 and have a nice Tuesday and we're going to pass you over to Greg. Good morning Greg. You have a nice Tuesday too Lee. Ah thanks very much, you're very good. Thank you. See you Wednesday. That's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. All right it is the nine till noon show and we've a busy one for you as always. I think you've come to expect that now and hopefully we deliver. But before we get things on the way let's take a look at what's happening in the world of news and we say good morning now to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg, good morning. The Fire Service is currently dealing with an ongoing incident off the Kilmer Crennan Road in Latter Cannae. A number of appliances are at the scene in the Sleeve Drummond Estate. Motorists are advised of traffic delays in the area. No further details are currently known. A member of the Pension Commission says the Minister for Social Protection's plans for higher payments is a bad idea. Under this scheme which is set to be unveiled today, those who work until the age of 70 will benefit from a higher state pension of 315 euro a week. It's aimed at keeping more people in work for longer and ending the political rye over a retirement age. The commission recommended raising the pension age to 68 and member John McGrion is not impressed by Heather Humphrey's plans. The only way we can fund it is through contributions from people who are in work and the employers who employ them. The reality is we would have to charge more to lie people and that's a bad idea because what we're trying to do here is keep people working to fund the system. The Kehirlock of the Latter Cannae Milford Municipal District will today ask officials to carry out a full inspection of all footpaths in the district. Figures seen by Councilor Donald Mandy Kelly show a significant increase in compensation payments for injuries sustained in falls. In a motion to be taken today, Councilor Kelly proposes that the Council carry out an inspection on all footpaths within the town boundaries and outlying areas and carry out any necessary repairs and age cutting required. Meanwhile, long calls for road improvement works have been carried out at the Ora Leisure Centre in Latter Cannae. A new non-slip surface has been installed at the pedestrian crossing. It's after serious safety concerns were raised by local residents about the speed at which motorists travelled along the ridge. Councilor Donald Mandy Kelly has welcomed the works but says more improvements are still needed at the crossing. Finally, for weather I mostly dry today with cloudy periods and some bright spells. There will be just a few patches of rain or drizzle with highest temperatures of 16 to 19 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. Wait, how big is big? At least half a million euro. 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We've got the very latest information and appeals from Guardi for you first here on the 9 till noon show coming up around about quarter past 10. And that and so much more besides, if there's a topic or a conversation you want to be having with us, get in touch right now 086 60 25,000. Your WhatsApps and texts to that number or call us to an 07491 25,000. If you prefer to watch the program or maybe perhaps the someone in your house hard of hearing and they want to be able to follow the subtitles, which is quite useful to quite a number of people. They're not perfect because they're Facebook generated, but they're pretty good. You can watch the program on our Facebook pages Highland Radio Highland Radio News and Sport on my own page there. We're also on YouTube Highland Radio Ireland and also watch us just on our website. You'll see the watch live link. Good morning to Michael and Mel, who have already joined us on our socials. A very good morning to both of you. Right. Let's look at the newspapers because we have a lot to be getting on with. No place on field for this GA manager girl fan of GA club, which you two meet last night to discuss their options after an incident in their Michael Murphy Intermediate Championship semi-final clash with Neve Colomba at the cool part by the buffet on Sunday evening. The final club are very unhappy with an alleged verbal incident which took place during the first half of the game and led to one of their players being very distressed in the dressing room at halftime. Then at the end of the game, there was a confrontation between the girl fan of the player and a Neve Colomba player. Neve Colomba were winners on a 4-11 to 2-9 scoreline, so I'm not really quite sure what's going on. I haven't been told, but I'm sure those in the know know. On to the Derry Journal now and defective blocks campaigner Paddy Diver has called for a maintenance team to be put in place to help effective homeowners after a collapsed wall highlighted the danger. The wall outside the home of Ellen Doherty from Lodden, which is built with the same blocks as her house recently fell down. Ellen has told how she can't sleep due to the worry that the chimney of her home will also collapse. Ellen can't light a fire in her house, which is also badly affected by black mould. And we were chatting to Ellen on the programme yesterday, of course, and she's had a terrible couple of years. She lost her husband in 2019. She was very sick herself with COVID last year. She finds herself in a situation where she's got feels, she's got nowhere to turn. But after we spoke to Ellen yesterday, we were contacted by a number of people that wished to help her in small ways and some in not so small ways. We're going to chat to Ellen, not chat to Ellen on air unless she wants to, but speak to Ellen off-air and to find out, has there been any progress in that regard? Because I know from those of you that listened live, those that watched back and also those who saw a clip I posted on social media, very moved by her story, I think we can all agree that no one should have to live their life like that. So we're doing everything we can to try and assist in that regard. And I think really a key question about the scheme, the defective block scheme that is in existence now at the moment, is how does someone like Ellen get her house fixed? And until that question's answered, there's no scheme for me really. I mean, there is a scheme. I'm not trying to be dramatic. Don't get me wrong. But if Ellen can't get her house back to the way it was, the way she spent many happy years with her husband in it, as she talked of yesterday, if there's no pathway for her to get her house repaired, well then the scheme to me is a failure. Because if the scheme does not fix her house, well then it leaves someone behind, doesn't it? She has no access to borrowing and no resources to match any shortfall from what I can determine. So as I say, it's a question I'll be asking someone in the know quite directly, how does Ellen fix her house? And until such time as that question's answered, well then it for me, and I'm not directly affected by it with not I don't have a mic at home. But then the scheme doesn't work. If it doesn't work for Ellen, who does it work for? Okay, the Irish should dependent. What do you think about these proposals? People who work until they are 70 will receive a weekly state pension of 315 under a radical overhaul of the pension system. Is it radical? The government is introducing five new rates of pension payments based on when a person retires, which will see rates rise incrementally by 5% for every year a person remains in work. Those who leave work at 66 will continue to be entitled to the current weekly rate of 253 euro a week. But anyone who remains in work longer will get a higher payment. Now I maybe this will see some people, I think some people feel they're pushed out the door at 65 or 66 and they like to continue to work and they'll get rewarded by a higher state pension when they retire. But others feel that this might, you know, the new norm will be working to 70, right? So, you know, people will unreal, you know, people who don't have a contributory pension, many of us don't will probably say, well, the real retirement age now is 70 because I can only live on, you know, it's very important what happens between now and then I think in terms of the rates decreasing, increasing or how the increase because this could be a way of trying to maybe corral people into working much later in life. But as I say, I don't know the ins and outs of it just yet. What's your initial reaction to it? We understand or we read sorry that the movies aimed at ending the political stalemate over increasing the pension age to 67. The new system will see someone retiring at 67 taking home a weekly state pension of 266 while those stopping work at 68 they'd received 281. If you're remaining work until you are 69 you will be entitled to 297 euro per week. The highest rate of 315 will be paid to those who retire at the age of 70 and the rates which will be unveiled today by social protection minister have a hump freeze are based on the current pension payments now. The only thing is that, you know, if I'm gifted with good health, it might be easy enough for me to sit in a chair like this and waffle I'm not don't worry you're not gonna have to put up for me that long I can assure you of that but you know what I mean it's easier for me to say well maybe I could do this till 70 but there are other people in that much more harder work for instance like the building trade for example which I understand because I worked in it for three years myself who couldn't work till 70 so what's going to be put in place for them to make sure it's fair for everyone or perhaps something doesn't need to be put in place I'm only throwing suggestions out there to see what you the people this is a group of people in Dublin who are making decisions for you that will affect you long into the latter stages of your life so I'm interesting in your opinions as always of course let's go to the Irish Times here former president Mary Macalese has called on Pope Francis to remove awful material in quotes from a Vatican website set up in 2016 which she said offends all women and the creator who made them the document which blames all human ills on women including the death of Jesus Christ appears on the website of the Dicastry department for the laity the family in life it appears in English French and Italian but not in Spanish or Portuguese translations written by Tertullian one of the early church fathers who died almost 2000 years ago in ad 230 it addresses women as the devil's gateway you are the unsealer of that forbidden tree you are the first deserter of the divine law you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack you destroyed so easily God's image man on account of your dessert that is death even the son of God had to die so this is on an official document that effectively describes all women as let me see where's that quote the devil's gateway all right so she's asking the Vatican to remove that it's outdated isn't it on to the Daily Mail now there's been more than 40 000 people waiting sorry there's been more than 40 000 waiting time breaches in hospitals across the country this year in which patients were left waiting over 24 hours a total of 40 398 patients were left waiting over 24 hours for admission to hospital between january and august it's an increase of 132 percent on the same period in 2021 the hsc report presented yesterday to the emergency department task force said the average daily trolley count during this period was 316 yesterday 485 admitted patients were waiting for beds according to the inmo trolley watch including 395 waiting in the emergency department while 90 were in wards elsewhere and we know locally in the northwest our hospitals contributing quite significantly to those figures but it doesn't make sense because if you look at some statistics that are circulating on the internet and I just perhaps can't pull them up um instantaneously here but there's been a huge reduction in beds in hospitals um and what's that going to lead to it's going to lead to of course more overcrowding in hospitals so let me have a look at these figures here the number of hospital beds in arland from 2000 to 2020 so in 2000 there were 22 658 hospital beds okay so 22 658 so you'd imagine things have improved since then wouldn't you well in 2019 there were 14 412 hospital beds that's what a decrease of about a third so where have these beds gone now we know staff equals beds but in 2000 22 658 beds now in 2019 we're not now the most recent figures 14 412 beds so we can't be surprised then can we that overcrowding is as bad as it's ever been that we have people waiting over 24 hours that you know people over 70 are are facing the indignity we've talked about it on this show trying to highlight it trying to affect some change where one can but if you reduce the beds from 22 and a half thousand in 2000 to 14 and a half thousand in 2019 the most recent figures well i mean it doesn't take a brain surgeon if they're particularly clever it doesn't take a brain surgeon or a scientist to work out that's that something's got to give there where have all these beds gone have you got an insight 08 660 25 000 and of course you know as i say staff equals beds but we're told there's you know loads of people now working in the hsc but they're not obviously servicing these beds what does it take four four hospital staff to keep a bed open there's some there's some equation like that i'm not quite sure what is off the top of my head but anyway we've dropped a third of our beds i think that's about a third it maybe yeah it is maybe more than a third of our beds in 1920 years of course we're gonna have problems there's also problems in terms of homelessness the irish daily mirror homelessness in arland may be even worse than official figures suggest experts have warned now we hear this all the time because there's a lot of people that are homeless but aren't counted as homeless particularly in areas like donagall people uh couchsurfing uh rough sleepers that aren't actually counted so we know this already uh they say it's being defined in a relatively narrow way that fails to respond to the true nature of the problem the report found that homelessness uh definitions focus on people sleeping rough in the number and duration of stays in emergency accommodation however a group of international researchers claims arlands definition was neglecting hidden homelessness and not fully recognizing and not fully responding to the true nature of the issue the experts said that the most effective integrated strategies including practice in scotland and finland use a wide definition of homelessness they said this facilitates a more comprehensive army of prevention rapid rehousing and housing led approaches it would be interesting if there were another hotel available in in in donagall because you know i have to be careful how i word this i i think people see what's how we're reacting to the refugee crisis and think this but what would be interesting is if um there were a hotel available that was available to sort of service homelessness um from people that have been living here for a long time so and see how many people would take up the offer of that type of accommodation now it would be centralized maybe it's not realistic in that regard but i wonder you know that approach the approach that's being used to deal with the refugees crisis as people flee uh uh where is it Ukraine you know actually would that be an acceptable or realistic short term fixed to homelessness in this in this country do you know what i mean those who've been homeless for quite some time or have lived here for quite some time um has that approach ever been adopted some might say maybe with the the shelters that they have that's what they're doing i don't know anyway um on to the Irish daily star drinkers are turning their backs on pubs and droves with almost half staying away from bars because of the cost of the living crisis like so where you were a regular social drinker have you caught back let me know how in terms of restaurants did you have a routine in your family you know whereby you went out once a week and you know maybe paid babysitter went out for a few drinks maybe something to eat or maybe you got something to eat in the way home did you do it once a week twice a week have you changed your habits in that regard speaking to people in business that's what really worries them you know there is obviously great concern about the cost of electricity and all this type of stuff but they don't necessarily my understanding isn't anyone in business please correct me if i'm wrong they don't want necessarily money just to stay open with no customers you know that sort of a way like sort of the covid um interventions they want it to be as i say this is only from those i've been speaking to they want a situation whereby people continue to go out you know that people still socialize and spend money that the place is staying open because it's busy so that means maybe put more money not divert it from business but put more money in people's pockets to make a meaningful a meaningful intervention not just to allow people to keep the heat on but to allow them some sort of a social life as well so two questions if you're in business would that be your focus what would you like to see the government to do i presume you just don't want the bills paid you want a busy bar and restaurant or whatever other type of business that you have so do you think maybe more focus should be on putting money in people's pockets or um are you uh have you changed your socializing habits where you're more inclined uh to go out than you are now have you found yourself saying you know what will stay and we'll get a you know we'll get a a bottle of wine and takeaway or something instead uh because obviously that has an impact because maybe you're not getting a babysitter and then maybe they don't have the money to spend it on other things just to get an insight into how we are changing our lives that being said right i saw uh in temple bar for example in other places eight euro 20 for a pint now you know about any business and you can talk to me about our well but the rates and this that and the other but any business charge in 820 for a pint really would you want much money coming from the taxpayer going to support them i mean that's not a business model that is sustainable three at four euro for bottled water uh you know ripping people off i don't know what cost temple bar places and other places uh what what extra costs they have to justify that but if you come to ireland and the first thing you do is go to temple bar for a pint and it's 820 you're not going to head to the northwest where you can get a pint still for under a fiver are you where there is still value i think sometimes when we talk about this industry and we're going to talk i think to someone from the fitness federation that we need to break you down into regions uh because you go into dobblant they will absolutely fleece you now some places and i may not but anyway up to four in ten adults plan to stay away from the pub which means some businesses face extinction it's claimed the warning was issued yesterday by the fitness federation of ireland which fears that the 40 percent uh stay away figure and the crippling energy crisis will squeeze out pubs again i don't know what the margins are like in pubs but what are the pubs doing to meet the customer prices are going like that and that being said again i am differentiating between i think the local offering which is is pretty decent where you cannot go out and have something to eat and drink and you know i mean obviously you can't maybe have a three course meal but you know if you have if you're lucky enough to have some resources left over it's possible uh in dobblant it wouldn't be 820 for a pint i mean you could never justify that i couldn't anyway um and the son finally us president joe biden has insisted the pandemic is over in a tv interview that took his advisors by surprise while admitting his country still had covid issues in a chat on us show 60 minutes he said the world has moved on he said we still have a problem with covid we're still doing a lot of work on it but the pandemic is over now they had to come out uh the the officials had to come out and say that that's not the official policy this was a quite an interesting interview because that's he said that about covid and they had to come out and sort of contradict him on that and he also said that the us would actually go to bat for taiwan if china were to invade them which is completely against us policy they kind of have this you know uh they have a not neutral but they have a particular um stance a diplomatic stance really which does not go as far as to say they would defend a defend to an but he said they would uh and that's two items in that interview that his own staff have had to come out and say well that's not really quite what the situation is that might be what he feels but it's you know official u.s policy is somewhat different okay so there you go oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's absent text that number give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand uh we play um exclusively irish music on this show now we've been doing so for a couple of weeks so if you have a irish actor an act from ireland uh that you want to hear we're building a list get in touch with us oh wait six six twenty five thousand for your suggestions and you can drop in a request or dedication too for that item which we try and do about half past ten but sometimes we run over or run behind but anyway uh stay right where you are we'll be back uh with much more on the nine till noon show after we take this break would you like to win a hunday corner car well that's the first prize in the centunions g.a 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and what else we're learning well from across our services what we would have seen was when schools came back to regular normality last year that some children who had maybe struggled as they pointed out homeschooling would have spent very little time engaged in education this could have struggled to adapt get back to routines there was a lot more across our services certainly we saw a lot more school refusals children just you know not wanting to go back because of the routines the rules or just because of anxiety and it resulted and it took them months several or a lot of children months and months to get back into the swing and things so to speak and we found that across our services and different organizations but you know i think schools themselves would have said that teachers have found out just firsthand that the struggle of some of the students who would never have had difficulties in the past just struggling to re-engage yeah because i mean the conversation at the time and one of the arguments for trying to get young ones back to school was that i mean there's different reasons broadband was one access to equipment was another but also that some students wouldn't do very well engaging like that you know in busy households or for whatever reason so this kind of feels like it this is that the chicken's coming home to roost that this is sort of the fallout from all of that did we do or should we have do you think sort of assessed how children fare during the homeschooling period and maybe had a more targeted approach on their return to try and make sure that everyone was brought up back as much as is possible to the same position so they go a bit what a bit of struggle for governments to be able to really analyze how well children were doing during the period of homeschooling just because of everything else that was going on and all the other difficulties now what they should have done and what we would want to see what the government has done in department education was to take a measure when children came back to school to see how what proportion of children were struggling across different areas better whether it's you know academically around numeracy and literacy or whether it's socially and emotionally around anxiety and other mental health sort of issues and taking a baseline of that and make comparisons to pre-covid and then they would have been able to be in a position to say okay any sort of additional support that we put in place are they getting children back to where they were prior to COVID and that's really what we would want the government to be doing just speaking to a few different parents and we'll come back to this course subject to which we invited you on also to speak to some parents their children have found it difficult to process say for instance new Ukrainian children coming into school the language difficulties having to try and process and understand why dangerous in another country bombs explosions and death means that all of a sudden there's new students in the classroom do we know of anything's been done to try and assist in that regard I know teachers individually will try their best but this is a particular I think this is a particular challenge that would require you know a targeted thought-out researched approach yeah no absolutely and I think first and foremost was I think the government has done some some quality work to try and get information out to teachers and training out to teachers initially in terms of integrating Ukrainian students which obviously needs to be the priority given the fact that over time you know some of the Ukrainian students might be experiencing trauma themselves but in terms of that bigger picture you know there's 50 000 additional Ukrainians across the country at the moment and a large proportion of those will be young children who've gone to school and and yeah more and more programs more resources out to teachers to make sure that the children who were in school previous to the Ukrainians coming in have an understanding of why that is the case and it is dealing with delicate sensitive matters but there is a best practice out there for for example Bernardo's ourselves we put out information to to share across with parents and it's about engaging with sort of experts and how to educate children on on those complex issues because it's not it's not easy for teachers to run through them but it's awesome how easy for for children to immediately pick up on exactly what is going on out there so in terms of the the children that are struggling now to engage in the classroom do they contact Bernardo Bernardo's are you getting the calls from parents and guardians and and how is it presenting them what's the sort of typical conversation that you're hearing so some some children absolutely who would be struggling and there might be additional issues within the home would and that might be causing some of the the issues of re-engaging you know absolutely getting in touch with with our services cross-country and you know us trying to provide the supports of parents to help build up routines and that will help children re-engage but in in other circumstances it is it's it's about coming up with plans between teachers and parents see and obviously including the child as much as possible in those plans about right what what are the first steps that need to be taken to get children just back into schools not struggling to adjust quite so much but what are the biggest barriers and that's got to come from children voices themselves and then looking to accommodate those that that child so it's not right child the child the people you need to follow our rules to the absolute letter the law you've got to come in do x y and z according to us it's about working with the child and taking into consideration their circumstances and their experiences all right steven thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it greatly take care that's steven moffat who is barnardo's national policy manager 08 660 25 000 right uh i want to catch up on some comments and um there was comments that came in towards the end of last week on topics that a lot of you engaged in on so i'm going to try and get through some of those as well um but there's a mixture here of course there's the majority of people in this country wouldn't accept the flying of the flag at half mass they wouldn't do the same for us so why should we this is a continued fallout from the request by michael martin for flags um irish flags to be flown at half mass yesterday um the independent on friday had the saturday program for the tv wasn't the friday paper i've been buying it for 70 years okay that's completely separate public sector staff have to lower the national flag on their buildings on monday well excuse me many of us feel intimidated by this request given the negative impact of colonialism another i was recently at mass in the geltacht as expected the entire homely was delivered in irish by the priest except for the words honesty and morally right which he said in english apparently there are no irish equivalents for such words is that correct i will ask someone uh fina for the republican party tell us to fly the union jack yesterday yes folks that's the free state we live in today roll on the election was there any request or dictat for the union jack to be flown i'm not sure about that uh greg could you tell us if any other non-uk countries are flying their flag at half mass uh or did they i don't know the answer to that question it'd be an interesting one i think particularly maybe look towards the the french to see what their um their approach was good morning is it not right uh if passage for the younger generation to move away for a spell sorry is it not a right of passage i am uh in scotland and i have two children in that age bracket and one of them definitely would be in that bracket thanks amri i think amri you're correct that there will always be a proportion of younger people that will emigrate or have that ambition and in fact you know a lot of parents will encourage it because they've done it themselves there's a there's a need and a want though um if you want to do that that's fantastic but what the problem is is that there's a lot of young people as well that don't want to emigrate they want to be close to their families they want to pursue their careers they want what's best for them but they don't feel they can achieve it here and they are forced to to emigrate so those that's i mean you know i've got one who just can't wait to travel um and others that would be very upset if they felt that they had to um it's working out cheaper for me to run a generator on green diesel than by buying power off the grid yeah i noticed some people getting quite clever now and sticking the ads up for generators um it's the right time i suppose as people look at the potential for power outages that were told it's unlikely now a caller says it's a very sad day when a pensioner is living in fear for house coming down on top of her while our government are busy flying flags at half mast for queen belonging to a foreign country um also uh while there are irish citizens in this lady's position we have other nationalities being put up in hotels and being kept safe we should have the utmost respect for these people and all they've been through but charity begins at home and our own child are being neglected i i exactly get where you're coming from i don't think ellen or maybe it'd be an interesting question i don't think ellen would be interested in living out her days in a in a hotel ellen has a house which she and her husband built through hard work and graft and they trusted the system to make sure that everything about that building was regulated and was safe it's now falling to bits around her and the status of scheme which she needs to be able to access to rebuild that home i don't think putting ellen in a hotel room really is a solution uh why can't someone invent a small bin that you can crush the rubbish and transfer it to bigger bins then people might be able to afford the tickets then it fills up too quick well some people climbing the bin and jump up and down on it the problem there is as you see your bins collected by weight a lot of the time and you compact rubbish into a bin it gets very heavy very very quick so even if there were some sort of a rubbish crusher uh i think once the bin people came to try and drag it out of your yard uh and the thing would weigh a ton which would if you you know were compacting the waste down i don't think that would work uh greg have the tv or sorry i had the tv on record uh this they text me from work when i get home from work i'm gonna sit back and watch the funeral queen elizabeth was a beautiful lady they say did you enjoy it i hope you set it to record for a long time because it went on for a long time yesterday seemingly greg everybody's mother is their queen so the irish flag should always be flown at half mast okay a caller says she completely disagreed with flying the flag at half mast for the queen it's totally disrespectful to all of those who fought to free arland for british rule and to those who immersively killed so that we could enjoy that freedom today the irish government today have no backbone another caller says as a vegan she is disgusted at the fact that it was the queen that brought back fox hunting for sport and the inhumane activities that go with it yet we are celebrating her is it that the british people are unaware of this fact or are they choosing to ignore it i don't know hi can you ask your listeners has anyone got their electricity bill from electric arland after being taken over from i bedrola and realize later that they didn't take your direct debit details as well no telephone called state this either your direct debit is part of your details when setting up and i realize that this is a different company but they should make contact or inform you that they need a new one well there is and it's designed to help you and and panda energy customers are going through this at the moment there is a system in place where you have a guarantee of service can't remember exactly what the terminology is is but if you're a panda customer and you do nothing you can't be cut from the power grid which would happen if the company and a company's not going to ring so there's an automatic company that you switch if a company exits the market okay so all your information is automatically transferred to them it's to make sure that you have a continuance of power to call everybody up three hundred thousand people and then to try and get them over i don't think that's realistic i think this automated way is the only way but people can still intervene in that process um what are the rules around dogs on the beaches in particular balay holy beach our dog owners allowed to have their dogs on beaches off the lead caller observed a large number of dogs running free they're supposed to be under control in that environment at all times um greg sorry uh can you let greg know i feel as a teacher and as a parent that we really need to legislate the use of vaping products asap the wide array of fruity flavors are enticing teens to vape they are highly visible in stores and teenagers who use them as a substitute for smoking they are unaware of the dangers which are as bad if not worse than smoking many of the tobacco companies have switched to vapes they don't mind who uses them so long as their companies are profitable well i was out at the weekend and i generally don't watch what other people do and you know live and let live and what people do is their own business but there were two three next to me yes it next to me um where i was and they couldn't have been 12 or 13 years of age and i don't know if you ever see those old coal stacks you know from a factory where there's like the stacks come up and the smoke coming out of them well there was three of them sitting there and it was like being at a disco the amount they they were constantly vaping constantly ingesting nicotine now you know people who've smoked and have gone off smoked and start and vaping i'm not endorsing it or whatever or saying anything about that right but you would you would most people who successfully go off smoking vaping i think vape likely smoke in other words you go through a period of vaping then you don't and then you go back to it but young ones with the vapes i don't know if they've ever smoked or not but listen it's inevitable they probably will it's like they're like chimneys they are just constantly producing smoke and these three were under 15 there's just absolutely no doubt about it and i think parents and teachers and other caregivers are starting to feel a little bit desperate now that the government is not helping and i've a lot of messages in here on 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of years where again it's been fairly constant and i suppose that's an indication the air quality hasn't improved significantly um and i suppose you know we've we've had covid and that's had impacts in terms of nitrogen dioxide which is more your traffic your car uh related and that's more in your larger cities and that did drop significantly during the period of covid in 2020 and 2021 i suppose the other parameter that we're largely looking at and this is actually the main cause of that 1300 premature deaths is particulate matter and that largely arises from the burning of solid fuels um no absolutely look at people do need to use solid fuels and it is a source of heat for a lot of homes and households but what we're indicating is that like no we need to make that move to as clean as possible of solid fuels if we are using them and obviously there are benefits to moving towards oil gas obviously the you know for newer homes heat pumps which like are the absolutely the best scenario but it is a it is a big ask it's a challenge and therefore we're just calling for anyone who can make a step along that and as i say if it is solid fuel that you have to use that you try to move to the cleaner versions of that and that would be you know wood that's as dry as possible uh you know lower smoke coals um you know and they are the very initial steps that people can make and i suppose what i'd like to say because well Greg it's i suppose it is very much actually a health-based uh impact you know as you say 1300 premature deaths and you know so the actual impact of making an improvement is for the benefit of the local community your neighbours basically and and yourself and it's been stated by management at let it kind of university hospital for example that they have a seemingly at times particularly high level of people presenting with respiratory issues i'm not saying this is as a direct result of what we're talking about now but we can't ignore a connection there either no and and i suppose look at they are making that connection we also have uh we link in with the hsc and they have actually done some they've looked at and they've had people doing some research in Dublin as well and they can link it to at times when air quality dis improves if that's the right way of looking at it that they actually get higher admissions for asthma for respiratory illnesses and and they're you know in some ways it's probably good to show that it tries to maybe kind of convince health convince people that there is a direct impact it may not have impact someone who's healthy but those that maybe have some underlying respiratory issues or asthma are the ones that are likely to be more impacted by by the air quality if it actually gets improved yeah when we talk about safe for instance let's choose the county's biggest town letter Kenny because the air quality has been monitored there for a long time when we talk about poor air quality in letter Kenny we can tell the difference can't we between what's contributing to it i.e. you know vehicular traffic versus you know particles from burning the likes of wet wood dirty coal what do those do you have the figures there or if you looked at them and what does it tell us yeah so i suppose you're right we have established a monitoring station in letter Kenny in association with the local authority and it's been in place there since 2019 and the parameters we're looking at there are sulfur dioxide particular matter at two different concentrations but that's going into detail so really i suppose we it's part of the network across the country so what we're seeing in letter Kenny is not significantly different to what we're seeing in other towns and villages um squares is actually high levels of particular matter appear in our monitoring at on days when you know it's cold it's calm and you know you get that the actual pollutants remain within the area um right pat i seem to have lost oh i'll have you back here pat can you hear me okay sorry yeah no it's awful yeah no but yes you see like we can do all but but just a couple of scenarios here for you save for instance in the town like letter Kenny it's always what we can do do you know to mean the public and that's that that's proper order as well but like say for instance road works okay um is that any thought ever given to that or should it be like we would have safe for instance in letter Kenny road works in a number of areas which means for long periods of the day traffic is at a standstill cars mostly running should we be looking at that and taking into consideration the movement of air or in terms of enforcement of people burning dirty coal or wet wood or whatever it might be you know what level of enforcement is there because there might be people who themselves of respiratory illness have a better understanding and stick to the rules do you know like it just feels like it's all on us and i just wonder the powers that be taking this seriously like i would if it's that bad you would think that maybe in terms of traffic planning some consideration would be given to that you know you're on a on a very calm day when it's cold when fires are probably going to be lit is it advisable to have a series of i know this sounds like a pipe dream that and probably achievable but i'm just you know it always comes to us yet i think maybe some other thought could be put into it by those who make decisions yeah and i suppose maybe greg i completely get what you're saying but i suppose maybe if we somewhat separate the the emissions i suppose from traffic and from say solid fuel burning they sort of generate they generate different pollutants so the traffic generates nitrogen dioxide so that's actually one parameter and again we're really only seeing that being very elevated right in the center of our larger cities so it's not as big an issue in the more rural locations not saying that any level of pollution isn't you know you want to try and minimize it but it is more in the larger the more dense populated areas the solid the emissions from solid fuel burning are probably of more significance to the towns and villages where you actually have a number of people on those colder night lighting fires and then the accumulation of it and i suppose you know measures to actually try and i suppose improve home heating systems whether that be as i say moving away from an open fire to a stove moving to oil moving to gas they're all steps any one of those steps taken by anyone makes an improvement and and i suppose maybe actually just getting back to your point in terms of enforcement you know the local authorities and we've called for this and they are actually start improving the amount of enforcement they're doing in terms of solid fuel regulations and and checking of that probably more focused on actually the retail outlets than actually on the but you see that that in and of itself is the problem because you only have to travel outside a town boundary or nip across the border uh you know what i mean yeah and absolutely and there have been reports of that and i think invested you know tv reports in relation to the movement across the border and that and and i think like you know there are proposals to bring in a national uh fuel regulation fuel standard and again that would actually i suppose address maybe moving just outside town again a bigger aspect is actually across the border where obviously there may be different regulations uh different standards either side of the border okay so where we're at then is we're we're meeting EU targets we're not quite meeting the WHO targets and we need to do more and we need to maybe start taking some individual responsibility rather than expecting big brother to to sort of that is that there's an element of that and i think it's really just that we all can make an improvement as well Greg that we're not you know any small step if everyone can make a step you know some will go all the way to heat pumps which absolutely cost that much more and doesn't suit every home orders can actually move from a dirtier fuel to a cleaner fuel so any of those steps can definitely make an improvement and it is local and it is actually your local area that the improvement actually arises like all right thanks Pat i appreciate it Pat Byrne EPA program manager right back with more comments after these the nine till noon show with St Unans GA club development draw 40 000 your own prizes first prize a Hyundai Kona car plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at St Unans GA draw dot com or any club member cutting through the spin the nine till noon show on highland radio breedon's furniture coulee maville with over 40 years of experience in furniture and floor coverings they've got irish made furniture suites beds mattresses dining flooring slide robes and occasional furniture great prices and large selection now available at breedon's home 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for social housing and economic development in the balaba fae and stroller areas is this that they want to land owners to come forward and have a chat with them or is this about rezoning land and then they go out and acquire it to what stage of the process are we at yeah both both both them and they also want the general public to come on and have a say as to where they think economic land should be and where housing land should be obviously we're guided by the national and regional guidelines but there's always some flexibility particularly in balba fae and stroller you have national primary roads gone through it you have a large river there so you have flooding as you see frams and that's what makes it quite difficult just to put everything in the center plus you have already established development there so obviously you have to try and work as near the town center and also as well as you know the bypass and balba fae and stroller has moved from one side of the town to the opposite side so that is going to affect the the existing town plans we have a final route on that don't we we know exactly okay so it has to be in that context then too you have to look at it what space is between the bypass in the town maybe development on the sort of the west side of the bypass or whether maybe uh towards the east of the town all of that has to be factored in I presume yeah and and we're looking to develop a ring road a link road around the opposite side of the town as well and as I say because the old bypass has been deselected now it's opening up lands and that there is a big problem all over the county getting land the other problem is we're zoning land a lot of landowners are then sitting on it they're not making it available for development and you should only be zoning land where you know the landowner is willing to make it available within the period of that plan so really they should only zone that land that they know well this economic development and our housing and as you well know there's a massive crisis for houses and it takes about three years from the time you start to get houses up so we need it's a good time but we're actually behind at this stage and we need to get a lot a lot more suitable land service land preferably if we're at a point though whereby you know people with land want to keep it or they want to sit on it and and you know I mean at what point and do we reach a point whereby you have to look at the bigger picture and say well if you don't want to make this land available to us we're maybe this we're going to have to look at cpo's I hate cpo's don't get me wrong but you know if no one turns up because no one wants to give you know sell their land what do you do next well down to your question now's the point the point is now and we're here we're here at that point now we don't have to see pote we just de-lust it and zone the land beside it you can't be more going out 100 meters or a kilometer out the road yeah if there's land suitable beside that land the land is not available you de-zone that and you zone the land beside it and that's what we need to do now not not to wet them that good wall of animals it's too important it's it's in the public good it's absolutely necessary to get public and private land and we need to do and that starts tonight so anybody has any things either way we are professionals builders landowners or the general public at his family growing up wondering where they're going to love the need to come tonight and that's what it's wrong by doing all kind of council yeah and business people too will want to see how the the town will take shape going forward especially in the context of a bypass if it ever happens okay listen thanks for that short but sweet I appreciate your time this morning and a similar meeting along the same lines is taking place for the Bancrana area tomorrow night in the Ineshawn Gateway Hotel at 7 30 p.m the council is seeking the public views on the 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constructive minister charlie mcconnoke says much talk revolved around how to progress applications from affected homeowners in order to repair homes a meeting is due to take place between dunigol county council and the department of housing in the near future to ensure outstanding applications receive clarity on decisions minister mcconnoke acknowledged the sense of urgency on the matter the key thing really is ensuring that between the council and the housing that there is agreement that we actually can find a way to ensure that there is decisions on outstanding applications and particularly those so we can ensure that the worst are done first and that for many who are waiting in answers that as many as possible of them can actually move forward and that's really important that that happens now and i'm certain to be leaving following on from our meeting with the minister for housing to make sure that that meeting happens and to make sure a pathway forward is found very very quickly a member of the pension commission says the minister for social protections plans for higher payments are a bad idea under this scheme which is said to be unveiled today those who work until the age of 70 will benefit from a higher state pension of 315 euro a week it's aimed at keeping more people in work for longer and ending the political rye over retirement age the commission recommended raising the pension age to 68 and member john mcgrian is not impressed by heather humphrey's plans the only way we can fund it is through contributions from people who are in work and the employers who employ them the reality is we would have to charge more to employ people and that's a bad idea because what we're trying to do here is keep people working to fund the system thank you herlock of the latter kenny milford municipal district will today ask officials to carry out a full inspection of all footpaths in the district figures seen by concert donal mandy kelly show a significant increase in compensation payments for injury sustained in falls in a motion to be taken today concert kelly proposes that the council carry out an inspection on all footpaths within the time boundaries and outlying areas and carry out any necessary repairs and heat cutting required i had a lot of phone calls regarding footpaths was hedges overgrown and i suppose half of me is skiing out the footpath for mullers first pass was prams and had briars and bits of butter sticking out and also um footpaths you know they're not not in great shape they need to be verged back and then widened their full capacity and also anywhere we have cracks or pairs needed need to be carried out meanwhile long call for road improvement works have been carried out at the aura later center in letter kenny a new non-slip surface has been installed at the pedestrian crossing it's after serious safety concerns were raised by local residents about the speed at which motorists traveled along the route concert donal mandy kelly has welcomed the works but says more improvements are still needed at the crossing tonigal county council says its turnkey acquisition process is continuing throughout the county and a report to members officials say this competitive dialogue procurement process will result in a major capital investment in social housing and initial projects have been completed officials are also committing to securing more land for the provision of social housing donal kavana has more in their report officials say the turnkey acquisition model is a very effective mechanism enabling the council to feed into the design of the proposal to ensure the end product is suitable for the needs of social housing tenants meanwhile as well as pursuing turnkey opportunities tonigal county council says it's also planning to develop further projects on existing land banks in various locations throughout the county preliminary designs are underway for a number of these sites with officials stressing they're informed by the pertaining approved social housing need at local level land negotiations are ongoing to acquire additional lands for housing in areas of need there is an open advertisement on the council's website for expressions of interest for parcels of land derelict sites and buildings with the potential to deliver social housing officials say a significant response has been received a number of suitable parcels of land have been identified and the authority is progressing to conveyance the stage on a number of land acquisitions whether i'm mostly dry today with cloudy periods and some bright spells there will be just a few patches of rain and drizzle with highest temperatures of 16 to 19 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 says for this Tuesday morning September the 20th the death of yvonne scott clincher cull daff has taken place in meyorka daughter of majella and the late andy 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trade for around 30 years he can no longer work because he needs an operation due to wear and tear it keeps getting pushed back keeping him off work for longer people in heavy based work will face more difficulty before meeting the 70 mark and i think you know realistically that is it's not across the board uh there are probably some people out there 73 74 uh grafted for 10 12 hours a day but i think a lot of people working in that industry can't go to 70 so i i just think there's to be a little nuance here all irish children have an advantage to learn ukrainian from the ukrainian children let's look at the silver lining here indeed of course and it's not a criticism my point is is that um you have to explain to a child why there are new people in the school as to why or they might be told why to understand because we i was a warrior as a child that's maybe why i sort of think on things like this i worried about everything and if i were in school and new people came in and they said there's a big bad man and he's blown up our country went to leave i would have gone home probably wouldn't have spoken to my parents about it and i would have sat worrying and that's the only reason i brought it up to try and make sure that there are no other children happen to endure like for example what i did and many others do 500 heads of states at a funeral nowhere else would that happen that's how popular she is we should be grasping that piece that we fought for i don't understand says a caller greg i use only turf that i can afford i don't have oil or gas and i won't listen to any dictators telling me what to use for heating my home indeed and it sounds to me and i'm not in any way uh judging what you you should or shouldn't do but it sounds to me like someone who uh does not get breathing difficulties from particles coming from the turf that you burn which is good for you and and as i say i don't judge people people can do what they want it's up to the people to decide the direction of this of the country um a caller says there was no non whites in the leading parade at the queen's funeral i don't know what that means if anything but i did kind of note that myself i'll be honest with you greg you're a hundred percent i was out walking yesterday in our local park and seeing people sitting on a summer seat from a distance the columnist smoke around them was so great that i thought they had lit something on the ground until it got discovered that two of them were smoking uh they're vape things so disgusting they love to smoke now they weren't young man uh one was in his 70s another person in their 30s surely they don't need that amount of smoke well you see in that situation it's possible that they're they're outdoors for starters uh there's no question as far as i'm aware about a passive smoke from vaping if it were like i'd be more concerned if it was like three 12 year olds hi greg i see young ones coming out from national school vaping they're vaping at an incredibly young age and and they don't seem to really matter if anyone sees them or not it's not like back in the day where you'd sneak somewhere and have a sneaky siggie you know i'm not in any way trying to glamorize that but i think people of a generation would know exactly what i'm talking about uh it's vaping in plain sight and there's nicotine in it and they become addicted to the nicotine so we have an awful lot of 13 14 15 year olds who are addicted to nicotine and where else can you get nicotine cigarettes so if your vape runs out and you are you can't get a vape right you the these young people are have a incredible desire for nicotine it's an addiction they'll start getting agitated so what do you do you smoke because that's what also has nicotine and i think parents need a hand here because they're everywhere and they're like sweets the fruity and all that kind of stuff uh so all irish children i've read that one those two came in at the same time okay for the same message uh greg would the fact that there's an increase in smoking over the last number of years with a large number of new irish in the country which would increase the number of smokers in the population what would that i'm not sure there's a particular issue with people that aren't from island being heavy smokers so i'm not sure how that might have an impact unless i'm missing something there greg the nicotine gum and spray is just as bad over 20 a box for them wow uh they can get cigarettes and vaping underage as it stands now so it won't make any difference changing the age uh there's underage children selling their vapes to their friends vaping is worst thing ever to come on the market the young ones think they won't get addicted and it's not like smoking cigarettes cigarettes are expensive to buy versus vaping which is not listen no one can vape with nicotine and not get addicted that's just a fact right i'm not a doctor but i'm telling you no one of whatever age can vape if there's nicotine in the vape and not become addicted to it because nicotine is one of the most addictive substances out there i think vaping should be banned inside places the vape etc in bars is wild i'm not a smoker but to get people beside you blowing the vape isn't nice that's just ignorant isn't it uh hi greg i smoked for 36 years i like to sing but was unable anymore because i couldn't due to smoking i stopped the cigarettes 18 months ago i feel a lot more healthier and fitter and i can sing without being out of breath uh although i vape i feel much better than on cigarettes well i'm delighted to to hear that uh that you're feeling better um i was talking about a plug where you plug your plug into it and then plug it into the plug and it tells you how many kilowatts of power it's using they're available locally uh you can get them on the likes of your amazon or screwfix anywhere else that i i don't want to disadvantage any other companies so if you're selling these plugs that they you plug your item into this plug and then you plug it into the wall socket it tells you the draw of power how many kilowatts per hour you're using i've just mentioned two places where i know where they're at but i don't want any of the other brilliant stores out there that sell them to feel that i'm favoring one over the other so anywhere they're available let me know and i'll pass the information on i just feel it gave me a little bit of more control over you know rather than sitting there worrying how much is that heat you're taking in that cold room i know now now why is the no mention of restoring full free electricity and telephone allowance for pensioners which has been cut over the years no party whatsoever is pursuing this i have to choose my world because i i'm kind of kind of angry that older people a lot of the conversation and i was hearing i was listening to drive time in arty i don't listen to it very often and the presenter posed a question why should young people be expected to pay uh why should young people be expected to pay for older people it was effectively what they were saying so the argument is is that young people now the cheeky i find it so cheeky because these young people wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the older people and those older people happily contributed to their granny and grandad's uh old age the question was in and if i was a younger person and i was stupid i might go yeah why should i pay for it why should i be paying for older people these older people are not there are parents and our grandparents um so the reason why i don't think we'll ever go back to full electricity and telephone allowance because if you listen to the national media and if you listen to some of the conversations that's had in the doll older people aren't important really some would even say that for some it seems like they're a burden i couldn't be any further from my view in in relation to that but if i were an older person i would start to feel like well is this society turning into such a way where it's a problem that i'm living longer i know we need to change that attitude and start having a bit of respect um when farms are meant to bring down the price it's just destroying our landscape scotland and wales have their all offshore it's not making a difference in terms of price so what's the point well firstly it should we need to decouple the price paid for low input electricity like wind energy we need to it's it's priced the same as electricity created by gas stupid lining the pockets of developers and that needs to end secondly there is an application uh in for an offshore wind farm so maybe that might make a difference hi greg i wonder what rate does the sb pay for their electricity bills as if they were paying rates as if all would their profits be as large don't forget the bonuses paid for their hard work making the profits not yeah i know what you're saying um i don't know they generate it they buy it they buy it they generate i don't know what price but we know they're able to make 390 million in six months so whatever they're doing you know they need to put some of that money back in their customers pockets and you know what if that means no not investment well then the government needs to sort of invest in wind and hydro and whatever else then uh right okay listen i don't want to defer the community guard information item or the bingo number is any longer so we'll take a break i'm gonna get back to more comments because i know firstly um you've texted in so i want to really out but i know a lot of people too also are very interested in what other people have to say the nine till noon show with sydunans ga club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize a hyunday kona car plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at sydunans ga draw dot com or any club member the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio brian recormick sports and leisure your 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shiokana god of sergeant charlie anderson joins us in studio you're very welcome back in and thank you so much for joining us good to have you with us okay let's begin with some appeals and god are you looking for some help as it relates to a criminal damaged instance in strunaller that's correct so gar thee in bali buffet are appealing for the assistance of the public this morning greg in relation to an incident that occurred in the early hours of saturday the 17th of september at mulrini terrace strunaller now at approximately 1 15 a.m. or shortly thereafter a mail approach to house in the area and threw a glass at the rear window of the property he then ran away now thankfully the window was not smashed as a result so we're just appealing for anyone who may have been in the mulrini terrace area of strunaller and in around that time 1 15 a.m. or shortly thereafter who may have witnessed the incident or indeed anyone that has any information in relation to it to contact gar thee in letter kenny on nine one six seven one hundred all right criminal damage this time in car regard that's correct so gar thee in millford this morning are also investigating an incident um in relation to criminal damage at dunmore cottages car regard now the owner of one of the cottages arrived at their property only to discover that a garden hose had been placed inside the back boiler and the water had been left running for some time now the water may have been left running for a period of a month give or take and the damage is believed to have occurred between august 28th and september 15th this is what we believe at the minute but it could be possibly longer so we're just asking residents in the area to make contact with gar thee if indeed they observed anything suspicious or if there was anyone hanging around the area and that the thought might have been unusual in around those time frames of the 28th of august approximately now between the 20th of august and the 15th september and it's to contact gar thee in millford this time on nine one five three zero six zero or indeed people can contact the gar thee confidential line on 1800 666 111 okay so cast your mind back right sir potentially a road traffic collision at listen in and that's correct so gar thee in letter kenny are investigating a road traffic collision now this occurred on monday the 19th of september on the listen in and road in letter kenny and it occurred at approximately 2 50 p.m what we understand is there was three vehicles involved in this collision but one of the vehicles which we believe was a van silver or white in colour did not remain at the scene the van left the scene and travelled in the direction of woodlands so just appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact gar thee anyone who may have travelled in the area around that time and of course dash cam footage would be vital in this case so if anyone was in that particular area and has dash cam footage we'd ask them to contact gar thee in letter kenny okay and the road traffic collision also main street glentes that's right this on this occasion this um the harvest festival was on the harvest fair over in glentes and it happened on sunday the 11th of september at main street in glentes now what we understand was a chip van was parked along the roadside and during the fair and um the hatch of the chip van was opened and elevated and approximately 3 p.m or shortly before a white flatbed truck drove past and collided with the the hatch of the chip van causing damage to it but unfortunately the driver did not remain at the scene greg so we're just appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision um i suppose there's a lot of people at the harvest fair over that weekend so we'd ask them if anyone of them may have witnessed the incident or indeed have any information relation to it to contact gar thee valley shannon this time on 07198 585 30 all right and of course maybe the the driver of the vehicle in some way or other wasn't aware of what happened so you'd invite them to perhaps this isn't used to them to come forward but you you perhaps know a little bit more than i in relation to that okay right um next it is a road traffic collision in the battle buffet area that's correct this is a hit and run road traffic collision that's been investigated by gar thee and ballet buffet and it occurred in the caramon area of ballet buffet on saturday the 17th of september shortly before 9 10 p.m. now what we know is that a motorist was traveling over what is known locally as barney loge's bridge and had traveled onwards as far as the t junction where they were intending on turning left to travel in the direction of caramon now a collision occurred at this junction between the motorists in their vehicle that they were driving a red Hyundai and the oncoming vehicle was a 161 d l black Volkswagen Tiguan and the driver of the Tiguan did not remain at the scene but instead turned right and traveled onwards in the direction of barney loge's bridge now the Tiguan was later located by gar thee um approximately one mile out the glenfin road and again the driver was not present with the vehicle when it was located thankfully no injuries were reported as a result of this collision so we're appealing this morning to motorists who were in the area between 9 p.m. and 9 30 p.m. and who may have dashcam footage to make it available to gar thee any motorists who traveled along the glenfin road um also to contact gar thee 9 167 100 if they have as I said that dashcam footage or indeed if they witnessed the incident um to make themselves known to us okay right the donagall gar thee youth awards presentation is taking place very soon is it in the next couple of days it is Greg it's taken place on friday the 23rd of september at the council chambers in lyford and now this is the annual donagall youth awards and it celebrates outstanding young people between the ages of 13 and 21 throughout the county so unfortunately Greg you can't play no it's a long time since i could uh we can't nominate you or anything unfortunately but there is there's four separate categories i have genes that perhaps couldn't be nominated so we won't even go there we just park that there's uh there's four separate award categories and the first one is the individual award and that's for young people that make a positive contribution to their community making it a better place to live then we have the group award that's for two or more young people that makes that cause a positive contribution to their community and then there's a special achievement award and this is for young people who have overcome difficult circumstances to fight all the odds and whose commitment deserves this recognition and finally there is the community safety award and that's through crime prevention or safety initiative or innovation that they've made that positive um with that excuse me now they've made that positive commitment to their community yeah it's lovely to see these younger people recognize isn't it charlene because the absolute majority of young people out there are brilliant um and this recognizes um some of them as well which i think is lovely and even through the nomination process that happens well that's it and look we're really looking forward to this year's event um and it is a great opportunity for the young people and as you said it's great when they can be recognized for their achievements and for work that they've done and i suppose look over the last number of years we have made it to have these events indoors so this year it's it's it's back indoors again which we're delighted for and we look forward to meeting them their families their teachers and the award recipients from the four categories will go on then to be considered for the national award and as dunny goll has had great success at national level like we are hopeful that we might have won or two two winners this year each young person that is nominated greg will get a certificate and it's just a reminder maybe to those who are attending the event that it commences at 12 midday but there is refreshments from 11 30 um and just next week on this program we'll we'll announce the winners at the four categories looking forward to that as well uh i think there's a hugely successful open day in in ishawn it's laddie kenney's turn now that's correct we held um an open day on the 21st of august was it a good turn i heard it was a fantastic turnout but you know we were actually quite taken aback that the amount of people that turned up but it was great well you plug it enough we do try we do try to be fair um but again look that's the centenary celebrations this year so we're all just trying to do a little bit um letter kenney is hosting their open day on saturday the eighth of october between 12 and 4 with the sensory error taking place between 11 and 12 and during that time there'll be no lights and sirens activated um i suppose look on the day we'll have the mounted unit public order unit dog units um as you they put on a display um for them there's the or in the lie there is mountain rescue and that's just to name but a few um there's also like face painting and some fun activities for the kids um and i will say that anyone that's looking to attend the sensory error should they have any requests or requirements in order to supposed to be able to make it more safely or more comfortable to attend um for their children or that that if they want to contact us to let us know in advance we'll do our best to accommodate their needs i mean the aim is to make it as accessible to everybody as is humanly possible okay so the god-amanted unit that's horses that's the horses okay cool so like they're ordinarily they're based in Dublin but we can get them down on you know for different events and that's so they do attend the open days where possible and as i said look we had them in the show and there were a great attraction everybody onto their picture taken with the horses um we have the public order unit dog unit as well we'll be down the arm support that are based in ballet shannon they come up and obviously they have all the the weapons and the gear in that and they would go through them and they would show them and explain the different techniques and things um then we have mountain rescues attendant or an ally and um there'll be local guardi there then from letter kenny community police and units roads police and units look it's a good opportunity to meet your local guardi too in their own environment yeah exactly and look if anybody has time this saturday the 8th of october as i said between those hours 12 and 4 and the 11th sensory hours between excuse me between 11 and 12 absolutely call in we'd be delighted to see you face painting everything face painting it's actually the face painting worked well in bunkrana we had they had a queue for about half an hour and uh never went near the station just face painted in a way they just didn't want to go into the station at all wanted to get their faces painted because it's fun and especially with the young ones of a certain age it creates a different atmosphere that's brilliant listen thanks so much indeed for all of that um we'll see you again soon so thank you okay that was the community guardi slot for this um tuesday the 20th of september it'll be available for you to watch and listen back to again on our facebook page and on the goddess you can't on facebook page a little later on and it's back live on air for you next tuesday around about quarter past 20 past 10 but for now we'll take a quick break and then we'll be right back would you like to win a Hyundai Kona car well that's the first prize in the St Yunan's GA club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine til noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at St Yunan's GA draw dot 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for older people it's about this country having 1.3 million people claiming benefits of one sort or another we are a welfare nation and something's got to give i think to also too and maybe this feeds into it and oh this is not too controversial but you know there was a time whereby um it's not that long ago either whereby when you had children you know you had to make serious adjustments in your life because child minding and all that was so expensive uh i think an awful lot of maybe not an awful lot but this is all this expectation too as well that well granny and grand dad are there as a child minding service as well do you know what i mean does that feed into a changing attitude towards older people now i know granny and grandads by the way i know some in their early 40s and even late 30s actually so i'm not instantly associating that with older age but i think you understand the space i'm in here could you ask the guy from the epa how much of the problem is caused by the airline companies yeah well in terms of the on the ground i'm gonna get into this because it's kind of controversial and i've seen quite a bit of posting about this uh over the last few days in terms of that falling down into the atmosphere it's it's not as problematic as what is at our level here you know what i mean there's a lot of wind and what have you up at the higher level i'm not sure how big a factor it is but you know what we'll put a question in and find out what they say officially uh thanks to greg for making that nice comment about the elderly a lot of other radio stations seem to think we are an awful waste of space so it's nice to hear something nice about us not at all i wouldn't be here none of us not one person listening to this program would be here without their moms and dads and granny and grandads uh greg can you call out the times for those meetings please seven thirty both of them are seven thirty so hopefully that's of uh that's of help if a pregnant woman vapes can the baby be addicted to nicotine i'm not really quite sure how the nicotine from a vape breaks down in this blood system and then goes into the baby i don't know the answer to that question that's a medical question i think if you asked any doctor should a pregnant woman be vaping you know they're always going to air on the side of the caution so i don't know the ins and outs of that and it's just um not a not a if i don't know i'm just not comfortable even uh speculating did i not play the bingo numbers again i'm so sorry i'm going to get that for you now right let's take those bingo numbers i really am there seems to be a mental blockage when the community guard uh item is on again i genuinely i'm sorry here's the bingo numbers it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's tuesday the 20th of september you're playing on the brown sheet the reference number is s7 it's game number 38 the numbers are nine 57 41 30 33 53 79 63 67 and finally 46 phone your claim to 910483 before it tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchase your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your ncbi bingo information at highland radio dot com okay that is the sound of snow patrol and chasing cars all right coming up after 11 um we are going to be talking about the saint union's gea club development draw two of the guys coming in to have a chat about that and it's great to have them on board sponsoring the show uh they have some great prizes by the way your chance to win the top prize is a high on die car beautiful car from diverse high on die and also there's nine other amazing prizes which we'll talk about a little later on let's see what they are a trip to lapland valued at 5000 i would like that also i would like a tractor lawn mara valued at two and a half grand also i would like a thousand litres for home heating oil valued at a thousand uh i don't know what value it is i like the fact that it's liters and not money uh there's a family break then to the value of a thousand euro with any of the mecanith group hotels furniture thanks to classic blinds uh kernels eateries there's a 500 euro voucher for there at sweeney's spa there um have a 500 euro voucher available toben's also another 500 euro there and also a new slide row wardrobe worth 1200 euro thanks to a grainhouse kitchens okay so great prizes and it's actually great to see businesses support in their local gea club there as well i mentioned liberty travel didn't i they're also supporting um the trip to lapland and um galinas letter canid tool hiring sales are uh they're working with them as it relates to the tractor lawn mower and the home heating oils from top oil but also what the exciting thing is as well is that i have two tickets here which i'll be giving away after 11 o'clock so if you want to be in with a chance of winning being in it for free they want you to buy your tickets as well because it's a fundraiser for st unans uh we're going to give you a chance to win two tickets two if you will win a ticket each worth 20 euro the tickets are 20 euro each you can get three for a fiver you can go to st unans draw suits i beg your pardon st unans ga draw uh dot com and they're doing great work on social medias while imploking this having some fun with it that's the way to do it uh because you don't realize you're being sold tickets when you're enjoying what you're watching uh 20 tickets sorry tickets are 20 euro or three for 50 we've got uh two here these could be the lucky ones in my greasy mitts uh so stay tuned after 11 for to hear what what the fundraising for and what they're going to do with the money the prizes will run through them again as well but also for your chance to win uh one of those tickets i have to come up with the question dana marie and emma can do that but anyway we'll do that later on that's after 11 and that and so much more behind besides uh righty oh let us catch up on this last break next 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another week chat with her and that and so much more besides us you know right okay let's get an update if there is one in fact on the tusnua regeneration project for car and donna uh counselor albert dowherty joins us on the program to discuss this good morning albert how are you good morning greg good morning listeners right here talk to us about what is the tusnua regeneration project for car and on it's close on 10 million euro project so it's not insignificant what is its aims yeah it's a 9.5 million uh rural regeneration project for car and donna announced in april 2021 with the deserved fanfare with hats off to all involved especially spree our own planning area and it saw a projected transformation of car and donna where in 2018 when the local area plan for car and donna was adopted and we we targeted and highlighted that we had significant vacancy significant dereliction and we're in need of significant regeneration support and that was forthcoming and that saw just an opportunity on that 9.5 million to revitalize car and donna to act as a catalyst for change economically socially and this partnership with spree would also involve creating that creative matters a creative maker's hub changing places digital fab lab it and youth space so a great venture announced in april however um i know covid played a role but one year anniversary all local contractors would have highlighted the slow pace of progress just in relation to it probably before we get to that uh but in relation to a project like this is there a funding uplift in it because you know obviously procedures have to be followed and things have to be done correct but the longer particularly in these times a longer like uh the longer it takes a project like this to sort of start actually uh you know seeing uh ground being opened and and blocks being laid etc you know it's going to get more expensive the longer uh it takes to actually get going in earnest like does that mean the 9.5 million becomes less in value or can more money be drawn down to account for inflation well given what you've just said and given our experiences and those involved in the construction works those involved in development yes to me that is the that is a priority concern what was intended to be delivered by 9.5 million in april 2021 can the same be delivered uh 17 months later but what was really concerning for us Greg was on september 6th the counselors and the show were given uh an indication that it was anticipated that the capital works would commence in quarter three of 2022 and that's the here and now and when we quizzed and welcomed that the planner said by the way i believe it's a typo there and that should read quarter three of another year 2023 and that meant that i went to follow up on this and um to my great disappointment the regeneration and development team have come back with stages they've welcomed and i welcome that it was planned to issue the tender for the professional design and supervision team and value this month but thereafter they went through how different stages of design and acquisition procurement of a contractor could not see um or they anticipated could not be proceeding to site till quarter three of 2023 okay well without a mind that's the concern based on what you said as well okay well with that in mind though with that 9.5 million total project uh what is um the 4.4 million projected spend in 2022 going to be spent on then if actual work is not beginning till third quarter next year what's half the money being spent this year on and that was an estimation of what would be spent in the current on a project given to all contractors and something picked up by myself in january of 2022 that they be a projected spend of 4.4 i don't see if the only issue that we're getting to move forward in september is to invite tenders for professional design and supervision that that will be expended but there was one other caveat that concerned me on july on july 21st two government ministers visited the site i was not privy to that uh visit but representatives of the community representatives in the business sector attended with the ministers one minister when being briefed by the local community one minister said she was shocked that there was no movement with the project in september 21 she indicated to the current reps that there was a pressing drawdown period that there was a pressing completion period she informed the group that from receipt of the letter of offer it should be fall steam ahead and she expressed her concern that there hadn't been the open and proper uh consultation with the respective property owners that sent a worrying worrying sign to myself and that was why we pressed and that's why i am now asking this regeneration and development team to come back to us with a review of the timetable and explanations on how this capital delivery project delivery is affected by the time passing and by what you said as well the funding of 9.5 i hope we don't get it i hope we're not getting a reputation firstly as as moaners because we have to scream it from the rooftops because we do feel that we aren't treated equally uh compared elsewhere but i hope that because this is another story where we seem to be talking about money being allocated to the county that we aren't organized well enough to spend i mean how does that look when the notes had sent back to the department and department officials look at and go well we made the allocation you know where's this money why is this money not being spent or used you just wonder across all departments and all projects you know how big of a problem is this well if there's a positive criticism i believe is that we must all reflect on how long it is taking council and the consultation with government to put a capital project delivery teams in situ so that these teams can work with the capital allocated by government and and that's an issue i think maybe it's countywide countrywide but it's certainly countywide that there seems significant delays i mean presently at the september meeting we didn't have a dereliction officer appointed in housing which every county local authority was supposed to have in situ by january of this year so yes there's an inner reflection and an inner consultation required but likewise um going back to cardona i would like to see more focus on it and as i said a review of the outlined plans and an earlier commencement right do you think that's realistic though because i think in some comments you've also said that you don't want this rushed either i mean are you satisfied for things to progress as they are if this timeline if these timelines don't slip because at the end of the day you know in five years time we'll look back and we'll six months they've made much difference as long as it's correct and it's right yeah if someone from the planning convinces me that this can't be moved forward any faster i will take it on the chin what i'm telling them that my community the traders the people involved in feeding into and feeding from the great organization sprees they are asking questions which begin with when and the local rep for the people i think it's only right that i ask the local authority when and why not earlier all right okay listen thanks for your time this morning have a good day good to chat to you again councillor albert daugherty there uh outlining his concerns all right let's get to a few comments here years ago letter kenny uh was the worst planned town in the country because it's built all over the place rather than being compact don't go kind of cancel should plan anything i shouldn't plan anything they need to get some experts in ball of a phase going the same way now well you would probably know that there is a it's a funded actually multimillion euro scheme for not the redesign but the future design of letter kenny interlinking various parts of letter kenny that work is ongoing i'm told where i work we have been told going forward that heating is being reduced by several hours we can't turn on any electric heaters due to the cost of living during covid we worked from home is this not an option now i was trying to see what my rights were last night but i'm not sure it's an older building and it's very cold all of my work but we will all end up sick well you are there is legislation much loaded by tarnished lee of rag car that a company if you make a request has to consider you working from home and there's certain criteria which they can refuse and certain criteria criteria which they can't so i would say you sound like a candidate for making that argument i don't have a link off the top of my head but just google you know right to work from home or what is it called there's a phrase for it anyway but the info's there maybe uh and i'll be afraid to go and mention it to your boss either you know a lot of us complain to each other and in various places about the working conditions go to the boss complain to them i i think it does no harm uh we're too focused on degree students says this listener trades are dying um out my family the siblings who had a more basic not the right term are just as well off young people feel so hard done by i was having this conversation before awful pressure on young people to go to third level thankfully nationally it seems that we are appreciating that we do need trades people and people with different skill sets and quite rightly i mean there's no point in having churning out a million computer programmers every year we need people with diverse skills my daughter is on her last year training to be a nurse my wife and i have paid for everything no susie grant my advice to my daughter is when qualified get out of this country as it's finished it's fast becoming a dump due to lazy left wing people say it's a call of error okay nice stuff that ringing in your ears had enough to college for your third year for your third year could Greg mention this on the show i was on the air a few months ago talking to Greg about young boys torturing my dad banging on the windows it started to happen again now that it's getting dark earlier now he's so afraid this is going to start again for the next few months he has health problems and doesn't need this thanks well you know what maybe it's time for us to have a chat and revisit that again if it the chat the last time helped would you like to win a Hyundai Kona car well that's the first prize in the St Unions GA club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine to noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at stunionsgadraw.com or any club member if you have magic moments or great memories sitting on your phone or in the cloud have them printed at the geese chemist in letter kemi get larger seven by five prints for the same price as six by fours 35 millimeter and film from disposable cameras also printed and 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to progress applications as quickly as possible a meeting is due to take place between the local authority and the department of housing in the near future to ensure outstanding applications receive clarity and decisions increasing the pension age by two years is preferable to giving people the option of working longer for higher pay that's according to a member of the pension commission as the future of pensions is set to be unveiled by the minister for social protection today heather home freeze plans to implement changes from 2024 which could see those who stand work until 70 get an increased payment of 315 euro a week the carelock of the latter candy mill for municipal district will today ask officials to carry out a full inspection of all footpaths in the district bigger seen by concert donal monday kelly show a significant increase in compensation payments for injuries sustained in falls meanwhile long call for improvement works have been carried out at the oral leisure centre in letter kenny a new non-slip surface has been installed at the pedestrian crossing it's after serious safety concerns were raised by local residents about the speed at which motorists travelled along the route those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mcconnell thank you at irish life we've been helping people make smart investments with their nest egg for over 80 years for actual trusted advice search irishlife.ie or contact your financial broker or advisor we know irish life we are irish life irish life financial services is tied to irish life assurance for life and pension problems irish life assurance plc is regulated by the central bank of ireland irish life financial services limit is regulated by the central bank of ireland all right you're welcome back to the program so we're going to talk about now the st union gea club development drawer joined in studio by ollie harvey president of the club and organizer of the draw good morning to ollie it's good to have you in and also john harn chairman of the club good morning john morning greg good to have you in as well right okay uh john obviously um it's onwards and upwards building on the great success of later st unions that's right greg we've announced this development drawn out in the last few months there because we need to expand our facilities greg uh you know with the biggest gea club in denny gall and with that comes responsibility and we have to try and look after the young people of data kenny and give them the best facilities possible so with that in mind greg we've decided to build another pitch uh out in o'Donnell park where people know our facilities there it'll be going on out at the back of uh our practice pitch at the moment going on out towards conwall there so we're looking to build a brand new sand based pitch with floodlights greg it's one of the things probably we've we haven't had this last well we've never had as proper floodlights so for a club of our size i suppose it's about time we got the floodlights installed so we're well that's what that draws about greg is uh improving our facilities so we're looking to build a brand new pitch with floodlights due to the art so uh you know to continue development and give the you know the young people that are getting the best facilities yeah and it's not just to give those involved in the sport uh the best facilities now it's about growing the participation to amongst young people because i mean you know you know for those interests in sport we know the values of getting involved in that sense of firstly the exercise and the positive impact to that but also mixing with other people all that type of stuff john absolutely greg it's it's vital and you know in this last well i suppose maybe 20 30 years ladies football and now we've got camogie so it's you know we we cater for everyone and it is vital greg and it's brilliant to be involved and to see the young people coming out there in a sunday morning for the sunday morning academy from anything from three up until 10 up until 10 and i'm involved greg with under 10s at the moment and you know we've been at a couple of blitzes around the north there we were in the more last saturday we've had a bit of success and just bringing the children on a bus and they're coming from all the schools around the town from woodlands largie brack elastron the gale skull skull cullin kill skull warah even out as far as their model they're all their catchment area greg on it uh educate together uh ballet rain all them schools so you know when you see all the all the children coming and training together and then getting on the bus and going and having the days crack and coming back with a bit of silver where it's great and it's great friendships for them children greg and the vital part of that too is that you know when they move on into secondary school wherever that may be st. june into erigal college or or the loretto or maybe even mulford you know that they know people from from the different schools and it's great for friendships like that there so all them things are vital greg and it's all them things make the ga so important and it's what we all love about it and you know me and all here here as kind of representing the club but there's a lot of people out there putting a lot of work in and it's just great to have the support of the local community in there to kenny and and he got with this drawing with that responsibility we're trying to you know do our best for everyone you continuing your your silverware delivering managerial skills you're playing it down there it's only a bit of cracking on the rage i know that i know you do i'm sure you don't get excited about it at all do you uh come here ali uh president of the club also organizer of the draw it's about scale this you know go big or go home when you've gotten big on it yeah we have greg we've been planning this draw since we got the fun back in last year before christmas so we came up with the idea to run run with the draw and have to say i'd like to thank everybody came on board members of the club have been brilliant greg and people have sponsored the prizes they're 100 behind us too and i'm around the county every day delivering and the crack in the road in the shell and the tickets are shouting away for tickets it's a men's guy yeah that's it and i think the approaches and i'm maybe i'm presuming it's all of you bringing this to what you have about it i have to have a bit of fun with it too don't you i mean that's you know that's all part of it isn't that's what we say like what happens on the football field when when the games is over it's all forgotten about i have to say the support around the county from every other club is it's amazing like when you're out there to see it that's like with glen these are in the park there and on sunday glen swally and the mighty people come up buying tickets was it was unbelievable to see it like it might not be the love of uh state unions that might be the love of uh high on day uh but whatever it takes it doesn't matter it doesn't hire me to end it over myself it could be but that's uh that's an outsider now that's uh running on the fence quite a way back from the leader uh but listen i mean the prizes are listed from one to ten but from one to ten they're fantastic you know there's there's no fillers here and as you mentioned uh you've got the likes of day on uh diverse high on day liberty travel letter kenny tool hiring sales top oil um the mac and if group of hotels you've got classic blinds and interiors letter kenny uh the kernels shops and eateries swinney spa tobans and also greenhouse kitchens i mean you know without them working with these on this as well you know it doesn't have the same impact because you're delivering as i say great prizes from one to ten we are in fairness all them people just has come on and therefore someone spots our name prizes are like it's on real to help and the right selling like there you take antley from everybody travel he's around the town there pushing and pushing the draft for us and turns over down there in high on day and then you've got a kenny tool hire selling and everybody's out there like everybody wants to see this happening like we're doing this draft for for the people after town like want to give people in the when they come to a park like the best best facilities to three and it is it's a community you know i mean it's it's big but it's a community facility and john's made that point really quite clearly about you know the benefit it has to the community and what better you can offer into the future so is this a bit of match funding there's already been an allocation and then users a club have to draw some money together to match it yeah yeah we got a grant of 150 000 from the last the last sports capital grants which was then maybe even been at the start of this year only 2022 maybe the back end of 21 so we were glad to get that uh Greg but we put a lot of pressure on the politicians because you know taking a step back to the start of the pandemic when uh St Junans was used as a COVID test centre and we manned that for six months ourselves with their own volunteers helping the HSE deliver that there at no cost to the HSE so you know someone in the club said to me you know good will doesn't pay the bills but you know in the long run good will does pay the bills because when you go to sell tickets people say well this and St Junans are a good community organization they do their best they stepped up at the time of the pandemic uh as I said we always make our facilities available to all the national schools and the secondary schools around netherkinny and for their feed like netherkinny athletic club who we have close partnership with there too because a lot of our members Chris or Greg Chris Cross and the athletic club were using it out there last week for the for the community or for the cross country for the primary schools and it's great to see maybe four or five hundred young children from around the town out there using our facilities to do their cross country so you know you always get back when you when you do the right thing Greg you always get the the payback further down the line so so we're happy so far with the draws going very well and I have to you know this man here beside me Ollie the president like he does I know he won't like me saying but he does deserve special mention because the amount the tickets he's selling is phenomenal and his uh his video with John Watson went down a treat there and social media so you know Ollie's up for a laugh all the time but the work he does is phenomenal at the club we're you know we're just lucky to have him yeah I'm not sure it's going to get any Oscars but got plenty of likes and shares and isn't that what it's all about and that's what I was referencing the fun element of it too Ollie you know what I mean it's that's part of it now that's how you have to do these things don't you you know you entertain people and get your message across and it's another way of getting it out there and you got that you know that anyway I'm preaching to the converted talk talk to them about the draw tickets are 20 Euro each but three for 50 so they've been obviously you know it's not an insignificant purchase but they've been targeted there so people you know want to support the club and be with the chance of winning a great prize hopefully most people might be able to to stretch to that yeah well the tickets are one for 20 or three for 50 Greg and you can buy them online too there now but I have to say the the tickets are absolutely flying we have limited the tickets to 8000 and I have to say what say we're at the minute we're nearly halfway through them oh really wow which is our major success and we're on a bit maybe have to keep going the way they are we might pull it they're all forward you know and got people enjoy go again before go again before they reach the deadline yeah okay yeah because if you sell out the tickets and actually that's really quite an important element to this because people know that their chances of winning are greatly improved if it's a fixed a fixed amount so there's no point dilly-dally and if you if you get the tickets in get them sold why not go early yeah that's that's that's that's one of the main things we're going to do and I'm just to demand that everybody is ringing up for them and I was just chatting they followed us doing the online sales for this morning they says it's that's since we're on highly radio it's getting a big love to you so well now you're committed to two weeks on this show so if you sell out 8000 you're still here you can you can walk with something else but you're not getting any money back no that's great we'll stand by that one all right so the tickets are as you've talked about you're going out selling them and there's you know they're popping up where people can buy them but also setunionsgeadraw.com you can get your tickets there as well get allocated your tickets and no problem there yeah yeah there's different locations around the town we can go and buy them you can buy them and get a Kenny to lay around there you can buy them and Max Mays you buy them with tokens and then you can liberty travel sell them there and then if any club member is carrying them you can get them or else online right okay so it's limited to 8000 tickets half already sold the prices there's 10 of them a new Hyundai Kona i30 n-line a trip to Lapland worth five grand which would be lovely coming up to Christmas the tracked lawnmowers they say a lot of us want one of them but not everyone can get the two and half grand together so that'd be a nice one a thousand litres of home heating all is a great price too family break worth a thousand euro that's at the magnificent group hotels furniture worth a grand as well thanks to classic blinds and interiors a 500 voucher for kernels and also for Sweeney's spa a fuel voucher 500 euro for Tobens and a slide robe wardrobe valued at 1200 euro i literally could do something with all of them i don't know about you guys but they're good prices isn't it well i won't make the same mistake Greg is the last time i was on the draw so i won't be putting my name on any tickets there again remind us the young for the pulled out my ticket for the gar for the gareth brooks two tickets for gareth brooks that are christmas draw but i i put them back in so i know a young lady from our draw i want them so i hope she had a good night at the weekend did you go to gareth brooks i did not my wife wasn't impressed then she said i wish we had a gone because everyone was chatting about it but you're always with these draws especially the live ones you're always waiting for something it's like you know i've seen it so often someone working in the building wins something or other do you know what i mean it's just the the look of the draw but it throws stuff up have you anything planned Ollie for how you're going to do the live draw now the expectations are going to be high or are you going to play it straight no but we're just going to say we'll just run the draw from the clubhouse Greg when the when it's done and we'll keep John away that night because he draws already again but Jason do you don't want yeah i was going to say oh the other John you don't want him chasing your hand and it went right down lawnmower you know i'll give John a break now for a while the two jobs in fact anyone named john stay away from the film is that okay but uh just Greg i just like to give a special mention to every club member have ruled and i had to be so unbelievable to make the working effort they're putting in and i'd like to thank the past club members too for we wouldn't be here that i do these draws without them you know all the people who've worked behind the scenes in the club and a special thanks to you to me i know um it does a lot of work too for me as me one brother kehal like kehal harvey like he's my detectives that he sells to you just and of course there's a big date coming up with centenaries not too far away really in real terms is it 1930 that's right Greg yeah no it's not a million miles away yet you know it's all about having everything i mean you hopefully you'll have it finish long before then but do you know what i mean it's it's quite impressive you know close on a hundred years on that the club is still there club doing well on and off the pitch and and you know looking to get even better and to be even you know a more important part of the community than it already is like it's impressive i think that's amazing really when you think about it that that's the beauty of the GA yeah yeah it's amazing Greg and you know the thing about letter Kenny is like my father was a blow on Ollie's father was a blow on you know so you know we're and letter Kenny is a lot of blow ones and we have to make them feel welcome you know that that's because i think there's a compliment in there somewhere absolutely you know you know so you know it's for the people that have come to the town for work and that and we have to make them feel welcome and they are welcome and St Junans is an open door and anyone that's listening to this now that has children or even if you're still can play but like we have four adult teams and the ladies are there the hurlers are there the Komogi teams there so there's something for everyone and even if you don't want to play and you want to get involved with Irish language and the score side of things and all that there you know there's always something for someone Greg and i can bring people together and people that have are new to the town and have moved in that they can feed part of the community and i kind of joke but the the point you make is a strong one it's not a new thing being an open and welcoming club the history is there exactly as you can as you can attest to yourself all right brilliant okay you've been good enough to give us a few tickets to give away here so we're going to give two away and the question is when was St Junans GAA established when was the club established is it a 1930 or b 2010 so you know it's not one of them anyway we're trying to keep it as easy as possible but sometimes i think these can be a bit easy but anyway when was St Junans GAA club established now text a or b followed by your name and where you're from to 08 660 25 000 or whatsapp now if you don't use mobiles you can call us too we'll sort you out but we have two tickets so one of you or two of you will win a ticket each thanks to ollie and john who brought them with them so uh to be in with the chance to win one of these tickets to win one of those great prizes text the answer to this question when was St Junans GAA established a 1930 b 2010 your answer a will be to 08 660 25 000 and we'll keep the lines open for another 12 minutes then make the draw right so you like all not all jokes aside but in all seriousness ollie if people want to be in this draw with the fixed amount of tickets the 8 000 you don't want to dilly dally because they will go you've already done half the tickets bother shouting so if someone wants to be with the chance of winning one of these prizes get online or get into some of those stores you mentioned there yeah people need to you know like tickets are free and if they see any club member contact them or any of them shops that are mentioned or go online is the hand this thing yeah you know and what's exciting john is is that you can see you can see the target here can't you because you've got that funding that is we're uh granted you can see this draws going in the right way you've got the plans so it's lovely that it looks like you know you're going to get that second pitch you're going to get the floodlights and it's exciting time it's a great it's great greg and uh the only problem for me and ollie is now will be too old to enjoy it but it's not about us it's about the young children coming behind us and and the players that we have at the minute that's what's all about he's he's he's he's he's he's got to go and he stole it they're king of the world what's this wee business oh no ollie was on the 16b was it ollie on the 14 on the 14 county meddle though i think do you still have it still have it i i have one of them too i don't know mine's under 16 actually what happened to you you packed it in it i pulled a hammer at greg and really didn't cost too much to get fixed i think it's his hand there you can joke about it now but i'd say it was gutting at the time was it it was i you know at that age in your you know you're starting to taste the success of it all right uh listen guys thanks very much for that uh just remind us of the website i'll say that stunasgadraw.com ollie remind people where they can get them in person a lot of people want to deal in cash and stuff as well you can or buy presents for people as well it's always a good option it'd be a lovely thing to get and they're really well presented too by the way if you buy them physically are they sent out if you buy them online or yeah you buy you buy them on the week you have senior to copy and look they're really nicely put together i think that's one isn't it is yeah yeah okay and it has all the prizes listed there so it's a nice thing you've done it right so ollie remind us where people can get them outside of the online offering as well you can buy them and get a kenny two liar you can buy them and max mayis topans and uh your brother my brother i kernens and that's a lot of club members have them you know the club members have them everyone's bought into this i think that's associated with saint unions all right listen great stuff goes well don thank you very much for uh giving us a couple of tickets support the show as well and hopefully now uh you have the eight thousand sold out sooner rather than later because when the tickets gone ollie you're suggesting that you might even bring the draw forward yeah that's that's a brand very great brilliant stuff all right thanks so much keep up the fantastic work and uh john just um you mentioned about you know uh people being welcomed into the club and all the various things uh that it has to offer is what's the one point of contact do you know what i mean that people can get more this information a lot of people would just give us a message through facebook greg you know maybe something we have to look at to maybe set something up but mostly through facebook but if they have children if they have young children say between the age of three or four up until ten they can come out in a sunday morning at ten a.m to the sunday morning academy to get their children involved and then if there's any older people or you know adult players or people that move to the town they want to get involved with the club just send us a message on facebook and someone to get back to them with details greg and as you say the message is uh you're more than welcome absolutely which is a lovely message okay listen guys well done with the draw already it's a success but it is obviously going to sell out at some point and people need to get their tickets quick if they want to be a part of it because the prizes are brilliant and again fair play to the those that have sponsored or worked with the club to make those prizes available because they are really really impressive from one to ten but for now ollie harvey president of the club an organizer of the draw and john harn chair of the club both of you thanks so much for joining us in studio really appreciate it okay back with more after we take this break the nine till noon show with sydunans g a club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize a hyundae konokyar plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available 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want to be in with the chance to win one of two tickets we have to give away for the st unans g a draw simply text your answer to this question when was st unans g a established a 1930 b 2010 text your answer your name where you're from to 08 60 25000 what's up it either by the way so it's free for you to enter if you use what's up but most texts are free now i think with various packages if you don't text i want you involved as well call us 07491 25 000 we'll make sure donna mario emma or they'll make sure that your name goes into the hat right let's get an update on the situation in milford you might recall we spoke about this uh some time ago uh and people have been um well i'll tell you i'll get uh councillor lian plain you can hear like uh to explain to us lian good morning to you good morning greg right so people were really under the cost with this stench around milford weren't they describe what it was like it was disgusting it was terrible you know it's that's day and age no we should either have to live our work on the kind of conditions that was there for a while well thankfully um through the good work of yourself when you're she'll through the um response from the people of milford ringing on dowry's letter um that things have improved there and this last week or 10 days that the smell has has gone after a lot of good work done by the the workers at the at the cold front there with the cold face offered and um by every one of themselves well i think they're the versus um substantially on the on the plant and uh hopefully a snow guarantee but hopefully it will remedy the situation and won't have to put up and the people of milford won't have to put up what they've put up the last number of months brilliant so um to yourself of course and on all the reps who who uh highlighted this um so for now anyway it seems the problem has been resolved and we'll just keep an eye out dependent on whether it's very wet weather or dry weather to see what the the long-term situation is well we have to say yes both the last couple months has been fairly dry and um we'll see now when when the wet weather comes again but I think it did work better in the wet weather than in the dry weather right so hopefully that'll continue and uh that the people have no longer we'll have not a couple of that but they did have to go up those last couple months no longer all right well we'll take the winds when we can get them good news Liam all right thanks Greg and also as you say the actual people when they're given the resources and the time and the instruction they got out and they got it done and you mentioned that yourself too but fair play to them those work out fairness you have to uh fairness you know would have to be have to thank the local people on malford as well and the workers they're at the cold face you know and they have to work on that and even the people that works in milford having to work on conditions of course completely wrong and they shouldn't have to do it and hopefully that'll be the end brilliant all right we'll leave it at that I don't know you've uh meetings and what have you thanks very much Liam take care bye bye that's the carelock of the council there councillor Liam Blaney that's good news isn't it the situation in milford has been resolved and well done to all of you listening in the milford area who individually contacted Irish water uh because I get the impression it got to the point where it simply could not be ignored you know petitions are grand where you know you get 20 people to sign but that uh and also too there's other avenues um where people make complaints about odors and stuff like safe for instance through the guards uh and often all of those complaints come under one complaint number all right so it's important that when we have a problem like that we all individually uh make all complaints known and then those complaints have to be given individual references as far as I'm aware and we 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been done um through the uh noteworthy section of the journal dot ie it's uh in the weeds investigation and uh i would direct uh any of you with an interest in this conversation as it progresses to uh go and check it out because we're only going to be able to scratch the surface really of all the work that has been done uh by anthea latia who joins us on the program now anthea thank you so much for joining us hi great thanks for having me uh right okay so talk to me about this investigation um what what is its focus is it the use of pesticides by local authorities i don't want to to misframe it if you know what i mean so as the person behind this work could you do that for me of course so um yes this is about pesticide use by local authorities in ireland so we were interested in finding out what types of pesticides are used by all the different local authorities how much and how much is spent because this information isn't publicly available so very little is known about it we wanted to put this out there and consider the the background and the concerns as well around chemical pesticide use okay and before we talk about its use and the potential dangers of it what interests me is uh the three that don't use it do we know like we're not able to get information from three of them or do they have they taken a decision not to use it i know it sounds a strange to focus on the on the three but one of the three local authorities that aren't using these type of chemicals do we know the reason why so the ones that are in general they're they're pretty much all using all using it except um we did not have a response from kerry county council and uh west needs county council sent us only a partial reply so we can't say um and um we then have two councils that are only using them for invasive species and and that would be Dublin city council and cork city council so in general they're being used and then when it comes to loud they're not currently being used but um that doesn't mean that they're not going to be okay so we can't really look to a particular county for a groundbreaking approach that we could all follow right okay so talk to us about the type of chemicals and don't go counter-cancelor among those still using these chemicals talk to us about the the the chemicals and and why this was worthy of investigation anthea sure so um we looked into these chemicals which are in pesticides and that would include weed killers so herbicides for example a popular brand name roundup would be an example that's really really widely used um it's important because it's actually quite a controversial chemical it um is actually called glyphosate and it has been linked to um risk of developing cancer so um they're concerned both for human health and for the environment when using these chemicals um several countries have banned their use so france belgium luxembourg netherlands danmark and sweden have all banned pesticide use in public areas and so many of the experts we spoke to were actually calling for a ban um from an offer for ireland to ban them as well um so it's particularly relevant when it comes to i suppose upcoming legislation as well because there is currently a review at a new level to see whether glyphosate will be banned and we expect to have a decision in um june next year um there's also a proposal to ban pesticide use in public areas from the european commission so there's actually a lot of activity from the the law side so it's the it's kind of interesting to see where ireland is at in that sense and we spend quite a lot uh on using these chemicals too you have figures for counted on the goal yes we do so um we found out that um dunigol is spending about 8500 euro a year on average um on pesticides and this is looking at the years from 2019 to 2021 so um for all councils we asked them for all available records and this is what dunigol was able to give us um the last known year um glyphosate was used in 2021 that's based on the records they returned to us um we also were able to determine that they're definitely using chemical herbicides and the products used include round-up pistols and other organic ones as well called the cotton gold for example the brand name so um yeah we don't really know whether alternatives are being used in dunigol because they didn't respond to that um to that question uh but several councils in ireland are definitely considering and using alternatives because there are alternatives to be to be pesticides yeah i mean like we would be i think us as individuals would be very careful uh how we use these around our property because if you read the back of one of these cartons you know you'd wonder why you've got it in your hand at all not that long ago i saw someone walking down not far from where i'm sitting right now effectively in a house mass suit it looked like spraying footpaths and along the footpath and the sides of footpaths and i remember thinking to myself at that time you know no one knows this is happening what about dogs uh or pets or toddlers that might be walking along and touching this grass i didn't see any signage up or anything like that and i'm not gonna lie to you and say it really it worried me because i i presumed they wouldn't be spraying anything that could be damaging to humans like that with no warning absolutely it is it's very concerning and a lot of the the sources we spoke to said that and the fact that there are no signs in place often well i've never seen a sign in place when it comes to local authorities but um it takes a few days off and for um the grass to become yellow when certain spraying space turns the grass yellow so we've probably all seen the yellow grass um at the sides of the road but that does take a few days so it is possible that people are walking on freshly sprayed um grassy verges for example and that of course includes you know vulnerable groups like children and pets so that was one of the concerns really strongly expressed by the people we spoke to yeah and we've used phrases like they're planning to or considering or you know looking into use of alternatives what is the the resistance and i'm sorry if i missed it if you mentioned it in previous comments is it that these types of products are cheaper is it someone's maybe not thinking outside the box and saying or a contract's being signed or you know what what is the what's seemingly resistance to to move away from using these dangerous chemicals that have been banned in other countries in public spaces what is the the delay as far as you could determine there are concerns yes when it comes to the cost of some alternatives so um some of the foam machines for example can be quite costly uh they can use um a lot of water some of them use palm oil or at least used to use palm oil so um the councils are kind of still considering them and they're also concerned about resources so several councils mentioned that if they were to use alternatives they would have to be used more frequently that would put um extreme on resources and that there needs to be sort of a combination of alternatives in the future and the sort of uh in in their approach but um those will be kind of the main concerns that came up but are they thinking outside the box because obviously you know using these products it's a blunt instrument and i do note in your in your report you know Dublin where an alternative has been used people are welcoming the fact that uh you know other uh plants or other bits of nature that ordinarily wouldn't be there are there now do you know what i mean so there are more than the advantages of human health absolutely and um several councils and several sections of councils are are moving completely away from using chemical herbicides and um we know that um there is a growing awareness and um the councils themselves mentioned this that there's a change in public awareness when it comes to these chemicals so i don't know i think it's just a matter of time and you know what it's funny anthea because you know we do regular gardening slots as most radio stations do and most people aren't asking you know what weed killer can i use they're asking for alternatives so i think you know the local authorities are actually behind the public on this one i think you know individuals are thinking uh you know they're they're thinking more environmentally and and public health wise than than some of our local authorities you're obviously a science right and you write about a lot of different things when compiling this report and going through it did it shock you did anything surprise you if you know what i mean because you've seen a lot uh anything take you are back well i suppose um the fact that we're we're kind of still lagging behind us both compared to other countries in an island when it comes to banning pesticide use in public areas and and an environmentally sensitive areas um and i think a lot of work is also done by um residents associations and you know privately as well hotels and golf courses so there seems to still be a lot to be done and in terms of changing how we do things and sort of are i suppose once you start seeing these things you can't unsee them as well so if i look outside and i see a sprayed area now now i notice this so i think it's about noticing this and just keeping keeping track of this and doing what we can all right and say thanks for your time this morning i really appreciate it and if people want to find this investigation um the journal dot i obviously regularly updating uh so where on the website could people find your investigation so and if people want to go to noteworthy.ie it'll be there um on twitter as well and social media noteworthy and the journal dot i you'll definitely find it there good stuff all right thank you very much for your time i appreciate it greatly thank you very much take care bye bye that is freelance science writer anthea lasia who is responsible for that investigative piece that's available on noteworthy dot i e um donagall kind of cancel the estimated annual spend including contractor spend in recent years yearly average of 80 500 euro so over the time period of 2019 to 2021 at least 241 000 euro was spent during this time and we know the health risks uh the health risks and the risks the environment and we know pesticides is linked to cancer uh as far as we can determine not we don't want to make out i have anything to do this this is all anthea's work um these dangerous chemicals are being sprayed in in public areas and as i say i can't say for any certainty what was in this person's container that they were spraying on this main footpath right okay but i mean we can presume we can't rule out the fact that it was a dangerous pesticide because uh it's being sprayed in public areas it would make you think you know when you go out with your your toddler or your pet or whatever it might be and you don't know if someone's because there's no signs as far as i can determine you don't know if this dangerous chemical has just been sprayed in that area and you know they're in playing with the grass and touching their face or your dog's chewing the grass or licking it or cogging its leg or whatever it might be uh i think we should stop spraying this stuff in public areas i don't know what the consequences of that might be but that stuff is uh it's it's worrying i'm worried about it and i'm worried about it anyway i'm not easily worried really all right back with more shortly cutting through the spin the 9 till noon show on highland radio would you like to win a Hyundai Kona car well that's the first prize in the St Yunan's GA club development draw who are sponsors of this week's 9 till noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at St Yunan's GA draw dot com or any club member the Johnny Doherty Festival of Irish music and dancing our draw Friday 23rd to Sunday 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gall's gaa history you could say what were you doing 30 years ago today maybe you were parking the car or sitting having a pint or maybe even in the ground perhaps ahead of the all island final 1992 the 20th of september 30 years ago today uh was when history was made three decades on really quite a significant day what are your memories of that day probably should have asked you a little earlier on but uh as i say for some people it will probably actually be the sporting highlight of their lives if you were lucky enough to be there or even if you were listening on the radio or watching on tv historic times okay we chatted to uh much more importantly i suppose ellen doherty yesterday you might remember ellen's story ellen is living in a house that is devastated by defective concrete blocks built by her and her husband very sadly ellen's husband no longer with her he passed away in 2019 and ellen had that contest with or contend with but also herself was very sick in gallway with uh covid back home thankfully but her home falling to bits and ellen was onto us yesterday about her chimney stack literally fearful of going to sleep for fear this chimney might come through ellen good morning to you again um thanks for rejoining us i hope you're okay it was a tough call yesterday for for you for me and and for the people listening so i really appreciate you being so honest and and sort of helping people who don't really still get it the devastating impacts of this horrible defective block scandal good morning ellen right okay so uh i i hope did you get any comfort from the reaction from people to to what you've been going through ellen has it helped you yes definitely okay now what happened after the phone call well later in the afternoon uh a young man came to my street and i don't think he wants to be named but he said he would take down the chimney and rebuild it he's got man working for him he didn't know who he is but i can't believe how good the people are so many people formed me and and i just can't believe how good people are as it lifted your spirits a bit ellen oh yes definitely okay so you're feeling a bit better today than you did yesterday definitely i am okay that's good and and people were ringing in offering to to help to try and you know even support your financially to fix the wall at the back i'm not sure if that's a realistic uh option for you at the moment because i know you're very keen to get that done but it seems that thanks to this young man's generosity and he is people with him as well that they're gonna make you feel a bit more safer in your home uh anyway going forward uh he said as of take two weeks or time on his man um and as for the back wall i don't know what's going to happen we have to but i'm hopeful good okay there's a wee bit more light at the end of the tunnel then for you is there yeah definitely very good and ellen i'm going to ask the question directly to people that make these decisions i don't know if it will be tomorrow or when it will be i want to know exactly and i want a minister to explain to me exactly ellen how you as a lady in your mid 60s as you said yesterday unable to borrow any money i want to know from them exactly how you're going to be able to fix your home under this new scheme and i'll not be happy until i get an answer that question either ellen because if you can't get your house fixed well then i think the scheme's a load of crap uh well um my qs i'm not going to name him but he said to me that because i have three walls around the house and another one the front i would need to borrow 150 000 on top of 420 000 to leave what's known as a boulder finished i even don't know what a boulder finish means no i mean that's that's hopeless i mean there's no way uh i mean even if you could have access to that money um you i mean why should you have to borrow 150 000 year old to get your house back to the way it was because he said that the three retaining walls actually he said there are four retaining walls and it should that would take a vast summer money to do mm-hmm and then though he's only going to do the outside leaf of the house and i would have to borrow 150 000 to do that unbelievable would you have even before that wall fell oh sorry i don't mean to talk to you go on ellen it's you i want to listen to even before that wall fell and i was worried sick about where was i going to find that kind of money i got you and i'm not on my own i mean everybody who has a uh every house owner who has a make a reddled house will have to find extra money ellen if you know if the option love them if the option had been there for you to um take the maximum grants available but build a smaller house which meant you wouldn't have to have worried about borrowing money would you have considered that option yes but you know uh you need some information for that and that's 3000 euro yeah i know i would love your grant money yeah okay um ellen we've loads more questions which we're going to ask uh ask the powers that be uh for answers i'm glad and it's a little thing in the wider scale of things but i'm glad that that young lad and his team are going to come and sort that chimney out for you i know that was a great worry for you and maybe that might make the winter a little bit more tolerable for you and hopefully we can keep the pressure on to get this scheme to be a workable scheme for people like you and and the majority of other people but ellen thanks for coming back on and just sharing that we bit of good news in that whole story with us i really appreciate it all right great thank you very much no no god bless you thanks very much indeed i really appreciate it okay right so a bit of a positive news there between that and and milford you know it's encouraging that something's getting done okay the lines are closed by the way of course on our competition for two tickets for the two tickets for the state units g a club develop and draw exciting times at that club with the funding they have from the state and also hopefully the success of this draw they're going to be able to provide a brand new pitch floodlet floodlet as well which is exciting isn't it um but we have steven mcgloughlin from calhame and letter kenny steven you are the winner of a ticket into that draw you correctly answered 9 30 1930 so i'm obsessed with money 9 30 1930 cahle grand boncran you are also a winner of a ticket as well so well done to the two you have another couple to give away we're going to give them away over the course of maybe friday and friday i think i was told uh so stay tuned for us on friday we'll give you another chance in the meantime if you want to get a ticket you could go to st unisga draw.com where you can win potentially uh that high on die but there's trip to lapman worth five grand ride on lawn mowers fuel vouchers and everything um but steven mcgloughlin you've got a ticket cattle grant you've got a ticket we'll get those tickets out to you uh but if you want to get yours because it's a limited number they've sold over half the tickets now at this stage and the draw is due to take place in the first of november but they're going to pull it forward when the tickets sell out so if you want to get involved get involved now st unisga draw.com thanks to olly and john uh for calling in and well done to you uh to you're in the draw why doesn't the bank give her the money the government pulled the banks out before so why don't they do the same for the government now and help these people affected by mica well why don't the government put the pressure on the banks to do it the banks can sit back right collecting their big paychecks and the we the the taxpayer and the uh through the government will fix their we will restore their assets to their former value what a deal that is can you imagine being bailed out to the tune of billions 12 13 years ago and now you've lent money on defective buildings and you're going to get you're going to get bailed out again because that's what's happening the taxpayer is bailing out again these people the government should make sure they can get a claw back off the bank or the banks should do the right thing why should these institutions always have to be compelled to do the right thing uh right let me see here i have that done and i have that done all right uh thanks to here greg a lot of young people have left arland because the jobs that they are qualified uh are not readily available here in arland you could say that some of them have been driven away by their parents all through his school days all we johnny here's his college college college so the leaving circle comes along and we johnny gets excellent results off he goes to college of his choice a great expense to mommy and daddy that is basically him gone when he finishes colleges with his degree he finds that somewhere abroad is the only place he can get the job he was qualified for fast forward 10 years we johnny's living and working in the usa or australia and the parents are sitting at home wondering why they only see him maybe once a year if they lucky if they're lucky if he had got a less qualified job here in arland they'd seem regularly i wonder how many parents in later life regret pushing their young people so hard during their school days all right and on that note that's where we have to leave it thank you to everyone who took part in the program thanks to uh donna marie and emma who researched and produced the show we are back with you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock