 Why did you have to say that? I didn't know you just noticed it's not I noticed that from last week Do you know the summer over on sunday? Do you think? Back to school. Oh, we live in the moment. Keep it here. Keep it here today. I'm only joking. All right. They have a good day It's nine o'clock time for a new year's update. Good morning. Am I Ryan? Good morning, Greg. Thank you Gary and unigol have issued a warning over the one over a one ring scam Gary say they have received recent reports that miss calls are being received from a nine four prefix number The scam known as a one-ring scam involves a phone call, which rings only once Once a phone call returns a miss call, they will be rerouted to a premium rate number Overseas and will subsequently be billed extortionate rates for the privilege of listening to pre-recorded messages Gardier advising people to ignore the call and do not return it Rents and unigol have hit an all-time high after recording an increase of over 18.5% in the past year the latest staff.ie house price report shows average listed rent is now 881 euro up 82 percent from its lowest point with more. Here's Donna Marie Doherty In dunigol market rents were on average 18.5% higher in the second quarter of 2022 than a year previously There were 76 new home transactions in dunigol representing an increase of 19% from last year The average price of a home in dunigol in july 2022 is 199,757 euro an increase of 6.5% from the first quarter of the year and a yearly increase of 19.1% Rents in three ulster counties rose 16.7% year on year reflecting a lack of availability Just 26 homes were available to rent on august 1st prices nationally in the second quarter of 2022 were 9.5% higher than the same period the year before As temperatures are set to rise even further in some parts of the country in the coming days people are being warned of the potential dangers of swimming in open water They are also being advised not to be overconfident in the water and to know their own limits Roger Shweeney, Acting CAO of Water Safety Ireland has reiterated the dangers of swimming in the lakes seas and rivers and is urging people not to use inflatable toys Have you made sure that the kids don't bring inflatable toys to open water? They can be taken out by a rip current or by an offshore breeze and you yourself can get into difficulty if you try and retrieve them And have you made arrangements to make sure that any children that are going to the waterways are supervised and by supervision we mean close uninterrupted adult supervision To weather now today we'll be bright with warm with warm spells highest temperatures of 24 to 26 degrees That's all for now we'll be back with an update again at 10 o'clock but until then good morning The train calling at platform 3 is the 1959 service to Cork Calling at Charlville, Malo and Maria in seat 32A starts chemo next month We don't always know who's at risk from Covid-19 and other viruses but we do know how to protect them keep hands clean and wear a mask let fresh air in get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell from the HSC for us all The 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union student loans now available and free banking for students from your local and friendly credit union call 9102126 or email loans at letterkennycu.ie And now it's time for the talk of the North West the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio Hello good morning to you just turning four minutes past nine on this Wednesday it's the 10th of August 2022 and we're in the middle of another week they are flying in aren't they 08 660 25,000 WhatsApp some texts open to you on that number get in contact with us tell us your good news your positive stories as well by the way as raising any issues or concerns you may well have you can call Caroline and Donna Marie on the phone line 07491 25,000 they are literally waiting for your call email comments at highlandradio.com and join us on social media Highland Radio Ireland was streaming the show live on YouTube we're also on Facebook Highland Radio News and Sport and Highland Radio and on Twitter as well or you can just go to our website highlandradio.com and enjoy the show watch our guests there are many of them in browser there all right we've lots to get through including this morning's newspaper so let's crack on with the English Times Donegal County Council has been called on to provide safe crossing points on the road through Farn which has been described as a death trap due to the speed and quantity of traffic there are fears that the large number of young families who live in the area and the amount of traffic that comes through the village will lead to a tragedy Farn resident John Dean he said he's been raising the issue with local councillors for two years but they've been told the crossing points will be provided as part of the proposed greenway between Bunkranna and Derry and Mr Dean he was in contact with us as well a couple of days ago if you agree with him if you share his concerns get in touch with us 08 660 25,000 the Donegal Post Summer Sun it's accompanied by a picture of a young person jumping off cliffs looks like Bondoren is it while Met-Aaron while the wet Met-Aaron weather station at Finner Camp registered a high of 21 degrees at 3 p.m on Monday and again as of 3 p.m yesterday the temperatures in Donegal over the coming days will not reach the heights of other parts of the country Met-Aaron has said on Monday night it was still 16 degrees at midnight hitting its lowest at 6 a.m on Tuesday when 13 degrees was recorded Paul Dan's meteorologist with Met-Aaron said that it is possible that temperatures would rise in Donegal to 25 degrees on Friday with 24 in the southeast of the country by Thursday County sorry by Thursday and while coast larry's would be cooler he anticipated that this pleasant warm spell would be the longest that had been experienced in a while for Donegal I think we kind of probably feels like we had two half days of summer so far this year so it's good to see it but I mean comparing us and I understand why we do it comparing us to the rest of the country I mean even within the county the temperatures in letter Kenny yesterday were almost uncomfortable but you travel a little bit outside letter Kenny and towards the coast and you could almost argue that you need to stick a hoodie on so we have very big swings in temperatures within the county the Finn Valley voice this morning they cover the tragic death of a differed man in Greece tributes have poured in following the tragic death of Donegal football administrator and manager Martin Doffey Mr Doffey who was in his late 50s drowned while on a family holiday in Greece on Monday morning he was joint manager of the Donegal school boys league in 207 that team that competed in the Kennedy Cup and foil cup tournaments recently and the tributes continue for Mr Doffey in that paper today on to the nationals now and rent prices hit record levels of supply plunges to an all-time low the cost of renting has hit an all-time high with supply at its lowest level since records began rents rose by 12.6% in the three months to June when compared to the same period last year according to the latest daft.ie report now the one thing and i was uh supposing on this a little bit earlier on is the daft.ie website is that the absolute bible when it comes to rents like are all rental properties carried on the daft.ie website they say supplies at its lowest level since records began but they seem to be quoting the daft.ie report i am sure there's plenty of properties out there we have a great shortage of rental property by the way i'm not denying that we have more rental property than we do but what i'm saying is that it seems that the figures from a commercial website like daft.ie are the be all and end all in terms of the media coverage of it that is i presume that's one platform that makes houses available to rent but as i say it's published as if these are the official state statistics maybe they are maybe daft.ie compile from competitors as well i'm not sure but anyway we're witnessing the highest level of rental inflation since daft first started compiling the rental index 16 years ago the average monthly asking price hit 1618 due to a chronic shortage of supply small landlords leave the market in droves monthly rents in doblin up 12.7 percent to 2170 let's just go straight to donagall because that's what we're interested in isn't it the daft.ie's website rents in donagall have increased to 18 sorry increased by 18.5 percent and now stand at 881 euro per month and a glance across the country would suggest that outside of leitrim those are the lowest rents available we pay the lowest rents if you can get a rental property and this is only according to daft i'm not sure what's happening with private rentals or rentals through other websites but anyway in donagall the lowest rent outside of leitrim 881 euro per month but we're hearing students getting quoted that for rooms so i'm not sure how accurate it is that's to say that the information is being taken as the bible but we have been told by some students that they're being asked close to that for the rental of a single room so i don't know if that daft.ie report and it's not to discredit in any way shape or form but i'm just not really sure if it actually tells the full picture if you've if you want that 08 660 25 000 let's just say it's reported i think we carried the reports here but in the newspapers across news talk rt as if this is just the fact that if they say they've got 700 properties to rent that that's all that's available and is that the case let me know as i say we obviously are very very short and rental property there's just no doubt about that on to the irish times now government urged to act on plan for ukrainian refugees the government has yet to act on a proposal to convert vacant buildings into accommodation for ukrainian refugees on a non-profit basis which was made months ago by the housing commission and some of the largest builders in the state the commission established in 2020 under the coalition's program for government approached the department of housing in late march regarding the scheme it would see builders carry out some work on a pro bono basis with costs of conversion recuperable after being independently verified it was backed by property industry island the irish home builders association and irish institutional property now again with the best will in the world i'm not surprised this has happened because built you can't get a builder at the moment all people working in that industry seem incredibly busy and are they going to put to one side paid work for pro bono work even if they can recuperate at a later date i think in reality outside of the commitments that would be hard to do but commission chairman john o'connor said the proposal was an attempt to use existing buildings to provide medium term housing for ukrainian people fleeing the russian invasion in the country which began on january sorry february 24th any assessment or design services would be on a pro bono basis and the construction work controlled it was only the costs that should be paid he said but as i say i'm not terribly surprised to see that that hasn't progressed much if you're a whatsapp user you probably have found yourself in a group and i want your views on this you can whatsapp us we won't add you to a group i swear 08 660 25 000 but you know when you're in a group you've been added to a group and i'll get to my feelings on being added to groups in a moment but you quit it and everyone in it knows right so you're all added in uh greg quits the group and people go wondered what's up with him does he fallen out with someone what's going on what was said did i miss something you know it's ridiculous that in this day and age it can be a thing but it is a thing but what's that will now help you avoid those awkward goodbyes that come with quitting group chats the messaging app is to allow users to leave without notifying others and control who can see when they are online as part of a privacy update to the app as part of the update which is rolling out this month users will also be given the ability to block people from taking screenshots of uh view wants messages which are designed to disappear after being opened the screenshot blocking tool is currently being tested what's upset uh and would be released to users soon now the biggest problem i have with this is and it's not a problem because you know there's a lot of problems but just as a a distraction is being added to groups without your permission right why do they allow you to be added you it should say you know caroline tried to add you to this group do you want to accept or not you should at that point be able to say no or yes right being able to leave the group the damage has been done at that stage and also too if someone's organizing a birthday party or something they create this whatsapp group like with 30 or 40 people in it and uh you know instead of sending individual texts they say you know we're having a birthday party on such and such a date and we certainly don't send out invites anymore via the posters that's something we can't even hawk on about because it's so outdated i don't know but are you do you find being added to groups in annoyance on whatsapp and and what are your feelings about exiting them have you got a strategy for getting out of a whatsapp group especially you know with that flurry of conversation that can be in the first five minutes and then you know it all goes quite quiet and you want to slip out do you slip out in the middle of the night or do you not care what other people think tell us what you think i'll wait 60 25 000 but i think you've met a we're going to do anything they should not allow you to be added to a group without your permission anyway the Irish Daily Star sports organizations are set to see their funding cut unless at least 40 of their board members are women by next year the threat to the pockets of sport bodies unless they play ball has come direct from sports minister track chambers he said if they don't hit the targets by the end of 2023 then will be financial consequences mr chambers is taking action in the wake of a string of great sporting success for Irish sports women they include Kelly Harrington and Katie Taylor beating the world's best in boxing rings and Rachel Blackmore taking away the biggest prizes in racing over the past few years i noticed he was speaking on a radio station it's not quoted we get that all the time too for some reason you know people say something on this program and it's lifted and used elsewhere which is great but wouldn't harm just to mention the radio station i suppose but anyway people will do what they do um what do you think do you think sports organizations should have their money cut if there's not more women on their boards there's plenty of women working very actively and keeping a lot of these groups and organizations running i'm not sure if they're on the boards not clearly not but do you think that although they're trying to do something similar with boxing it's not about a gender quota but they threaten to cut funding but don't really do so in any meaningful way oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand we say it all the time in this program do not click a link in the text wherever you get the text from if it's purporting to be from the lotto a bank post office credit union you're going to be bombarded soon with messages from claiming to be from ptsb and from ulster bank it's perfect for scammers because there's two banks leaving and that means that they can exploit that to try and extort you out of the money and boy do they do it uh text message scams have cost victims on average seventeen hundred euro in the first half of this year figures from four fraud smart show now when it says average of 1700 could be five grand on one and you know ten or on another some people are getting hit huge 1700 euro is an awful lot of money well fraud smart uh is warning people to be aware of messages seemingly to be from your bank about some form of problem it says conman will likely target uh and con women i'm sure as well will likely target those changing accounts as ulster bank and kbc prepare to leave the irish market uh so please be aware and these messages will come into the same threads that you may ordinarily get from both of these banks um don't click a link because once you click the link the damage is on once you click the link it'll take you to a website that looks like ulster bank or kbc or the hsc the hsc scams are still going around if you don't click they never send you a link from a bank they'll ask you to text back yes or no perhaps but that would be the height of it right finally in the irish daily mirror i suppose this is good news for our high streets uh there's been a 17 fall in online spending reflecting a return to some pre-pandemic habits research has revealed the latest aib retail spend outlook report found the customers went back to significant spending on occasions and events in the second quarter of this year overall sales between april and june remain stable uh recording a modest one percent decline year on year the value of in-store sales saw an increase just five percent on last year compared with the decline of uh 17 percent in online purchases so people if they have a bit extra money they're they're spending it not just on shopping on other things as well but good to see in-store sales going up five percent there the report said the movement from online to in-store spending came at a time when many coronavirus restrictions in the retail sector were removed in mid-may allowing greater access to shops okay that was a run through today's newspapers our first guest joins us on the show after we take this quick break the newspapers our courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letterkenny the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in 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own experience tell us what you've noticed or what you think the issue is basically when we worked out the online system for pledging we pledged about mid april to take to have two rooms it took two months before the Red Cross there was a quick check from a call center and then it took two months before the Red Cross started the identity confirmation process it took two days to get through the guard the vetting and then nothing happened so after about a month I tried to contact the Red Cross email didn't work then I happened to be at the Miguel and some padcocks was an influential politician and he was chairing the sessions on the Ukraine I raised it with him he found somebody in the department with the initials D C E D I Y is the initials of the department I think we normally shorten it to the department of children whatever else it does and he found out after a week that our vetting was not recorded on the system so it took him another week and as of last Monday he sent us oh now you're on the system and the Red Cross will contact the county council to talk to you so that's three and a half months and what set me up to call you was essentially the contracts for the hotels just before we before we get to that because that's an important point the reality is as well too Liam if you hadn't been dogged on this if you hadn't chased it up you may you would never have been in the system at all you had to pursue this and I don't think as many people I don't think many people would be as motivated well I wouldn't if necessarily I mean I wouldn't know the ways through what department to ring what person to go on to what person to hassle knowing in reality that the Red Cross hasn't been given the resources the departments haven't been given the resources to deal with this but it was interesting that one of the excuses the given for not taking up pledges was that people weren't completing the guard the vetting it was very interesting when I saw that that the fellow comes back to me and say you're guard the vetting you didn't do your guard the vetting five weeks after the guard that had confirmed that I had done it yeah now I was listening to a spokesperson and I will get to your your wider point in a moment but listening to a spokesperson from the Red Cross they rejected any notion that they were under resources they says they've got 50 plus workers working on this and it's no problem whatsoever they claimed that the problem is is that they can't get everyone in the house at the same time for a zoom call to confirm the identities and that you'd be familiar with the fact that you have to fill out a form within 30 days and people aren't filling it out within 30 days so the Red Cross really very much put it on to the likes of yourself for not making everyone in the house available for a zoom call and also not returning the forms in a timely fashion but obviously your experience uh does not uh does not you know agree with that this is consistent this is consistent throughout the whole story that they're telling us stories that are simply not true it's unfortunate who and why they're doing that is an open question but it took almost the two months before they offered us an appointment of a zoom call and we took almost one of the earliest options for a zoom call and we had in an evening and the the Red Cross have to get people to work in an evening to get this and we had everyone in the house in the evening to answer the zoom call and we did it but it took almost two months to get that far and then as they say they say the people are not filling out the forms what they mean those people are not doing the guard the vetting we did the guard the vetting within and the guard that confirmed it within 48 hours of the zoom call the guard that had confirmed and had said this is your contact on the Red Cross and we had left it with them and after a month I just said to myself I'll contact that contact on the Red Cross and it came back the email came back could not deliver and then it happened the next week I was at the McGill the session on the Ukraine and I said give it a go ask Bad Cox can we do something about this and I'll give them credit and I was never I can imagine I was never a fan of the PDs but he said I'm not a politics now but I'll do my best and he knew the system so he got him to the place to get somebody to contact us and that's without that we would have been down as one of those who weren't filling out the forms now we haven't filled out the form this is not in any way a gotcha or anything like this here I'm not interested in that game Liam but I'll ask you this before we get on to the wider point have you ever considered making these two rooms available for students I'm not sure where you live if you're close to letter Kenny but you know there's a student accommodation crisis there and you actually would probably make quite a bit of money out of that or obviously there are families that have been homeless for quite some time in and around letter Kenny so I'll ask before people ask you understand where I'm coming from Liam like why would you feel motivated to offer these rooms to Ukrainians is it because it's popular possibly short term and you want to do something for humanity and have you considered making these rooms available for say for instance students who would bite your hands off for them no I mean this was in April before the real before the student accommodation had been given was they started to give student accommodation to the Ukrainians so it was back in April we made and then my wife said on Monday when we got confirmation that they had contacted the county council she said well if they don't show up by September we will give these to students you know fair play to you okay at the end of the day you I mean I'm going to people will text in so I'm asking while you're with me but in the end of the day it's your property and you choose what you wish to do with it but you've made that very clear now you were about to go into the economics of this so I'll let you await that one Liam go ahead well I did a calculation based on one of the lower figures I'd heard for the daily charge in hotels and then if you took say three or four months of that for two people and say we the way we're set up we could set up a room for a mother and a room for two children so we might do more you do the calculations you work a discount that had to be some time there's elements of support costs so we'd say my estimate was that delay would cost the government has cost the government by 25 000 euro based on the figures that are available if you consider that they said there was a thousand pledges that hadn't filled out the guard the vetting that comes to 25 million euro it's this element of not doing the things that need to be done and you had it earlier on also the doing up houses yes there is a shortage of builders but the government should be biting the hand off the housing commission to get them to go and set up how would you do that they haven't even bothered their behinds and saying how would you do that and I know of a case of somebody who was looking at an old house that's not up to spec and they talk to a builder to do to bring it at least partway up to spec for refugees or students and the builder was willing to do it at as low a price as he could not much more than cost price you made a very very good offer for it but again that was at the start of the process and even now it's the supply what the builder is doing now would he be in the position to do it now I don't know that was month yeah this is this this is what I think annoys the the the public the general public so much in that and I think particularly those say for instance that are affected by the micro crises because one of the sort of disinformation campaigns that was put out there was that the government has to be this is taxpayers money here you know and we have to be careful how we spend taxpayers money because you know we can't be rebuilding mansions in donagol because it's taxpayers money yet here we see and you've given an example a complete disregard many would feel for taxpayers money we saw it too at the beginnings and throughout the pandemic where millions if not hundreds of millions of taxpayers money was fitted away on I mean no one's investigated the massive contracts on on vaccination centers of lane empty we're talking many many millions the the PPE that I don't know if it ever arrived or was it ever fit for purpose and now here millions upon millions going to hotels when good citizens like yourself and thousands of others were very genuine in offering accommodation to help people fleeing a much more difficult life not being chased up lost in the system only for your stubbornness in trying to get to the bottom of it but at the same time dishing out taxpayers money like it's confetti to hotels and this is this is the question as about the willingness to face up to things how that'll be in the leader thing to put a question to Darrell Brian the minister responsible for housing laying out the challenge we have to house the Ukrainians we have to house the other asylum speakers we have to house students we have to do our backlog on normal housing we have to house Micah people temporarily while the Micah work is done had a strategy what did the minister do the minister accused Pather Tolbein of being against offering refuge to the Ukrainians this is pure distraction there seems to be an in-cap capacity to deal with new things to deal with emergencies yeah but it's not just Pather Tolbein I mean Podrick McLaughlin made comments on this program that in fairness to him we're taken out of context and if you are in any way a dissenting voice to this to our policies are in any way questioned you are categorized of being anti anti-refugee you know and people are often critical people are often critical of of social media right but it's happening on mainstream media as well that if people don't like what you say you're shut down or you're labeled with a very strong word or a very strong ideology because people don't want to hear what you've got to say this is this is things it's the climate change issue I know I was a technocrat in Dublin I know how people make the arguments for these high-level policies but when you come down and you talk to people on the ground and don't go off and things like climate change the climate change policies I think there was a contributor on Friday pointed out currently the subsidy on electric cars is a subsidy for the well off stopping of the turf completely is a failure to think through these things what their actual effect is and what that happens on the ground and what's needed in the whole thing these are solutions that sound easy when you're in an office in Dublin they're not so easy and this is what into whether voted against the climate change act not because we're again we don't accept the fact we accept the science but how you're doing it that just transition is purely an aspiration so this comes through this this is where this starts with the Ukrainians and things like that for me my immediate effect we need to do something about accommodation have an absolute emergency in letter Kenny in September absolute emergency it will not wait for student accommodation to be built in two or three years time it's needed now and to quote Sherlock Holmes when all possible solutions have failed you must consider the impossible okay so things that we would never want to do we have to consider to do this September will be put a pile of mobile homes out in the car park and in the but we always call the IT it's now at you Larry Kenny and put people into them because we have no other accommodation for them they will lose their courses they won't be able to attend their courses it's an awful solution it's an awful proposal there must be some less worse proposal available less impossible proposal but these are the sort of things we have to think about we have to think about taking up an offer to do pro bono stuff but we have to do something different okay and that's where we are standing on the end to we need to think differently we need to get our civil servants to think differently and we need to give them the chance to think differently all right listen Liam thanks for your time this morning as I say you you're coming to position as it relates to how we deal with the housing crisis because you yourself have offered to give up two of your rooms in your home and if it's not forthcoming for for refugees because the system is not working well with you well then you'll do it for you'll do it for students too so you're actually putting your money where your mouth is so thanks very much for your time this morning I appreciate it all right take care of yourself that's Liam Mulligan there as citizen as opposed as it relates to his dealings with the state and the Red Cross in terms of trying to make that accommodation available but as he mentioned and why wouldn't he use the opportunity to mention it he's also the key luck of aim to here in County Donegal what's your views there 08 660 25 000 the 90 noon show with letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union the big bucks are back for friday four winners one lucky jack jack jack whoo-hoo that's where you get 2,500 euro every friday and on the fourth friday december 2nd someone also wins 10 000 cash money go to islandradio.com and get your 10 euro ticket it's a whole new meaning to cash flow get a great Clarence gift this week from McGee's chemist in letter Kenny buy two Clarence skincare products one to be moisturizer or serum and you'll get a choice of three treat sized essentials from a selection of eight but which three will you choose this great Clarence 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the huge controversy in terms of what the government wouldn't do what demands it wouldn't meet it never made any sense it still doesn't make any sense what people wanted to do is accept a grant for the house that they have and rather than have to contribute to the building themselves and why should they because it's not their fault they would build a smaller house using the same amount of money but they says no that can't be done and it still doesn't sit right and it still doesn't make any sense a caller is making an appeal for any dentist that will take them i've surgery on thursday that's come as a surprise i need two crowns replaced before i go in for the operation because it's in that area if anyone could help me i'd be greatly appreciated they're in donagola presumed they'd be prepared to travel any dentist available that could fit a couple of crowns before thursday they're getting a difficult to get an appointment a caller says once again the weather is getting good but public toilets are getting disgusting why can't there be a designated person to man the upkeep of the toilets we got caught out when my small child needed the toilet and they were too dirty to use and we hear that all the time some of them are in great shape others uh unusable i don't know what is it how busy they are is it how they're maintained but it's a problem that comes up every single year another caller says i've i've had a few uh parcels sent from the states this year this last few years why now do we have to pay custom charges here to receive the parcel while also the pay custom charges to send in the states when sending is it because they're traveling via britain why would uh someone knows i am only some i'm only supposing i have no clue but why would someone be paying custom custom charges on parcels from the united states now when they hadn't previously someone out there knows let me know right edward grant is student union president at atlantic technological university letter kenny edwards good morning to you i just wanted to get an update from you on the situation as it relates to uh the student accommodation crisis and i think we can label it a crisis that's where we're at now or the hundred percent very good best point at that it's getting really really bad to be honest um we are planning really so let's know next monday we are certain at 123 rooms to reduction of over 200 from last year's numbers what is the demand versus availability uh can we speculate and i wouldn't hold you to edward but how many students do you think are currently looking for accommodation in letter kenny but cannot either get it or are priced out of it this time last year when we were i was taking statistics based on the number of students i had just bringing me obviously that isn't comparative to the whole population there because a lot of them won't know the student union or the services we provide but i had about 300 students call me within a week at this time last year we've been told by the college to expect greater numbers to be applying this year because the university status so i can imagine that there's going to be an excess of 300 people looking for accommodation coming under letter kenny yeah and there's a few factors here which are making it worse obviously there is a general reduction in rooms available for whatever reason one big accommodation provider has pulled out and also there's an issue with international students that may perhaps have previously stayed in northern unable to do so now post brexit yeah so um a lot of international students know just a little bit where they've gone across the border because of the visa requirements given we linked in with a couple of campaigns to try and there would be a way to get an exception right there for students but again it's a it's a long battle and not something we see changing within the next year anyway the biggest issue we have at the moment coming under this year is we've been to expect greater student numbers the placements have gone up again this year and yet we're only seeing 19 new applicants on our list this year it's just the local infrastructure isn't able to keep up with the places numbers that the college are putting out we can talk about what needs to be done in the medium term or long term but what fixes the problem between now and the start of the the the the students year effectively are we back again appealing to anyone who may have a spare room that would be interested in making money off that room to to to make themselves known is that where we're at or are we looking at towns on the outskirts of letter Kenny or 10 20 miles away and organizing bosses or you know what options are being looked at all the both great to be honest that we've been appealing through every method of communication we have available to us for landlords to apply on we've even been in the local Paris newsletters across Donegal this past couple of weeks trying to see if anybody has rooms we're looking to see if there is localized hubs of students around the country or faces that might have been inaccessible students without a car so we can lobby for more rural transport schemes to access those areas of students can avail of them but unfortunately that no matter what we do it's just not enough at the stage we've seen an initiative whereby people can be paid by the state to house Ukrainian refugees and it not impact you know their tax status I think some people might be afraid that if they start renting out a room that it can have broader consequences for them move them into different tax brackets or they could lose benefits or whatever it might be or assistance if you know where I'm coming from there's no such scheme for students is that a possibility that maybe more people if they could provide this accommodation at a set rate even but not find themselves being disadvantaged from a tax perspective greatly could that help is that a short-term measure that might actually make more rooms available that's actually a scheme that's been in place for a number of years to rent a room release you get a certain amount of tax credits back for renting a room to any individual doesn't have to be per se a student I'm not sure on the exact figures at the top of my head but if the scheme has been in place and it's a scheme that we advertised last year then it's time to land largely you know it but again I think the issue is that 10 years ago accommodation should have been built it wasn't and now we're just at the crux of the issue yeah indeed so so what's going to happen because you know we're hearing stories now of students preparing to sleep in their car now for the next two or three days maybe that would be in some way manageable it's no way for anyone to live but that's not that's a hotel accommodation is not a long-term option so what's going to happen to a lot of students do you think that simply can't get accommodation I think we're going to see monumental rates dropping out from across the country and a lot of people trying to postpone starting their course until they're able to get accommodation again it's just it's really going to negatively affect the incoming students we have the year that they're going to have a head the freshers weeks never hang out the social aspects going to just decline rapidly because no one's able to get into the time to experience what college life should be I appreciate your efforts and the efforts of the students union is the atu itself doing enough on this issue I'm not sure I've I'm not sure if they've commented publicly it doesn't mean they haven't because I haven't heard it but what are their plans are they looking to draw down funds now they have university status and start building accommodation where what are the plans how much are we talking I mean has the the university itself done much to try and help the students the university have been very good at meeting us I'm trying to get university-wide action has been a bit of a duplicate but again it's just because it's such a large entity and there's so much power needed to start the ballroom movement they have been looking into trying to access draw down funds but unfortunately there's a distinction when it comes to legislation between a technological university and the traditional university so it isn't something that has been accessible to them yet they have plans to build accommodation they have land for the accommodation but again it's just getting access to those funds something that we're currently the union lobby and the government on to provide a capital grant for universities either build accommodation or buy and renovate a custom accommodation from a more urbanised areas yeah Ena's messaged on youtube to say people with a room to let can lease it out and earn up to fourteen thousand euro tax-free which is perhaps what might certainly I think maybe providing that for a student you'd fall under that bracket so I mean at the very least even if my question was ignorant to begin with it's good to get that information out there because I think the the concern I outlined might be a concern some might have so it's worth people who are interested in this but thought the scenario was as I suggested to see you know what they can earn without it having to be taxed you know what I mean so it's not hard to get that information out there so in terms of at the moment the appeal for people to make rooms available are we looking at are we looking at drum keen now you know kill mcrennan even further out I mean what's the story now where do you want to hear from people anywhere in the tonnagal area to be perfectly honest last year we had students saying out by the dunnells all airport and I know that isn't an ideal situation but it's better than having to travel from Dublin every day which was the case for a number of students last year where I had a student come up to me in the office in tears because she had been getting the bus every morning and was landing in the lectures late and she felt she'd been singled out by lectures for landing in late because they weren't aware of the situation that she was in and no one should be in that situation for lectures to have to try and calm about that right a caller says there's plenty of accommodation for students in Creasley and Don Fannahy and there are three there's three uh boss services that can bring them in and out to letterkenny several times a day that is accommodation and the time it's just not nearly enough to facilitate the the demand that we have our students hanging on to see what they can get in letterkenny before they start looking outside of letterkenny in other words when the dust settles will we have enough accommodation for everyone but it does mean that some people are going to have to sit in a bus for an hour every morning and evening um there won't be people sitting on the bus for an hour there's already people applying for accommodation that far away uh students are desperate to this day I think this is all about the issues that were there last year and they are trying to push to get rooms by the reason our numbers are so low this year is because our ballerina house is already full of students who had pre-booked from the last year really students that weren't able to get accommodation the year previous and have to postpone the start or students who are going into the second year booking because there were such issues last year all right um do you want to hear from people who have rooms available wherever they might be within reason in the county yeah if you can go you can go on the student union website or you can go on any of our social medias and find our contact details reach out and we will try our best to process you by the end of the week to get you on the list for the start if you can just anybody who has a room available at all no matter where it is around going oh it'll definitely suit someone and that's the message we're trying to put out is that it's not it's not a case no that we need to vet it's not a case no that we need to try and get the optimal rooms we need any rooms available for students okay and um what do they search uh what do they search to to get the uh to find you is it letter candy student union is it or what uh so LIT SU is the website address okay listen thanks for your time this morning take care of yourself i do appreciate your time right now um key planks of uh government's climate plan face legal challenges from the oil industry the energy plan devised as part of the EU goals to become climate neutral by 2050 face threat from oil the oil industry uh under EU rules Ireland must make a specific amount of energy savings within the next decade with a large part of those savings being made through a scheme that requires suppliers to support efficiency projects in businesses and homes across Ireland the scheme is being revised by the Department of the Environment and under new changes suppliers of energy used in transport will see their targets substantially increased now it's understood um that fuels for Ireland the industry body representing oil importers and distributors will bring a judicial review against the plans when the new scheme is unveiled in the coming months but what does this actually really all mean there's a lot of word soup going on there kevin mcpartland is the CEO of fuels for Ireland and he joins us right now good morning to you kevin thanks for joining us again morning how are you doing i'm doing fantastic kevin um so can you tell us uh what is the uh what are the likely issues or the issues they fuels for Ireland have with these government plans that might lead to uh action yep so there's been over many many years there's been the energy efficiency obligation scheme in which we and other providers of of energy uh make make efforts and and and and have met all of the targets that have been set for us um to reduce the energy which is consumed in various different ways and so that has traditionally been done through um funding retrofitting of homes funding sort of insulation programs those things and also in industry also it's um uh funded some um some fleet um customers to to offer training to them to increase their energy efficiency so is it kind of like that's kind of offsetting really in layman's terms is it well no it's actually preventing energy being consumed right so it's it's preventing the the the amount of product that you actually need so what has happened in the last couple years of the government has has decided that they're going to make the responsibility for increasing the efficiency of transport one which sits predominantly on oil companies and therefore our consumers but if you look at how you actually increase the efficiency of energy use in the transport sector it's not something over which we have any control it's actually about having regular safe public transport it's about giving people options for active transport cycling and and and pedestrian and i know that's slightly urban in its focus but but it does have a have a relevance uh in some of the some of the larger towns in Donegal for example what this means is that if the government fails to meet its targets for public transport and for active transport and let's be frank we have a pretty poor record of meeting targets then we would be faced to pay the penalties for that and cash penalties and there would be you know very very significant sums uh the sort of sums that could lead to an increase of two three four cent per litre uh charged to home heating oil and transport fuel consumed so we don't think that's fair is it fair to say that really the government are themselves don't think certain targets can be achieved so they pass it over to to your members and giving you unachievable targets and expecting you to stomp up maybe shifting the blame and responsibility away from themselves onto the likes of your members i think it means that they have no incentive to meet the targets because they don't pay the penalties we do and our consumers do so if if what we're trying to do is reduce or to increase energy efficiency in the transport sector then that means it's how transport is actually achieved what we do uh and we don't have control over those things so we're being asked to pay or to likely to pay a penalty for something over which we have no control we don't think it's fair and more importantly it's not lawful so that's why if the statutory instrument which is required to implement this policy is published and it is as we have been led to expect it to be it seems very likely that we'll take a judicial review on that yeah are you hoping that talking about this publicly in advance might discourage the government from going down this road am i am i so blatant great yes that's exactly what we're hoping for we've been speaking to government on this for a for a long long time we've been saying look we need to sit down and work this out and find out way of doing this because we all know that we have to you know address our energy usage particularly in the current context we've talked about that a few times we all know that we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions so there's no disagreement on the objectives what we're saying is we cannot and our consumers cannot be held responsible for a failure on the part of the government okay now i know you've you've said in all of our interviews you don't have a crystal ball and we understand that but we are seeing a seemingly a downward trend all be it from a high rate a fuel petrol diesel even home heating oil is that likely to continue well i still don't have a crystal ball so i don't want to mislead anybody but i but i think what we're looking at is some of the factors that created more and more instability have settled down so i think what we are seeing right now is a reflection of a bit more stability that's come into the market and stability is something which we all crave and that would be good for consumers also the threat of instability i presume concerns of a recession is is having an impact on the raw product price it is but so is currency pricing and also then you look today even russia shut off some oil supply to to southern europe overnight so there are so many different elements to this what we're saying right now things seem to be much much calmer and markets hate uncertainty and risk gets priced into markets so that seems to be taken out and that's why we're experiencing lower prices as you say albeit from a higher average level in recent months we say experiencing lower prices now and we hope that will continue and again i'm trying to get some guidance from you but without making you feel that you could be this could be you could be held to this but i mean could we see you know another say for instance of the course of six weeks 10 cent coming off a litre or something i mean is that the type of of trends in the environment we are currently in that we could we could look forward to or i genuinely don't know but but i think i think what we're saying is we have a bit of stability right now and i think stability will be good for everybody all right kevin listen thanks for your time as always i really appreciate it take care of yourself thanks take care that's kevin mcpartland fuels for arland so what we can tell you about the cost of your home heating oil and petrol and diesel in the last part of that interview is that there's no guarantees that the downward trend would continue but things from their markets perspective seem stable and enough as it stands but something could happen today which could change all of that but anyway just trying to get some indication for you sat there because i think a lot of people too are wondering if they have the money is now the time to sort of maybe fill up the oil tank i think that's a conversation a lot of people 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including pregnant women and girls from 1922 to 1990 in northern ireland who often felt coerced into giving up their children thousands are said to have entered the institutions over a 68 year period since them an investigation has now been launched officers in a dedicated investigation team have received 57 reports including from some others who haven't met their children since they were born detective superintendent gary reid is leading the investigation he believes there are people indonigol and elsewhere in the republic who are affected by this issue if you look at the report that was compiled in the research around this there there is a cross border element you know that the island of ireland is a small place around but we're also working with our colleagues in the armed guard of chicana as well so we link in with them once a month to see if there has been anything uh that they can update us but there's definitely a cross border element to this we have a dedicated phone line which and we also have a dedicated email address now that's on our police website a new 30 tax rate would benefit over one million people it's been suggested as a way to ease the cost of living crisis for middle income earners with a number of government ministers set to be in favor of the move the department of finance will today publish its tax strategy group papers outlining the options for next month's budget with one of the papers suggesting a 30 rate would benefit one million irish taxpayers if implemented with business journalist joe linum says irish tax rates do not at present compare well with our neighbors up to 36 000 euros they will pay a rate at 20 percent income tax after that they will pay 40 percent and a lot of people feel that's a very low threshold to start paying the high rate of tax i had a quick look at other countries in europe the uk it is 60 000 euros before they start paying their 40 percent income tax rate in germany is 282 000 euros before they start paying but it's 49 percent income tax rate with temperatures to set to rise even further in some parts of the country in the coming days people are being warned of the potential dangers of swimming in open water they're also being urged not to be overconfident in the water and to know their own limits roger swiney is acting ceo of water safety ireland he's reiterated the dangers of swimming in seas lakes and rivers and in particular he's urging people not to take inflatable toys into the water have you made sure that the kids don't bring inflatable toys to open water they can be taken out by a rip current or by a uh an offshore breeze and you yourself can get into difficulty if you try and retrieve them and have you made arrangements to make sure that any children that are going to the waterways are supervised and by supervision we mean close uninterrupted adult supervision looking at the weather forecast and may hear and tell us it will be warm dry and sunny today highest temperatures 24 to 26 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the central bank of Ireland now a new annual report just released as it relates to the donagalls sexual assault treatment unit has found that 78 individuals sought out the latter canny facility in 2020 it's a 29 drop on the previous year 23 of donagalls sex assault complaints were children under 18 seven were men the majority of those who attended 53 of them were aged 25 under and referrals from secondary schools increased slightly by 2 compared to 2019 however there was a marked decrease of 15 percent from third level colleges. Conny McGilloway is a registered advanced nurse practitioner at the donagalls sexual assault treatment unit and joins us on the program now Conny thanks for your time this morning greatly appreciated no problem Greg I suppose when we look at these figures and we talk about comparisons and we want to make sure that we're reading them correctly do we have to factor in the pandemic the impact it may have had on these figures or do the timelines match not match up or what's your view well definitely in 2020 it impacted on the people presenting to the donagalls sexual assault treatment unit and other services I think in relation to restrict restrictions and not being able to access and not being able to move really wasn't was an issue it didn't prevent people from coming forward people still did come forward in 2020 as you can see there was a drop of 29 percent from the previous year but it was still quite a marked number of people that were presenting to the service and with third level colleges gone and at that time then you know the the number of students within this area wouldn't have been there so that was a that was a big change and during the pandemic but that then increased again in 2021 and what do you think this tells us about the the instance of sexual assault do we know what proportion of people might be inclined to seek out the services of the donagalls sexual assault treatment unit versus that those that might not but it's not a path that they they choose well I think the people that do present nationally to the sexual assault treatment unit attends to be right across the board is the mean age would be somebody you know the mean age would be 24 on an average basis throughout from year to year that's sort of 23 24 25 would be the average age of people presenting to the donagall or to all sexual assault treatment units in the country including the donagall sexual assault treatment unit and so that that and that would align with international research where that group from 18 to 25 or 18 to 35 would actually come forward to seek help in relation to people who don't come forward to seek help you know sexual violence is extremely traumatic and with that you know there's a lot of self-blame there's a lot of feeling that people think that they won't be believed because if you take it that on average 90 plus of people that are the perpetrate sexual violence are actually known to the person that has been affected then that actually puts a massive barrier in place to come forward and what we want to do is try and encourage people to come forward it doesn't matter you know that they will be believed that they will be cared for and they will be looked after by the agencies that work in this area it's important to point out at this point too i wonder and i believe it is the case can i that engaging with the services of the donagall sexual assault treatment unit that can be about the care of the person and support of that person that it doesn't necessarily trigger a series of events in other words someone does not have to pursue this with the guard or potentially even end up in court that can be a decision for a later date and that's their decision but if you are the victim of a sexual assault you should go to the donagall sexual assault treatment unit is that a reasonable assessment because i think people might think wait yeah but you'll tell the guards and then you might go to court and they're not maybe in that they're maybe not in that a brain space yet to be able to make those kind of calls and that's and that is a very good summation of it greg from the point of view that the donagall sexual assault treatment unit is all about the health care and the holistic care needed for patients that present and and even the use of the word patient that's everybody that comes through our door that is how we recognize them as patients so you know with that um there now of course and saying that there are um legal um you know we are mandated persons so anybody who is under the age of 18 who isn't who hasn't reached the age of majority of 18 and is seen as a child within this country whether they're a mature minor or not you know there has to be a report we are mandated to make under the care of others and i think that everyone would understand the importance of that and why that has to be done for sure especially if they were in an ongoing uh an ongoing situation which they themselves couldn't actually make a decision to to exit i think it's also uh uh worth noting too that you know not far off 10 of those that saw help were males and i don't know if we can conclude that males may be less inclined to come forward and i don't know if that is the case or if it's not but it's a significant proportion of the the overall figure i think yeah and it is that males do find it very difficult to come forward um they you know along with that and that would align again with the national service and international statistics would would show the lack of males coming forward and but it also recognizes the fact that um one in six incidents of sexual violence actually are perpetrated against males so it is a very small number that come forward and you know there's a lot of research in relation to why males don't come forward and everything from the fact of um that they may be deemed as something that they're not and you know that this fact of they would be seen as less than a person you know there's lots of reasons why males don't come forward but we would encourage anybody males females or any gender identity to present to the sexual assault treatment unit for support and you know we are we're there it's 24 hour service and you know work seven days a week so you know there's a very dedicated team we also work very much from a sexual assault response team um you know we have we we I suppose look at it from the fact of the importance of collaborative practice because historically in this country and elsewhere um one of the biggest issues was that maybe somebody informed an agency and then that agency didn't inform somebody else so we all and everybody was working in silos and the importance of the sexual assault response team which incorporates not only the rape crisis center domestic violence service and guard sheikana to slah and ourselves is the importance that we're all working for the benefit of that person on an individual basis that comes forward and everything is done at that person's pace and based on what that person wants to happen so it's not something that is forced on somebody you know nothing is forced on a person that comes forward it's very much looked at from the fact of what they want to happen and that doesn't matter what age the person is but they the thing you you you you very likely need care and that's what is provided after that will be supported in whatever your decision is made for obviously adults now the majority of those as you mentioned are under 25 the average age or medium age 24 I presume is what that's what you said we can't be I can't be naive in thinking that that must mean that it's only people under 25 that are the victims of a crime like this so what does that tell us do you think about people that are over 25 and that are victims are they are they unaware of the services are the less inclined to come forward because I'm thinking of there must be then hundreds of people that haven't seen help or seek sought help aged over over 25 that's heartbreaking so what what's your reading as the experts about the age demographic and what do we need to be doing or where are the gaps that we're not seeing the the older age groups coming forward well I suppose one of the things that is important to recognize is that it is what we call the mean age so we are seeing people from all age groups you know I'm just wondering I'm sorry to cut across you I just wonder are there lots of posters in colleges are are universities handing out flyers to students in secondary schools is the same thing happening is there some sort of guidance you know I mean I don't know if that's a coincidence or if that's that's why we're seeing those numbers and and what do we need to be doing for over 25s if that feeds into your wider point and I want to interrupt again Connie yeah I think very much very much it is from an education perspective Greg there is a lot of work done with the third level colleges there's a lot of recognizing the fact that 25 percent of college students in the US I study that was done you know the through the colleges that that the 25 percent of those college students whether male or female have had some form of unwanted sexual contact however what you're talking about is quite correct the very fact of myself being on your show is a very important thing to get that message out there the importance of having it in the newspaper the importance of having it on national radio is very important especially for people who are in a situation where they fear coming forward in case they're expected to do something they don't want to do so yeah it is really important to get the message out there I think and when people you know there is the old adage of if people know there's a service there they will come and that has been the case where more and more people are aware of the Donegal sexual assault treatment unit and more and more people are coming I mean there has been a phenomenal increase of people coming to this service over the last 12 years from whenever I started working here and a lot of it has to do with the amount of education and information sessions that are going on with professionals as well as the general public so you know the more information that goes out there the better so yes the main cohort of patients that present to us the main group would be that 14 to 35 that age group would be the main group however we do have patients from all age groups and we are very you know I mean one of the things that's very important to us is the anonymity of our patients that come through the service and also the fact that even from you know where we wouldn't have specific age groups or age ages we would have age groups so it would be the over 55s that would take in everybody over that or the over 70s so if you have somebody who presents to you you have one person presenting to you who's over 70 I'm not going to report on that specifically because that could be an identifying marker for that person so you know we have to be very cognizant of the anonymity involved in this as well no it's very clear this is very much victim focused in terms of if someone is the victim of a rape for example and it's an incredibly incredibly traumatic event and they may not know what they want to do in terms of pursuing this to make a complaint to the Guardi it's a situation where they they should make an early appointment with the likes of the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit to be seen by a forensic clinical examiner in case in the days that follow that they then wish to pursue it if you understand my question yes well we I know you'll understand it sorry it's in the way I phrased it is what I'm saying Connie we have three options of care within the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit I think that's where you're coming from Greg so where the first option of care is always that we want somebody who presents to us in the acute phase so within the first seven days of an incident occurring yes we would always encourage people to report the incident to and guard a sheik on it because it is a serious crime and you know along with that you know the fact that we will be able to look after the person's health care needs and their psychological support and whatever other supports are there and you know that's really important now they have a choice then so we can see them we have three choices option one is the reporting of on guard a sheikana we do a forensic examination and we provide all the health care necessary in relation to possible prevention of sexually transmitted infections medications in relation to prevention of pregnancy prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV and any care in relation to minor injuries etc and referrals on we also then now people don't have to choose that option that is their choice there is an option there where maybe they are not ready to report it to the Guardian so we are actually able to do a forensic examination and store that evidence until such times that they are ready to go forward and if they're ready to go forward to report it now in that incidence we are unable to store cctv we're unable to store telephones you know there are we are only able to freeze and store toxicology for example bloods urine and the forensic samples that we take off the person's body and small items of clothing but in relation to other clothing possible bed clothing and cctv telephones any messages that have gone on any you know those things we are not able to do that so that's explained to the person but we advise the person to store those in certain areas we advise them to save whatever messages that they've received to save any communication that they may have had any photographs that have been taken of injuries things like that we would advise the person to do that and that's where the bright sky app comes in as well I know you did a show on that and that's really good because they can there are folders within that app that they can download for free off the off google play or whatever and they're actually able to store lots of things in that app that then can be admissible to the courts so it's a clever app in terms of how the information because say for instance in a coercive control or a controlling situation yeah obviously a person might have high levels of scrutiny on someone's phone and I think it backs up to a cloud or there's there's different other mass masking exercises and stuff it's well worth someone having a download of that and going through so but it should be said and I don't want to sort of over amplify those who do not choose to to pursue this with the guards the majority of referrals do come from the guardie 63% nationally coming from on guard of Shia Khanna 19% were self-referred so I just wonder in a crisis moment do people know how to get in touch with the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit you know the majority going through on guard of Shia Khanna presumably some through GP some self-referral so can you talk to me about how someone can get seen out of the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit outside of going through the guards which the majority already do well yes the majority do go through the guards and then second to that would have always been GPs but people can contact people can contact us themselves so they can actually go on if they went on to if they went into Google or any of the search sites but particularly Google at the moment because if you go if you just put in SATU into Google it will come up as the sexual assault treatment units and all the information we're number one on the search engine now and all the information in relation to sexual assault treatment units is in there and how to contact the service is in there now the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit we're very fortunate because we whoever phones us contacts us directly so they don't have to go through any other service they don't have to go through the hospital system or anything like that so they can speak to a forensic examiner and directly yes the other aspect is that and you know any it doesn't matter which professional body that they contact at this stage you know I've done and my colleague have done a lot of training and education with different agencies it's very much so in the last decade yeah one final question canine thanks for all of your time today um just so we're clear we're not talking about people uh are exclusively that something has just happened this can be something that happened in the past as well so what what what what what what's if it's not necessarily historical it's not necessarily very recent they contact the Donegal Sexual Assault Treatment Unit what can you do for for people in that category so a lot of a lot of people in Donegal in the northwest we do get a lot of people that present to us outside that forensic time frame and whenever they do present we have somebody from the Donegal Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre here um that will offer psychological support in relation to counselling services and access to the counselling services um also depending on the situation and depending on the need of that person that presents it could be a domestic violence situation and then we would link in with the Donegal Women's Domestic Violence Service now what the person what they may have never presented to a healthcare professional and therefore they would never have been able to have sexual health screening they would never have been able to have a check in relation to opportunistic cervical screening anything like that so we we do all of that within the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit um so you know and with that again we don't use names the addresses that we use um when we're sending stuff through to the labs is the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit so the patient's address becomes the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit and it's again that's all to do with the anonymity of it and also then sometimes people present to us outside the time frame and maybe they want to actually report it to the guard so you know when they come to us and then we would have somebody a specialized guard from the um Divisional Protective Services Unit or any of the other um guard that have a lot of experience in this area and they would come to the statue and discuss it with that person so there's a lot of um you know there's a lot that we can do for somebody that um is outside the forensic time frame so you will be believed you will be trusted uh and you will be supported um Connie outside of Google a telephone number yeah so we have the telephone number is online do you want me to give you a telephone number uh yeah go on if you don't mind okay so the direct line to um the statue is uh 0870681964 or 0749121464 okay so the office number is Monday to Friday and then the mobile number is um all hours seven days and the statistics also in show show us the importance of it being um an overnight service a 24-hour service as well I lot not the majority I think about a third of contacts are outside office hours and I think Monday is when the the peak of the contact okay and October is the busiest month for those would be interested in that Connie thanks for all your time this morning I really welcome even if it helps one person I think we haven't wasted our time not that we have at all but I think you understand what I'm saying thank you Connie absolutely thank you very much take care bye bye okay uh Connie 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We've seen it with the vaccinations and all that type of stuff. They can adapt very quickly. And they're gonna see the exit of these two banks as an opportunity because it's complicated. And you know, it's a tough job for people. They're gonna exploit that, aren't they, Neve? They are. I really say before, you know, this is a repeated message. So it is just another variation and they use every opportunity. So with the banks leaving, they are gonna use this opportunity now and text message scams, phone scams, email scams, they're always the kind of same type of scams but they use, as you said, during the pandemic, they pretended to be to HSC or vaccination text messages and now they're using this going forward. We expect to see a lot more scams around this as well. The problem is, the texts you receive will often now they can do it whereby it'll appear in the thread of messages. So say, for instance, just use an Ulster Bank, it's no reflection on them. They know how to get the scam text into the Ulster Bank thread of texts so it can look very convincing. And once you click the link and I want you to emphasize the importance of this with me, once you click the link, you're popped onto a website that all intents and purposes will appear very much like your HSC website, your Ulster Bank website, your credit union, whatever it is. So it's the clicking of the link that we, that's the firewall that we need not cross. Exactly, I'm literally like a broken record. Do not click on links, it's a key message to any scam. The link is the key, it's bringing you to a fake website but it is very convincing. It's very real. We've even had cases where the fraudsters will follow up the text message with a phone call. So what I'd say is fraudsters are professionals. This is their job, they're impersonators and they're very, very good at us. This is not like the scams we saw years ago with fake emails that were so obvious that they were fake. They're very convincing, they're very good at what they do and they know what they're doing. They're using a situation that we're all talking about that we're all experiencing and to do that, to commit fraud. The websites, for all intents and purposes, you would have no idea that it's a fake website because it looks exactly the same. Banks are very good at taking down fake websites and constantly put the fraudsters a response step ahead, always creating new links, new websites. And as you said, the other key thing is that they're getting into the message thread from your bank as well. We're working very closely with the telcos on that to try to stop that, but it's an ongoing process and trying to get them they're always just that one step ahead. I mean, the provider I'm within with, and I'm not sure it's my phone, it pretty much can flag any spam call or text. I just don't understand why that's not across the board. It's just because they can always just read, they can change it. So it's not actually that they're phoning or texting from that number, that is just... Oh, I know, but as I say, my network provider, all the phone, I don't know which it is, even if they are cloning numbers, we've had it with the local guard station number being cloned, my phone or my provider picks it up. I just don't understand why everyone doesn't. And the thing about these scams to Neve is that Bank of Ireland customers, Revolut customers, they'll get the Ulster Bank text. Say for instance, not from Ulster Bank, but purporting to be, and they'll go, how silly do you think they are? I am, I'm not even with Ulster Bank, but they will send out many thousands of these and many thousands of people will be in the process of transitioning from one bank to another. And that's where the scammers, they don't need everyone to respond and defraud them, but they blanket send these messages at such a level, they only need a few to have missed the likes of this interview. Exactly. And it's not always pretending to be from your bank. So you might get a text message, say from Netflix or maybe your utility providers, then your account, your payment has failed this month, please update your account details. And without thinking, you're gonna go and click on that link and give your information. So, you know, because you obviously want to make sure that you're, say for example, that your electricity bill is paid so that you don't get cut off. There's always, what they do is they create a sense of urgency and whatever it is that they're using, whatever scam message that they're using. It could be, with going forward, we're expecting to see things like this, a text from your employer saying, or an email from your employer saying, we've updated our banking system on our side. So we want you to reconfirm your bank account details in order to get your salary paid. You know, this sense of urgency that there'll be a loss to you if you don't do something, creates this automatic reaction. Oh, I gotta click on this link. And the key thing here is, as you said at the start, is the link, you know, don't click on links. It's the first red flag in any situation, whether it's a text or an email or whatever the case may be, do not click on links. If it is pretending to be from your bank, banks won't send you a link asking for personal information. The only thing you'll ever get from a bank is to reply with a why for yes or an end for no if there's a suspected fraud in your account. They have your personal information. But again, it's creating a sense of urgency that the frauds are doing. So you act, you and I talking or people listening will say, oh, I'm savvy to these, I wouldn't actually click on the link. But in that moment, we're so busy and we're doing so many different things at once, that with our thinking, we click on the link. So it really is to take your time. If you do think it's a legitimate text message because some organizations other than banks may put links into text messages, I can't speak for them. But if you do get a link, no matter who it's from, don't click on it and contact the organization directly. So go into your app or go into your account directly, log in or use the number that you have on file. Never use the number that you have got through the communication itself. Yeah, and a lot of... So always go and do that directly yourself. And the scammers know too that a lot of people are paying for the likes of the Amazon and Netflix and Disney as a recurring debit on a card, not even again. So in some ways that kind of plays into their scam because they can get instant access to all of your funds. And also too, if you've been defrauded, if you get onto your bank very, very quickly, I've known of a couple of situations where they can be, even if it's debited from your account, it can be like a shadow debit, I think they call it within the banking system. And if you get onto them really, really quickly, sometimes, but not always, maybe those debits can be reversed to your account. So you'll need to act on it really quickly. Yeah, I can't guarantee that you'll always get your money back. It is case by case, but the quicker you act, the better chance you have. Time is of the essence. And it's very important in obviously in the text measure scans and consumer purposes, but we really want to flag as well to businesses to be on high alert over the next couple of months. Normally, we have what invoice fraud that we see and time is of the essence in these. It really is so important. And businesses will be getting emails from the suppliers. So whether you're a coffee shop and you're getting your pastry supplier, your hairdresser, your farmer, getting your grain supplies, whether you're, you know, doctor, surgery, whatever the case may be is people are, which is unusual, people will be changing bank accounts. So if you get a communication from any of your suppliers saying that they've changed the bank account details, the first thing you need to do is pick up the phone and contact them directly. Use the number that you have on file for them or that you use regularly with them. Again, do not use the information that's in the email that you got from them and confirm that they have changed their bank accounts and confirm that number with them. Do not update anything automatically after getting an email in from somebody to say there's new bank accounts. Because what happens is that email is actually quite clever. They're not asking you to change, to make any payment or do anything like that. It's simply FYI, here is our new bank account details. And then what happens is the next time a legitimate invoice comes in from that supplier, you're paying the fortune bank account. So time has left. So the quicker you get on, the better it is for getting that money recalled. Yeah, and worth making a phone call to the accounts department or whatever, or having some sort of a text confirmation setup or whatever, because we know of many companies, but two in particular, Spring to Mind, that lost an awful lot of money. And I think on one occasion it was done on a Friday when everyone was looking to get out of the office and the person thought they were doing the right thing. And we just have to be on our guard. Because they're on their guard and they're very good at what they do is to say not to give them any credit. So we just have to make it as difficult for them as possible. Okay. Thank you very much for your time, Neve. Thanks, William. All right, take care. Neve Davenport, head of financial crime with the Banking and Payment Federation. And no regular listeners, you're sick and tired of hearing the same stuff, but it would be remiss of us not to get that information out when there's a request to do. So just so as many people as possible that we can save being defrauded that we actually do. All right, let's see. It's nearly 11 o'clock. Okay, still another hour to come on this sunny Wednesday on the nine till noon show, but it's time for a news update at 11 o'clock. Let's say good morning now to Emma Ryan. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A mental health organization is offering free counseling to people who have been affected by mica and the defective blocks crisis. Anyone affected can access free counseling, psychotherapy, and psychological support sessions through the service offered by MyMind. The service currently does not have a base in the Northwest, but sessions are available online. Tom Henradi of MyMind says uptake has so far been slow, but he is hopeful that more people will take up the opportunity. Garde and Onigal have issued a warning over a one-ring scam. Garde say they have received recent reports that missed calls are being received from a nine, four prefix number. It will ring once and then stop and register as a missed call. If the recipient returns the missed call, they will be re-readed to a premium rate number overseas and build extortionate rates. Garde are advising people to ignore the number and not to return the call. The PSNI is origin people who are victims of mother and baby institutions, Magdalene Laundries, and workhouses to come forward with a particular appeal to people in the border counties and elsewhere in the Republic. These institutions house many, including pregnant women and girls from 1922 to 1990 in Northern Ireland, who often fell coerced into giving up their child. Thousands of people are said to have entered these institutions over a 68-year period, and since the investigation was launched in 2021, officers in the dedicated investigation team have received 57 reports. Ireland is over the peak of the current wave of COVID-19, according to the HSE. The number of patients in hospital has dropped significantly over the past month, while the amount of positive antigen tests being recorded is down. It comes as over 50s will be invited to book a second booster vaccine this month with people 68 and over able to book appointments from next Monday. A new 30% tax rate would benefit over 1 million people. It's been suggested as a way to ease the cost of living crisis for middle-income earners with a number of government ministers said to be in favour of the move. The Department of Finance will today publish its tax strategy group papers, outlining the options for next month's budget, with one of the papers suggesting the 30% rate would benefit 1 million Irish taxpayers if implemented. And finally, as temperatures are set to rise even further in some parts of the country in the coming days, people are being warned of the potential dangers of swimming in open water. They're also being advised not to be overconfident in the water to know their limits and to avoid using inflatable toys in the water. That's all for now. We'll be back with an update again at 12 o'clock. But until then, good morning. All right, Emma, thank you very much indeed. We'll be back with more on the programme, including business news later on in the hour after we take this break. The 9 till noon show with Letter Kenny Credit Union, now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges. Letter Kenny Credit Union, 9102127. 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My daughter's a national school, and this will probably apply to secondary schools as well, but that over the last two years was COVID and everything and the disruptions in class and everything, she's in a class of 32, but come September now, she'll be going back to school and I haven't heard anybody say anything about where all, I don't know, the poor refugees, where all theirs, their students will be going to school. And I would hate to think that come September, my daughter will go back to school and she's in a class of 32 and all of a sudden it's a class of 37 or more. Yeah, but this is based on, this is based on nothing that you know at this point, Liam, this is a concern that you have. Nothing, I know, and as you, as the earlier in the program, you were chatting about accommodation for the university students, but a lot of the people that are staying in the town now will have students that will need to go to school come September or have the plans for going to school come September, but there doesn't seem to be any talk about where they're going to go to school. Well, my concern is it's not fair for them, it's not fair for our own students and it's not fair for the teachers. Of come September, the free bus lands, I know it's very welcome, the free bus, but if the free bus, all the schools, I know in the latter Kenny area are full of capacity and really and truly there doesn't seem to be any plan for the extra students that may come. I think Tender's have went out for extra buses and we did see extra buses because we did have, this started in February and we did have, not the numbers that we have now, but we have had refugees in the county during the end of last term, if you know what I mean. So we would need extra bus places, would you hope that? I'm not so much worried about the bus places. My daughter's in a class of 32. That's what it's just about to get to, yeah. Yeah, my daughter's in a class of 32 and that's fairly intense for a teacher alone and especially with all the time that's missed over COVID. And I'd hate to think that come September now, the class sizes, all the class, this isn't just my daughter, all the class sizes jump by three or four or five or whatever number and we just have to accept it like, and it's not fair on the students, the FUT students or the extra students that are in the town, it's not fair for them as well. But just to be clear, because obviously there's gonna be an awful lot of rural schools that actually be delighted to have extra students because it would help to secure their future. We don't know yet whether or not your child's gonna be going into a class of 37, 38, you're saying this, have you contacted the school to find out how they're dealing with it because maybe extra classes can be provided, maybe refugees won't be going to your child's school at all. Do you think that then schools should be contacting parents to allay the fears that you're talking about now or to confirm them? Well, I would like to, you know yourself, there's a lot of extra people in the town now and they're gonna have to make some plan for it. When you say town, sorry Liam, you're talking about Latter-Cannay, are you? Well, I'm on the outskirts of Latter-Cannay, I'm from the outside Latter-Cannay, my child goes to the school outside Latter-Cannay, but it's in the catchment area of Latter-Cannay. No, the only reason I was asking that, Liam, I wasn't being nosy, it's just because when people reference town, they're normally talking about Latter-Cannay, I didn't know if it was Donegal Town or Killy Beggs or Dunlow or Boncran or Milford or, you know, all the other towns around the county. Well, just on that, Greg, sure, I mean, most small towns, like even Glenties and Argyran, all these places now, have extra people on them and I suppose they'll, their concerns will be the same. I know you're just saying rural schools, I'll be welcoming these students to boost their numbers, but I know from the schools on the outskirts of Latter-Cannay, they're at that capacity as it is. Yeah, yeah, and I think we're struggling to get places. So I'm not really fair on the teachers. Okay, well, listen. I'm not really fair on the teachers or the students. Yeah, I mean, at this point... We're just playing on us, now it comes September. Yeah, at this point, we don't know. I mean, it's a fear and we don't know and we'll put the feelers out and try and find out what the situation is. We're only three weeks away from all these schools open, secondary schools and national schools and there doesn't seem to be any plan of extra classrooms or extra teachers. I haven't heard it, haven't we? And I haven't even heard it on your show. No, I think you're one of the first to raise the issue a concern, but let's just say it's a concern because we don't know the facts. So leave it with us, Liam. We'll see what others say. There might be people listening to us that are on board of management that might have an insight into this in various different schools or maybe teachers that have got a heads up from the principal and maybe they'll give us some information and we'll make our inquiries to the Department of Education and see what the story is, Liam. And as you say, that's all I wanted to know, just to say. I just wanted to know. I get you. I don't want everybody to get a gunk when they go back to school and all of a sudden the classes have jumped up three or four more students. That's not fair on the students. It's not fair on the teachers. 32-year-old Reddy is too big. I mean, 32 already, I'd say. Well, I mean, that's an arm now. That's an arm in the schools, around the school, around the town, like so. And on the outskirts of the town, so. I'm not saying the teachers are brilliant in the school that she has. And we've been very lucky with the help we've got. But I wouldn't want it to get much bigger, though. All right. Is it primary you're talking of, isn't it? It's primary. I'm talking about grade, but I'm sure the secondary schools will be... Not for sure. I tend to know it's just interesting because I think the average class size in primary in the Republic of Ireland is 24 or 25. So you're already, your child's classroom is already oversubscribed by 25, sorry, it's actually more than 25 by 33%. Okay, leave it with us, Liam. Everything else going all right in terms of getting them back to school? It's stressful enough. Oh, the time's running, I'm very quick. Are they mad to go back to school, or are they wish the summer would last forever at this stage? Well, when the sun's out, the wish the summer would last forever. Yeah, we're all the same. All right, take care, Liam. Thanks for your call. Thanks a lot, Liam. Have a great day, Liam. All right, bye-bye. Oh wait, 60, 25,000, if you can give us an insight into that. Let's just say we'll make our own inquiries, but you know yourself. There's so many different situations in so many different parts of the county and all over the country. Right, okay. We're going to be speaking now to, not now, but after the break to the co-founder of the Sibling Grief Club. It is part of our wellness Wednesday. Stay with us. I hope you'll find it informative and interesting. That's coming up for you after these. 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Now you established the Sibling Grief Club because of a very difficult time that you and your family went through. You've had a real tough time, haven't you? Can you tell us what happened to your lovely sister, Trina? Yeah, so Trina was 34. And in 2017, sort of late 2016, she took on bail. And doctors were sort of adamant that you had this stomach bug or a gastro flu that was going around at the time and that she would just have to, you know, sort of stick it out and just stay hydrated, you know, the usual sort of advice. But actually by the time it came to February, she had deteriorated so badly, lost a lot of weight. We felt that it was necessary to call an ambulance for her and she went to hospital and just didn't come home. Whilst there, they discovered that it wasn't a stomach bug, that it was actually a blockage in her bowel. So by the time they discovered that blockage, it was too late, Trina was already dying. And she died very suddenly and very unexpectedly, you know, she went into hospital with a gastrobug and didn't come home. So that was very traumatic in itself. But yeah, so for the whole family, it was just so sudden, so unexpected. And she was in her prime, everything was going her way otherwise, wasn't it? It was just starting to, you know, really kick on for her as I say, early 30s, everything going her way other than. And this sounds like this could have been preventable, maybe, I mean. Yeah, well, we certainly feel that it was great. We were there the whole time with her and we pleaded with doctors to, you know, to listen to her, to listen to us. But they just didn't realize and I think a big factor and it was that it was actually the weekend in the hospital and there were no senior consultants on duty when Trina needed them. And yeah, that's very difficult to accept. And unfortunately, I'm hearing all too often of people being sent home from hospital or knowing themselves that something's wrong. And your sister and your family tried to sort of say, no, she knows herself, there's something more serious than this. But not everyone's doing that and people aren't are being sent home and complications flare up and it either leads to illness or long-term damage in death. And I'm one individual and I'm hearing personally, you know, people that would contact me through social media and other far too many stories like this, Mavine, when people aren't listened to or it's put down to something else. And I mean, how could we even put a figure on how many lives are lost or altered irreprep... Without being able to be repaired, I'll put it that way. Yeah. Now, this was obviously a huge shock. Has there been a support group or club for siblings who've lost someone? Is there maybe an attitude that we don't think it's the same as losing, being pre-deceased, for example, or losing a parent or why do you think there was a gap that needed the establishment of the sibling grief club? Yeah. Well, I suppose a shoot start by saying that, you know, the people who were close to us, our family, our friends, our wider community, they all got the gravity of the situation. You know, they were all as shocked and as horrified as we were. And nobody, sort of nobody that I know or nobody that I depended on personally for support ever underestimated that relationship and therefore the depth of my grief and trauma. It was on a sort of a wider societal scale that maybe people that weren't close enough to our family sort of downplayed the sibling relationship as not being as significant or as deep as, say, for example, a parental relationship or a spousal one or even bereaved children, child siblings. How does that, how would we be aware of that? And maybe it's in all different cases, but is it how the wider population or public spoke to you or how would we know or get a sense that maybe as a wider society, if you're not directly affected, that people don't see your brother or sister dying as big a deal as it clearly is or losing someone else? I mean, how does that manifest itself? Well, you know, people would have said to me, oh, you know, when I eventually was able to return to work, you know, they would have said, oh, you know, I didn't realize that you were as close to your sister as you are. Or were you close? But also whenever you go online to try and access specific support for adult siblings, there was nothing, there was a huge void there and you were almost left thinking, this isn't the thing. You know, there's lots of support for all different types of relationships, but nothing for adult siblings. You know, why are you making a big deal out of this? You automatically think that your grief isn't valid. And, you know, if there's nothing there for you, if there's no place for you to put your grief or where you feel you belong, it's a very lonely feeling and you do feel very much that you're on your own. And I just wanted to do something that would address that, yeah. Yeah, and I suppose in terms of a single individual, you've got more in common with a sibling of the same parents than you have with anyone else, really. Yeah, oh, very much. So, you know, you share the 50% genetic makeup. It's the longest relationship that we will have, like longer than with our parents or best friends or spouses. And actually, our siblings do form so much of who we are. Our personalities, you know, there are parameters growing up. We hone our social skills there. We hone our communication skills. All of those sort of things, emotional intelligence is developed through our childhood interactions with our siblings. And there's deep, deep bonds there. And I just feel that sometimes they're really underestimated. And in fact, there's very little research that has been carried out specifically on the sibling relationship, but more so than that sibling bereavement, sibling loss, and there's very little. Well, with that in mind then, in terms of the support that's there, the likes of the Sibling Grief Club, is it to fill a gap for people that there was nothing specific if they Googled it for them? Or is the support tailored? In other words, is there a different type of support for someone who's lost a sibling? Or is it just there's a specific place now that you can get the same sort of bereavement supports dependent on who, not dependent on who you lost? Yeah, I think it's probably a mixture of both, Greg. I think, number one, the primary need of a griever is to feel heard and understood, and who better to hear you and understand you than people who have shared the same life experiences you. So that's really, really important that people feel safe and comfortable in doing that, and we hope that Sibling Grief Club affords people that space. But also, there is also the added requirement for support tailored to adult siblings. It's not that it's wildly different. Obviously the same principles apply in terms of healing for most people, but not everything will work for everyone. And I think too, especially if it's a younger person, there's so many things going on. Firstly, coping with potentially that strong bond that's lost, there is the lost future together, the shared memories or shared time. This may be the realization of your own mortality, or if it's something, could it be hereditary? Has this changed really how I have to approach my health going forward? There may often be young children. It can be easier sometimes to explain a bereavement of an older person, but if it's someone around your own age, there's a different way you would have to speak to children about that because they could start saying, well, mommy or daddy, was this going to happen to you? There's an awful lot in there that's almost quite unique and specific to the loss of a sibling, dependent on the circumstances, as I say, particularly in that younger age group. Hugely. It is, and that has been our experience in terms of the reaction of our family to Trina's death. It really does instill a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety in us all. We all did question our own mortality, was this, were we next? Our kids had a lot of fear that we were going to be next. So there was a lot of work that had to be done around that. And it involved just a lot of love, a lot of reassurance and doing things with them that helped them talk about what happened to Trina. They had lots of questions and there's lots of great organizations out there that do have support to bereave children and bereave families. And again, that's all encompassed within the sibling grief club website. Lots of different resources there and we signpost to different organizations that can help in instances like that. So it's not a one size fits all. So there's lots there. And the losses is equal, but there can be different circumstances. It could be a road traffic collision. It could be a suicide. It could be a long-term health issue or a sudden health issue. And I suppose it has to be flexible because all of those things, other than the core loss and grief, all of those things can affect different people in different ways. Oh, definitely. I suppose there's no other way to put it, but the death story, my sister's death story is gonna be completely different to someone else's. It's very difficult to talk about that, to explain it to people. And yeah, there's loads of different dynamics. If it's unexpected, if it was expected through terminal illness, but all the loss is the same. If you love at all, then you're gonna feel a lot of pain through that loss. It's gonna be a very, very difficult time. And you do need to sort of give it time to feel all of those things and not necessarily rush into fixing it because feeling it is healing it. And that's what we try and advocate for. Sometimes we say the wrong thing because it feels like, if I meet you for the first time, what do I say? Maybe I feel I need to say something more than I'm sorry for your loss. I wonder, do we also need to reflect on how we speak to people who've suffered this type of arraignment or any bereavement as well, that we have to be careful and conscious of the impact our words have. And sometimes maybe, if you don't know what the right thing is to say, say very little. Yeah, exactly. Again... Or let the person speak, ask a question and allow them to define their relationship, their grief, their loss. Totally, totally. And look, I was the exact same before Trina passed away. You know, and it's a common sort of experience for people who have been bereaved or they automatically think, oh my God, I've been completely useless in support and other people. And you know, you do berate yourself about that. But my own experience has been like, I'm not a grief expert, I'm not a grief worker or a trained professional in this field. But if you don't know what to say, say very little, you know, sympathize with someone, I'm sorry for your loss and say, you know, there's just no words for this. This is absolutely horrendous. Is there anything I can do? So just sitting and listening is more therapeutic. And as I mentioned earlier, giving someone the space to tell their story and to express their grief and their feelings is the most powerful gift that you can give. So if you're ever in doubt as to how to best support someone, it's not to fix. We don't need to be fixed because you can't fix it. We just need the space and the time to be able to, you know, express how we're feeling. But also we need space and time and no pressure to continue as we were because we're not the same people. We're never ever going to be the same people again. And we need time to sort of come back to our new world, which is one, which is being 50% sad and 50% happy. Yeah, and that requires us that the people not directly affected by this particular situation. Patience and understanding. And that's it. And let the person, because some people deal with grief in different way. They may campaign, they may seek just as dependent on what it might be. They might internalize it and not want to speak. They might be, it might be the only thing that they want to speak of. And you know, with the happy memories, everybody has to be given the space and the understanding to do, and that's what good friends and good community do, they allow them that and let them define where they're at. And as I say, ask a question, let people speak. It's, there is a lot of stuff there. A lot of experience, a lot of understanding. A lot of people have been through this. A lot of that information's being drawn on. And that's the knowledge pack that's effectively there. Isn't it, Mayveen? Yeah, yeah, very much so. In terms of grief support, is that what you're saying? I think everything, yeah. But be grief support or, I think sometimes we think that when something happens to us, it's the first time it's ever happened to anybody and nobody else understands how I feel. And then maybe in time, when you converse or you join a group like yours, you realize that there's a kinship there that there are people that understand. Yeah, yeah, very much so. And I think that stems from a lack of awareness about what grief is, because until you experience it, you really can't have any sort of understanding of what the loss will mean. But I genuinely believe that we can do a lot more in terms of preparing people for grief, because a lot of my grief symptoms, if you like, were things that I just hadn't expected. I wasn't prepared for the fear, the anxiety, the confusion, the forgetfulness, you know, the physical pain, like nobody had ever told me. And I was quite cross about it at the time and caught it, my poor mother, you know, I'd be given out to heart, like why did nobody think to tell us that it was like this? And she was like, what do you mean? What do you mean? And I was like, mom, you know, I thought grief was just being sad and crying and being really upset, but there's so much more to it, to the point where you think you're losing your mind and that's a really frightening place to be. And I couldn't communicate that. I had a lot of difficulty explaining it. All I could say was this is horrific. This is absolutely horrific. And I couldn't identify what it was, but everything was so different and alien. Nothing felt right. For days after she died, I walked about trying to rearrange furniture because I thought it was the furniture that was out of place, but it wasn't, it was Trina, she was out of place. So, you know, just trying to figure that stuff out, I think we could do a lot more to prepare people for death and for grief and for bereavement. But maybe we have to get over it. We have to, I can be as guilty if this is others though I've been through my own stuff, but maybe we're uncomfortable talking about death and loss and grief. And yet we all have to come into contact with it for the most part, unless it's us that goes first. So it's a taboo, it's not a talk about thing. We can see that none of us, no one wants to fill out a will because that's like talking about death or you could die. And then we have to pick up the pieces down the line. So maybe we could start having more constructive and not sort of default sad stories about our mortality and death and what happens next to us who remain, we might be in a better place. Exactly, like we need to start having those conversations because, you know, there's one thing for sure, it's gonna come to everyone's door. You know, most people have experienced like awful tragic traumatic loss of some description, but we don't talk about it enough. But I have to say, like in the space of, like Trina passed away five years ago, and in the space of five years, it really has come on a long way and social media is great for that. And there definitely is a lot more sort of conversations going on. But if you're not in that community, it's probably gone over your head. But if it's one thing that I could encourage people to do, it's just to talk more about grief and be honest and open about it. And therefore, we might be able to, you know, have the coping skills before we need them, as opposed to trying to find them afterwards. Yeah, you're doing great stuff in speaking out about this. How is it for you? Is it, you know, positive, is it negative, but you feel you have to do it? Or I guess you're the best person to say, it's probably a massive mixed up ball of all of that. Yeah, look, it's hugely rewarding, I have to say. It really is, particularly when you get feedback from people to say, you know, this has helped me and thank you, you know, for the work that you do. Sometimes it is challenging because you do have to be honest about your own journey, whenever you're asking others to do the same. And I'm a very emotional person, so it can be a wee bit draining at times. But for the most part, it's been a really positive experience. And the thing that sustains me and keeps me going is that it really encompasses what Trina was all about, like, you know, she was the one who would have, you know, taken care of us all. And I love being able to do something that reflects the values that she held there. And that's just the thing that I suppose it fuels this project and the fact that you are helping people along the way is a huge honour, really. OK, well, our best wishes to you, Adele, Kathy and the rest of the family. And family goes beyond that, I'm sure. She had really close relationships with cousins or aunts or the ripple effects throughout the entire family. But that's also a testament to obviously the great person that she was to have that impact on people. If people want more information about the Sibling Grief Club, is it a Google job, maybe? Yeah, yeah, very much so. So our friend, Google, just siblinggriefclub.com or check us out on Instagram and Facebook. We also, we have a wee private group there for specifically for briefed Adele siblings. And then the other platforms are, you know, we do look at Sibling Grief as, you know, on its own. But also, we, you know, involve and incorporate other types of loss as well. And hope that it supports, you know, a lot wider base than Sibling. So thanks so much for your time today. Thank you, Greg. It's been lovely speaking to you. Thank you very much indeed. That's Mavine McNabb, co-founder of the Sibling Grief Club. If you comment you wish to make, 086625000 or call us an 07491 25000. The 9 till noon show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. Finn Harps are in Dublin this Friday evening for a crunch bottom of the table clash with UCD. Join Oshin Langen and Declan Boyle for the full match commentary at the Bellefield Bowl from 745 Kickoff. 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And I love to see, there's a bit of snobbery, I think I may have mentioned this to you before, on certain types of jobs, whether they're retail, like, I don't know if we've had a government minister necessarily recently come up and welcoming the opening of a new Lidl store, that's creating 60 jobs in an area, or what have you. It's often the tech or that type of store. So it's good to see this making the news and it really is a welcomed boost, a jobs boost for Litter Kenny. Yeah, Greg, 20 new jobs are to be created in Litter Kenny when Dennis Flatpik, financial company JYSK opens the Litter Kenny Retail Outlet at the Litter Kenny Retail Park. So the Scandinavian company and their arrival to the furniture giant IKEA, they have 16 stores in Ireland and this will be the first to be opened in Donegal. I think the nearest in this region is Sligo. Yeah, I haven't been in one of these stores, but a lot of people travel great distances to go to IKEA so they could potentially do very, very well if it's the same kind of produce. Yeah, look, IKEA obviously as a major, a major name, but going back to the point you made earlier about maybe going on to the radio are we, but in terms of what the jobs, what the jobs that current climate, climate, Greg, are what the jobs and they're very much to be welcome. Yeah, brilliant stuff. Okay, there's a new Chief Executive Officer, Board Bia. Yeah, Board Bia has appointed Jim O'Toole as his new CEO and he will take up his role on November the 1st. Jim O'Toole is currently Chief Executive of Board East Gawara. That's Ireland's seafood development agency and he has overseen the development of the Irish seafood sector, which was valued at 1.26 billion euro in 2021. So he's been with Board East Gawara for the last 20 years and has been CEO since 2017. Yeah, and it's an important Board Bia as well. I think there are the group sort of, they were part of their responsibilities is like opening up new markets for Irish producers. If I'm not mistaken, and you know, there are meetings and trips to China or different places that happened years ago that you don't really know about, but now these are really very valuable markets. And I suppose that's, you know, it's hard to quantify success, but that's what they're doing. So hopefully it works. Hopefully it continues to continue that work. Yeah, as well as food productions very much come onto the microscope in recent times in relation to the farmers and biodiversity and the change and what's going to happen there. So as you say, they're a big player and I'd like to see, I suppose, how they're sort of linked, I thought the two agencies as well. So obviously he's bringing a big experience there to where he's come from as well. It'll be interesting, because we're coming into interesting times because the conversation very soon is going to switch from, not from where our beef is produced, be it Brazil or Ireland or wherever, but the fact that we're eating beef at all. And that's going to be the next thing that we as a global population need to change what we are eating. I've seen the sort of seeds that sown recently and I can just see in the years ahead that's going to be a big, big conversation. Right, okay. An Acorn program, the next one in fact is being launched in October. It's probably a month, two months away. Yeah, Acorns, the state-funded initiative that encourages female entrepreneurs in rural Ireland to develop their business ideas is seeking 50 participants for the 2022-2023 program. Accelerating the creation of nascent startups receives hundreds of applications and participants are selected on a competitive basis. So Acorns 8th will run from October 2022 to April 2023 and the deadline for applications is Friday, September the 23rd. So for more information at Greg, go to Acorns website as acorns.ie. All right, networking a huge part of business at all levels, but particularly fledging. There's an event coming up with that in mind shortly. Yeah, the Donegal Women and Business Network will hold a coffee morning at six locations across the county on Friday, August the 26th, between 10.30 and 11.30. So the event is aiming to reach out to women and afford them the opportunity to find out more about the network and the coffee morning is being held at the following venues, the Weaver's Graft, McGee's Donegal Town, Brown Sugar, Bakery and Bondorn, the Baby Hotel and Kelly Beggs, Dylan's Hotel in the Rikini, the Ineshaun Gateway Hotel in Bunkranna and the Revive Market House Coffee Bar in Dunfanny. And for more information, check out Donegal Women and Business Network's social media platforms. All right, post pandemic, we've seen the return of lots of events, which is great to see the Donegal Heritage Week. They're going to get their first crack at it, post pandemic. Yeah, this will be the first in three years, Greg. It makes a welcome return as you say and it gets on the way this Saturday, August the 13th and runs to Sunday, August the 21st. There are around 60 events scheduled across the county and a full program is available online at www.heraldiesweek.ae. Keir and good stuff. All right, we're going to find out what's coming up on this week's edition of the Business Matters podcast, which is live for you right now on our website, highlandradio.com, or where you get your podcasts. Then we're going to preview it after these messages. 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 transferred directly to your current account. Submers just got better. 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So the deadline for entries and nominations for the 2022 Larry Kinney Chamber of Commerce Business Awards is Saturday, August the 20th. I caught up with Larry Kinney Chamber of Commerce President, Christine Reynolds, to discuss this year's awards, which will be presented at a gala ball on Friday, November 11th, in the Mount Eregal Hotel. I think it's really important and it's a great thing to have and it's a massive celebration of businesses, local businesses and a great way to learn more about businesses as well. I suppose the last awards I was at was back in 2018 and there was loads of businesses that had entered that I either hadn't heard of or I just didn't really know what they did. So massive way to raise your profile and tell people what you're doing. There's a bit of networking goes on in the night as well. You know, so a bit of business is done on the night, but it's just a celebration about what we do that's good up here, what we're great at and our local businesses. So it's really good to have that. Yeah, and you heard it in that clip and you'll hear it throughout the interview, Kieran from Christine. You know, sometimes you have to plug yourself, sometimes you have to boast of your own success, sometimes you have to say, yeah, we're good enough to win an award. Yeah, very much in his books. The whole thing is very important when that happens is to come together, market and celebrate it. Are you going? Hopefully. Oh, excellent stuff, okay. You talked about Carmel Munn Rose, she's of Bibi Financial. Yes, Carmel is business development manager with Bibi Financial Service for the West, Midlands, Northern Ireland and the Northwest. She worked with Osterbank in the Northwest for over 30 years and is enjoying her new role with Bibi, which she took up back in March. Carmel had these words of advice for SME owners. Look at your cash flow. Look at how do you operate your credit control. Traditional rural Ireland, you know, we're famous for saying, ah, Johnny will pay me down the road. But currently Johnny's possibly have the same challenge as you're having. So sit back and look at your credit control, how efficient is it? If you've always given 30 days, say, and a client is now 40, 50 days, look back at the impact that it's had on your business and look back on the future impact that it's going to have on your business. I would say look ahead, look at succession. Whether your five-year plan is to grow your business into something much bigger than what it is to scale up or whether it's to retire, you need to have a five-year plan in place. Set goals and objectives that you can achieve that. And look for the pinch points along that journey. And when I say pinch points, I look, I say if you're a seasonal business and you're only getting paid for five, six, seven months of the year, that's going to have an end on cash flow. If your five-year plan is to expand, you're going to spend two years in research and development, that's going to hit your cash flow. Then plan for that now. All right, it's a business podcast for people in business. It's about business and to inform the general population about the businesses and the people behind their businesses in their local area and beyond. If anyone wants to get in contact with the podcast, how do they do so, Kieran? Yeah, just drop me an email, please, Greg, businessbattersathighlandradio.com. Radio, now the full interviews with Christine Reynolds and Carmel Monroe are available now on our website, highlandradio.com, on Spotify and iTunes as well. It's broadcast on air as well, Kieran. Yeah, after these six o'clock news on Sunday evening. Super stuff, listen, thank you very much for that. Enjoy the sunshine, Greg. You too, do you enjoy the sunshine? Thank you very much, I'm going out into it now. I'm going out into it now. What are you going doing? I'm meeting one of our colleagues later on, Brenda Vinay, I think he's having the dealings for a bit of a barbecue. What are you going for? Waffles. Two waffles. Very appropriate. Two waffles. If you've come before, I'll tell you. You'll not get a word in English. So you're going for a barbecue? Well, that's the plan, only. And where? It's supposed to be dealings. Really? Well, okay, out at the beach. Well, that's the plan, only. He's master of ceremony, so I'm just going to, I'm going to love whatever he's saying, you know. Well, there you go. That's an interesting one. So if you see two fellas burning burgers in downings. I'm going to call the emergency services. All right, Kieran, thanks very much indeed. All right, take care of yourself. The Business Matters podcast, available for you right now. Or you can go on our website, highlandradio.com, listen back in the playback section. We were talking yesterday about people who have been waiting a long time or indeed have not been waiting a long time at all for hip replacement, knee replacement, other operations that you can get done quicker if you go across the border. Now that could be into Northern Ireland or as we heard from James over to Spain. It can work really quite well for you. And just some comments coming in as it relation to that. This is someone wondering, can they get any help? I'm waiting on a hernia operation for three years. I went to Bali, Kelly. They said they could not do it because they had no ICU. It's four years now. My hernia is now the size of a football and still no word from Dublin. Can you imagine? They'd be looking very, I mean, there's something that happened to live with and it's not really comfortable at all. Right, okay. We'll come back to that because I want to get in before 12. A word with John McAteer who's lifeboat operations manager at Luxwellie are in a lie. Good morning, good to see you, John. How are you keeping? I'm very well, Greg. Can't complain. Yes, well, we're trying to keep you as quiet as possible. You and your teams do absolutely amazing work. You know, it's really important, I think, that we enjoy good weather, that we take care, be it sunscreen or we use the waterways and be careful in how we do, but not to not enjoy ourselves, not to go outside and not to not have fun. We have to have fun when we can. But we do know that sometimes, I suppose if we're not used to the water or if we haven't been near it for a while, John, or if we're excited and happy and whatever, we can let our guard down. So this is just to remind us a few things. I suppose be it lakes, rivers, quarries, the open sea, you just have to be really, really careful, don't you? Yeah, you really do, Greg. And it's really, and I would agree with you. I mean, we would agree with you as an organization. People must enjoy the facilities that the water offers them. And that's great to do it, but it's important, as you say, to do it with care and taking care for your surroundings. And one of the things that we promote heavily at the moment is what we call the Floak to Live campaign, which was designed to really look after people who never intended to go into the water. And there's about 200 people a year have drowned because they never intended to be there, but they go too close to the edge of a cliff path or something like that, or they slip into a lake or get cut off by the tide. And you're plunged into the water all of a sudden. And what tends to happen is people thrash about and they get into a panic and they really get into bother. And unfortunately, it can end up losing their life. Yeah, and that means really that it's like running up five flights of stairs, one after the other, perhaps. You know, you have to reserve your lung capacity because very quickly you can find yourself panting and chasing your breath. So it's about, in the heat of the moment, a few simple pieces of advice. And what are they, John? Well, it's based on the word float. And it's simple if you keep it in your head. If you take the letters of float, F is the first letter and you have to fight your instinct to thrash about or panic or swim. And then L is for lean back, lean back in the water, try and keep your airways clear. O is for opening up your body and extend the arms and legs into the floating position. And then A is for the actions you take them to gently move your arms and legs and help you to float. And all that process calms you down and gets you in control of your breathing again. Because you've had a shock and you're in cold water. So it's very important to get the breathing back. And that gives you a T at the end, gives you some time to then reassess your own situation. But it also gives time for the emergency services like ourselves to get there and render assistance and help when needed. That's as simple as that. You know, if you hit the water unexpectedly, remember float and remember what it stands for. Basically lean back in the water, calm yourself down, get control of your breathing. And hopefully somebody, if people were with you or seeing you, they'll have alerted the Coast Guard and that will alert us or other organizations. And those simple steps will save lives. And you just have to be really aware of your surroundings too. I mean, I can't remember the last good day we had or maybe it was the one before that. There was an offshore breeze, an easterly breeze depending on where you are in the country of course. And one after another, people are getting blown out on paddle boards that you stand on, even kayaks. Their arms just gave up, they could no longer paddle against the current and the wind. It's to be aware of those type of things that maybe if you're not familiar with the sea or open water and you don't live beside it, you can get caught out very quickly because it can change like that. The wind is not, you know, it doesn't blow in one direction and that's it for the rest of the day. It can switch with the tides or whatever. Oh yeah, and it happens so quickly and so simply and you're not on control of the situation when you're in the water as a kind of an alien environment and winds, currents change and all of a sudden you're out of your depth. So it's being aware of the situation you're in. You're swimming parallel to the shore, don't swim outwards, stay in your own depth. It's all straightforward and you can have plenty of fun doing all that. But the tendency is to move out and go further and can result in getting into difficulties. John McAteer, LifeBot Operations Manager at Lux-Williard in LA. Thank you and all your colleagues for the work that you do. Have a great day. Thanks very much, Greg. Good to talk to you. Okay, you too. Right, that's where we have to leave it. If you can get out in the beautiful weather that we're having, get out, enjoy it. You know, cover your skin if you cover your skin because you'll get burnt very quickly. Well, enjoy the water, but do so safely. Do it without fear, just with caution and care. All right, take care of yourself. Back tomorrow morning at nine. Stay tuned. John Breslin's up around the Northwest after the news at 12. The Ninetal...