particularly people on fast moving jet skis that it's you know it's very hard to see a person or just a head bobbing in the water but if you have a brightly colored float or a brightly colored swimming cap it does make you a lot more obvious and the the uh the float will give you a little bit extra flotation if you need to take a rest etc so those are important things to do um the the temperature of our water doesn't vary a whole lot it may look a lot more inviting today than it did in the middle of the winter but it is it is you know varies uh between 13 and 14 degrees so it don't stay in too long you inevitably will get cold but your body should tell you it's time to time to get out out of here and and then when you do come out and again on a day like today it might be you you'll be quite uh liable just to lie and dry off but a lot of days you need to dry fairly quickly and get into one of these robes or or or that to make it so that you don't start to get cold so but as I say it is all fairly common sense but it makes makes uh it makes good practice to to do those sort of things in your own swimming uh boats and watercraft obviously john uh a large part of the ornilie's work over the years has been to to go to to help those who are in trouble in most cases thankfully uh there isn't any huge drama it could be an engine failure or a problem with that and uh the ornilie will assist in getting the craft to shore and everyone on the craft is is safe and well that's usually thankfully the case but uh again people going out to sea on boats and and various other watercraft there are very simple and effective measures they can be taking to increase their chance of survival should there be an issue that that's right and again it's all all good practice and and the right things to do in common sense you know check if it's a motorboat check your engine check your fuel check that it's rolling don't just go out there turn the key and off you go let it run for a while make sure things are are correct and and and and you know that then you should be all right but inevitably it is mechanical and things do break down we've been out twice this past week to people who have broken down for one reason or another or got a rope around their prop or so that you know that these things do happen and that's what we're there for we're there to help people who get into trouble but you can avoid a lot of that by making the the right checks before you go and also bring some sort of means of communication a radio VHF radio ideally good secondary thing is a mobile phone if everybody has them but make sure it's charged but coverage can be a bit sporadic and patchy out at sea so and and also a waterproof container for it is a very valuable thing so the phone you know can be can be operation and if you're going on a bit of a longer journey do call the Coast Guard we're very fortunate to have Malinhead Coast Guard in our vicinity and they're only delighted to have a call from somebody who's making a journey telling them where they're going when they expect to arrive and what route they expect to take and they'll keep an eye on you and if anything happens they'll alert us or somebody to to go and have a look at it so a bit of planning a bit of good practice and a lot of people will be a lot safer at sea important to over the thought that you know what you're doing because for instance with things like jet skis you know someone might be tempted to either rent one or pick one up or borrow one from somebody and just go out onto the water if someone is about to do that they need I'm sure to think very very carefully do they know what they're doing do they have control of it do they know how to operate it and are they taking the right precautions to ensure that there aren't difficulties yeah that's absolutely right Donald it's all too easy as I said to take these very attractive craft turn the key and off you go and never give a real thought to what happens if this stops or where am I am I wearing a life jacket or life preserver you know and it's taking the right steps before you go usually prevents a serious accident sadly one of the things we hear about from time to time and there have been cases here in in Donnie Golland the north west including around the country one case quite recently actually is people falling from cliffs and people walking along cliffs and you know losing their footing and going down now obviously that's perhaps more the preserve of the mountain rescue team and the cliff rescue team than yourselves but something too that people need to be you know careful about in the vicinity of and around the water yeah it is Donald in fact we have a campaign running now for several years called respect the water and it really centers on that and that there's approximately 200 people a year go into the water and never intend it to be anywhere near it they went for a walk close by or they got cut off from the tide and suddenly they're in the water and if it's as a result of a fall down a cliff they could already be injured but they'll certainly be disorientated and panic tends to set in and there's a few simple steps that people can do if they go into the water accidentally and it's all centered on the word float and if you take F out of float is to fight your instinct to panic and swim hard fight that then lean back in the water and clear your airways then open up your body if you're a swimmer you'll know how to do this but open up your body extend your arms and legs push your stomach up to float and then with gentle A for actions take gentle actions with your hands and feet to keep you floating and T is for time and that will give you some time maybe a minute a minute and a half and you'll start to be in control of your faculties again but what and that's F-L-O-A-T and if they can remember those that the word float and the actions to take against the letters that's that'll get you that fact our very vital minute or minute and a half to get re-orientated before panic sets in and you could easily drown and it gives time then for the rescue services to get to you and give you some necessary help and finally John if you don't mind if someone is walking along the shore and they look out and they think they see someone in trouble um you know what what should they do if they don't doubt yourself for a moment if you think you see somebody in trouble then you probably have and call 999 or 112 and that will bring you directly to the Coast Guard or ask for the Coast Guard child and and tell them what you're seeing and they will then take that over take the responsibility of you they'll take as much information as they can and that will probably send the R&L I out or whatever but never you should never have a doubt about doing that because we would much rather be going out on a call that ends that you know with no problem or somebody gets out of the difficulty and we'll come back to shore we don't worry about doing that we'd far rather do that than let something develop into a serious incident or a drowning or a recovery of a body which is far far far harder to deal with for everybody than going out on a call that said no we can stand out so if you go out there and you find a log you're happy yeah we don't mind it's all it all adds to our training anyway but the more use we make of the boat the better it is but if it comes to nothing we don't worry about that we're quite happy we would prefer people to make the call and when the rescue services will make the make the judgment as to what they what they have to do so in both the R&L case and the mountain rescue cases we had with Laura earlier call 999 call 112 and ask for mountain rescue or coast guard and and make contact that way there's no need to be bringing numbers for luxury life voting numbers for arne more and numbers for port russian numbers for bundles just call 999 and that'll set things in motion yeah because the model head coast guard can then or the model head rescue services will then coordinate the whole thing be it rnli and ambulance the guard of the fire service the helicopter it all goes through the one channel so it's a simple one simple call and never worry if it comes to nothing john mccarter thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning it's been a pleasure as always and we wish you and your colleagues well thank you very much don't look good to talk to you as always absolutely and that's john mccarter there from the luxe willy or the lie joined on the line by councilor michael mcclaffordy michael good morning good morning very well indeed thanks to michael we were speaking to john there about jet skiers and jet skiing and we know that sometimes there can be issues with jet skis and jet skiers and you believe it is an issue at the moment uh around about the dunfani area at yes donal there was a there was a significant incident there last weekend with fanny where where now mustess it was it was an incident but at the same time education become involved and once education was involved that sort of things out it was a couple of young people and such out in jet skis um possibly maybe possibly to be fair don't possibly the first time out in the water was the first summer and then every day so they were they were they were running through the swimmers they were actually very close to the to dunfani beach you're aware of there i'm sure they weren't very close to the beach where the swimmers were and the lifeguards had to swim out had to swim out to advise them to move on to move out to a safe area once they did they did do in fairness once engaged with the lifeguards but again it comes back to the point here donal uh education is key with these machines these machines are deadly they're lethal like and education is key in it because clearly whoever you purchase them from from a main dealer whatever i don't know what to store what the status is there if you get a handbook of safety or not but if you don't get a handbook of safety though certainly something will need to be looked at and as well as that as well as something myself and other members of the council there particularly over last week there's been a lot of phone calls and stuff about it and behind the scenes there's been the lifeguards and the guardian one thing another there's a lot going on there it's an overall picture that needs to be looked at safety on the beach just for these jet skis or or or speedboats either and fairness speedboats don't seem to be a problem but i suppose in the same talk when you take the speedboat for example along you see yourself um it's a more mature person that has the speedboats for example there obviously takes a lot of money to buy a speedboat so it's more mature age group that will have it and obviously i think it goes without saying themselves i know themselves the rush is obviously what it's about what the jet skis um they're a bit more accessible to buy possibly for for anybody or rent whatever the skis may be but unfortunately the education is to be cannot be in the airhands from or what them you must be a way out way way out from from the from the water lane they go from the beach lane sorry it's certainly an important one and thanks thanks indeed for highlighting that um and indeed that that does reflect what john mccarter was saying to us there that i mean under no circumstances should people just uh grab a machine turn the key and out you go without knowing exactly what you're doing and without having a firm handle on how to deal with it and look i'm sure i'm sure there are safety handbooks with all these pieces of equipment when you buy them but hand on heart how many of us when we buy a new piece of equipment be it a car or be it a new lawnmower how many of us actually do sit down and read all the safety instructions and the manuals they come with them and i suspect many many don't and and that's that's just the way of it but michael thanks very much indeed for speaking to us this morning on that and um i mean and in fairness let let's say in in fairness to those young people as you said when they were approached by the lifeguards they said fair enough thanks very much and they went out and the situation was resolved and it was perhaps um it was youth youthful exuberance rather than anything that was malicious or in in in any way of that nature and the situation as you say resolved itself with education and that is good to hear michael thank you all hundred percent so absolutely yeah once they were engaged with there was no problem the the radius of mistake made their apologies and moved on excellent and and and it is good it is good to acknowledge that yes all hundred percent of the house has been acknowledged but at the same time it's just it's just to bang it out there for the people that aren't aware as they were last week that you need to be careful my councillor michael muthaffordy thanks very much indeed as always thank you and yeah earlier earlier we were speaking to Laura there from donnie gold mountain rescue and uh i mean they've had a busy day yesterday at five to ten yesterday morning they were contacted by um gar thee because a walker had become unwell on the miners path on muckisha dmorty uh located the walker and gave them on the spot a medical attention and then helped them down to the car park they stood down at nine minutes past twelve and then uh last night um at about 25 past seven they were tasked to maharaj caves to assist an exhausted walker there the team subsequently stood down because gar thee and the coast guard had already got there and assisted the casualty and again that's one of those cases where they were called they arrived as a precaution it turned out they weren't needed and they quite happily went home so that 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now the record for july is 32.3 in el fin and country russ common in 2006 so we're unlikely to breach that but we're getting over 30 anyway which is fairly unusual for our land well the dunny gall mind and rescue team is warning that a can be as precarious heading for the mountains in hot weather as it is in cold and stormy weather they're warning people to be adequately prepared when out in hills during the current spell of warm weather it's after they were tossed on two occasions yesterday after a walker became unwell on muckish mountain and another was in need of assistance at maharaj caves laura mcfadden is p o r o of d m or t especially in this sort of weather it's it's very tempting to head outdoors and very understandable to do so and it's unprecedented the temperatures that we're going to be getting especially today and tomorrow from the weather forecast so it's just very important to be mindful if you are heading out the door today a letter kenny business owner says a six-week road closure will be crazy and result in a major loss of revenue dunny gall county council have published a notice of intention to close part of the high road between new line road and upper main street from august the second until september the ninth to facilitate water means works counter jerry mcmonagall says the council is hopeful the works will be complete in three weeks and access to the high road will be maintained for businesses and suppliers however d stanis love of co-owner of the honey pot believes the work should be carried out at night to prevent major disruption will be absolutely crazy the traffic will be atrocious and will impact a lot lots of businesses in in that that area we're not going to be able to get any deliveries won't get any passing trade so it will be bad news for local businesses i found out by a local business about it and i didn't have any information from any of the authorities the mobile phone bill and letter has helped identify those responsible for 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the curriculum is in fact 20 years old so it's minister i'm very very keen that we move it on that it's contemporary and accessible for our students but the students have said that much of what they're getting is outdated really and it's not current enough and it's it's too little too late and too biological and specifically in around areas of consent it is hugely important that students can appreciate the importance of giving and receiving consent and relationship whether i any lingering mist and fog will clear this morning leaving a hot and mostly sunny day highest temperatures of 26 to 32 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notice is for this monday morning july 18th the death has occurred of anna donnell nay diney formerly of ennis skillen and kill altful cara remains reposing at early at residents rosary tonight at nine o'clock funeral mass tomorrow at 12 noon in christ the king 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anyone out there knows where i can hire a wheelchair accessible car to hold five passengers plus a wheelchair for the first week in august for a family holiday i would appreciate any help that can be given and that comes from one of our listeners now i know there have been a number of stories in the media with regards to problems with car rental and the cost of car rental and so on and so forth um and hopefully those issues were um outliers as it were which have been resolved so if anyone can help where can i call our hire a wheelchair accessible car to hold five passengers plus a wheelchair for the first week in august uh you might get in touch with us um color says i was at raff mullin beach yesterday with my grandson full of people walking their dogs didn't seem to be anyone patrolling the dog situation my understanding was the dogs were not allowed on a blue flag beach now i'm not i know there is a provision there to limit the presence of dogs on blue flag beaches now how that is operated and what councils decide to do and what leeway councils have to make decisions from beach to beach i am not sure i know there are issues with signage and it certainly has been put up on some beaches i am not aware of the um we could certainly look into it but i'm not aware of the um the full extent of that particular regulation but certainly there is provision as we understand it for that at the moment color says you don't need to be walking mountains to get lost recently walked on the railway walk in Burtonport no issues walking to the head but on our return we decided to follow the blue arrow when we came to a junction there was no blue arrow and no signposts to tell you where to go we decided to go straight 15 kilometers in we came across a signpost for Burtonport pointing back the way we had just walked it's a lovely walk but just one signpost needed to keep walkers on the right road um another caller says my husband keeps a record of the weather on the 23rd of july last 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events over the coming days just to reflect the fact that gayness and queerness is just not a thing for big urban areas it's a thing in rural areas and in wealth of areas as well of course it is absolutely it is uh you know a lot of the time denser than years ago it had to lead their own areas to go to celebrate pride whether it be you know to ferry or dobbling or sleigh or wherever so you know thankfully this year uh with initial pride it really gave us the the courage and the energy and and the uh sort of uh the the spirits to uh get ourselves going again what we had intended to go anyway but uh it was lovely just to be able to be done in a show and to give us the energy to be able to do our own events up here now in the gulf and it's the first in country uh in a good lot of gulf area uh a week of events and a parade on saturday of the 23rd so we're very excited and very proud of it. Of course, one of the most famous son culturally and artistically is Cahill O'Sharkey and over the years Cahill has uh made no uh secret of of his own sexuality and indeed has quite openly and publicly celebrated it. That's right yet and Cahill's on the bill today uh our first day of events is kicking off and today at 12 o'clock in Dului with a beautiful uh holistic walk around Sarah, Kernan and Evan Mann's beautiful forest garden we've got a beautiful little permaculture uh small holding off grid and uh set up there that they've been that they've started about six years ago so that's going to be gorgeous so anybody that's interested in permaculture come along to Dului uh so it'll be about a two-hour walk and kind of a workshop talk kind of a setup um that'll be lovely and then we've got uh a night of of kora and readings in Cahill O'Sharkey's house a million years well so we're welcome to come along with that too and so yeah that's that's our tune of course we've got another event this evening as well it's an online event which is really accessible to everybody you know we want to make the festival accessible to people that aren't able to come to the Guiltat here so there's an online event if you can go on to www.broadandtheguiltat.ie and you'll see our list of events there it's uh it's at the top with uh Ted and Joan and uh Dara and Neen Khanan and they're going to be discussing the um and Acha it's called which is a publication that was made by um wishing me a costume a couple of years ago uh and it's the queer dictionary basically so it's a really exciting publication and Ted is working the second edition of that so um that's going to be a really lovely event now you know it's a bilingual event as well and you know for anybody that's questioning what lgbtqi a plus stands for then does your opportunity to find out from um some experts online this evening at 8 13 so you can register with that online now Brother Guiltat is is a first event and uh you and your colleagues are at the forefront in terms of getting it organized but there is a history of gayness and a history of gay culture in Guiltat there is and that's going to be explored tomorrow Brian Lacey who Melly will know of course as a really important historian in many arenas across the northwest in Donegal and indeed in Derry as well Brian giving a talk on the gay girls that's going to take right back to the days of Patrick and Christianity and trace a history of homosexuality and queerness in Ireland and by extension in Guiltat there is as well yeah um we're really delighted to have Brian on board and Brian's been well of the organizing committee members that's been organizing the festival as well so we're really grateful to have somebody of such experience and such um such knowledge of the gay community in Ireland and Brian was involved with Northwest Pride back in Derry um you know he's been at the forefront ever since um he's you know really been presenting some amazing bits of Irish history that nobody's ever heard of I've never heard of and to be honest I wouldn't want to really kind of go into it too much because I know I probably get it all wrong and Brian's the man to really speak about that and yeah it's going to be a great event you know uh he I think he already put it on in Dublin for gay pride a couple years ago so this is his first outing in Guiltat wasn't which will be brilliant and that's an unchamberic to our evening and uh it'll be it'll be a really engaging presentation Brian's brilliant uh and a host of events taking place right through the week up to Saturday and then as you said on Saturday an actual pride march that's right yeah um yeah we've got events all through the week we've got poetry readings we've got drama Mel Bradley it's an aunt we've got Amrini Kaurang we've got um workshops with Amrini as well we've got we've actually got a kids workshop a uh a film workshop that I'd like to mention tomorrow happening it's a three-day workshop with Daniel and Maureen Butler and they'll be here in Fokara it's a free three-day event or three-day workshop um for kids between the ages of say 12 to 18 um so you can register online that's free as well um so that's happening tomorrow and that's for three days just wanted to throw that one in there but yeah the parade then and right on Saturday yes um that would be here in Fokara um we're hoping that plenty of groups are coming coming up to join us we've got a few already registered with us um and we'd be encouraging everyone listening if you want a day out uh to come along to Fokara get in touch let us know if you'd like to walk in the parade and go online and let us know or you can email broadthegelther at gmail.com um so yeah that'll be fun event let's keep our fingers crossed that it's going to be dry and beautiful like the day we had in Anishoan and everybody will come out and support us so we're very excited about it um yeah so it's a busy week uh that's for sure and it'll be uh it'll be a long week but it'll be fun and we're making a bit of history as well so it's exciting and you know it's kind of we kind of got to remind ourselves to love in the moment you know and not um you know not distract ourselves with all of the other stuff that's going on so um yeah fingers crossed will all go to plan what's been the reaction from the local community because I mean always when a first like this is being done there there can be a residual fear of pushback a residual fear that you know you you may get some some uh complaints but uh as I understand it very little if any of that has taken place and this is being welcomed right across the community absolutely um if there is anything negative being said I'm not hearing it um you know so uh I'm taking that as a as as a something that's you know that there isn't any negative if there is well they're not saying it so that's fine you know keep it to yourself um but our community here in Fulcara and Juan Newell has been absolutely amazing they've been absolutely outstanding and we started doing a couple of fundraisers back in May and just the turnout and support and uh just it's been it's been overwhelming you know and we've had a few since and everybody's just always been there for us you know if they can't turn up they're very apologetic and they're making donations online you know you know helping out any way they can promoting us helping just helping us in general you know so it's been it's been fantastic and you know I think it's exciting for everyone in the area because you know if this is an inclusive festival you know it's not just about our community as queer people or gay people but it's about including everybody else you know so that we can all celebrate together and you know that there isn't just you know one separate thing for you and one separate thing for everyone else you know so it's it's nice to be able to bring people together and celebrate together yeah and certainly and that was the experience of McCranagh I had the pleasure of actually being I took part in a music session on the night in in one of the bars in Bunkranna and I'm not a gay man personally but I mean I was in the midst of some fantastic crack and it was it was a colorful night it was a great night and you know I absolutely and thoroughly enjoyed it and I felt 110 welcome and I know that everybody else that was in the the bar felt exactly the same way and I think that's obviously inclusivity is at the key what you're doing as well you don't have to be gay you don't have to be an Irish speaker come and learn come and experience come and take part and come and share yeah exactly and you know we've got it all this week is what you know like you said you don't have to speak Irish to come to this you know it's a bilingual festival and you know we've got a our plan our channel when they were can't in your brain we'll be running curfew kora and Irish language conversation classes all week and on monday tuesday wednesday we can't believe we've got a hork and in Fulcara on thursday and friday so you know it's um it's going to be a great week you know and I would you know urge anybody that's interested in the language to come along and you know to dip your feet in some of these events you know so you know it might um inspire you to to to learn a few words yourself or you know look into ways of you know learning a little bit more about the language and a little bit more about the community as well Paul we wish you all the best with it a brother goes without taking place in Clahaneely it culminates with a parade in Fulcara on saturday but a host of events just remind us of the website that people can go to just to get that list of events because it's far too comprehensive list to just read out on the radio that's true um it's www.broadinthegirlcard.ie and you can get get us on facebook twitter and on instagram as well and there's our nothing program yeah excellent Paul thank you very much indeed uh Paul Penrose there and uh a fun week I'm sure ahead for all participating in that let's change the topic and uh go to Kelly Gordon where I'm joined by PJ PJ good morning good morning there um don't know PJ you you've been without water since friday tell us tell us the situation there well I love here on the top of how here I'm Kelly Gordon and I tell you they turned off the water on friday up here and no water at all since friday and it hasn't come on at any stage take you know it's good maybe it's three or four o'clock in the morning I got up and sat there morning three or four o'clock she's thinking maybe it might be on at that stage but it hadn't been on at all like and we have no water even this morning there's still no water like and uh I I found a counselor at the weekend and they told me they had to cut off the water because of the heatwave and I just didn't that's a bit of a joke that's talking about the heatwave yeah that's your on friday and saturday and re-indulged I found it seems to rain for most of june as well and you know and me like well I've been bad like I'm in the test and I'm shorting the water that's just that's a joke like yeah and you were saying you you've looked at the reservoir and and to your eyes in as much as you can see the reservoir seems to be full that's great I went up yesterday morning and I looked under the reservoir and the reservoir are three quarter full and it's a big reservoir like and I and then a neighbor up there had said they have turned off the water for the surrounding areas take the saves fell with the instanor if that's true or not I don't know but that's the message I was getting from him yeah and you know that's a joke like that's being aged well we will certainly put a call into Irish water and and see if they can give some clarity to the situation so as far as you know this isn't to facilitate works that are ongoing it's not because of a burst main it's not because of maintenance this appears to be too conserved water because of the heatwave which as far as I can see started um at about 25 to two yesterday afternoon because I mean saturday it rained all day I mean you know let's be honest but it's certainly it rained most of the day anyway yeah like you know even if the water like I'm sure they would have backup teams to go out and factor like on a saturday and sunday so wouldn't they be there Monday you know you know the main like it does get in the age like I mean it does I mean certainly if we were if we were three and a half four weeks into a heatwave or we hadn't had any rain in three and a half to four weeks then maybe would you understand but certainly it does appear you know it's almost as though oh the sun is out oh the water is going to be in trouble and absolutely and you're not the first person to make the point PJ but you've made it very articulately and thanks indeed for making it here on Highland Radio okay and we will certainly get with that PJ they're talking to us from Kitty Gordon have you had any similar experiences in your area are you being told that there is a risk of water supplies and water has to be conserved because of the heatwave because certainly the point PJ said there is it's absolutely true it seems it's it's rained more than it hasn't rained over the course of the past few weeks so you know it seems very very sudden just because we've got two or three days where we have a bit of sunshine maybe suddenly you know we're in trouble with our water supplies it's an interesting one for great food in the heart of letter Kenny's Cathedral quarter step into Dillon's hotel using only the best local produce Dillon serve an extensive menu every day from 12 perfect for a quick bite a relaxed lunch or a leisurely dinner try the renowned four-course Sunday lunch with full table service or if you work in town line up pre-order and have your lunch waiting great food and service seven days a week at Dillon's Hotel letter Kenny with live music every Friday and Saturday night visit dillins-hotel.ie is the appearance of your staff important to your business it's the first point of contact for customers when entering your premises at CNN embroidery in letter 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takes place all this week starting today and that is the Henry girls from a few years back and that's early in the morning they played on Green and Theta as part of a series of gigs over the weekend which were filmed for broadcast on tg car later this year and early next year I had the pleasure of going to the vagabonds show yesterday afternoon it was and Cora had asked earlier in relation to wheelchair accessible vehicles where can we hire one Cora's been in touch we heard one from McElmills in Armagh last year they can be contacted on 04837525333 that's 04837525333 that's McElmills in Armagh that's what one of our listeners they're the ones our listener make contact with and they hired a wheelchair accessible vehicle there obviously we are happy to pass that information on we have no knowledge of the company and we can't make any further comment but certainly happy to pass those details on now there is a very important conference about to take place in letter Kenny it's taking place on this coming Friday and it's a conference on dereliction in donnie gall it's a very well timed conference because it's an issue that's been under much discussion i'm joined in studio by donnan harvey of the cathedral quarter committee in letter kenny donna good morning to you good morning donal and i am joined online by jurid mccormick of letter kenny tidy towns jurid good morning good morning donal um i'm going to start donnan with with yourself and um you and i had a conversation about this some weeks ago and i mean you know it's it's obviously this conference has been in the planning for some time but given the emphasis on accommodation given the emphasis on the situation in letter kenny at the moment this is a very very timely event oh yeah yeah it's very very timely and uh it's i suppose at the minute it's not just letter kenny it's right across the country and i mean it's through comment from president michael d higgins so it's it's it's very very well timed and i'm delighted that that that's taken place here in letter kenny i think it's the first of its kind so really really looking forward to the event as well the the housing minister peter bork minister of state's going to be here to open the conference and i've no doubt that you and the politicians will lose no opportunity to point to the cathedral quarter in particular and to the town in general and say look there's more can be done around here yeah it's again it's there there was there was an article actually uh boz.ie did an article there about us and well it wasn't just it was about a lot of uh activists and well fun about their election because it seems to be a part of a movement now across the country and uh they had a picture from google from 2009 and then last year and when you can slide across it showed what it looked like what the street looked like in 2000 2009 to what it looks and it's remarkable what what the the transformation in the place and and again that we've we see this here with the right support and the right political will that this this this year the challenge can their election can be challenged and and german kormach from the point of view of tiddy towns you know you're listening to donnan here and you know your your own premises is not a stone's throw away from from church lane in the cathedral quarter but you know in in terms of the work that's been done by that particular group what donnan and his colleagues have shown is that if you have the tenacity and dear ones say it in letter kenny the tran just to keep on pushing and pushing and pushing you know there can be results and the cathedral quarter project proves that i couldn't agree more don you know you just said it very very clearly and very correctly um from you know just with my tiddy towns hat on me we got our results this year and you know we we did a survey and their election in letter kenny because they were looking for that type of information and it was quite sobering reading the amount of derelict their election that was in letter kenny and and i'm just quoting the the report it's disappointing to read about the number of derelict occupied buildings in letter kenny but your efforts to contact and to work with the owners is commended and then they talk about suggestions uh of what we could do is working with the council to try and and you know that the range of measures that are available to the council that um you know the how you can improve the situation and i suppose this was back in in in bud october and last year and then i've gone to a committee meeting and donnan actually sits on the tiddy towns committee and they also he as everybody knows he spearheads church lane as well and i'd be honest with you i i was talking to the council and really getting nowhere and they really weren't really taken as on about what could happen you know they weren't really taking the measures that the the tiddy towns adjudicator had presented and i was a little bit just you know despondent to be honest with you and you know we're going into the meeting and i came out of the meeting and donnan says you know chair we can do something about this you know i says why don't we have a conference in derelict you know and uh why don't we show what we can do and and the positive effects of what's happened in church lane and how what we've done there and and and let's go for a national conference and it shows the positivity in church lane and uh i was actually by it when i you know bite up you know really thought god you know you're right let's go and let's see what we can do like let's not focus on the the negatives let's focus on the positives and what we have done in our time and what we can do and open up debate uh and it's great i mean we we have counselors and people from all over ireland coming to this to this event and uh open it up and and to see what we can do to improve uh problems that do exist but but look at them positively and and if you look at the uh you know we have an agenda for the day and and there's a lot of very positive things happening that uh we have lee gurch coming to talk about the restoration of his his project and that's a great feel-good story and uh all the things like that that's happening we uh don't know explain it more uh but they're really really positive things and i think that's the right way of looking at when you have a problem you look at it positively don't it seems to me that one of the secrets of the success of of the church lane project in the cathedral quarter wider project is local knowledge and i i've spoken to you many many times over many many years and it seems to me that you have an encyclopedic knowledge of every building on that street who lived in it who owns it what happened there and if anyone has a question about church lane go to don and he'll tell you the answer now so many council discussions on their election are well we need to establish who owns it we need to establish this we need to establish that we need to establish the other it seems to me that the level of local knowledge that you in particular and others have in the church lane area was crucial to what you achieved yeah i suppose it was it was fine now you know like the owners and and and then even i suppose going further back i'm actually funny enough i was having a conversation with one of the descendants of one of the families who lived in on the church lane and the problem was again going going back to people renting the houses and and then even going back further that you had this word the you could own the house but you didn't own the land on the house and this is going back to supposed to the days of when southwell estate and things like that there and all and all the the intricacies in that there and it's funny enough like even on number one church lane the basement of that there on underneath the house doesn't belong to the building itself it belongs to the building on the main street so there's there's those little little funny things but local knowledge is key local knowledge is you know community groups and and and addressing these here and then that goes on to a bigger point like that that that there should be more more resources given to to grassroots groups and and the integral of this issue and then that like the one that the model that we we see ourselves very much is like these development trust associations that that are in present in scotland and a great example of that is mid-stable quarter in Dumfries and where you know they have the resources to employ staff they have the resources to buy buildings and and this is all backed up by the Scottish government but unfortunately we don't have that in in in this country and it really needs you know it needs a greater thinking within the from within well from one of the political parties themselves but also a fun that the officials at the at the the department of rural communities and the department of housing you know that there's different ways of tackling this here but you know there needs to be greater flexibility and greater imagination and you know when we can't keep on doing the same thing and she you know everybody knows what the definition and sanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result so we have to look at things differently and and again i this that goes back to that local knowledge and definitely that that what what has been done on the church and we have no we've we've no doubt that could be done in else places and then that's hopefully that will will will lead to a greater debate and over the course of conference some of those other initiatives and and those other models are going to be explored in great detail and hopefully councillor's attending will take note and other politicians attending will take note and it would be nice to think that maybe the minister and his officials might stay for a while and learn something as well well hopefully and and like we do thank the minister for coming down like and thank jordan mckews office for for a reins in that visit as well but it's it's like the the minister's coming up on the friday so we catch a glimpse of what has happened for himself if he takes a walk around but again i it's if they stay around and and find out these different things and bring it back and and as i said uh we've been in contact with you know with with groups and hala we're we're conversations with people and draw how to uh and and other ones and and you mentioned that word for and necessarily are on yeah that it is a good quality sometimes as well just to be persistent but i know for for a lot that that uh there's so much involved in it that that you do bang your head up against the brick wall sometimes you go oh well what's the point of these people aren't going so that's that that that that support from above hopefully might be something that that the conference will will address and jared from the point of view of of letter county tally towns i mean your your personnel are out on the streets daily working in the early morning and and in the evening and and you and and and your colleagues know the town and you have that knowledge and and just in the same cases don and i'm sure that our county tally towns will be in a position to assist the council in initiatives like this and perhaps it's a shame that you're not being utilized more very much so i mean we we actually have presented our survey to the council um we were asked to to send a copy on uh and we have done that um you know but as of yet and my understanding is the council feels that the legislation as it is is not the purpose that they're waiting on new legislation to come out um and i suppose i had to be honest with you uh my views look maybe don't like it what can you do you know i always believe in being positive what can you get out what what can happen because we do have these problems they're you know we walk down the street we see them everybody knows them um they've been regularly reported in the media even over the last few weeks um different councillors have highlighted a few areas in the town and i always leave letter county is a place where we should attack and be positive about our problems and look to solve them and not to hide hide away from them um and i'm hoping maybe that's from this conference first of all it's going to create debate which is very positive uh and you never know just a little door might open somewhere and as a town we just may improve our direction problem uh which would be very timely as you said at the start of the show i mean with the with things like the amount of um lack of housing and and about people that you know you know all across all spectres on society who are looking for housing and we've got the resources but we're not using them properly and they're there and and the the kind of solutions have been ignored you know and don and in in terms of the conference of people wish to attend it's on indolence hotel on friday it's on indolence and and uh well it's it's uh jared set up the it's an event bright so you'd have to book tickets and there's it's fairly it's there was last we looked or it was around 80 places so there's only around maybe 20 so people want to attend just uh i think that their link was on our press release and things like that there yeah so just just book and uh you know it's it's following up fast and as jared said there's they're coming from everywhere for it so excellent um well done in in terms of the just give very briefly give us give us just a rundown of some of the speakers that are there just just just brief just give people a flavor of what will be happening on the day so in the morning uh well once I welcome him from uh donal kelly the the house mayor and then the official opening from the minister state pair Burke then we'll be having it's kind of hopefully then the county council section in the morning so we're hoping that there's a spokesperson from the council who will talk about what the new role of the vacant house officer is going to be that's what we're hoping for and that there'll be somebody from there just to say what what that what that role is going to entail and then we've got Joe Gallagher who's the heritage officer and Joe Joe and Colette Beatty the conservation officer there they have delivered this historic towns and I should have programmed four times so they'll Joe will be given a a description of he's done it once happened in church Lane and remelton and twice in ballet shannon so he'll be going through that there and then in the after he will be kind of having um well and and uh Jared mentioned it there with Lee Gooch talking about number two church Lane was also there's a kind of cross border cross community emphasis on it as well so we've got Kyle Thompson from uh the new gear art center and the fountain talking about like uh the role that um culture and heritage can play in there Alex in there so talking from like a unionist point of view so we're really looking forward to that there and then um we have uh uh after lunch then we got Colin Moray from the the heritage council the so he's coming to talk about the role of the heritage council and addressing the issues of their election and then our main speakers are are we're really looking forward is and it's uh Jude Cherry and Frank O'Connor from uh Anish agency and they're the really they're the people that have brought to the national attention they have been highlighting their election down in Cork and they they run the derelict Ireland campaign and they've really really put the ball you know or put it on the national stage and then we've got uh once that's over then we've got uh as Dr Caron uh Cafferty she she's going to she she's going to be our special moderator and she's going to sum up what the the conference was about and then so that's that's what we're we're having further yeah I call her says a property that sterling belongs to somebody it has value and the owners should be made to keep it tidy if they can't afford to do so it should be sold so value can be added to the town and one of the issues as we've been saying there are very often can be in fact establishing ownership and making contact with the owners and that could be a challenge in itself the conference is on on Friday that there'll be coverage I would obviously in advance and afterwards in the media and here on island video as well uh Don and uh Harrison the casino recorder uh thanks indeed for speaking to us and and Jared McCormick uh letter Kenny tiny towns thank you very much indeed as well and I just want to say before you go Jared you and I are perhaps cross occasionally on our early morning walks and I have seen you I've seen you more than once uh walking along the new line road area or that particular area wearing a pair of gloves and carrying litter that you've picked up off the street so I have to say fair play I like a man who actually follows through on his commitment and actually puts it into practice so fair play Jordan thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you don't thank you and uh Don and thank you as well thanks if you're thinking of changing your wash machine consider the brilliant 8kg 1400 spin washer from Bloomberg Raymond Sweeney here at Ben Sweeney ironix if you often need laundry washed in a hurry this brilliant wash machine will get your daily clothes clean and fresh in under 30 minutes saving money on your energy bills and giving you back valuable time it also comes with a seven-year parts and labor warranty for peace of mind call in to us and see for yourself at Ben Sweeney ironix port road letter Kenny or in the shopping center down low any shown credit union has recently launched cultivate an agricultural loan at only 6.55 percent apr 6.75 percent call any of their four offices for more information or to make an appointment any shown 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many more open-air concerts at this year's club money festival see clubmanifestival.com this ad is sponsored by Joyce's central club money we had a poll on the program on Friday a report has found flip-flops calls 200 thousand accidents every year can you relate to this and our poll results on twitter yes 64.7 percent and no 35.5 percent and they are the results of the poll i did mention in the course of our discussion that i was a wearer of crocs a number of people were suggesting that i was in in some way an aberration and i shouldn't be wearing crocs and i am delighted to say that i am proudly this morning wearing my favorite pair of crocs so there you go that's what i have on my feet this morning and i do say i do so with no problem whatsoever now i'm going to go to line one because we're joined by freddy freddy good morning good morning don't know uh freddy a beautiful one it is it is a lovely day however um there are problems uh that you are having with letter kenny university hospital and a loved one tell tell us the situation you're in at the moment well it's a bit of a predicament basically i started about six months ago my two girls one went in first i had to go back in at five o'clock in the morning to take her out of it because there was nothing happening she was in a lot of pain um whenever i notified the minister to pick her up all of a sudden there was a doctor what left whenever i arrived but they couldn't figure out what it was so it could be this it could be that it could be the other does she have a precondition is she does she have a condition that requires being at the hospital or is she potentially ill or knows what it is you know well let's uh i'll be quite honest with you she has a history that you have to have someone what's her 24 seven right put it that way yeah and to be less certain if she went in around one o'clock in the afternoon yeah she was put on the category red to make sure she'd be seen ASAP someone came out said they'd be called next and the next act he led on to every one o'clock in the morning um that is you're talking nearly 12 hours uh i rang up to find out what was going on and still certain now can you imagine sitting in a chair i wonder if you're critically ill imagine sitting in a chair for 12 hours having somebody with you so anyway good long story short they got her in uh they took her bloods doctor said nobody can near them then till i think it was four o'clock when i rang in the morning with my wife and her were sitting they were able to tell me nobody called and she was in severe pain and my wife back there's broken basically sitting on a you're a cove it's a terrible thing to say it's hard to sit be more comfortable but um anyway like i say they got there before i got there because the new year is quite angry and or it could be this it could be that could be the other this is basically nobody could actually say but we'll have to actually look into the hospital and i said that's not going to happen because of the way she was treated the last time looking for me i made the right decision sure she was seen the next morning uh because i caused so much of a story but either that's that one the next one was the other doctor had a complete purpose six months and um eventually they gave her painkillers this painkillers that all the time she was having days off work which he hates doing the end of the sides okay right we better get this looked at but so they carried it a procedure which is fine that's what we're looking for and uh things you can answer still very very so are very a lot of pain children and there was an issue that your daughter was and there was an issue your daughter was to have been sent to dublin but when they went to do it there was no record in dublin of of them expecting to receive her that is correct this is where the whole thing kicked off again now they're always bragging about how good the management isn't like to 100% the nurses could not do enough for you absolutely i must put my hands up there couldn't do enough i asked them they said well basically we can do nothing about it just down to the doctors and the management right so let's say i was a manager trying to manage something like that uh your x-rayed sent off to dublin because this is very urgent the next thing six weeks later you say well nobody's called yet so you ring dublin they said they never hear tell of any of this so again we had to take her back into the hospital which is a monday because we wouldn't take her in on the saturday or friday because they really say well nothing can happen to a monday again same procedure except this time she was sitting i think for 16 hours and can you imagine yourself with a very very very severe pain written for 16 hours to see a doctor again uh we waited i rang two days after or uh we have to get on to dublin to see what uh x-ray we have to do that was a monday tuesday we'll have it done on the morning wednesday we'll have it done on the morning uh it was coming to wednesday evening and i went down again or uh the radiation uh people's gone home so i said at half past four on a wednesday yeah yeah yeah um but we'll do it first thing in the morning i said i'm listening to that now she's down for three days so this girl's taking up a bed that someone else could be in all they had to do was ring the house saying come in here we went home they couldn't get a doctor first of all to send her out and then they did get somebody and the nurse asked her and who are you or she said i'm doctor well we never met before how long you in the hospital oh i'm only after arriving could you tell me what's wrong with the patient now can you imagine this the only thing i said no that's it so the the people who was doing what i came down in a bit an hour later and asked her to stay now this was wednesday evening and said oh for definitely we'll have it done in the morning we said no that's it we had enough of this we'll take her to another hospital we'll take her anywhere she didn't too much pain for over six months dublin says i didn't get the last information blah blah blah could long story short we got her home and on monday she got a letter to say i'm sorry a phone call to say that she'd be seen within the next 10 days is this in dublin or in le recennie no this is in le recennie yeah within the next 10 days so in other words if we hadn't done what we done she'd be lying in the hospital bed taking up a bed for the next 10 days and then they're completely saying there's no beds you know it's ridiculous and it's not down to the doctors i don't think it's down to the actual management who were supposed to send the information off to dublin now these are the managers who's praising themselves how well they're doing they're just taking up beds they're filling the place up with patients who you can't actually uh contend with but the only thing i i can say that they're very good at and that is telling you how much it's going to cost you'll never be too much out of the hospital before the bill follows you out that does one then be sure to experience that myself freddie all all we can say yeah i mean all all we can say is we wish you and and both your daughter as well and and hopefully these issues can't can be resolved and they'll both get the care the care that they need um but in the meantime thanks indeed for sharing your story with us i appreciate you let me talk about it because like i said this has happened not coming to my daughter's for telling off a lot of people the people hear me on here on the other occasion and they're actually contacting me now just to say because they won't they're frightened to say anything well i mean hopefully and and hopefully this this this will be relieved and uh the your concerns addressed and if this helps that to happen then all all the better but in the in the meantime freddie thank you very much indeed oh i would say they've been contacting me before the day is out after this okay okay you you take care freddie right bye now that that's bye bye bye bye bye that that that's freddie there and uh the story of his daughters and certainly i mean what what could be more frustrating than you know to be told oh we've been onto Dublin and Dublin have no record of this because you know surely things like that should be working relatively smoothly this is an internet show on Highland radio it's 11 o'clock time for the headlines and we say good morning to mckayla talk good morning temperatures could hit 32 degrees in places today more hot weather is on the cards with the status yellow high temperature warning in place the highest temperature recorded in denigol yesterday was 25.7 degrees at finner camp cancer gary dowry claims he is still without his mobile phone last week gardy were called to a special meeting of denigol county council on foot of a claim that a form belonging to cancer dowry have been taken by another cancer and removed from the 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avant-money is regulated by the central bank of ireland text 086 60 25 000 it's the third and final hour of the nine till noon show this morning we mentioned our survey on friday about flip flops 64.7% of people telling our social media accounts that yes they can absolutely relate to the fact that flip flops cause 200 000 accidents every year around the world some of the comments to flip flop was like a mobile wooden spoon if your mother took it off her foot you knew you were in trouble and they would be those old wooden skull things as well won't they so they would have packed a punch another caller says can't stand the things another caller just says stopped toes all the time we do have a little poll running today actually and it goes to a story that appeared in the papers this morning about le hinch in the county of clare and a number of signs went up signs were replaced in le hinch and the local suddenly found that the a in le hinch had been replaced with an e now the Irish for le hinge is unlocked and presumably someone said e would be a better second letter than a so they change it to le hinch and a load of enterprising locals have been going around getting stickers with a on them and putting them over the ease on the signs and it raises the issue of the miss spelling and mispronunciation of place names um you know and you see it all over you see remelton sometimes spelt with a h and sometimes not i've seen more spellings for done low than i'd care to think about and one of my absolute favorites in dunny gall is if you're driving into castle fin there are as you see in many towns there's the two green signs one on the left hand side of the road one on the right hand side of the road they're both spelled differently i think it's one n on the left hand side and two n's on the right hand side so the actual two signs that are on the same road just the other each one each other side of the road two signs spelled differently so do you believe that that is you know is it is a trivial issue or is it something that needs to be addressed from the point of view of local people let us know our facebook twitter and instagram social media accounts that poll is now running on those let us know what the situation is now let's talk gaa and let's bring in brendan deveney um brendan we're going to talk obviously about the dunny gall ladies in in a moment um and uh a lot to talk about there but let's say start with a reference to that uh all-arland hurling final yesterday um there were predictions it was going to be a classic those predictions very much came to pass yeah phenomenal i don't i've just sent you an affair there just you're watching with your mouth open at times some of the scores and skills we're we're in show and that blister and heat you know it was like it was difficult can you just clinging on to limerick but never ever going away there's some kind of magic in that team and what kodi does that listen all the skills and the brilliance of limerick they couldn't put them away they kept clinging in clinging in and right up on the equalize that time you're thinking you know what-off what-off but listen the stuff of champions limerick pulling away in the end but some of the play we've seen they're absolutely phenomenal and i mean normally when you see a team defeated in a final you you wouldn't get the highest marks you see the calcanny team with with loads of high marks that they they put their absolutely best on that there they just come up against uh one of the greatest teams ever uh to be assembled in this limerick squad and three in a row uh phenomenal achievement for them yeah and i mean you know i i've actually seen you know limerick the best compliment you can pay to limerick is they're now like the new calcanny um you know which which i mean there was a time when calcanny were the powerhouse and irish hurling and now it's like you know calcanny can kill kenny catch limerick and uh you know it it sets it up nicely for next year as well i want to point you that i saw on but what are they coming back into the i i would love to look waterford flatter to deceive friend waterford have got into more semi finals and all irland finals and i mean both both at the hands of limerick and at the hands of kenny in a couple of matches in recent years and jp mcmanus would be very very nice thank you very much indeed absolutely you'd certainly need it there's no doubt about that but a comment was made on on on social media and it was this and i i'm almost loath to put this to you given your own footballing background but the quarter says we close off the ga season every year with the hurling final at the start well it would have been traditionally the hurling final at the start of september and the football final at the end are we getting to the point where given the spectacle the hurling final is turning out to be it should be the way around that we go football first and close it out with the hurling because can golway and carry produce anything that matches that as a set that's that's a very interesting point and i'll tell you why i was down to two semi finals last weekend in the football and i've said it quite a few times since i'm so happy that the carry doubling game was the second game and not the first because if we had had that first and the balls of it have been so deflated because the derry golway game was so poor you know but the fact that that came second i left doubling boyant mood and we're looking forward to the final we parked it off so yeah there is a reference to it now i would say the football final i don't i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be a good game if derry had to get into the final and sorry derry listeners listening it might it wouldn't have been a good game because of derry style but golway i think i'll come out and have a proper go at carry so i'm hoping but yeah i mean when you put the two games together because of the tactical nature of football listen at the minute hurling and listen hurling's getting tactical too you know there's no totally absolutely it's definitely not maybe as free-flowing the difference is it's just the skills and the ability to hit the ball from 70 plus yards over is just unreal so you can't tie down a certain parts of the pitch the way you can in football that's the only thing but i think these things are you know coming in cycles and what we've seen probably this year unless the football's got dragged back a bit where it seemed to be coming out particularly county anyway you've seen it go back into a more tactical type of play with certain teams and i think that's what's happened in the football but you're right listen there's no way that football match can live up that hurling and we don't that that's one thing for sure we're still hoping for a good game i don't think it's fair to put the two yeah team games together the minute should the hurling come second i suppose that's one for the debate that the tradition has been there for a long time now okay let's look towards tonight the elevation of course front and center will be the donnie gol ladies sadly defeat to me at the weekend but you know looking at the positive the donnie gol ladies took the all-arland champions to two points yeah listen they'd be contenders you know um they're right up there um they're going up there to one that match uh on saturday and it's been a kind of tough season you know with league final losing losing the myth they lost an austere final as well you know it's a season where you could be saying all right they're league champions they're austere champions and they just come up a bit short which is which would such put a different spin on it don't particularly i think the austere final the game won twice that that would be a bit of a noise but then the all-arland series is a different competition again you know and listen um you know probably you're looking at the one about hurling and football the ladies football used to be really high scoring on you'd see loads of goals and different things but that is also tactics is coming in and and it's not that it's i suppose the extra preparation and and the management teams and the bigger thought going and more and more the every game means that they're going to cut down the space and go to try and no negate the opposition's forward lines etc and lock to kind of counter attack which we're seeing a lot and that's why i mean donnie go one seven yesterday you know is that enough to one you know a big match you don't miss managed to have 12 points i i think really there were six points up at one stage in the game and a low-scoring game like that it's it's it's massive um uh donnan listen karen godway come off the bench and did the damage against dublin and almost worked perfectly a game i mean she had a bright and cold chance saved in the in the 53rd minute that would have put us two up again i think that was was the one in and losing of it and fine margins in these games and miss of course you who come through playing that counter attacking system last year very good it is what donnie go all do as well so there's a few gold chances in the game that another day could have went down and changed it don't listen tough tough one from there's a lot of new talent coming through but then there's a lot of girls have been there a long time now so the questions were asked the last couple of years you know about people and they all came back and they all got stuck in again to give it a big push so it's just a bit of a pity they come up bad bit short but some some effort from them the one that's been a huge season from and listen small margins again you're back at headquarters i mean it'd be phenomenal for them to make a final but it didn't happen well mo donnell joining you obviously on the deal debate tonight to discuss that game and discuss the situation of the team and i'm sure that'll be an interesting and a lengthy one jerry mcloughlin a veteran correspondent well known on the show and elsewhere we'll be speaking about the hurling obviously and about the two senior semi-finals in in donnie goll as well yeah certainly and the unions dethroned donnell in the in the hurling senior hurling bird coming back and listen didn't just won the match we want to come to me you know 216 to 14 points so satanta as we thought had too much for bon crana so this time last year you know satanta were going in as as huge favourites i think there were you know unions were six to one the one that match so it was a it was a massive season for them but you know we've been waiting for the the bird comeback you know the the original and the record holders in donnie goll of course so that set up for a spicy final now satanta satanta and bird and as i say bird on the comeback like they've been down compared to where they have been this last number of seasons so certainly set up for an interesting final season and that traditionally would have been sort of the the two hurling powerhouses in donnie goll unions obviously in recent years have really come to the fore but i mean it would have been part satanta and there was years when it was every year the final was bird satanta bird satanta bird satanta for years at a stretch it's certainly one and also you're looking ahead to goll of a carry and what that's going to be like ah yeah frank wrote some in those sports on as well and just get his views on the on the season so far and some of the things we've talked about there doing about tactics and where is the game going and how do we perceive you know winning versus versus tactics and you know you'll see all the time it's it's all about winning and you know i think the game the game's a lot bigger than that there and we've got to be careful that you know we're not turning people off from it you know at the end of the game the game has many different components they've done and if you have a a power match happening and the fans start to turn away from it and people start to turn off from tv then the game drops down and that's that's something i think be interesting to get frank's views on and look ahead of course to the to the big finals only hope it lives up to the to the hurling one as you say well if it does i mean it'll be it'll be some spectacular i just i didn't actually hear the full debate last week because i was i was working inside did you and greg talk about the announcement by pats belan that he's hanging up his microphone and walking off into the sunset no what what what do you make of that is is it going to be a loss or is it good riddance listen i suppose entertainment value though and we've looked at it now there's been savage criticism about Sunday gaming about analysis shows particularly the tv shows you know that they've been bland and you seen from brawley said that or he was starting to tell advise him on what to say kind of thing you know and giving them kind of pointers no and that's one of the reasons then there was a fallout i would say among other fallouts with brawley but spalan listen he's there so long miss he has the medals he's entertaining i think more than anything so guys i got a big miss if you look at a lot of guys coming through now don't you know some of them aren't bad analysts but you're probably missing that wee bit of crack and fun and particularly when you think of spalan and brawley and some of the arguments and rousey would have had but he always spoke his mind yeah and i think that type of tv is important you know when you see a lot of fans that maybe aren't deep in the analysis they love seeing guys that get on and i think it's probably getting that balance between a bit of entertainment that but he certainly must while nice man i've met him a few times and sometimes you get taken aback by how how genuine and nice guys are sometimes you might meet them and there's an odd guy out there you know you talk very quickly or move on but see a guy like spalan there he always seemed to take time to talk and that's something that i would have to notice from a real genuine nice guy and of course in this part of the world spalan will always be associated with two words and you know what those two words are i'm not even gonna learn that one i suspect most people do the initials are pf brendan thanks very much for speaking to us this morning that's brendan oh by the way we'd better promote it actually the dl to be yes it's on tonight after the news at seven just have a seven year podcast and podcast of the hundred yeah we have to get that in as well i think everyone knows that at this time have a great day no one likes an empty-handed guest that's why at Lidl we've a new range of chilled cakes and desserts from just two ninety nine grabbed a licious fresh cheesecakes custard slices eclers apple turnovers an indulgent black forest gatter with chocolatey flakes or gorgeous Belgian chocolate ganache cake best guest ever Lidl more 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highland radio donal cavern with you on till 12 noon which is what about give or take 39 minutes away so let's see how much we can get in between now and then going to give you some good news you remember earlier on we had a caller had let us know that they had picked up a wrong case in oma when they were taking the bus and they had brought the case to letter kenny and they were hoping that they could get their case back and there were two identical cases on the bus and they picked up the wrong one well i can tell you that it's worked out and the case was brought to letter kenny this morning met a family member at the bus station who'd heard the notice the two cases have been swapped around and everyone is happy and delighted that we were able to help facilitate that in happening we spoke before the break to freddie who has had some bad experiences at letter kenny university hospital with regards to his daughter's particularly in the emergency department and he outlined some concerns and and some issues now another caller has been on to say i want to mention the great experience i had in a&e i was in the trauma clinic because i'd fractured my wrist from reception to the hallway through it was an excellent experience i often hear complaints about the emergency department i just want to give praise where it's due and we were speaking earlier about vessels and safety measures and so on and caller says all registered irish fishing boats of all sizes are required by law to have all safety measures training and equipment in place however it seems any town can jump on to a speedboat or jet ski a lot of them show no respect for local conditions so says a caller and maybe education is the key because we heard from councillor michael mclafferty that there were a number of young lads on on jet skis at dunfany and they were using them in a in a way that could have been considered dangerous the lifeguards approached them as soon as they did they said no problem grand and they went out and it was resolved with a quiet word and and that's always what you want to see happen with regards to traffic caller says dunigold county council might as well shut letter kenny down any further disruption to traffic would make an already crazy scenario just impossible so says a caller now are you in a position where you are at home with young children and they are starting to do your head in a bit now on days like today hopefully you can go out and you can go to the beach and you can do a lot with them but it's not always like today and you don't always have the opportunity to so do tina mcdade is a junior infants teacher and works on instagram under the lovely hashtag teacher of dote do you call them hashtags on instagram or do they have different names yeah i i don't know myself to be honest i i i don't know um we would have called them handles when we were on cb we'll go with that we'll go with handle yeah we just got a teacher of dote's lovely lovely name tina good morning good morning how are you i'm very well indeed tina you're a junior infants teacher but uh and you use your instagram channel to give some advice to parents and to others on what what to do with with younger kids because they're at that lovely are we there yet stage where sometimes they can be manic and it appears they woke up and had five espressos first thing and they're just bouncing correct correct yeah well i also have two children myself so i kind of see it from both perspectives and thank you very much for inviting me on to talk yeah um so i'll just share with you first of all some things that i have learned recently absolutely go for it as a parent um just you do you just do what works for you and for your unit and don't don't worry about what's um going on um elsewhere just you know focus on your family unit and the needs of your own family and of your own children um if you're going on days out set a budget doesn't have to be um flamboyant or anyway um exaggerated um everything in moderation there's a lot of talk now about digital devices um the child prince scheme 2001 um coined the phrase digital natives um so now those digital natives are parents so technology is here so it's how we work with it and in moderation um listen to your children is the number one thing that i will say as adults we tend to talk 80 percent of the time and listen 20 percent of the time and when you're dealing with children it's very important that we listen to them 80 percent of the time because they will tell you what they want to do and it's also important to remember um a lot of the time i hear well in my day children wear x y and z let me tell you now i have no idea what it is like to be a six-year-old in 2022 and we're going to stretch this and say i was a child of the 90s just about okay but um i was six in the 90s i know what it was like to be six years old in 1990 i have no idea what it's like for my six-year-old daughter to be a six-year-old right now you're shaped by your family your society your ethnicity so many things so let your child be a full complete six-year-old in themselves and do exactly what they need to do you're not preparing them for first class second class you need to deal with the child in front of you right now and what they what they are doing right now and meet their needs and every child is complete childhood is over in a flash and you'll just do this too it's for adults it can be exhausting it's quick and it's precious but for the child it's their time to be curious truth-seeking innocent physical busy chatty they are protected by the 1989 UN rights of the child they're the right to play they're right to have an opinion and they're right to be an adjunct child so children are curious about the world and the best way that they learn is through play and as adults what we can do is we can create opportunities for them to play but it's very important that we ensure that that play is child-led that it's what they want to do we cannot put our adult opinions on to them so i can't well i mean my that boat's now sailed minor 20 29 um what i mean you know i i i i can't go well when i was six back in 1970 this is what we did so we'll do we'll just do it now and it'll be the same because it won't it won't absolutely won't you know so you're dealing with different things you're dealing with apples and oranges so what can you do so as caregivers we can create play opportunities we can provide the resources the children need we can give them or time because children are social beings they need us they need social interactions that is how children learn to communicate that's how they learn social skills and you can also give them safe space to play you can also dress them appropriately children love to jump in puddles so don't put on their best clothes or their best runners okay if you're going to play if it's going to be messy prepare them you know and you know that's what washing machines are for you know it's it's it's okay to be to be messy so um there's this thing Lev Bogotsky talks about it's called scaffolding where we can bring children to the next level of their learning by model and play okay but we can't hijack it it's their play so what can we do so there's creative play so in the house you're in the house and it is absolutely lush in the rain what can you do um so you can recreate an entire town in your house in your kitchen you can have the supermarket you can have a cafe at your kitchen table a cinema in your sitting room um if you have a dressing table it can become the hairdressers I would suggest maybe hiding the scissors if you have played those scissors you just want you know in there do that within reason set boundaries you know um if you've ever climbed and shared that become the dentists studies from Yale have found that children who um children who didn't have opportunities for creative play for dramatic play they would display more challenging behaviors so children need this need those opportunities set boundaries together explain the rules that are needed to keep everyone safe and something that I find helps and I've learned recently is rather than saying let's do this I might say right I wonder how this would work or I wonder what would happen you know let them come up with themselves because they are so smart you know and it's up to us we're not pouring information into them we're we're taking the information out of them and then make sense of their world and their environment so um you've explored the house your house has become a full-time town and you've moved on from that you could um a lot of these things are gonna sound like the horrors of lockdown of all the things that we did back then but you know they were all good things um you know I encourage your children to bake with you make toast butter toast simple things like that um sit down and have a meal set the table have a fancy afternoon tea if you can like take out your fancy plates with them um and then most important thing is go outside yes it may be raining but do they have a coat do they have wellies you know is it that cold could they go out and jump in puddles on their bare feet is it safe you know you you use your adult eyes to um interpret the situation and you know think what's what's best for the child children need two to three hours per day there's an initiative one thousand hours a year for outside we all need it even 10 minutes at a time whatever you can build up to um shall I pause or do you want to they are resilient and sometimes we feel the need to protect when actually you know and it goes down and you know maybe it's typified and we've all heard the discussion about uh the five second rule and something has fallen on the floor and we're now being told that one of the problems children have is in the past because they crawled around in the mud for half the day um now and they built up they built up immunity to everything these days we can be so sanitized and we can be so clean and we can be so forensic about being that that they'll now pick up everything and anything because they haven't allowed themselves become immune to anything I mean you know and I'm going to say the phrase I mean in my day I would I would go out at you know after lunch and I went home when my mother shout stood at the back to her and rose and then that's all you ever heard in in our estate growing up in wardford was just our mother's calling us you know there was one there was one woman down the road from cork and she would call her daughter it's the most wonderful thing to go Louis fantastic and and that that that's what we did we just went out and we ran around the place went into the woods and built camps and we did it all day yeah and you know our parents never really went through that sort of stuff with us really because quite frankly we were just outside messing about and we did it all the time so our our parents perhaps now too much the other side and too protective I think it was different times I mean like I know when I grew up my mother was at home so when we were up the backfields hiding from the farmer you know building trees and falling out of trees we like my mother was there so we only had to run back down the fields my mother was there a lot of parents are working nowadays so it's they don't have that luxury of being able to say right go on ahead I don't want your tummy rumbles come home it's not like that anymore the world's a very different place I will say though we were at a training course one time for PE and we were asked you know and I'll ask you the same if you walked into the town park now and you saw a bunch of children climb in trees how would you react um probably remember I used to do that okay okay good good good because the initial feeling in the room was you would say get down out of there but that's the teacher and also you ask a classroom a teacher is that that's what they're going to respond but it's like it's it's called risky play and it's very important we know the difference between risk and hazard some things are risks some things are hazards so as adults it's up to us to judge okay is this risky play a child playing on a log that could be slippy you know they're gonna fall they may have a mild injury but a child playing with a pair of scissors or child playing with that that's a hazard so it's understanding the differences and you know giving them giving them enough space and freedom to be curious and to learn how to fall because when a child learns how to fall a child learns how to get back up again and that is an adult who learns how to get back up on their feet whenever life throws lemons at them but we're also we're also told that i mean children particularly children of sort of four five six i mean they're a lot more supple and i mean you know a fall off a log for a child of six is going to be very very different in terms of consequence to say a fall off a log for a man of 58 you know so it's going to be a very different thing because the body's too very and sometimes what we do i think as adults is we sort of transpose ourselves onto the child and think if the child falls it'll be the same as if i fell and and the truth is no it won't no it won't they'll bounce straight back up and like i'm guilty about myself like sometimes i'll react and say oh no are you okay and then they'll see my reaction they'll feed off my reaction and they'll they'll start to cry whereas if you don't if you kind of ignore it if you kind of discreetly check okay no broken bones they're okay so the child will get back up again because the last thing the child wants to do hopefully is to go back it go back inside and not be allowed to play for the rest of the day because children love to play so you know it's it's important that you know that they're they're allowed that freedom to bounce back up again but maybe you don't have outdoor space maybe you're working all day maybe maybe you don't have those luxuries so what can you do in those instances so um one very important thing and i spoke to my friend fina she owns the arty fox um about art and being creative and our children aren't being aren't aren't being given the opportunity to be as creative as we used to be shall i say there are opportunities out there but um i think time is a commodity a lot of us don't have so what ways can you build in time for art in your in your everyday so you may you may maybe work until six o'clock you may have a very narrow window you may be at home all day it could be granny that has the children it could be an aunt could be a babysitter whatever so painting children love painting drawing um my children have old copy books and old diaries a lot of them from 2020 surprisingly um unsurprisingly um and they just draw they just they they're given like boxes of broken crayons and they love scented markers and scented pens they love the sensory experience of it all but they love the freedom just to draw i learned from i learned a lot about play from the early years teachers and can i just give a huge shout out to all the early years teachers in this country because the job that they are doing is phenomenal they get children they really do and they don't get half enough praise they really are an incredible cohort of teachers um so they have taught me a lot what i know about play um so yeah it's about teaching children it's okay to play with broken crayons draw use your imagination chalk right now it's lovely to drive through the estates and see all the chalk on the driveway it's it's beautiful if your child needs a wee nudge or if um your your child is very um device um focused you can transition them away from it slowly there's a thing called art hub for kids which does directed drawings it's fabulous um he does step by step drawings so um child when he's paper and a pencil or marker and it's you can draw literally anything teaches them how to draw you can do shadow drawn and that beautiful weather and i just put toys up against some paper and draw around the shadow draw around anything that they see construction if you want your child to learn to build things your um recycling bin and a bit of masking tape and if you want to be a bit extra you can throw in some googly eyes children love googly eyes but your recycling bin your your loo rolls your cereal boxes your egg cartons children can make incredible things from there you might remember the ad years ago with the child with the very liquid oh yeah make a spaceship right exactly yeah and and the best part of that was it was the time spent with his i think it might have been his father it was a it was a meal figure um it was the time spent with another adult with it with an adult that was important there too and important too that when the child is drawing put it up on the fridge with the fridge magnet and display it and if auntie or neighbour or friend comes in show to them in their presence and you know make make sure that they know their work is valued exactly and call them an artist wow you are an artist you know so give give them that name and they'll say yeah i'm an artist and you know there's nothing that they can't do um so yeah so there's lots of different activities you may have like fabric you might want to give spider-man or lottie doll your lottie doll a make over with some spare fabric you have lying around clay you can use salt dough there's loads of recipes online and actually there's a quarter has and it's funny you mentioned that because the color has actually said what's your preferred play dough recipe my daughter wants to play play dough itself is is so expensive i mean can i make it myself you can of course make it yourself and there are there are so many recipes online to suit you and your style you can add um you can make it in your slow cooker it's great and it'll stay for the last few months in the fridge um i'll give you two tips there are so many recipes it's flour and salt and water i'll give you two tips if you're adding food color or paint add that to the water first before you add it to the dry ingredients because it will um it'll stain your hands and the other one is glycerin hope i'm saying that right glycerin makes it smooth and shiny and it makes it really nice and you can also add essential oils or herbal tea for um for the sensory element of it um but yeah just get stuck in and if you find a recipe that works for you um stick with that if not change it up um i would say invest if you're going to get involved messy play and if messy play terrifies you get a plastic tablecloth and put it on the table or at your local building suppliers or your educational suppliers you can get what's called a top tray it's a large black tray that they use for mix and cement get one of those i think they're about 20 euro and it can be hosed down afterwards you can have it inside or outside and they can be as messy as you want it gives the children defined boundaries so that you know they're not all through your house if that's if that's a concern for you you did mention cooking earlier in a caller is asking i've seen people have their children cook with them are there best dishes to help to have them help with now my my kids the caller says are seven and nine i've started off with sandwiches and smoothies should i be moving on to more challenging things like bolognese for instance i i certainly don't see why they shouldn't be doing bolognese yeah ask them ask your children what they want to make ask them you know okay you're a chef what would you like would you like to make a dinner would you like to make a dessert children know like children have been in restaurants children watch tv they know what dishes are they see them on their table every day it's the one thing you're guaranteed you're going to see food every day ask them is there something that they would like to make and if not make a suggestion the pasta yeah start with the pasta start with the you can get child safe knives for chopping vegetables um you um i mean the opportunities are there like the it's it's endless um what you could do well bread making as well i think is is is really good as well and and there's an i i i did this before i i got a bread recipe years ago from a friend in waterford and it is the simplest bread recipe in history you'll have to share that okay i will share it equal quantities natural yogurt and self-raising flour basically what i do is i get a top of you know the 500 gram top of natural yogurt right what went into a bowl i get about 400 i would take about 400 given that you'll not get a full 500 i would get 450 grams of self-raising flour whack it into the bowl stir the hell out of it whack it into the oven for 35 minutes at 200 bingo that's it perfect that's it perfect and you could do that with the children and then top of natural yogurt 450 grams self-raising flour give them a spoon stand well back leave them batter the hell out of it right it in it goes in italy um there's the um the magalusi way they have children from the age of three carrying steaming hot bowls of pasta to sit down and eat because the children have learned you know it's hot don't touch it and they there's that element of trust now what works in italy might not work here but it is doable in um parts of africa they have children using machetes from the age of 12 months i'm not saying it's culturally it's culturally appropriate but i'm just saying you know it is there it is it can work can work Tina before i let you go and um sadly we're coming toward the end but you have brought in a pile of books and i'm i always say books are so important at every age start them young and keep them going until they're a hundred but you've got a couple of books and we're going to start i think with a series written by a mutual friend of ours yes from louise flanagan dragon terror absolutely fabulous um if you don't um if you haven't heard of it get it it's fabulous for all ages i read it to the children at school i read to my children at night there are six books in the series it's available in the library but it's also available from lots of places so maybe if you have somebody um school age and you might be like have a birthday or something coming off i highly recommend the dragon terror series um there is also i also had to plug my sister brie car she has her books as well oh yeah but yeah but there's a lot of books and picture books if you don't have a budget i will just say i contacted some of the charity shops before i came on here so just before we go i will say if you can't get to your local library your charity shops carry a stock of um books and toys and if you have toys or books in really good condition um they are looking for them so you know you can you can you don't have to buy everything you and one thing i found certainly with my own children and i suspect this is the case with many children don't assume that they can only read letters that are six foot tall and only read books that have four words on a page maybe give them something that might be slightly advanced maybe push them a little bit i i gave a niece of mine once i gave for a copy of the hobbit and i was questioned about it sure that's she's nice as well if she can't read it this year she'll read it next year but i want her to have the hobbit and she did read it and she loved it and i think sometimes we almost fail to appreciate how advanced they are and i would i would much rather overestimate than underestimate their abilities because the chances are you will you know if you you are far more likely to underestimate what they can do than to overestimate what they can do if that makes sense exactly and on the flip side of that you can always give older children picture books because you're trying to build critical thinking so give them picture books ask them okay what what's the illustrator doing in this book try and find the hidden message read between the lines so it works both ways challenge children and also challenge children you know give them the unexpected Tina it's been an absolute pleasure thanks very much indeed for coming into us and hopefully we've given people some idea some inspiration and most of all we've said to people look have the crack do enjoy yourself listen to them yeah listen to your children ask your children what they want to do because you know and i i can i believe you me i can stand testament to this in a flash there'll be through school through college and suddenly there'll be working jobs and driving cars and going out to the pub and you'll be wondering how the hell did that happen trust me thanks i know thank you tina it's been a pleasure bye bye now get more out of summer for less with over one thousand essentials from just three euro and under including skincare toiletries cosmetics and more this year summer better be ready 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they have a suspected fracture they're spent sent straight to x-ray it took two years to train up staff and it certainly does seem that's the model that did work here 15 years ago i in the mid 90s i i had a dose of food poisoning which required a few days in hospital and my gp referred me straight to the ward and i my my gp said right report to medical to at such and such a time and i did and it was sorted and you know and and that's that's the way things worked so yeah perhaps we should be looking back to those days again and try and keep people out of the emergency department as much as possible now i have a very special guest in studio who has a story to tell uh rory creedy rory good morning rory rory um you were in rough mullin yesterday and you um not not to put too find a point on it you saved the lives of three girls yeah okay yeah okay tell tell tell us the story the way because i i've been looking at at the briefing note here and and this is a phenomenal story so in in your own time and in your own way tell us the story okay um so so yesterday uh myself and the family my wife and my daughter is she's three and my niece sophie and sister there we all headed off to the beach uh very busy day at the beach um you know usual you know sunbathing ice creams um you know taking a few dips in the in the water um so it was coming towards the end of the day and i decided i'll go back in for another another quick dip and before we go so i started to walk towards the beach and i kind of noticed it was very busy so i was scanning the beach looking for a gap in the water you know that i could make my way in and not be on top of anyone you know yeah um and what it was a little bit quieter over where the ferry pulls in yeah on the ramp okay in hindsight that's not the best place to go for a dip and there is signs and there's flags and everything but i just whatever reason i just thought i'm going in for a paddle walk and there's people already in there as well uh so i went in and i was i walked into my hips and i was you know the usual you're trying to build up the courage to uh take your dip you know it's going to be cold and you're thinking you know kind of edging in slowly and then i noticed uh few meters in the distance was three girls were struggling in the water um so one of the girls was completely under and then i saw the panic in one of the other little girl's faces and she she just you know like i tell she was tired she was asking for help so i went in towards them um and then quickly became like i realized oh i'm out i'm completely out of my depth here there's no um i can't feel the sand anymore which was kind of i didn't realize how deep it was going to get how fast it was going to get deep um so i put my arm around the first girl and then i kind of i had my kind of two i had two of them um you know from behind like at the shoulders and the girl that was submerged i was like i don't know what i'm gonna do here i'm gonna have to bring the two girls in and then come back for the third girl but she um but somehow the third girl managed to hang on to the leg of one of the other girls so as we were paddling back she just comes up through the top takes a bit of breath um but then it became apparent like i've got three people here um i'm not making any progress very fast yeah and i started to get into trouble myself um i was going under a lot myself but i was you know trying to let them use me as as a buoyancy aid or whatever and um one time i had to break away from them and come back to them um i was trying to get underneath them because i could reach the floor yeah so i was pushing them up and i was very conscious of this girl that was under she was mostly under and i was afraid of her like if she you know um but somehow we got in but the whole time we were we were paddling i was trying to shout for help nobody noticed and it felt like nobody noticed anything anyway um the the current was taking me towards the pier as well so i was as i was moving and kicking i was felt like i was making very little progress i was almost staying in the one spot but also being pulled into the deeper water in the ramp um so even even somebody could have thrown me it was a point where even a t-shirt you know yeah pulled us all in um but we got in we got in anyway um and and you you managed to do it under your own steam even though you had been i mean you'd been calling for help and and they had been calling for help i mean some you you reckon some some of the people around the beach actually assumed you were missing mm-hmm like i i went to talk to somebody like the girls around their their parents um and i just stayed at the side to catch my breath and my instinct was just to ask everybody then that was around there was loads of people around yeah um did you see that like you know did you see what just happened and the oblivious there was a guy on his phone he said i'm so sorry i didn't see anything there was another guy there sitting on the ramp and he said i thought you knew them i don't know what he meant by that but he probably just meant that i thought this was just you know yeah play or something so i suppose it's just um just to be aware of that particular area in the beach and and you you didn't know the girls i mean have you spoken to them since you're spoken to their families or spoken to their parents or yeah i went up to the parents initially afterwards and you know we're all in a bit of shock and i think it was just all a bit raw at that point um so we just said it was the girls okay and they were okay and they were a bit shook or whatever but um they came back up to me then because we were sitting you know close quite close to each other on the beach so they came back up towards maybe an hour later and we talked about it a bit more in depth then and just you know everybody was a bit emotional and stuff like that and and it's quite clear that you're still feeling i mean you know this is not something you just pass off nonchalantly and go but i've gone about your day i mean it's not like this is having a huge impact on you too like you don't see you see it on tv you don't it's very different um you're in those kind of situations and and you're conscious too that you know it could have been a bad outcome for them but i mean you know and let's call it a spade a spade it could have been a bad outcome for you too because i mean the way you were being pulled in toward that jetty and that that current that's going against you you know had you been pulled in there that could have put you at risk yeah that became that like i was very confident at the start and you can imagine that confidence just getting smaller and smaller as the event went on um and you're kind of thinking oh god like and and i'm sure i'm not sure how much sleep you had last night not much yeah i'm right i see my eyes yeah and it's but i mean you know and obviously it's going to take a while you know for you to come to terms with the enormity of this and and you know somewhere down the line i would i would be very surprised if there wasn't some form of recognition and so on and so forth but that's obviously for another day and you know that's maybe a conversation that we'll have and maybe at some point in the future we'll have the conversation again when when the initial emotional shock of it is gone but i mean rory you know all i can say is look there are three people alive you know well there's four people alive today but there are three girls alive today that might not be alive were it not for you and you know that's that that's once you've processed that knowledge i mean i think you you can you know you know yourself that that you have saved lives here and and that is a phenomenal thing and look fair fair play to you and i'm well done to you and again it i don't know if you heard any of the show where you're on we were speaking to john mccarter from the ornli and he was saying look if you were ever on the side of the water and you see a potential situation if don't he said don't ever think i wonder what if maybe should i always make the call okay always call i mean the first thing you do is you call 999 and you make the call and say there there is a problem and as he said look if we get called out on a lifeboat and it turns out it's a log floating in the water we are happy to turn back but you know and and what you did yesterday is a salatory and this is a very practical and salatory lesson that if you saw people in trouble and you responded and i think that's a piece of self knowledge that that you can with i'd say the word pride that you can you know that when you were faced with a situation you reacted that way and look um hats off um you know well well well well well well it's a hard and i know it's hard to process this it is and it's gonna take a while i'm sure and you know maybe from your own point of view maybe wouldn't want any harm to sit down and and talk to someone about it yeah but look you you will do so in the knowledge that you have saved lives and and that is a special precious thing well thank you rory thank you indeed thanks for him and just just the message just be careful look out for each other totally stay away from that that ramp it's dangerous um stay within between the flags if you see somebody struggling tell somebody before you go if there's anybody close by just tell them rory creedy thank you indeed for speaking to us and thank you for what you've done thanks um i i i can i can think of of nothing else to say and really i think there there is nothing else to say except thank you to all our participants on the show today thank you to donna marie and to carlin and carlin produced of course uh both uh contributed and manned the phones thank you to all our listeners and most importantly thanks to you from myself donal kavna have a very good day beat that cost of brexit with no customs charges do you need a uk address for 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