 2018. In a written letter, the man apologised for what he put the woman through. The full report is available on our website, HighlandRadio.com. There's some disruption on the roads in Donegal this morning due to overnight snow falls. A nationwide standard shallow ice warning is due to be lifted later this morning. However, Matt Aaron is warning that hazardous conditions will remain due to freezing temperatures. Alna Riley from Karlo Weather says the cold spell could remain until the end of the week, particularly in the northwest. This is more of a cold blast from the north, really, which will possibly last up to Friday, especially in the northern part of the country. But it's not anything like the beast in the east and we're not going to see temperatures dropping quite as low as that or as sustained as that either. But there is a risk of some heavy wintery falls in the northern areas, especially Thursday and Friday. Part of the A5 outside Sturban is closed following a crash this morning. Places are currently at the scene of the two-vehicle collision on the Sturban road between Victoria Bridge and Newton Sturt. To allow emergency services to deal with the incident, drivers are advised to seek an alternative route. No further details are known at this time. The eviction ban will end as planned on March 31st. Housing Minister Dara Bryan will bring the proposal to colleagues at this morning's cabinet meeting. Plans for developing a budget package for both landlords and tenants will also be discussed with details to come at a later date. Solidarity people before Prof. TD McBarry says the government is fully aware of the damage ending the ban will cause. This is a reckless act. It's a reckless act by a government of free market extremists. They are making this decision in the full knowledge that it will result in a surge of evictions and increased homelessness for large numbers of men, women and children. If ever there was a time for a housing protest and movement in this country, that time is now. Well and I frosty this morning with icy stretches, a cold mostly sunny and dry day, though wintery shards will occur, highest temperatures of just 3 to 5 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. Ah yeah, we're good mates, yeah. Look, I'm always there for him. 100% too thick and thin. And sure, he likes having me around. Anytime he's going out, I'll get the shout, you know. And someday, I'll probably kill him. Smoking isn't the friend you think it is. Quit for 28 days and start taking back control. Find out how at quit.ie or free phone 1-800-201-203 from the HSE. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. Four minutes past 9 Tuesday, the 7th of March. How are you keeping? It's another day here on the 9 till noon show and it's a cold day outside, isn't it? I heard McKayla talking about the weather warning being lifted at 10, but I think it's got a bed in here for the next couple of days. Footpaths are terrible already in certain parts. The county back roads also really difficult as well, so be careful, especially during your back wheel drive. It's dangerous. Or if you're walking as well as I say, I noticed a few of the footpaths on the way to work, not in good shape. Still don't grip them, probably never will, but anyway. If you want to keep us updated on anything that's happening out there, 08-660-25,000 WhatsApps and texts that number 08-660-25,000. You can give us a call to, of course, 07-491-25,000 and email us comments at HighlandRadio.com. If you're listening to the podcast or the overnight where we replay the show from one, I believe it is, I'm normally asleep at that time and I certainly wouldn't be listening to myself anyway, but you can email us, by the way. You know, get your phone out if maybe you're a night work, you're on continental shifts or maybe you just don't sleep well. Don't be afraid to email and we pick them up the next morning. Or WhatsApp as well, 08-660-25,000, just because you're listening on podcast or overnight doesn't mean you can't be part of the program, of course. We are continuing our search for our finalist to go forward and represent this region in a huge national competition. Oshine Ni is in with us around about half 10 performing live two tracks. One of them will be asking you to vote on to choose one of our four finalists as a winner overall to go forward and represent us. They've already won a great prize. We'll go on to get great exposure and even further prizes. We had a fantastic performance yesterday and I guarantee you the next three are as good. It's going to be a tough one. So stay tuned for that community guard. Information's coming up for you after 10. The very first time you'll hear if the latest appeals and information from on guard is your corner before they start popping up elsewhere. Make sure you tune in for that live just after 10 o'clock. That and so much more besides any news breaking overnight. You want to get involved. You want to get your off your chest. As I say, contact us on that as well. And just whilst I remember because it was towards the end of the last week. Do you remember there was a lady on with us? Her mother. I think she was in her 80s early 80s 81. If not mistaken, she had problems with her phone. Do you remember and it was off for it was off for a couple of weeks and then they said to her Vodafone. It was they said to her that it might be that they'll get it sorted within 10 days. Well, it was sorted the next morning. We didn't. I don't think I mentioned that the following day. I know some of you are messaging in see if she got sorted, but we got that sorted the next morning, the very next morning. And when I got off air and fair play, a lady from Vodafone rang me and said she'd take control of the situation and sort and she did. Okay, so credit where it is due. Of course, we often highlight when companies there are faults and that was a fault in this case with Vodafone, but they took the complaint on board took ownership and sorted it. So that's good news for that lady. I just wanted to update you on that and to be fair to Vodafone as well on to the newspapers this morning, the Derry Journal, almost 200 businesses and organizations have signed an open letter to the N I department for infrastructure in a United show of support for the long delayed a five Western transport corridor. The letter coordinated by the Derry and letter candy Chamber of Commerce has been signed by 184 organizations from across Derry, Donegal and Turone. It stresses the importance of the infrastructure project to the economic and societal prospects of the region. The a five is a crucial infrastructural project for the Northwest once improved will deliver stronger and better connectivity for our region. The letter reads along with the improvements to the a six. The strengthening connectivity will mean bringing more investment jobs and visitors to Derry London Derry, Donegal and the wider Northwest. Of course, they want to point out the safety positives there as well on to the Irish independent this morning, Guardia hoping CCTV footage from a nearby nearby village will help them as they investigate the murder of male farmer John Brogan. It emerged that the man arrested for the killing had been in a pub earlier in the day and had arrived with a person well known to the victim, Mr Brogan who was 82 was found dead in his home at Pheasants Hill on the outskirts of Castle Bar on Sunday evening after passerby's passersby were alerted to a fire in the hallway after emergency services put out the blaze. Mr Brogan was found inside the property having suffered apparent gunshot wounds. A man in his mid sixties was arrested in the vicinity and a weapon believed to be shotgun was recovered. Guardia now examining that if the chief suspect had been at a pub in a nearby village earlier on Sunday and coincidentally encountered a person well known to Mr Brogan. It's believed there had been a verbal route between the two and Guardia collected CCTV from businesses in the village to help establish the movement of the suspect in the time leading up to the murder. Guardia are also aware of a previous outburst and accusations by the chief suspect directly to Mr Brogan in the recent past on to the Irish Times today. It'll be several weeks before technology to force drones from the skies around Dublin Airport with its deployment dependent on delivery time from the manufacturers. Now this is a problem that was in airports all across the world. I don't know why all of a sudden there's a peak in drone activity around Dublin Airport. But it's very disruptive. Lots of flights being diverted over the course of the very circumstances. Thousands of passengers being inconvenienced. The airlines of course very vocal in saying, look, this technology is there, sort this out. Government being accused of foot dragging in this regard. Well, with the coalition under pressure from airlines after drones disrupted operations at the airport, Minister for Transport Amon Ryan and Minister of State Jack Chambers will outline a plan to cabinet for drone security at the airport and the wider issue of protecting critical infrastructure from interference. However, on Monday night, that's last night, DAA, which operates the airport warned that it did not want long term responsibility for intercepting drones in its airspace. Can't be beyond us. Can it in 2023? Irish Daily Mail as all the papers are confirming that the eviction ban is set to end. I'd be really curious as to what you, the listener, think of this because we're hearing from government and the reasons why they're doing it. We're hearing from the opposition and why they think now is not the right time to do it and this could be done or that could be done. But listen, let's hear from renters or landlords what your views are. You can WhatsApp or text them 208 660 25,000 because coalition leaders have decided not to extend the ban on evictions, which is due to expire at the end of this month following late night talks. The shock decision came after the Attorney General Rossa Fanning last night warned senior members of the government that an extension of the ban would not survive a legal challenge. Well, maybe wait and see. Instead, the cabinet will look to introduce further tenant protections and measures to encourage landlords to stay in the market. But details on how this will be achieved are yet to be finalized. We are at the peak of the housing market, you know, so maybe a lot of people who have, you know, second properties are looking to offload them now anyway. But anyway, housing Minister Dara O'Brien met with the three coalition party leaders, T Shockley of Radcar, Tarnashtami Hall-Martin and the transport Aiman Ryan transport minister to finalize a memo for cabinet, I presume it's going to be this morning on the issue. Prior to the meeting it was anticipated the ban would be extended with some adjustments. However, the former Attorney General Paul Gallagher had advised the government when introducing the initial ban that it could only be done on a time-bound basis and extending it beyond March would not work. Mr. Gallagher, who was replaced by the incumbent A.G. Rossa Fanning when Mr. Radcar took over the role of T Shockley December also advised that the ban was likely to face a legal challenge. It's just interesting that new leaders bring in new A.G.'s and someone say that this A.G. happens to agree with Leo for Radcar's angle on it. But anyway, it's a government-wide decision. All are responsible. Someone's worked out in the Irish Sun that ending smoking would free up nearly a million GP appointments a year in England alone. This is a charity, leading charity is claimed. Around 75,000 consultations a month would be saved analysis by cancer research shows. The charity called on the UK government to invest more to services to services that help people quit as things remain a big cause of cancer and death. And I wonder if any of you were listening to our chat with the HSC and their cessation team and decided to pack up the cigarettes at that time. Did you? And how's it going for you? If you don't mind sharing, if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine. But you know the number 08 660 25,000. Well, chief executive Michelle Mitchell said UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt must be bold with tobacco control in his budget. So the UK figures in the paper today, but I presume we can scale them and see similar results here in Donegal not Donegal, well in Donegal, but also in Ireland as a whole. Right on to the mirror finally this morning. And just a wee bit more meat on the bone. Well, there's an elephant tossing over a car on page 14. If you're interested, it's a van. He's just walked up, tossed it over. But that's not what I'm talking about. But if you want to see an elephant toss over a lorry, page 14 or just Google it. But anyway, motorists could be charged more than 100 euro for a trip to Dublin or into Dublin town for the day on on the proposals to reduce urban congestion. Now maybe some of you love Dublin are in and out of it all the time, or maybe you have to. But as I said in the show yesterday, I don't like I don't like I don't like how busy it is anyway. It's not even that big a city, but 100 quid to go in a trip into Dublin town. Are you having a laugh? What and pay 12 euro for a for a drink or 20 euro for a sandwich and a cup of tea. But experts say emissions could be driven down substantially of government discouraged motorists from going into our urban centres. But the sense of urgency to tackle the problem is dividing the cabinet with ministers from Finafall and Fina Gale less eager than the Greens to act in the short term. T Shockley of Radcar told reporters in Wardford yesterday the congestion charges not something the government is considering introducing immediately. He added it's about moving towards urban compact growth. It's not about banning cars or crucifying motorists. He said congestion charges aren't on the agenda at the moment for Irish cities, but it's something I think you could see happening and making sense in Dublin in the future. Okay, well sure, we shall see. And I don't think regional towns, especially the likes of Latter County with city status aspiration would be exempt from that. So if I was a business in an around that again, I'd be thinking, you know, where am I going to be in five years in terms of in terms of vehicle access? I presume they mean ice cars, internal combustion engine cars. What do they get a break for an electric car? Good morning, Marie, Paul, Annie and John, who are saying hello to us commenting on our Facebook. Just to remind you can watch the show, including our community guard information, our live performance for our shooting knee and everything else as well. Brendan Devaney is going to be joining us after the break. He's back on the show on a different topic to sport yesterday. He's just been out and about at the weekend and noticed some anomalies that are that on the face of it don't seem to make sense. Hop on to Facebook on your phone, tablet, smart TV or your forestic. You can go on YouTube too. I prefer high for YouTube because you can rewind on YouTube or pause it and you don't lose where you're at. And also to just to remind you that there's captions on it. Okay. That's really the reason why I started doing it. There's captions there. So people who are hard of hearing can keep up to date. They're not perfect, but they're not bad. They pick up most of what I'm rattling about. Okay, let us take that break. We'll be right back after these messages. Giga boogie in your Giga basement. Vodafone Giga home combines super Wi Fi always connected and secure net for a broadband connection you can always rely on. So get on the Giga train. Search Vodafone Giga home to find out more. Vodafone together we can subject to location and availability. Giga home is subject to subscription cancel any time eligibility limitations in terms apply. 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Please visit their website forward emphasis dot IE and apply via their careers page where just to let you know a little later on we're going to be giving you an update on those cervical check figures we were talking about yesterday. You might recall there was there's just something about them didn't make sense to me the huge drop off in women going for cervical check and we had cervical check on to us with with figures and some sort of background as to what may have led to that huge drop off and it's not as problematic as it seemed on the face of it. So stay tuned we'll update that a little later on update you with that a little later on a call that says the law states that learner drivers need to be accompanied by a fully qualified driver at all times. Yesterday I witnessed 6L drivers driving alone in letter Kenny. I knew to look at the age of them these drivers were in fact the learner drivers if one of them hit me where would I be with the damage done to my car? Why are insurance companies ensuring these young people knowing full well they will drive alone as soon as they get the insurance disk well they are still if they have insurance they're still insured as far as I'm aware they're still insured in the event that they were in collision with you. That being said and I know you recognize that because of their age there probably are L drivers but you know there could be a few young ones in the house and maybe they are although I suppose you'd expect to see an end plate there as well wouldn't you if they recently qualified but look at I trust your instincts on that one how big of a problem is it I know it's tough to get a test. Hi Greg is there a delay in breast check to I'm now 52 and I've heard nothing thank you will listen it's very important we check that out and leave it with me. Another hi Greg can you also ask Betty about the breast check heard that people that should have been checked in COVID times are being sidetracked and they are doing they are doing people now. Caroline might mention that to Betty before we bring her on to see if she's got any updates on on breast check services in Donegal and we can cover we can cover both issues. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Right. Brendan Devaney is joining us now. I think Brendan you're there. Yeah. Good morning to you. Yes, Greg. How are you? Good to have you with us. Listen. Thanks for rejoining us because this is completely unsport related this one. You were at the bout where you with the family are on the weekend and what did you come across? Yeah. I do have a life outside of sport to do an odd thing. You're a great guy as well. But do you enjoy it? Go on. Of course you do. Do you know what, Greg? Just yesterday there was a Sunday. We're in the house and I suppose the kids are on the bike. We're watching about a Shrek. It was a bit of medieval stuff going down. So I says we're going to Newton to visit the wee boys granny. So I said listen, I'll take you to a special wee place at Fort. So they hopped into the and the car. They had wee swords in it with them which was a bit of a mistake because they ended up battering the life of each other on the way down the road. We had to take the swords off them but we get to, of course, Green and Avella. Greg was a nice, fresh day. Beautiful place to visit. And as ever with this Greg, the barrier is down. Now I think over the past year I would say I've tried to visit Green and Avella maybe six or seven times randomly and the barrier's been down every single time I've got there. Now the view up there, Greg, as we know, I've been to places all over the world. I can't say there's a better view there. You know, the foil is woolly and shiny and throne, dairy, Donegal, all in the background. And along with that it's got the history of the place. The Fort, one of the oldest fort. If not the oldest fort in Ireland, of its kind. So I looked at the thing on the barrier. I think it was open for maybe three hours that day. Now this was four o'clock. So I've heard a lot of people messing about in the car park and that Greg, but I can't understand how we can't sort that out. Maybe by, say, blocking off bits of the car park or putting the barrier near where the car park is. So if it was a case where we could figure out a way of doing it, but I don't understand surely that happens in the evening or at night? And as we left there, getting funny enough, another small thing. We came down the hill back to the main road and then the foreground was Burt Castle. And again, another amazing place. And my wee boy saw us to God. Greg, they said, can we go there? And I was like, there's no, there's no road there. We can't go there. And I thought there's two unbelievable monuments in our place with unreal views. And we can't technically visit either of them. You know, and I mean, you're a family man taking the family out, bringing them from what they were joined the television into the real world. But as well as that, the tourist season is getting longer and longer. And it's not as long as people want it to be. I mean, I think there's quite a few tourists about at the moment. You're seeing them here and there. Everywhere seems kind of busy. If I was a tourism provider, I'd also be pulling my hair out at this one. On a Sunday afternoon, it's bright what till six o'clock. And it's open from 12 30 in the afternoon to 3 p.m. or 12 to 3 p.m. I mean, we're shooting ourselves in the foot here. As I say, not just for locals, but for day trippers. Yeah, unbelievable. Listen, if you look at, I remember the old board fall chair ads years ago and green and invited used to be in the nationwide ads selling Ireland to the world. If you look at pictures and images that really, you know, social media sells this country's. How could you get a a more beautiful picture than being on top of green and idea and added to the history of the place? And we went down Sheldon there last year. Different monuments down through Ireland or do the castle on the way at the end of Skrone there. Went right down the Spanish Point without the Scattery Island was the name of Moela at Sennan. That's where St. Sennan's monastery is that we were just on a wee bit of a tour and there was there seemed to be so much tourism places set up at different places than Ireland, Greg, which, you know, those tours and there was there was shops and there seemed to be so much more things about and here we are with this amazing thing and it's open for a couple of hours a day. And as you said, I mean, a tourist could be randomly going to visit Greenwich at any time. I mean, the fact that that barriers down and I know people say you technically you could walk up with the monster of a helmet two year old. That would have been too much work for me, Greg, but I just think that yeah, but in terms in this saying, it's we need to be we need to be inclusive as well. So we couldn't have there's no point having a situation where you in good health with your young family could go up but someone who can't can't. It doesn't make any sense and and I don't know of it to think about like we're told how important tourism is to our economy. Let's just stick with that point for a minute. But it seems anytime things are a little bit complicated like say public toilets for example, we don't have public toilets in certain places and you kind of they're feeling the argument is is what we can't maintain them or who's going to maintain them or they're going to get dirty. So you don't put them there. We don't open up certain places like like Greenian of Alia because well, maybe there could be some anti-social behavior or what I listen let's hire people if it's that important to us. Let's hire people that go around these places. Let's put up CCTV if there's any anti-social behavior. Let it be flagged on the CCTV for the guardage. You know of least resistance. We have to come up with modern solutions to make sure that this thing that's so important is easily accessible. Yeah, exactly. Whatever whatever the issue is, there's a way around it because we have monuments and we have tourist places all over the country that we're not shutting down for nearly the whole day. And as you said this thing about selling their country and selling I suppose this this a draw should we have to protect it? So whatever it is there must be a way around it to get us back up there is a secret that's I would say to a year now I've randomly stopped at different times and I think the times have changed you know as a year goes on and I rang a number on the board I got another number for a place in Leitrim that that handles all these things just went through the announce machine there was no space left in the box maybe there was other people writing as well but that's as far as it got I did ask Paul Cannon down there to look on it as well because even for people in the local area it's such a nice place to take your kids and obviously they're restricted what happens is is you go up there right if you have access to it this is how it works you go up there you get your phone out right you take a picture you have a decent following on social media you post it on Twitter people all around the country seat they go wow that's beautiful and ever even knew that existed they come up to visit it that's how it works but you go there the gates down you're a paid off local you drive off the kids are disappointed you know what I mean it doesn't make any sense if you're on about toilets and security say so those people that are coming to visit are spending X amount while you're here so that means that the government really have to say right there's X amount of tourism coming to Donegal there's something in place they pay for these things a bit like the ranger that's up there I'm not too sure what her job is Greg in Greening but you know if she needs help with security then that has to be something that's sorted and looked at what happens stand the country you've talked about being in different places and the listeners can get involved in this of course as well I mean like say like to Kerry is that comparable here I mean if I drive down there a place is going to be shot in the middle of the afternoon on a Sunday I don't know it doesn't feel like that would be the case no no and Greg just just with us in Donegal here I'm not going to buying the drum of it being cut off and where we're at and all that geographically but you do get a sense down the country there's there's a much more tourism thrive you know you see the coaches and the bosses so if we're lagging behind the last thing we need to do is have one of our most amazing places in the county shut off for nearly the whole day I mean something something has to something has to be sorted to get that to get that opened up probably yeah call us as I agree we went along to it and was closed but you still have walking access to it surely Brendan should be encouraging fitness look but what I'm saying is is you know that's all well and good but if you've got a young family or you've got a baby or if you've got a if you're with someone who is using a wall canada isn't a wheelchair I know exactly what you're saying and it's great if you're on your own you fit you can run up there but that's not providing a tourism product yeah well listen my we was only two and a half Greg well I wouldn't be looking him up there that that extra bit of weight he would make it about 50 steps up there doesn't be able to show the other reboys four and the other adds 12 so listen we would I actually it's Lucas though by your boy the younger boy so yeah I mean good luck good luck with that he's a big lad I I'd send the back to the car and head on myself right okay now listen and it's funny we're having this conversation in March normally we have it in April May June July August September about tourism access to our facilities and facilities for people when they are there and I think it's a constructive conversation we're having Brandon this is like you know as to say beautiful fresh spring everyone's mad to get out you can see it on the street you can see attendance of football games people want to be out doing stuff and then we have these beautiful things like our natural amenities our history and they're not accessible in the middle of the day on a lovely Sunday afternoon doesn't make sense and great just a word and birdcastle as well and the history that's around that I mean of course is a wee that we used to cycle up to to green and and bird like birdcastle obviously it's probably it's dangerous but there's no actual access to it unless you go through a couple of farmers fields but I was saying to myself surely we could procure a a road up and yet there's only two fields there and if you had to coordinate off but I just think between the two places but the fact that you can view both you know if you're thinking about a tourist here if you went to green and you knew there was a road up to bird you would go and see the history and see the two places I don't know why this to that castle as well and there's a beautiful view from from the five city of the two as well so that's just a very small point I suppose Yeah it's all good listen Brent thanks very much for that appreciate you raising the issue lots of people in agreements with you have a lovely day take care right okay what do you think 08 6 60 25 thousand a call who says it's the same in the summer public toilets are only open at certain times of the year tourism is not only about foreign tourists locals visiting these places are far more important than any marketing campaign any marketing campaign as their word will spread the word better indeed I agree with the sentiments there I have visitors staying with me from Saville last week they were excited to visit on green on and was sadly disappointed that they couldn't get access I agree it's time these places were open all year round and other it's a beautiful place but sadly compo culture has taken over this country hence the need to keep cars off it is well it's not the same in other parts of the country you know it's they've figured out ways elsewhere haven't they surely we should be able to do so too talking about electricity prices we were chatting yesterday about a call assess electricity bill standing charge January 21st standing charge per day 04 182 January 2020 January 22nd it's 04 04 now I am not sure how that breaks down in sense but that's per day January 23 it's 07 6 1 4 that's the standing charge so is that 76 0.14 cent I wonder then you have that on top of that let's hope that when the prices come down the standing charges also come down another call it says good morning Greg we've a group of people who are adamant boys can be girls and vice a verse of their dangerous people weak men and women let kids be kids they say there's 100 genders now but yet go for gender affirming surgery have but two choices but there are different views in relation to that and I think you're talking and referencing that letter that was sent out from the the group representing Catholic churches or at least one of them that said they didn't want children to be taught about transgenderism Lee of Radco yesterday said and maybe this is the middle ground he said look schools about preparing children there are trans people in the world you don't have to say it's right or it's wrong or try and influence them in any shape or form but you can educate them that this is actually what is out there in the real world maybe that is the maybe that's the the middle ground there hi Greg the Greens will soon make it going for a drive illegal they want to control everything we do God help us we will obey like sheep the only thing I said this to people off the radio as well if anyone thinks that after the next election that the Greens are in power that all of a sudden diesel cars and petrol cars the battle come down the the taxes will be reduced there'll be no 2030 targets that's there's only one way this is going and whether the Greens are in power or not that's the way it's going and there's no as far as I'm aware there's no major alternative party suggesting otherwise it's an agenda and it's an agenda the country signed up to yes the Greens have their fingerprints on it and they're trying to move things quicker but I don't believe in a moment of correction there's any party that's saying right okay we're going to lift coal bands we're going to lay to burn the the old-fashioned smokey coal we're going to lift turf cotton bands we're going to reduce carbon taxes on home heat no petrol and diesel no one's suggesting that this is only going one way there is no as far as I can see in a moment of correction there's no alternative to what's going on at the moment that's okay let's us now say hello to Kilger good morning to you thank you for joining us this morning oh Greg how are you I'm good Kilger what's your experience well it's today dealing with expressways I for the first time I think it's the first time in my life I decided I have I've had to go to Galway going to the rapid access process clinic a few times I was done in January and I traveled in the car and texted out of me to be quite yeah you have to stay tonight blah blah blah so I I got another appointment and I had to go down on Saturday actually was down for an MRI scan so I thought I'll take the bus you know let them take the strain and no hassle mm-hmm good enough but the tickets no hassle not but what I discovered was I had to get somebody to give me a lift because there's no where to park your car I got to travel from Moncran which is 42 kilometers you know there's no where to park your car this is from let her Kenny Kilger is it pod migrants it's from let her Kenny to go away yeah so there was over to park the car so my wife had to take me up that was the first thing I thought oh god you know and most cases now they have this parking right we can park your car free to get to mm-hmm they don't have it they don't have it in other County or they don't bus and don't seem to do it or so I got the bus it was grand I have to say there was no problem the journey was good but if the problem toilet stops we had one stop now the journey is nearly 5 hours it's about 40 quarter hours we had one stop in Sligo for 10 minutes for and there there are toilets in the station there every other stop is like a bus stop basically no word that you can go to the bathroom and I thought my God like for people traveling from Donegal young or old I mean just you don't can't hold on to Sligo just you know like you mean you might have to go after Sligo and you've nowhere to go there's no toilets on the toilets on the bus there's no toilet on the bus and all the words and I thought that this was one of the things and when you're talking about transport and the greens it was one of the things that they were supposed to be doing but there's no toilet on the bus what do you do in that situation like Kilger not you personally like us put ourselves in someone's position because you know I think we all know some we all know people that would not be able to be without going to the bathroom for three hours like you know I think everyone would know someone well like what do you do say you didn't need to go in Sligo and on you go as a fully grown adult sitting there thinking what's gonna happen here am I going to go to the bathroom in this bus sitting down like it must be incredibly horrible I actually heard on the way back now in fairness it wasn't too far to go and it was a young younger person like a lot younger than me and it was in when it was in Baligaffé we had stopped again at a stop and this guy showed it driver there's any chance of me getting out here to go into I think it was Apache Pizza use the toilet and he says you you won't get in there he says I have to hang on I'll only be 10 minutes like the driver now fairness was he was he was nice he said I'll be as quick as I can 10 minutes and you get to the other county I just think particularly for people in Baligaffé because we have so far to go to most of the major places you know like and to hold on for such a long time I think it should be when expressways and when they're trying to get this travel think about things it's not you know it's not too hard because I know there are some bosses with toilets now I've spoken to people who use bosses regularly and through covid you had no access to the toilets right and then post covid there was still no access to the toilets but then and say I don't know the boss network well enough to know when there's people listening and that would know more than you and I Kilgar because you haven't really used the much like are there toilets on some of these bosses and can you access them now because I would not fancy like it's like getting on a plane it's like getting on a plane to Dublin Airport going to Lancerati knowing you couldn't go for a piece the exact same pretty much the timings about the same yeah exactly that's where I was thinking at least on the plane you can get yeah you get up that way yeah there are not there was no toilet made of these bosses like on the way down there's no like definitely not and there's none on the way up you know and I'm just going to throw in another thing another thing that I saw because driving a car you don't notice these things unfortunately you know but on that boss I noticed the amount of cars in every town and village that are not being used it's unbelievable I mean they're crying out for space and if you sit on the boss out that's what I'm saying get the minister to sit in the boss and go down just this way yeah I know you're on it there's like ghost towns isn't there you can see where the old petrol station used to be and the old pub used to be and then there's like you know see what seems like but maybe people don't want to live there in some of these places still go and there's a few there's a few towns but you want to about actually in populating towns even even and on the main street in towns it's unbelievable and I mean people it's it's probably refugees have been worried thinking of I mean they might not want to live but I mean we don't have much of a choice at the minute the way things are going the certain people have a choice or not yeah I get you you know but then honestly the amount of towns forget about outside the times I'm talking with the amount of times good size times that have accommodation and I know I know like loads of my friends were brought up on the main street of Bokhrana you know it's not I was brought up above a pub I mean it's not that bad I I think I think the two there are some of these it's nothing wrong with urban living but I think there's some of these towns and villages that you talk of and I think I have a fair idea some of them that you're on about that actually would benefit greatly by a boost in the population as well for their future because some of them are dying on their feet like life I think it would get life into towns and I mean you would really need to have a national plan to do this you know I can't see the way people are the way we are myself like the only problem is Kilgore I can think of like three national plans but like just talk about this eviction ban that's happening right this eviction ban was it gave us six months nine months we can even extend it out to a year and a half to come up with an alternative but we have no alternative you know we so in terms of there are plans there in terms of getting you know houses back into use and all that but there's no progress be it's all talk like I've done a lot of interviews over the years about about new schemes to go in and in urban areas take over derelict properties do them up for a company it's all talk this dereliction grant you know who's is anyone really really applying to that and if not why not do you know like we're not doing anything we had a we had some space with the eviction ban and in the here we are still in the exact same position the housing crisis have gotten worse and now we're going to be throwing people out into the streets from April you know it's they you know they go down the road they say we'll do this we'll do that it takes a year to say what they're going to do it takes and then nothing happens somebody has to take the little bit of orange and do it I mean that can be done it's not it's not going to be done overnight but it can be done you know the thing is is the thing is is if you really start if you really start pumping money into building houses if they really started properly funding the rebuilding of defected concrete block houses right look at the amount of VAT and tax they would take in look at the amount of employment they would generate look at the big lift there would be for construction industry as a whole if it was done correctly it's win-win you get people into homes you get people into new homes that are that are the old ones are falling around them because of defective concrete and you know as I say we're I said this in the program before because we're tiny like was on in the 26 counties because we can own it this point talk about the Republic in terms of plans but there's five and a half million people in what were told us are relatively decent economy we shouldn't really have any problem should we kill go we should be this is one size of Manchester we should have we should have all of this should be sorted like there should be no problem I mean as fact if you see if it would cost money but what goes around comes around you could spend money and it as you say it goes filters back into the economy should it be a painter decorator should it be a builder it filters the whole way through and when it comes back to the government comes back to us because it's our money we keep saying the government exactly and the only people I know the only not the only people but the majority of people I know that are doing well spend money they've borrowed to invest or you know they've taken risks or whatever you know and then there's people like me with nothing because I'm too timid to do anything I don't you know what I might mean and I'm I'm Ireland at the moment right because I'm sitting there afraid to do anything and yet there's people around me who roll the dice who take chances and accumulate wealth we should be doing that as a nation yeah I think the government could like I mean they sold off you know to these funds these they sold off profitable thing it's like to me it would always it'll be like when the water thing when they were talking about privatizing it why do you privatize something like that it's a necessary that's number one electricity it's a necessary well actually the the electricity will you see if they privatize that it'll save us money because there'll be more competition the market and how are you finding that how's that going for you? I look at England and I see what happened in England with the with the private there were certain things that I think need to be privatized and certain things that don't and I think electric because it's power and more ways than one you're holding power you have the power you don't privatize it and then invest the money like I agree that electric Ireland you're talking about prices you come down but the good thing is going back in to upgrade the service Yeah Bod Bod's right I suppose look the government's got a huge stake in the it's been it makes no difference anyway I don't sometimes I just can't get my head around it but that everything is set up everything is set up that lots of not lots of people but a small group of people profit in a crisis right and the situation for average Joe's also effectively never improves it's always a constant struggle right people think on your general views but on the on the on the on the bosses as well I think that's a valid one I hope everything's going well for you in terms of health and stuff Kilgar and thank you so much for chatting to us and a lovely name by the way where's that from well my mom wait I had thought all their brothers and they are all normal names or they think you'll listen I think mommy she ran out of names she run out of names so I hadn't the guy that was me because my middle son I opened up the name book and the first name is Aaron two ways and us as that will do yeah that will do I never got past I never got past the first name in the name book I like Kilgar anyway because no one will forget your name well well I I have a son no I decided well see and I was called he's going to be called to be so I don't you stuck in with Kilgar as well did you I said good but the the great thing I never could call names it's good because people thought well he's go there let him go yeah has the poor lad not been thrown off is that what all right Kilgar is away I think it's a lovely name thanks so much for joining us and chatting lovely to speak to you all right take care bye bye that is Kilgar there watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at Highland radio dot com to buy letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 thousand euro for all occasions visit letter Kenny see you dot IE if something's free why would you turn it down I mean a free haircut from a five-year-old no or a free sample of onion paste well then how about a free tour of your neighbor's new shed sounds well okay look they were bad examples but how about free eye tests and free glasses from the 69 year old range of spec savers with your PRS IE well that sounds like something to smile about book an appointment or find out more at spec savers dot IE PDO thread lifts the ultimate non-surgical lift for the skin improving facial contours lifting and tightening jewels the neck cheeks and eyebrows are available at Genesis aesthetics and skin care clinic adore for help choosing the right aesthetic treatment for you contact Mary fairy your aesthetic practitioner and laser treatments for all skin conditions hair and makeup packages also available Genesis aesthetics and skin care clinic adore 07495 3 2 5 7 5 any shown credit union have recently launched cultivate an agricultural loan at only 6.55% APR 6.75% call any of their four offices for more information or to make an appointment any shown credit union bonkran acar don moville and moth supporting local farmers any shown credit union is regulated by the central bank of Ireland Hi Patty here at Shane Conley cars in Dunnigall town Are you looking to upgrade your car? 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will occur highest temperatures in the afternoon now yesterday we were speaking about what was a drop in cervical cancer screenings a number of people screened for cervical cancer in Donegal last year is down 22% when compared to the previous year figures from the national screening service service they've revealed now as I said yesterday and Betty Holmes rejoins us now as it says yesterday in the program Betty I wanted to see previous year's figures to see what the trend was or what the crack was but anyway we've got further figures and what's your reading of them Betty and a very good morning to you Oh good morning Greg and I'm delighted that cervical check actually did respond and I have to say they apologize for the delay and they respond to the email and on Thursday and I have to say it's really really good news according to cervical check cervical check said that 2021 was a bumper year for cervical screening uptake when women who were unable to come for screening due to COVID measures were able to access cervical check and that meant that there was a 14 percent more women attended for screening in 2021 than predicted and that they then expected the numbers would level out in 2022 they have said that there's no difficulty with sending out no delays and sending out the appointments for women they're all been sent out timely it's all really really good news Greg and what you know to say that there was a 14 percent increase in 2021 as amazing so it was it was women that didn't get checked during COVID being caught upon really effectively which means they did turn off which is good that means hopefully then we didn't we we didn't lose many checks although they would have been later because of who should have had theirs during COVID they caught up and it was all when I talked to Fiona Ness it was all really really good news all positive news and even to they said that nationwide you know that they're up to date with their insights since December 2021 and they've remained up to date throughout 2022 you know and they also said that they were issued results within four weeks and over 95 percent of the cases which is excellent really really good news and you know I have to say that when we did see the figure of 9,444 for 2021 and then the drop down to 7331 you know I did say that maybe when that figure was queried you know from the local media or the press that maybe the information should have been submitted with that again but this is excellent news and fair pay to cervical check yesterday coming back information phoning you know discussing the whole thing and then I actually ask them to send it in an email so that we can actually forward it to all the local press as well so that any woman who is worried that can be reassured but the other thing that was stressed yesterday was that they were very keen to get the word out to women who may have stopped coming for whatever reason for their cervical check screening and they would say please encourage those women to come back and have their cervical check screening or if there's women who have never had a test and are in the relevant age group and that's I'm doing this from memory Greg is at 25 to 65 that they would actually go online and get registered now also we talked the thing about you know if you haven't got your letter could you go there saying if you know the time that you had your last cervical screening and you're aware that it's that time you can ring up your GP and make an appointment because you're on the register so this is really really good news Greg you know and again like yesterday we're saying any woman that is both cervical check and registered and you feel that you're due your follow-up screening go make an appointment and get checked this is a very very important service this is vital if you're not registered make sure that you get yourself registered and go for your check another good thing that we discovered yesterday Greg was you had made reference to the number of people who had come into the county and we talked about that and Fiona was able to update us that there's video information available in 22 languages for women who English isn't their first language and you know those ladies can find out more about screening and that's all available on the HSE website you know with cervical screening so it's all excellent it's all really really good news but we would encourage anybody that who has stopped going further cervical screening please please please make an appointment go and have yourself checked if you have never had screening please get registered on cervical check and start and go and those appointments but the figure is Greg that explains the fact that was a bumper year and there was a 14 percent increase would explain what we felt was a considerable drop of 2113 that there's no drop the figure of 73331 for 2022 is a real figure and that's excellent news Greg and I'm delighted to be able to update people on that and I'm sorry if we scared people yesterday No I think we were measured yesterday I would knew we were measured yesterday I knew that we had to look at previous figures Betty to get a sense of a trend because as it didn't make any it didn't make any sense sense to me actually another one we spoke yesterday when you were on a caller was charged 50 cents 50 cents sorry 50 euro well following on from our chat yesterday and paying for the smear test she went into the surgery and got her 50 euro back yes okay so that's that's a positive I I queried that one yesterday as well and we were able I was going to actually just tell you to tell that lady she's entitled to her 50 euro back and she got it back which is excellent okay brilliant stuff but but brilliant stuff but again women it's very very important that you go and have your cervical check your smear that is vital and as I said yesterday the life you saved could be your own and if you if you've stopped going for whatever reason make sure you get back up there and get yourself screened if you've never ever went get on the cervical check website register yourself and get for your cervical screening and again you know cervical check were very clear that they were very grateful to the GPs and healthcare professionals and Donnie Gull who were providing very timely appointments to the women you know and you know what to if if nothing else we have had two days of talking about this Betty and opportunities to remind women to go and get checked so you know I think it's been a worthwhile exercise because it's given us a chance to talk and encourage people Betty listen thanks to everybody and sincere thanks to to a cervical check for getting back and please go and get it and Greg thank you to you and the whole team of Thailand because I'm aware that they sent you the response as well thanks take care Betty alright thanks so much indeed that's Betty Holmes there 08 6 60 25 thousand WhatsApps and texts to that number or give 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you though a caller says look at letter Kelly with Darrylick buildings I walked up Port Road yesterday and all the buildings on the left hand side are falling that's access to a toilet very very important really is Hi listening this morning we had the same problem coming back from Dublin Airport unexpressed boss there was a toilet but it was locked and the driver didn't have the key my 13 year old daughter was so upset firstly because she was in pain holding in as she refused to get the driver to stop eventually she allowed me to say to the driver could he stop in the middle of nowhere she had to go behind a hedge it was so busy it was terrible so upset and for her and not not insignificant in that moment too I would say it remains actually really quite disturbing for her that's not a nice experience how long ago was that by the way because why are these toilets no longer I understand they were closed were they because of COVID but why can't why is the toilet locked on the Dublin Airport just in relation to Greenon of Alia we visited New Grainge in County Mead Mead a few years ago and what a setup that is a big car park massive tourist centre and bosses on a loop to take you up and down to the monument and a tour guide when you get there always said why does this not happen at Greenon and not being biased as a local but the views Greenon have are miles ahead of New Grainge and probably plenty of other places with a better standard for the locals and tourists although that's the thing trains have toilets you had trains of toilets but Don and Gaule doesn't have trains but I take your point Hi Greg yesterday evening at near 6pm I was in Lidl in Milford and I asked a man a member of staff had they toilets or could I please possibly use it as I have shingles and with medication treat shingles have to keep drinking water but the man told me sorry only staff toilets and I could not use it as they're not working no flush I said okay thank you when I got till to pay have toilets could I use them and the girl said yes no bother I opened the door for you I did not say nothing well you should say something it's funny because like Lidl and Don and Gaule town they have pretty good public toilets there for the public you know you don't have to ask a question to sort of get in the Lidl and Milford might be a little bit older not quite as modern there is usually toilets on at least 10 minutes stop in Sligo no time for anything should be at least 10 minutes another primary school children are too young and secondary school students too easily influenced to be introduced to discussions or displays of transsexualism what next being a teenager is confusing and off without worrying you are in the wrong body why is this being forced on school children but it's when it's not being forced we're having to happen and you organise you can make it not happen I'm not saying organised on this issue but you know we are not if we want to make a difference we can that's been proven but it's how it's being discussed is the critical thing here there's no point pretending I don't think there's no point pretending something doesn't exist when it clearly does it's how it's taught and how it's discussed surely no yes we are generally incredibly strong and they believe that there's something going on here in the background and it's part of a big plan or something I'm not saying all people feel that but we do get texts along those lines and then you get the others on the side who you know might be you know extremely liberal in certain areas hi Greg you are aware that transgenderism is being introduced in school children in the UK by men posing as drag queens putting on shows in school gyms a video emerged last week from Wales showing a half-naked man pole dancing in front of infants after reading non-binary nursing rhymes parents have a right to be concerned well the parents were sitting there with the children I did see that I don't know what the context of it is I am not familiar with drag acts putting on shows in schools to educate children about transgenderism are you saying that is what's happening I know people are concerned about drag queens I see it on the internet I mean I don't know if you go and watch like if you go and watch a panto it's full of I'm not saying they're drag queens but you know the whole thing about it is it's been for years in panto it's been you know fellas dressed up as women now so I mean it's not anything new I mean you were all raised seeing that I'm sure most people listen to this show have been to a panto right it's context so what are they saying I don't now if they're there dressed up in drag and you're saying they're teaching children about transgenderism I haven't come across that myself I'm not saying it's not happening I just haven't seen it I think there's really to get to the bottom but I'm hoping to have the whole conversation but I want it to be fact based you get me parents need to open their minds and their eyes and parents need their and parents their children sorry parents need to open their eyes and parents their children but if sex under 17 is illegal whether the person wants it or not then surely it's an offence and God he should be called right that's okay as to what might be happening in teenage get together okay sad to say this is happening it's scary how sexualized our young people have become this was off the back of a parent yesterday their children went to a teenage came back horrified from a teen disco somewhere I don't know where it was because the young people were engaging publicly in sex acts and this this child was so upset they told the parents Greg I am past these discos thank the Lord what goes on is disgusting in and out alcohol fueled bouncers and owners of these clubs must take responsibility God should be allowed to enter these premises remember Greg these are minors I am why would Cardi not be able to go in and check what's going on that's someone said that yesterday I'm like well how to undercover Cardi work in terms of of dealing with drugs and stuff in different places around the country I mean of course God can go in anywhere presumably I've never heard tell of a God not being able to go into a nightclub because they weren't invited morning Greg absolutely a moral issue in the disco if children are brought up with morals for themselves and others that would not be happening in a disco it's the parents to blame most don't care and think it's funny they should be responsible for their children but saying that the parents most of them have the morals of an alley cat listen come here that's a that's a sweeping statement isn't it parenting is very very difficult at the moment always has been I'm sure but there's an awful lot of influences competing influences things you try and teach them there's ten things telling them to do something else or this is right or express yourself or being controlled of yourself or it's your body do 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updates Sheridan Security 9-1-2-6-0-2-5 OK it is Tuesday the seventh of March twenty twenty three just after ten so it's time for community guarder information and in studio with us today is a guarder Claire Rafferty from the Milford Guarder Station Claire good morning to you good morning Greg thank you so much for joining us it's good to have you in right OK let's start with some appeals and a guardie looking for the public's assistance as it relates to assaults in Stranawler yeah so we're investigating an incident that occurred in Stranawler on Tuesday the 28th of February so a week ago and it happened between four p.m. and four fifteen p.m. three male students were walking from school together to catch their bus they turned off the main street in Stranawler onto a laneway that links with the railway road so the school bus is usually parked along the railway road or the marked road as it's otherwise known the laneway in question is next to the pedestrian lights near the bus station so I hope people know where we're talking about the three students were followed by a group of male youths who launched an unprovoked attack on them while in that laneway the three students in question sustained injuries as a result of the assaults on them now thankfully none of which are life threatening in nature but still it was an awful ordeal for them so we want to appeal to anyone who is in the area who witnessed this incident to contact us and letter Kenny Gargestation 0749167100 or to confide in their parents or a teacher if they're a minor you know if a student knows this happened please tell someone who will in turn tell us we also appeal to any road users who travelled at the main street Stranawler or a railway road around that time who had any dashcam footage to make that available to us now we are aware this incident was recorded and we are in possession of that footage but we want to make sure we have everything we can get here and finally we appeal to all parents please speak with your children in relation to the seriousness of this type of behaviour and relation to the potential life-changing consequences it could have for them and for others in the future you know you know we've seen all too often unfortunately one strike someone goes down hits their head but also we don't see much of this and we want to discourage it and the way to do so is that whoever is responsible is dealt with yes it's horrible for the three young people involved in this and their parents yeah like I'm sure the people who did this wouldn't like it being done to them either you know people need to be educated and made aware that it can have serious consequences for everyone horrible incident really is ok let's deal now with a theft at Oliver Plunkett Road yeah so letter Kenny Gardier investigating this theft which happened in the parking area at the Celtic apartments on the Oliver Plunkett Road in the town and this happened on Saturday 25th of February between 9am and 9.15am so a lady had parked her car there and she placed her phone a black Samsung A12 on the bonnet of her car while she was transporting items in and out of a nearby building and while she was in the building she realised she forgot to lift her phone and when she went out to retrieve it it had been stolen so we appealed to anyone who was in the area during that short time frame who may have observed suspicious activity of any kind contact letter Kenny Gardier station yeah and it wasn't just left behind them maybe the person listening who lifted the phone has it leave it back ok because a lot of people too it's not just the phone itself they've got memories on it and all things like that as well right let's go to the south of the canton now your colleagues in Ballet Shallanity with an incident in Bandoren yeah so they're looking for witnesses to a criminal damage incident that happened on Sunday the 5th of March so Sunday just gone between 12pm and 1pm a man parked his car on the church road Bandoren and returned to discover that a window on the car had been smashed entry was not gained to the car nothing was stolen from it but we want to appeal to anyone who travelled along the church road between 12pm and 1pm last Sunday who had a dashcam to make it available to us and if anyone has any relevant information to offer please contact Ballet Shallanity Gardier station there is 0719858530 and of course the confidential line is always there to 1-800-661-1 alright now concerning series of instances in the Kriesla area enough to warrant this appeal Claire yeah so we're having a bit of bother out there just in relation to criminal damage incidents at the minute for example one of them was to a sign for the church of Ireland at St Columbus church in Kriesla this first incident occurred in September 2022 when a sign for the church was broken this sign was at the junction for Doughcastle in Kriesla on the R245 that sign was salvaged and re-erected but now there's been a second incident and it's believed to have occurred on February 10th 2023 a sign was erected at the junction for Carrigart the R245 and the N56 and it was bent and destroyed both signs are aluminium and brown in colour so we appealed to anyone who may have any relevant information in relation to these incidents to make contact with us in Milford Gardier station on 0749153060 and we urge the public to please contact Gardier without delay should they ever witness vandalism or mindless acts of criminal damage and you know crimes like this are crimes against the community we know there's no community has had to endure what Kriesla's had to endure who ever is doing this needs to stop absolutely, it's ridiculous right, okay let us talk now about helplines so we have posted a number of helplines on our Gardier to Facebook page so when tragedy happens it reminds us of the need to be supportive and kind towards each other the topic of suicide and the topic of our mental health are not topics that should only be up for discussion when a tragedy actually happens unfortunately this is human nature and people are often hesitant to open up to others and they are feeling low or having suicidal thoughts we urge anyone who is listening at the moment who is suffering to please reach out talk to somebody, ask for help there is help there we all suffer from mental health issues at some point in our lives and there's certainly no shame in that talk to a friend, talk to a family member or talk to us or to a member of a support organisation you know we see both sides of it in our job some people reach out to us in time before it's too late and we're delighted when they do it's when people don't reach out to us and it's too late for us to help them then and it is an emergency, not that long ago we spoke to a person who was so thankful of the Gardier he made a call, got the response and I was able to chat to him a couple of years later and he was in a crisis moment it can make all the difference it is an emergency three digit numbers there yeah and look these help lines are very good to I spoke to someone recently who reached out to pay at a house for example and they managed to get them through so don't be afraid, reach out and ask for help don't hesitate to contact the Gardier if you need to talk or any assistance of any kind we are always available 24-7 and I'll just give you the numbers for all the Gardier stations so letter Kenny is 0749167100 Milford is 0749153060 Bunkrana is 0749320540 and Bally Shannon is 0719858530 yeah and as you say any of us, anyone anyone can contact me at any stage if they need any help and the majority of us are like that I think maybe more so nowadays people have different points of views and all this type of stuff maybe that's created a space where people feel that they could be judged or that people don't want to hear them I don't know anyone that wouldn't want someone they know or even don't know but someone they know and care about not to call them at any stage exactly what I was going to say I don't know anyone who'll turn you away everyone wants to help if you're in a crisis situation or you're feeling down, feeling low just reach out and you're so important people are so so important and leave such great gaps when they leave so please listen to Claire's advice there not just now but anytime you might feel like that don't suffer if you're suffering even if you feel maybe you can't reach out to friends or family the Guardian are there and will treat it as the emergency if it is such and check out the Guardian Facebook page all that information that Claire's just related as it relates to those numbers or help numbers they're all there and are available to you what happened out of the four lanes is the public decided their own speed limit here that's kind of been the way that they thought I'm not doing 50 you know 70s somewhere in between that's the sense I got from driving on the road because you did do 45-50 you were in people's way if the truth be told but look at the Guardian have been looking at the speed limits I think people are forgetting the reason the speed limit is there so we're just going to address that the guards from letter Kenny roads police unit were out there over the weekend conducting speed checks on the four lane road between the pole star and the dry arch roundabout a number of drivers received fixed charge penalty notices for speeding offences at that location and now these drivers have to pay a fine of 160 euro and will each receive three penalty points and now that's the minimum pay it in time it goes up and if they don't pay it all they get some of this to court so we urge all motorists to remember that the speed limit in the area in which there are ongoing road works is 50 kilometers per hour now I will say if you don't mind and I don't want you to comment on this I think it is quite welcome that since the weekend or very shortly before it proper clear signs went up because I know guards have a job to do but some of us know the speed limit is others don't now I am seeing big 50 kilometer signs which I think is fair game we have to be fair but anyway people need to be aware so it's great that they are there they have appeared now but please slow down in order to correct yourself to protect other motorists and passengers and especially to protect those who are conducting the road works be mindful of your speed at all times now let's do a reminder of the new it's 2023 Donagall Youth Awards Claire we just want to remind everyone that nominations are being accepted at present and they must be received by 12pm on Monday the 27th of March in order for people to be considered so the annual Donagall Guard of Youth Awards in association with the JPC celebrate outstanding young people between the ages of 13 and 21 years throughout the country I'm sure people have heard of this through the show before and have heard some of the young people but we invite now the public to nominate a young person or group of young people that they know who are committed to making a difference within their community during 2022 so there are four separate award categories for young people and they are an individual award a group award an achievement award and community safety award this year's adjudicators are Judge Cunningham who's the chair Inspector McGee and councillor Jerry McMonagall as well so if you want to nominate somebody you may download a copy off the form via the Donagall County Council website or from the Guarda website www.guarda.ie you may also collect a nomination form at any of the following Guarda stations which are and once you have completed them forms they must be accompanied by a media consent form and they may be emailed to Donagall Guarda Youth Awards at or if someone doesn't feel comfortable doing that they may be posted to and marked for the attention of as well great stuff thanks Claire you might be mentioning that we also have the final of the school quiz this Thursday in the Mount Derrigal it's always a great occasion everyone seems to get good enjoyment out of it so we want to wish all the participants the best of luck in that who's the emcee, who's the comparator and who's to ask them the questions I don't even know, I don't know who's doing it this year I love quizzes I don't know I won't be there, it won't be me I'll tell you that Claire you've been off on your plates thanks so much for calling in, really appreciate it that's Guarda Claire Rafferty of the Milford Guarda station that was Community Guarda information for this Tuesday the 7th of March 2023 we're back with it again after the 10 o'clock news next week and we'll be back with more on the program today after the break 10 o'clock 9-1-2-6-0-2-5 watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com the 9 till noon show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply 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finalists as part of the Irish music month we are going to be selecting one winner of our final four who are going to be selecting one winner of our final four who are going to be choosing one winner of our final four who are going to represent us the region at a national competition and delighted to say good morning now to Oshine Nee good morning Oshine how are you getting on? I'm good thanks for you it's great to have you back on the show and great to see you in the final four lots of people it's like I said to I was saying to James yesterday you're at this quite some while you're doing well already this is another opportunity just to get your art and your music out there and it's great that you're a part of it yeah it's a great opportunity and yeah just thanks very much for having me tell us a bit about yourself because we've talked before but for those that are new to you from letter Kenny from letter Kenny yeah I've been singing since I can remember and I started songwriting when I was about 15 I want to say and yeah I started posting some videos online and yeah it's just kind of gradually grown and I've gotten the chance to work over in America the last few years which has been amazing and one of the videos I posted was just randomly picked up by an executive and yeah so I've gotten to work with this production company over there so and who've worked with some amazing artists as well so I mean that's just invaluable experience for Oshine absolutely an opportunity as well hopefully now you also come yourself on the keyboard how long have you been playing the keyboard for I've been playing for quite some time I started out with kind of classical lessons and then I don't know I didn't really mess with that kind of world too much but I came back to it myself then later and I just kind of I play more by ear nowadays so that's more kind of my yeah and when you're doing your songwriting do you write your songs at the piano I do it's kind of between the piano and the guitar and yeah I have my kind of home set up and yeah and this is something you really want to make a go of I mean as I say you're young and that's a positive thing the worlds you're oyster here you're already enjoying success as I say you've built your own sort of online following and your online support there you know we've played you out here on Highland you've had those opportunities in America and it's just taking every opportunity I suppose Oshine that comes is it exciting for you or do you take things in your cool dude or do you get excited by all this yeah I may seem like pretty chill on the surface but not everything that's come my way has been so exciting and I'm just so thankful for all the experiences I've been able to to get from so you like that swan on the lake you're all calm above the water and underneath the legs you're going like the clappers it's all right listen wait whilst we have you in we're going to get two tracks from you the song that we're going to ask people to vote on is Arcade and people have heard the people have heard the trailers and seen the promos and it's a real it sticks in your head isn't it I mean it's a songwriter and as a melody writer as well that's what always what you're looking for aren't you you're looking for something that sticks with a person absolutely yeah and this song is probably one of the more vulnerable songs I've ever written and I kind of I wrote it about I suppose kind of growing up I had this misconception that everyone had everything figured out around me and I came to realise that's not the case like no one has like figured out and kind of use this metaphor of an arcade where like I was outside of an arcade looking through a window yeah seeing everyone play and just being envious so and yeah that's kind of the concept of the song and yeah I love when we get it framed like that because you listen to it in a different way I think when you think when you when you know what the songwriter was thinking in the process I think you sort of then listen to it in a different way right we're going to hear two from you we've set up arcade do you want to do arcade first or the second track first I'll do the second segment first right okay and tell us about this one so this one's called grown and I wrote this I wrote the two of these songs actually with and kind of longtime collaborator and I've worked with her for a few years and she's called Alexis Simon and she's from America and yeah so we wrote this actually in pandemic times it was one of the zoom sessions we did and which was an interesting time but we actually it was a great creative time as well so a lot of songwriting was being done and yeah the song's kind of it's kind of about like a friendship breakup that sort of thing so I kind of took my anger out in it and so all right all she will listen take the headphones off there and get yourself ready there's an old panic we're going to hear our sheen sing arcade shortly but here's another track from him so she whenever you're ready which is obvious say what you want but I'm here for you you say I'm on silent on speaking never find you in between and don't think I forgot about the things you promise me I put it all waiting to happen maybe one day on and we're about to go down I can't make this up I live in a long town filling up your cup now sending all my love wish you luck when the going gets tough we're about to go down I guess all along I was dancing on my own never said you're leaving but you just left that's fine whatever makes you feel grown grown I'm a burden now this house is burning down I'm in the flames you won't try to put it out silent on speaking never find you in between and don't think I forgot about the things you promise me I put it all about to go never said you're leaving but you just make you feel never said you're leaving but you just let make you feel grown alright that's our sheen knee the first song is performing for us today and that is grown sheen a cracking sound again to that track where do you see yourself performing like what's your gig where do I see myself yeah like what would you be if you could say right this is the gig I want to do now would it be you and a piano a stage maybe an amphitheater lots of people sitting around a few candles you know what I mean like what if when you close your eyes what would your gig be I kind of envision myself like you know a few songs on the piano that strip back acoustic but I love kind of arranging stuff so ideally I would love a big band like a string section brass section you know a big kind of production I don't see myself like dancing around the stage as much I mean you're incredibly individual but you can I think I can pick out little influences here and there could you throw a couple of names at me a lot of influences I think yeah early on Adele has kind of walked me into the songwriting definitely so she's a big big inspiration and then just like so I could throw so many names around and it's how you structure the songs too there's different ways to structure songs I don't know really much about listening but is there a particular style that that last song grown is structured and it's almost like a continuation as opposed to you know a verse chorus verse chorus like is that a particular style of songwriting Arshine I couldn't even tell you it's just it's really kind of I just kind of go with the flow of songwriting with what I'm feeling and yeah sometimes there's you're kind of playing on a loop and you kind of have to play with the dynamics and stuff when when writing but yeah it's very kind of instinctual and yeah good all right that's you that's your individuality that's what makes Arshine the Arshine okay well it is time then to hear Arshine sing his track arcade as I say I'm loving the hearing the four finalists and that familiarity because you know it's so important to hear a song a couple of times sometimes you can get a song once but it's you know when you hear songs consistently this is why radio plays so important they become so familiar your song to me is as fresh in my head as Sam Smith's new track because I'm hearing both do you know that sort of way like you know what I mean it's simple as that it's about being exposed to it and listening to it all right then you can knock the headphones off there Arshine Goodman and he is gonna sing his track now this is the entry into the competition by the way this is the one we'll be asking you to vote on when lines open on Thursday and this is his track arcade and just when I thought I figured it like where I started untouched and unbroken hearted and I'm trying to make a sound life is moving way too fast and I just want to make it last but I can only watch behind the glass seeing all the fun they have I just want to understand but I can only watch behind the glass always trying to plan it's all too mad cause I'm right back where I started untouched and unbroken hearted and I'm trying to make a sound life is moving way too fast and I just want to make it last but I can only watch behind the glass well I just want to understand but I can only watch behind the glass can somebody come save me cause I'm sitting here can somebody come save me cause I want to start play life is moving way too fast and I just want to make it last but I can only watch behind the glass well I just do the best I can but I can find the way to pray alright sir that was the arcade and we'll tell you how you can vote for Oshin if he was your favourite Oshin well done, continued success thanks for getting involved and that was awesome alright well done to you alright good man thanks so very much indeed Oshin Nee there as I say we've got two more acts for you tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday then we'll open up the lines for you to pick your winner we'll be combined with an external judges scored and we will announce the winner then at the start of next week but as you've heard from our act yesterday and our act today we are have an abundance of just talent here there's just no doubt about it the Ninth All New show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today anyway last week I was in the house I'd done a crossword, watched a bit of Telly made about 40 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contract of employment for consultants will be introduced the new public only consultant contract Donegal Action for Cancer Care says the interpretation of 2022 cervical check statistics published yesterday mass what was a very positive story last year 7,331 women availed of cervical check just over 20% fewer than in 2021 however DACC say after assessing the figures further the reason for the drop is the fact that 2021 was an extremely busy year during which the service caught up on many appointments which were missed during the first lockdowns in 2020 Guardian are investigating a series of criminal damage incidents in the Creaslaw area, a sign for St. Columbus Church Creaslaw was first damaged in September of last year more recently a sign for the church in Carrigart was destroyed on February 10 introducing free public transport would lead to an increased level of unnecessary trips according to the transport minister Eamon Ryan told people before Prophet Spreed Smith in a parliamentary question that it ultimately would not substantially boost the sustainability of the transport system and Guardian are appealing for information after a car window was smashed on Sunday a man had parked his car on church row between 12.00 and 1.00 upon returning to the vehicle the man discovered a window had been smashed those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12.00 thank you very much it's not just that Sarah can't rely on the rains to come this year it's not just that the only water left could cost her her life it's not just that she has seen all the crops destroyed and she is struggling to feed her little boy like thousands of parents living in regions devastated by drought Sarah is living in fear and it's not just this lends your health can make all the difference visit trocra.org or call 1-800-408-408 trocra together for a just world very shortly we'll have our latest edition of talking history with Dr Joe Kelly and we're going to take a look back at the drum boat martyrs and get an overview of what life was like at that time and what all was going on and it's interesting it's going to be interesting so stay tuned for that that's coming up for you shortly if you want to get involved in that conversation too of course I'll wait 60, 25,000 Joe will be joining us on video as well if you wish to watch that a bad day for renters says this listener who will be homeless after the end of the eviction ban it's clear this government is on the side of the landlord by the way what's happening regarding Mike at present well we're going to be looking at that again very very shortly we're in between the announcement of new rebuild costs which were published we're waiting for the scheme the new enhanced scheme to actually be available to people there are some people still working through it I think it's a bit of a standstill at the moment and we're just waiting for we're just waiting for a next the next development in the story can you ask the Guardian what's the story on Ukrainian cars that are here over a year are they insured can't be legal as they're only allowed three months when taking car in from the UK or are you's not allowed to talk about it seriously talk about anything here and I've talked about it before I don't want to be defensive but you know I'm not going to be silenced on anything really we'll talk about whatever there is no one's trying to no one has ever tried to we've asked this question before both of the Guardian and the insurance Federation and apparently an arrangement has been put in place between Ireland and Ukraine whereas the Ukraine insurance policies cover them here so that's the answer to that question I'm not sure if it satisfies you or not but that is what we were told when we asked the question that there is an arrangement between the Ukraine and Ireland in that regard hi Greg just off the phone to start mortgages up to October last year was paying 524 euro a month that was their monthly pay 524 November it went up to 724 a month January 924 and February 1025 now they tell me in March my mortgage is going up to 1144 euro did they not offer you an opportunity to fix after the first increase if so where but this call wants to know what's going on Venture funds or Vulture funds known to start mortgages that's what they're describing them as bought permanent mortgages I'm on a tracker and they've not put me off it I have this house rented I can't pull up the rent a second time these people are struggling to pay the rent the way it is are our government standing back doing nothing this is a serious issue Greg thanks someone which listen to go from 524 a month to 1144 a month that's a huge huge increase okay is there an this is a question a there's one thing just I hear in terms of the conversation about people who are renting properties and this is no reflection or commentary on our last call there but there does seem to be an expectation I've never been in this position before that there should be no mortgage to be paid by the homeowner that's all the mortgage should be paid by the homeowner I just heard a few people talking about this nationally and they were talking about how well a couple of years ago the rent on the property paid the mortgage now the rent doesn't cover the mortgage is there not can we expect that a renter covers all of the mortgage of a property is there not it is an investment it is a it is something that you're going to be able to liquidate at some point and make money off I presume is there an unfair expectation and this is just a question it's not something I really know the answer to is there an unfair expectation from people with a second property for all of the bills on that property in terms of mortgage to be met by someone that they're renting it to because it is their investment it's not the investment of the renter but I just as I was listening to a voxpops and a couple of interviews on a national station and it felt to me like that the and maybe it is the expectation that there should be no outlay other building to the building's owner that the renter should cover it all is that part of a psyche is that the way it should be shouldn't be a wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's apps and texts little in letter Kenny on the port road allow use of the toilet the one next to letter Kenny business park they don't allow with a strict no so I don't know what the ins and outs of that is the end of the eviction ban is another indicator of how out of touch the current government of Fina for Fina gala in the greens are they I think it is a good idea to be on the side of the landlord is it any wonder how many of the tds have numerous houses in rental or lots of TV tds from all different political backgrounds seem to have an interest in the property market I travel the a five from striband to Newtown Newtown Street every day and it's one of the most dangerous roads to be on not because of the state of the road but because of the driver's on it drivers taking ridiculous risks and everyone is in a hurry people going to realize it's better to be ten minutes late than to never arrive I appreciate your comments on that County Donagall has the scenery but where is the infrastructure our county has been neglected for years believes the listener here another good morning I don't know if people have the same problem as I did I bought 20 bags of smokeless fuel as he told me you can't get coal we had very bad heat in the house and I rang my plumber to check my heating system he told me it is the smokeless fuel and a lot of people are on to him about the same problem thanks to aiming Ryan he's costing people more money and no great heat in houses I will just get my coal in the north of Ireland doesn't need heat in my house as I have a disability we'll look at that coal the nuggets I presume is that what you're talking of for me I have an open fire the fire is really for the glow I don't have a back boiler I find them really hard to light sometimes they fire up sometimes they don't maybe it's to do with the wind direction I have a clue often you wake up in the morning and the heat is there but there wasn't much during the evening as I say I'm not speaking of all the products that's just my experience it's not fantastic it's not fantastic it's not great compared to tariff wood or the other old dirty coal as it used to be known or as it is known could Greg please say a huge thank you to all at the colonoscopy clinic in letter Kenny hospital I had an appointment there yesterday and from the moment I walked in from reception through to every person I dealt with there the care was absolutely A1 they are so kind fun chatty and managed to dispel any fears I had about the process which actually turned out to be seamless and totally pain free so a big thank you to everyone in the colonoscopy clinic and more than happy by the way to platform positive stories get them into us as I say you have to call out when there's problems but you have to praise it when the praise is there too good morning Greg I have no Vodafone coverage in the Movil area anyone know what's going on is the transmitter down in the Movil area I know there was some problem with air at the weekend and the piggyback the likes of GOMO and others I hadn't heard anything about Vodafone but anyone else in the Movil area having issues good morning Greg could you imagine renting a house to someone and not being paid rent for years and you couldn't even evict them the law was on their side how did that make sense shouldn't the mica people get a mortgage ban until their houses are fixed I thought a no fault eviction was it was a no fault eviction ban if someone was not paying rent I don't think the ban extended to them did it 0866 to 25000 let me know right okay I have a receipt here from something I'm not sure if I have the okay we'll get back to that okay no problem I think it must be for a 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They were the only executions that occurred in Donegal throughout the Civil War, and we're gonna talk about that today. But before we get to that, let's set the scene, the national scene at that time, or, well, we'll start off with what was the situation in the country and the lead up to the Civil War. I mean, we've touched on some of this, I suppose, in the past, Joe, but no harm returning to it. And as I say, setting the scene so we can paint the picture of the time in our minds. Well, I mean, that's a very good question because then we end up getting into the Civil War and what caused it was basically the treaty. The English government, Lloyd George, and Churchill in particular, were giving us a 26-county Ireland dominion status. It wasn't a republic. This 1918 election that was fought by Sinn Fein was, if you want a republic, vote for Sinn Fein. And so this created a controversy and a difficulty for the manhood and womanhood of Ireland. Which side now, were they gonna come down and were they gonna accept this treaty or not accept the treaty? They had a vote in the dial for if the Donegal TDs voted for the treaty, actually. Joseph McGinley, Patrick McGoldrick, Joe Sweeney, and Peter Joseph Ward voted for it. And there was two from Donegal, two TDs, Joseph O'Doherty and Samuel O'Flaherty who voted against it. So that was replicated throughout the length and breadth of Ireland, people taking different sides. The vote went ahead, there was 13 days of a debate from the 7th of December, right into January 1922. And the treaty, the pro-treaty side, led by Collins, won the vote anyway, the dial vote 64. So, Joe, what were, when, who, how did it come down to each side? Like, what was, if I were pro-treaty, what was I feeling? What was being given away or sold out, or who was I most sort of aligned with in ideology? And then maybe give us an insight into the flip side of that, those that would have thought this was a good idea. Well, you see, the first thing I need to say from the outset is when talking history as we are, Greg, we have to try to understand not from today's perspective because there's so much historical information and documents, even in the last 10 years that have become available, that would change our minds on the realities of what happened back then. So we have to go back to how we saw it as opposed to... Yeah, but if I was accepting the treaty, what I'm trying to get at was, would I be thinking, this is the best we could do? Half a loaf is better than no bread of tall. Well, that would have been the discussion I would have been having with someone who said, look, we've given so much, we need to hold out and get all of our country back. Yeah, well, so the pro-treaty side led by Collins. Collins knew that he didn't have the men nor the arms to take on the British army. They were told, if you don't accept this within three days, I'm gonna, you're gonna have a terrible war. That was the threat. And Collins said, look, this is not freedom, but it's freedom to achieve freedom. It's a stepping stone. And it was genuine in that respect because we maybe get a chance to talk about the Northern offensive. The treaty didn't affect the six counties. So the fighting continued there and Collins supplied arms and men from the South went up to fight to continue. So in that sense, he meant what he said, we'll take the 26, and he did fight for the other six while he was alive. Now, the anti-treaty side would have been seen as the de Valera side, saying, no, this is not what we want. We want a republic. We want to be sovereign in our own understanding and having our own destinies in our own hands. And this is where it fell down. The reality was in historical documents of recent have shown that the British government were never ever going to let Republican government succeed if they had come to power. It was seen, you can see now in the memos that Churchill had sent at the time that they were going to go to the six counties and back in India and in Dead Ireland. That was their plan. They were not gonna accept the Republican government. Yet the Republican said, well, we didn't go and fight for a war of independence. We haven't fought things for all these years to accept a divided Ireland. Now, the problem is this, and this is where we come into the Dumbledore martyrs later and other questions. What does it mean to be a Republican? And for most of the Republicans, I would think that fought in the civil war, their understanding of Republicanism was a separatism that they were separate from England. They were soldiers primarily. And then when Ireland would have its own sovereignty, it was up to the people of Ireland then to decide the nature of that Republic because there were different opinions. So one side of political parties and another side of political parties trying to claim Republicanism, it was never defined. And Carl Ackerman did an interview with Michael Collins in 1920 and he just asked them out straight, you know, what do you mean for about a Republican? Collins said, it's never been defined. And I would even argue to this day as a nation, we've never defined what it is when we say I'm a Republican. I mean, Trump is a Republican, but he's not in the deal with the Irish Republicanism, but his ideology is Republicanism. So there's so many different, defined Republican, 65 different ways. So look, this led to a controversy and basically the English were not going to accept a Republican government in Ireland, weren't going to accept it. And what exasperated the situation- Well, let me ask you that before you go on to that, though, we don't know what we never defined it. What did the British define as a Republic? Where it would be so, and then without the King and without the British government and not under Dominion status. Just as simple as that. Their understanding of Britannia rules the wave and basically their arrogance as to the empire and they still have that arrogance. I mean, they've made Northern Ireland to a political football for the last 100 years, but look, we maybe get chatting about that again. Well, you talked about sort of the national overview, right? In terms of politics, those that were in the dull, the majority were pro-treaty. But how did that, in terms of numbers, no? Was it not four to two? Yeah, yeah, second, fourth, fifth. Yeah, so how did that play out on the ground then? Was it geographical differences? Was it differences within villages? What was life in Donegal like on such a decisive issue? Divisive issue? Brilliant. You see, again, it was down to the personal opinions of the TDs that were there. It's interesting that all the female TDs in that government voted against the treaty. It's interesting that the Come and the Man had a conference in, I think it was about March 1922 and off the 500 plus delegates, 86% voted down the treaty. And it's interesting as well, some research has been done on the 576 veterans that survived the GPO in 1916. They were asked what side they were on and 41% of those didn't take one side or another. So it's not that clear cut, does that make sense? Yeah, 100%. And I think almost we're actually, we're almost moving into that space now on various issues whereby a lot of stuff is 50-50 uncertainty, very strong views on one side and another indifference in the middle. And maybe it's back to the past now. Can we talk a little bit about the Northern Offensive? You mentioned the Northern Offensive. What is, define that for us? Okay, just to give you the back-winter Northern Offensive, basically the anti-treaty had taken up in the Four Courts, that was their headquarters. And the colonists didn't want a civil war. Devalier didn't want a civil war. And so he tried to work two ways. He tried to make a coalition with the anti-treaty side and say, look, we'll fight an election on separate views, but we'll come back together. And what we'll do is we'll keep fighting for the North. And then this way, Collins was hoping that he would appease the anti-treaty side. And so what he did was he negotiated with the anti-treaty side and about 600 to 700 men. And among those was Charlie Daly, who was sent to Tyrone and Derry to continue the Northern Offensive, as he called it. And he supplied them with guns. And what he said was, I can't give you the guns I'm getting from the British government now to fight you. So you use your guns. And I give you some of the guns that we're getting to replace the ones that you're gonna take up to the North. So he was working with them. And I mean, he was genuinely about what he said, we'll take the 26 and we'll fight for the other six. So what happened then was Wilson, he was an MP, considered probably one of the four men that brought an end to World War I. He was a man from Longford and he became then a Unionist MP, but he was in the Army, Henry Wilson. And he was shot dead in London on the 22nd of June 1922. And basically Churchill in the British government said, right, that's enough. Collins, you better get those men out of the forecourt. Those anti-treaty men were not tolerating anymore this anti-treaty business in your country. And if you don't sort them out, we're going to send in. And at this stage, England, the English had still about 6,000, 6,500 men still in Dublin. And they said, we are going to attack the four courts if you're not going to do it. So look, that then spilled out into the beginning of the Civil War. And it comes then back to Donegal. But the problem was the Northern offensive was still ongoing while the Civil War started. And people like Charlie Daley, Enright Larkin and Sullivan and Shanley Lahan and others, about 6,700 from the Southern brigades from Kerry Corp had come to Donegal to Terrone, to Derry, to Firmana. And here now they're confusing, what's going on here? Are we continued to fight here for the Northern offensive? Or are we in now in a Civil War situation? And how is the Free State Army in Donegal going to deal with us? So that then led to a lot of confusion. And Joe Sweeney was appointed the officer and command of Donegal for the Free State. And Shanley Lahan then became the top man, the commander for the anti-treaty side. And one could say that the last fight of the War of Independence, which continued in the North, and the last time that the anti- and pro-treaty side worked together was in the Battle of Petticoe and Balik, the Northern Ireland government and soldiers were attacking into it. And if you look at Balik and you look at Petticoe, the bridge, there's a bridge, most of Petticoe's in the South, but they were claiming Petticoe. And it's the same with Balik, there's a bridge there as well, but most of that is in the North as it is today. And so there was a battle going on there, last to 13 days from the 22nd of May. What kind of a battle? What are we talking about? How many men, what kind of equipment are we talking? Well, so the anti-treaty and the pro-treaty were working together to push back the Northern B specials. And Churchill had sent over armored cars. It's over a shipload of men and armory to put in place that he was going to take on this anti-eblian, the anti-treaty side. He didn't realize that Collins' pro-treaty side was working with the anti-treaty side. In fact, Joe Collins or Joe Sweeney, who was the officer in command for the Free State, went to Petico during the battle. He was actually shot at. So Collins said, dumb, he said, look, I don't know what's going on. Must be the anti-treaty side, but all along he did know. And so what happened was basically there was a shootout and the English had about 1,500 soldiers. The forces that they used, the equipment that they used against 150 on the Irish side, I mean, they did very, very well. Unfortunately, three men were shot in the Battle of Petico. Three men were killed, IRA men, flood McKinney and Cairney, and there's a statue there in Petico to commemorate them. But the English Army secured Belique, and it was clear from that that they were not going to relinquish their control of the six counties. They would support it in every way possible. And if the Republicans were to succeed in the Civil War, their plan was to go back into Ireland and they were going to use the north as a way to come down back in. And they had a plan to go from Derry to Bondurin almost immediately and then move out from that side into the south that way and then move down to Drahada. So that was their plan. So the Civil War then breaks out. The men here in Donegal don't know what's going on. What are we going to do? So they had a meeting. Shan the Han, who was the head of the anti-treaty side and Joe Sweeney, they met in Drombol. And basically Joe Sweeney said, look, I'm the official army here. You're not, you're an imposter. Out you get, and I treat you as an enemy if you don't move back. And this is it. I have a job to do and I'll follow my orders. And Charlie Daly was at that meeting as well. And he was saying, look, we don't want to be fighting with you. This is not our issue. Our issue is the six counties. And he said, I'd rather die at the hands of fighting in the north at the be specials than at the hands of our own fellow Irish men. So Charlie Daly very quickly realized where this was heading. And so basically that then led to the two sides hardening here in Donegal, the pro and anti-treaty sides. Hardening against each other? Hardening against each other? Yeah, absolutely. And a lot of misunderstanding, unfortunately. And where would they locate? So was there a HQ for pro-treaty, a HQ for anti-treaty in Donegal then as such? Because I just wonder, everything that we live and experience now is in some way rooted in the past, whether we realize it or not. So were there like HQs as such or parts of the county with concentrations of anti-in-pro? Yeah, well, there were. See, right away when the Civil War started, Joe Sweeney almost immediately captured a large sway from, say, Bondor and right up into any show on that whole eastern side of Donegal. Now, the Republicans were still there. For example, the two forces were encamped in Rafoe, one end of the town and one on the other. And they had an understanding that they wouldn't shoot each other. But the main headquarters for the Free State Army was in Drombeau, you see? And they were about, the Free State Army were not 100% sure, but they had at least 3,000 to 4,000 men. The Republicans at an estimate maybe had 3,400 men. So economy of scale, it wasn't going to ever happen that the Republican side were going to do one in Donegal, but they continued what their ideology and continued to fight. And there was a number of skirmishes. So for example, there was a skirmish. They were robbing the Belfast Bank in Von Cranagh on July. And unfortunately, there was two young girls killed in the crossfire. One was nine, and one was 18 and very sad. But the Republicans were robbing the Belfast Bank for money, if that makes sense, and to facilitate their own survival. For the war chest. Yeah, war chest. And this then, the Free State Army said, well, this isn't happening anymore in Donegal. We can't have this. So immediately, some extra men were sent from Drombo to heading towards Von Cranagh to control that area. And on their way, they went into Newton, Newton Cunningham. And the IRA had withdrawn from Von Cranagh into that area. And Charlie Daly had come back over from the border. He was in Tyrone the previous day. And there was a shootout there. And there was four Free State shoulders shot there. Now, Charlie Daly and others would say, look, it wasn't us that started this. It wasn't our battle. And they'll claim that it was more an accident more than anything else. And that was the Free State shooting at them and them shooting at the Free State. But the Free State had to leave. But just to be clear, there's people from Donegal on both sides. Absolutely. So there are, theoretically, there are people from Donegal, this is only 100 years ago, there are people from Donegal of a particular viewpoint that are turning their guns or would be prepared to unfellow Donegal people with a different attitude. Absolutely. And that's the sadness of it. For example, in the Free State that day in Newton Cunningham, John McGinney from my own area from God of Hark was killed. There was Eddie Gallagher from Burton Port, Adan McGill from Mardra, and then there was Edward Murray from Science Mill. So three of those four men that were shot in that shootout between the Republicans and the Free State were from Donegal. And so what happened was that Joe Sweeney in the army had the power, had the machine guns, had the armaments. And basically, they rooted them out of rifle. And eventually, then, the Republicans had to go in the run, so to speak, in withdrawal. And they came back into Glen Bay Castle. And that became their headquarters and were able to fortify that. And from that, then, there was a raid on Drum King. There was a Drum King ambush. Well, can we get to that? I tell you, I have to. We'll pick it up from there if that's OK, Joe. Because I don't want to. If you've got the time, I want to sort of. We're getting up now, really, to the crux of the conversation. But I do have to take a break. So stay with us more from Joe after these. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at highlandradio.com. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transfer directly to your current account. New this week in home store and more. All Pyrex is all half price. But better hurry, because when all the half price Pyrex is gone, it's gone. Also, all toilet seats and all mirrors and clocks are all still half price. 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They knew that the three state army were moving men from letter Kenny to drumbo, drumbo being the headquarters. Charlie Dilly decided to have an ambush. There was a car going ahead and a three state army car going ahead and then the lorry with the men coming behind, they held up the car, but the car carried on speeding. They shot at the car and one man died immediately and the driver died subsequently and two others in that car were injured. They actually captured them, but released them later on from Glendale to get medical attention. So two people died again there, two soldiers, three state soldiers. And at this stage, Joe Sweeney was saying, look, we're going to have to squeeze this a lot harder now and push them totally out of the county. And so they realized, the Republicans realized that their net was getting closer and it was getting smaller for them. So they abandoned Glendale and went on the run and they moved more or less into Northwest Dunnegal and took the Honeyly Inga door and that was the area they were in. And so by September, October, the three state army had more or less captured the most off Dunnegal. And there were certain raids and the Republicans were still carrying out certain raids and things, but for the most part, if you look at the army reports, the three state were in control of most of the county at that stage. And so that brings us then to the last of the columns survival that they were staying in God of Hark. They'd been spotted some weeks earlier in and around that area. There was constant raids and these men were getting exhausted. Daley, Enright, Sullivan, and there were also Dunneley men and Dunnegal, Frank Ward was with them and Dan Coyle from Glendale leaves with them. So there was a number of them there and then for example, rated the co-op in Ghidor so the three state army knew that they were in that area. And then one of the men in Glendale was seen talking to them about a week before they were captured. He was arrested and interrogated to find out where they were. So they were staying in God of Hark the night before they were captured. And would they have been housed by people, safe houses, people sympathetic to their point of views? So do we have any knowledge of their movements where they were moving from and what kind of places they were staying and what their lives were like during that period of time? Well, there were a lot of good Republican families in Clare Neely and some of them are still there. The cannons in McLaughlin's, they were staying there. The O'Donnells, they were staying in different, the McGee's, they were staying in different houses. And there was two buildings just at the edge of God of Hark, one was Barracks One and Barracks Two. One of the houses is still there, Sheila New-Googan's house. And they stayed there from time to time. And I mean, I've recorded a number of people from that time, all dead now, believe it or not. But they're telling me that, for example, they would make meetings for them. But once they would come into the house, the light would have to go out. And somebody there would be unguarded outside. And so on occasions, I had to escape out the back door and different things like that were happening. But the army were getting intelligent information, basically, that these men were in the Clohony Ligador area. And so, therefore, they were on high alert for that. And so what happened was, they stayed in Sheila New-Googan's house in God of Hark and Father O'Donnell's house in God of Hark, just on the way into God of Hark, on the night prior to their capture. And they then were taken up in the afternoon to head towards Dunne-Louis. And the plan was to take them to Fentown. Now, at the same time, the hand shan the hand who was the commander of the anti-treaty forces in Dunne-Gaul, he wasn't in Dunne-Gaul, he was in Dublin, had sent a message to Charlie, that, you know, Dunne-Gaul's funny is to get out. Unfortunately, the man carrying the dispatch, a man from Carriagart, got sick. And so the dispatch never got to God of Hark. And some would believe that they were spied upon and informed them as they were going up to Cachna Gaul and heading up and towards Dunne-Louis, the back way into Dunne-Louis from God of Hark, if anybody's familiar with that part of the terrain. And basically informed the Free State Army that these men were heading towards Dunne-Louis. And Charlie Daley and them were there, himself and his comrades were there, in Dunne-Louis in two different houses in Sharkey's house in Dublin. And the Free State Army led by Captain McBrarty and his men surrounded the houses. And Daley had said, look, we were exhausted. There was a quarter past seven in the evening, we were exhausted and they didn't put up a sentry or anything like that because they were just too tired. And they were hardly in bed at 7.15 when they were just captured. And that was in November 1922. So they were taken into Fulcara barracks and from that then out to Drum Bull. And what were they charged with? Well, funnily enough, the court case didn't happen until about two months later. And on the 18th of January, now there was Daley and Enright and the Sullivan and the Han and Larkin, but there was also Joseph Donahee from Limevady, Dan Coyle from Fulcara and Frank Ward from Dunne-Louis. They were all captured. And there was a military court held, now this is November when they were captured, January the 18th of January, 1923, was when the military court was held and they were charged for being in possession of armaments and guns, which was according to the new regulations of the, and we maybe talk about that, the new regulations that were imposed by the Free State was that if you were caught with the legal arms, then the death sentence would be passed on you. So the death sentence was passed on them in January, but it wasn't acted upon right away, if that makes sense. And would a decision have to have been made as to what the right thing was to do next? In other words, what could be the consequence of their execution? In other words, could it be, obviously there was a wanted to send a message, would it be counterintuitive that it could actually end up sort of, rallying the troops, let me put it like that? Well, see, the thing is that the way it worked was that the government, Michael Collins did not want to execute anybody and while he was still there, he wouldn't allow that to happen. He died on August 22nd, 1922, but within a month, weeks, sorry, and weeks of him dying, a law was passed, Special Powers Act was passed, which allowed for the death sentence and executions by the Free State. And they realized very quickly that they executed four in Dublin that it wasn't having an effect on the rest of the country. So they delegated the responsibility and in January 1923, each of the local commanders of the Free State and each of the respective counties had the authority to set up a tribunal and to pass judgment for execution. So in essence, Joe Field had been mandated that authority from headquarters in Dublin because they didn't want it to be an execution always based in Dublin. They wanted to take the executions back into each county to deter republican activity. And this basically what they were saying was, these men will be executed if you continue to shoot at us or continue to fight in this civil war. And should something happen to one of us, then these men that are on death row, so to speak, that have been, death sentence has been passed on them, will be taken out. Hence the martyrs then, of course. Can I ask, because I could do another two hours on this. I'm just curious, what was the view of the clergy at that time? Because, you know, presumably the local bishop, he would have been above people of all different points of view, maybe trying to find some sort of, like, did the church intervene at all or attempt to or? Yeah, well, the church would always go with the status quo. That would have been the understanding. That's the history of the Catholic church in that respect. And they came out with a pastor letter in November 1922, basically saying that to shoot, that the anti-treaty were committing murder because they were attacking the legitimate government of Ireland. And actually the Vatican wasn't too happy and the Pope wasn't too happy with the stance the bishops had taken with regards to this, believe it or believe it not. They didn't think that they were right in that view to make a judgment of that nature. And so many of the Republicans were, so to speak, ex-communicated, even though as we'd seen it around, they obviously dissacred them before they were executed and these were very Catholic and good men in that respect with regards to their faith. So, talk to us then about the day of their execution and how that unfolded and where. Well, basically what happened was in Cresla, the Cresla Fair Day, there was a shooting. And what happened basically, that was on the 10th of March, 1923, a Captain Bernard Canning from Litchermake Award who was in the barracks. A number of men had been drunk and had been arrested and there was a shootout in which he went to the front door and he was killed, followed into the heart, killed on the inside of the door. And the Republicans were blamed, the anti-treaty side were blamed for this. Now my research would lead me to believe that it had nothing to do with Republicanism. It was some men in Cresla that had guns and weren't too happy that some people had been arrested that they'd been out drinking with. And there's various different historical opinions on that. But Patrick O'Donnell made it very clear he was high up in the IRA command at that time that this was not a planned attack by the Republicans. So are you saying that the drumbo-mortars then were killed under false pretenses? Well, I mean, I would argue that all the 77 that were executed was unconstitutional. And in fairness to Leo Veradker, I mean, he's broached that as well. Certainly the first four were unconstitutional. Michael Martin in recent times has also called, you call murder, murder. Personally, and this is maybe my own perspective and maybe understanding it from a historical point of view, these were tribunals that were, court marches that were tried out, tried and carried out by the army. And I don't believe due process was followed. The problem we have now is that when De Valeric came to power in 1932, the government that preceded him, the free state initial government burned all the records of the tribunals, the military tribunals, knowing that if they were there, there would be serious questions asked and finger pointing with regards to the validity of these executions. So how were the, and when I asked about false pretenses, I didn't mean in the wider scale of things and in the constitutional context, I mean, off the back of that incident in Creceler, just in case anyone believes I was saying something differently. So what, they were executed, was it a public? How was that conducted? And then what happened to the remains afterwards? Well, what happened basically last there, when then within hours of Captain Cannon's message going to headquarters, Mulcahy, then in the headquarters in Dublin, he was the commander in chief, sent a message to Joe Sweeney, execute four men. And Joe Sweeney says, what, execute four men, send back a message, can you confirm this? And Joe Sweeney didn't want to do this. He knew these men, he knew Charlie Daley, he went to college with them or school with them. And no, the order was confirmed. Bishop O'Donnell tried to get on to Mulcahy as well and phone calls were made. Again, Mulcahy was having none of it. The orders were orders, these men were to be executed. And so Joe Sweeney had to organize their execution. Now, there's a lot of debate about Joe Sweeney. You know, he could have stopped them. He was a man in charge, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, that's very controversial. And look, there's families either side of the civil war, you know, the pro and anti sides. Well, one has to be very, very careful. But they were told just the evening before they were executed on the 13th of March at four o'clock in the evening that they would be executed the following morning. They didn't know at this stage that they were going to be taken out and executed. And so they were taken out the following morning into Drumbo Woods. And the four of them were similarly executed, believed to be by men that were former British Army officers. And actually Joe Sweeney left Drumbo that day not to be there for the shooting. So he didn't actually oversee it. And they were buried there. And then in Drumbo, their bodies were exhumed in 1924, but August, September, 1924, taken to Athelon Barracks and then given back to the families where they were later buried. And as we know, they're in Drumbo at the moment. There's a Celtic Cross was buried there where they were executed in 1955. And another one then on Sturnauer, or just on the street there in Sturnauer, there was one lovely cross erected there in 1958 as well. So that's just to commemorate the men that Drumbo martyrs. That's a sad part of our history. And even reading their last letters is very, very emotional. And I mean, you've got some amazing, you talk of recordings with people with whom they stayed. And this is history, but it's recent history. Finally, what is their political legacy then? Where does it all fit in? Because I mean, what we've learned from this conversation and previous ones is the complexity of it. The enemy of the enemy is my friend and into fighting and pushes and pulls for power and what have you. But the Drumbo martyrs, what was their ideology? What's their legacy in a minute or two, if you don't mind, Joe? But fundamentally, as regards their politics, we don't really know. But what we do know is regards their ideology. They were separatists. They wanted us to be independent from England. They wanted us to have our own sovereignty and to then let the people of Ireland decide what kind of Ireland that would be. And if we could only go back, and we have two parties now in government that were anti and pro treaty either side, if we could nearly go back to where we were before the Civil War and say, look, what are we about here? We're on about a United Ireland. United Ireland is going to happen. The question is, when is it going to happen? And how is it going to happen? And what we need here is to honour those men and both sides, both pro and anti treaty. And I think Neil T. Blaney has always been right in this. There has to be a declaration of intent to withdraw, and that's what they did with Hong Kong. That's what they need to do with Northern Ireland. And then we need to start working at helping the English to leave and the English helping us to do more and work at that. And I think that's their legacy. Their legacy is that the vision of an Ireland for everybody. And it's very interesting when they went into, for example, the houses of Newton Cunningham. One white man was very positive towards these Southerners and how they were not bigoted and anti-religious in any way. And then that was very much part of their ideology, too. All right, OK, we could easily do two or three hours on this subject. We really appreciate it in all of them. Dr Joe Kelly, we really appreciate your time. Thanks so very much indeed. Have a wonderful day. We do appreciate it. OK. We're going to be talking about the St Mary's GEA club. Their omissible draw. 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Yeah, well, our pitch was constructed in 2004, but over the next 18, 19 years, when the build, when worm casting and the build up attached, it started to hold water and we decided last year to do something about it. So, company in Bunkrano Pitch Dimensions on the William Coil took 50 mil off the top of the pitch and put on 10 mil of sand. This was seeded and it's been a third laser program now under the guidance of a company ACL fronted by Coleman Ward. And hopefully the pitch, weather permitting and favorable conditions will be back on our pitch in the end of April, early May and no water laying on it and be able to play every day except if there's a couple of foot of snow. Yeah, okay. Thankfully, that doesn't happen to us. No, that was phase one. Phase two is the construction of two large dressing rooms, fully-forbished with a multi-purpose room overhead. Now, this is costing a fair bit of money, so the club decided to have a development draw. But this is a huge investment, not just in the club, but in the community and the future of it. Oh, yeah. Our, we service the parish of our foe, which is our foe, Convay and Drunkine. Now, as well as that, we play games and we're playing against all teams from all over Donegal. And we are centrally located and we do get a lot of underage finals and important games because of where we are. Now, this is, it's described here as an unmissable draw. Let me put the word mega in there. This is huge, isn't it? 50K? Well, 50K is right. 50K on Paddy's Day is what we're calling the draw. So it's only 10 days away and in 10 days time, somebody will have 50,000 euro in their bank account. There's also five prizes of 1,000 euro as well. Yes, five prizes of 1,000 euro as well, which have been sponsored by people, thankfully for that part, but the 50 we have to take from the draw funds. So we decided to go for a limited draw. There are only 4,995 tickets in the draw. And at this moment in time, we have about 60% of them sold. Brilliant. So we're hoping now in the last 10 days, there'll be a big push and they can be purchased at St Mary's GAA draw.ie. Now, you know, people, a lot of people do online competitions now, right? And the odds are astronomical. This is fixed, this is a fixed amount here. Fixed amount. 4,995. So, you know, even just for the top prize, that's less than a one in 5,000 chance, but there's other prizes, five 1,000 euro prizes, other prizes on offer too, between now and the 17th of March. Have you done the bonus draws? We have. We've done the early board draws. Right, so there have been dons that people have been walking around with 500 euro in their pockets off the back of those. But the big one, the big one, people have a week to get into. Bar the show, isn't it? It's not far off a win. Yeah, 10 days, 10 days, Greg. And the odds, compared to what people are paying quite a lot of money for, the odds are actually really favourable on this. Whoever wins this will have the equivalent of 9,961 euro a week in their bank account for the next 12 months. And a lot of people to get 50 grand have to earn 90. Yes. This is a, you know. So like 50 grand, 50,000 euro is still a fair amount of money. Now, I mean... Well, if you've got 50 in your pocket, it's more than the fair amount of money. It's a pretty fair amount of money. I suppose... Oh, do cartwheels for it? I'd rather mention that the price of the tickets are 50 euro, I don't know if I said that. But 50 euro, 50 grand for 50 euro, 50K on Paddy's Day. And you can get your tickets at stmarysgaadraw.ie. It's as simple as that. And to help give it a push in the final week of this draw, I think we've got some tickets to give away in this show, so we'll do that next week. But listen, as I say, this is a limited entry draw, less than 5,000 people. There's 50 grand of a top prize up for grabs, five then 1,000 euro prizes. And all in the process, you're helping to raise Mons funds to continue the redevelopment work at St. Mary's GA Club. We've really nice, ambitious plans for the clubhouse there and to bring that club in terms of infrastructure right into the... What century are we in now? I haven't a clue, 21st century. I haven't a 21st century. 24th century, more than a year. All right, stmarysgadraw.ie, that's where you go. 50-year-old tickets, maybe presents, whatever you want to do. Yes. Just to gift someone, and as I say, limited ticket draw. And you hope for a big rush now. We hope for a big rush, as I said, we've just over 60% sold, 40% left. And we'd be delighted if we could get them shifted also. So as you've already said several times, they are 50K on Paddy's Day, 50-year-old tickets from marysgadraw.ie. Brilliant stuff. And all tickets are online, are they? Well, no, sorry. You can get hard copy tickets from committee members as well. We also have hard copy tickets on sale also. Excellent, so go on to St. Mary's GA Facebook page. I'm sure there's a lot of details there. Yes, Facebook and all Twitter and Instagram, all that, but online, they can be sourced easily enough. There you go. If you want to have a dabble, I mean, listen, the tickets aren't free either, but look at a lot of people are buying tickets for something that there's 30, 40, 50,000 people in for. This is a limited entry draw. Well done. Okay, Oliver, you did a great job there. Continued success at the club. Thank you. And continue the great work that's ongoing. And thanks so much for joining us. No problem. If you want more details, go to St. Mary's GA draw dot IE. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Back with you tomorrow morning at nine. The night or noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny.