 It was just a strange booking ahead of a football match. The match was delayed. You know how right okay passionate Yeah, soccer fans can be yes, and then she has a passion in my throat. Can't you know she had to sing in front of them? And how did it go? I don't think it went too. Well She was given out about the fans. I think I didn't read up too much about it All right, but should the boys the boys and girls the fans will be all g'd up for the kid. Oh, yeah Think she's at a concert or something. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna work for that No, thanks. All right, they have a good Wednesday enjoy the weather if you can and we'll see you tomorrow morning It is the 90 noon show now and at 9 o'clock. It's time for news updates and it's over to Michaela Clark Thanks, great. Good morning It's only gold deputy has claimed that the HSC has not only filled vulnerable people and their families in the county But has also filled frontline staff and left them abandoned deputy Thomas Pringle was questioning public expenditure minister Michael McGraw and the doll After further concerns were raised in recent days that more allegations of sexual abuse could emerge in Dunnegull On foot of the Brandon report and subsequent assessments that remain unpublished Minister McGraw told deputy Pringle that work is ongoing to bring forward the publication of the Brandon report Minister and rabbit who as you know has taken a very keen personal interest in relation to the matter has been to Dunnegull And it's had a series of meetings there and is most anxious that the full details in the Brandon report would be published As soon as possible and again just to make the point that Minister Butler is separately bringing forward a Safeguarding bill and she expects to have that bill before the Iraq this before the end of this year The Dublin Airport Authority will be asked today for a guarantee that chaotic scenes and long queues experienced last weekend It won't be repeated 1,400 people miss flights on Sunday after thousands of passengers were forced to queue outside and inside both terminal buildings Staffing shortages are being blamed the DAA's CEO Dalton Phillips and the senior management team are due before the Iraq is transferred committee today Committee chair Kieran O'Donnell says they want complete assurance that this bank holiday weekend and the summer season will be different And we will be seeking guarantees And we will be asking the direct question of Dalton Phillips and his management colleagues That's precisely what measures are putting in place in simple layman's terms What happened over the weekend is they didn't have enough lanes open in Either of the two terminals and not enough staff and duty to deal with the volume of passengers Which they should have known and they would have known Ferry services are resuming today in Inishon The L'Aupfoyle ferry service linking Green Castle and McGilligan and the Swilly ferry service connecting Bunkrana and Rathmullin are fully operational as of today Both services will operate at seven days a week Here look off the Inishon Municipal District Councillor Nicholas Croson says with people still very much opting for stacations The ferry services will simply enhance the offering in the peninsula They are very well placed to attract more tourists and we do we need them back in Inishon And to enjoy Inishon and the ferry service can only help with that Whether or not I dry with sunny spells developing this morning highest temperatures today of 13 to 16 degrees That's all from Highland Radio News for now We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock Until then, good morning We'll do more Our ambition is to create new forests, manage our existing forests for greater carbon capture And provide more habitats to enhance biodiversity We'll support creating new homes by delivering sustainable Irish wood products And we'll increase the number of beautiful forest recreation spaces for everyone to enjoy Quiltia, forests for climate, nature, wood and people For a greener future for all The Ninetal 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 And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest The Ninetan Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio Hello, a very good morning to you Four minutes past nine on this Wednesday It is the start of a new month It is the first of June 2022 How are you keeping? It's a nice bright morning across most of the Northwest here this morning I hope it's the same wherever you are The lines are open for you to have your say Of course, a lot of the newspapers today Discussing the ongoing problems at Dublin Airport Inevitably some Donegal people have been caught up with that But many people use the bus service to get to Dublin And there seems to be a lot of cancellations ongoing I was sent a screenshot from Tuesday Where all buses from Donegal to Dublin seemingly cancelled Is that something you have an opinion on? Is that something that's affected you? I'd be very interested to hear more about that 08, 6, 60, 25,000 Of course, we are being pushed out of our cars We're being encouraged out of our cars Expected to take public transport But really internally and to and from What is the state of the public transport in Donegal? Is it worsening or getting better? 08, 6, 60, 25,000 Let's look at the front of the papers this morning The Donegal Post has a mock-up of the Diamond in Donegal Town I'm not really quite sure about this It's a lot of trees being planted Really seems to be what it is But I just wonder if it might ruin the aspect As you look through the Diamond in Donegal Town But anyway, it's going ahead The people of Donegal Town will be getting a diamond Like no other, this Christmas Oh, it's a Christmas plan, all right But this sparkle won't be on the long finger It'll arrive in the shape of a newly refurbished centre Of town, part of a 500,000-euro master plan That will see outdoor public space developed To suit its increased use as both a tourist focal point And a hub for all sport, all sorts of community activities Folch Island, local community groups, businesses And individuals have combined their ideas To produce this vision for the future That will drive the sustainable development Of these important public spaces An online survey and public consultation Days inviting locals to take a fresh look At the pier and diamond areas Have provided many ideas for the development Folch Island, local community groups, businesses And individuals combined to produce designs To complement what is already there In this vibrant market town and tourist destination This location already through its rich history, culture And natural amenities will now see an extra sparkle To the finished product And as I say, there is a proposed plan for it Lots and lots of trees I don't know, it looks all right The Finn Valley voice The Finn Valley doesn't have to worry about Randon Or Radon, sorry There may be faint whiffs, stray wisps Of carcinogenic gas, Radon reaching your home From the underlying rocks But by and large, they pose no great threat That's according to new released maps published last week Which show the national Radon threat Postcode by postcode And they obviously focusing on the Finn Valley area Say levels there are low Though there can be pockets within those areas as well I wouldn't discord not that they are I have to phrase this correctly, not what the paper is Is but what we're being told is that Every house should be checked That these maps represent an overall situation in an area But within that area You could be in a property that has Radon levels That are damaging But overall, the Finn Valley and much of Donegal too Not seeing particularly high levels The Ennis Times There is mounting concern about the poor water quality In the list found an area of Ennis Shown Lawyer and former Senator Catherine Noon Who lives in the area Said sewage from the houses in Lisvalen Was effectively going straight into Loch Swilly A special area of conservation Completely untreated Missed Noon said the sewage Is not going to a wastewater treatment plan An all manner of things as we've discussed in this program too Being observed in the water and washed up on the shore The Irish Independent tells us that There is no good news as it relates to the cost of fuel And the latest announcements Of embargoes from Europe on Russia Is only, that's not just Europe of course But the sanctions as it relates to the use of their gas and oil Well, it's going to drive the price of fuel up There's a huge demand on fuel in America That's also driving the price up Petrol and diesel very likely to go over 2 euro a litre In fact, it seems almost inevitable So we read on here Just weeks after diesel broke the 2 euro a litre mark Now petrol prices have breached that barrier Now I don't think for the most part diesel is over 2 euro a litre In much of the Donegola mountain to correction I don't travel all of the county I know some parts it is above And I've seen petrol above 2 litres as well Farther south than the county But anyway, a surge in demand in the US In recent weeks has increased wholesale prices And led to rises at Irish filling stations Many now charge more than 2 euro a litre Although the national average stands at 191.9 Meanwhile diesel which first breached the 2 euro ceiling in March Now is a national average price of 194.6 pence per litre Or euro per litre, I beg your pardon While diesel prices have retreated slightly They're expected to go back up again Dealing another blow to hard pressed customers The latest surge in fuel comes as inflation hits a near 40 year high And for many people but not all people The heating perhaps not happened to go on as much as it did in the winter And we might get a rest bite for the next couple of months But we're going to face into a winter where the cost of getting to and from work Or wherever you might be travelling And heating your home is going to go up and up And of course the solution to that is electric cars and retrofitting But with far more strain on our finances Achieving those goals couldn't be further away It's just not going to work out very well, is it? The Irish Times tells us about how we're going to fare as a nation In relation to achieving our climate goals It's not, it doesn't make for good reading It's not no surprise either I think most of us as we were talking in the early 20s You know about these ambitious plans for 2030 Even simply the amount of electric cars they wanted on the roads I think most of us knew that's unachievable Firstly because of the cost for many Although they are getting more affordable The range for many though they are increasing in range But where do you bloody charge them? You know, we still don't even have a decent Electric vehicle charging network And I don't think, is anyone plugging in their plugging hybrids? I'm not quite sure But anyway between that, our transport situation And agriculture We are not going to meet our carbon budgets We'll read on here Failure to date to cut greenhouse gas emissions In the agriculture and transport sector means Ireland is unlikely to meet its carbon budgets In the coming decade according to the EPA It says there is a significant gap between the budgets And projected emissions And that the pace they are being reduced at Does not meet the UN intergovernmental panel On climate change's recent call for Now or never action The government is due to agree Sector or emissions ceilings in coming weeks To apply across the economy up to 2025 The EPA said urgent implementation of all climate plans and policies Plus further new measures will be needed For Ireland to have any chance of meeting Illegally binding 51% emissions reduction target by 2030 But look, much of the public transport is still dirty fuel We are continuing our use of solid fuel to generate electricity That's been extended out even though it was supposed to be reduced We're not making great inroads in switching to electric cars And as I said before Not only A can many of us not retrofit our homes But B, many within the industry believe It's not achievable in the time Or what is being proposed Would be effective enough to make a huge impact Laura Burke, the agency director general Is to tell the EPA's annual climate conference today These projections show the scale of policy development And implementation needed To match the ambition of our Climate Act 2021 And carbon budget targets But look at it And we know the situation up here But they can't even, if they want to ban turf They can't even do that, right? And a lot of people in this county are very happy about that But they can't get that over the line For fear of a huge backlash and backbench revolt So how do you think the rest of it's going to go? All right, the Irish Daily Mail DEA chief took off for Saudi as crisis unfolded It's exactly what I would have done I'm being paid hundreds of thousands euro To run a national airport The, you know what's about to hit the fan What do you do? You fly off to the UAE, don't you? You had a bit of sun, have a few pints He didn't stay there long though And all furnished to him The CEO of the DEA, Dalton Phillips Flew out of Dublin Airport on Saturday night After the passenger crisis had started to unfold Mr. Phillips was part of a DEA Formally known as the Dublin Airport Authority Team Who were travelling on to Jeddah In Saudi Arabia on Sunday The DEA refused to clarify Mr. Phillips' flight arrangements last night But confirmed that he flew out on Saturday night The same day huge queues stretched outside Terminal 1 As 50,000 passengers tried to catch flights Mr. Phillips returned to Dublin Airport At some point on Sunday As the chaos escalated Right, okay On to the Irish Daily Star today And almost one-third of you out there Believe the government exaggerated COVID-19 deaths It's according to new research from UCD The research which surveyed over 12,000 people Across six European countries To investigate public trust and expertise Reveals the public's view on the pandemic vaccination And their belief in various COVID-19 conspiracies The study was commissioned by UCD As part of its European Commission Horizon 2020 project Policy Expertise and Trust in Action Despite 31% of people in Ireland Thinking the number of deaths from coronavirus Were exaggerated by government The majority still expressed a strong belief In the scientific consensus That COVID-19 vaccines are safe Three-quarters of those surveyed in Ireland Said it was true That nearly all scientists agreed on this With one in seven thinking otherwise The largest recorded figure across the nations Involved in the study Belief in this scientific consensus Was virtually joint highest with the UK And higher than the average elsewhere of 69% In Poland the belief that the government Inflated COVID-19 deaths was 43% Ireland has the lowest percentage of people From six counties studied Who believed the Simpsons mostly blamed on coronavirus Were linked to 5G network indication So we had the lowest percentage of people That believed that to be the case 5G now, I'm pretty prevalent everywhere at this point Right, okay, guard of new powers Never waste a good crisis, they say New laws are to be passed to ensure Guardy can access mobile phone data during investigations It comes after Graham Dwyer challenged The use of data against him in the case That got him convicted Dwyer was jailed in 2015 after he murdered Child care worker Elaine O'Hara To satisfy his desire to stab someone to death Guardy investigators traced the movements Of phones used by Dwyer to contact Elaine Who was found dead in the killer key mountains In Dublin, a high court found in favour of Dwyer And said the law used by Guardy to access his phone data Goes against EU rules So that appeal of the decision went all the way To the European Court of Justice Which made a ruling in favour of Dwyer's legal team And the ruling was a boost to Dwyer In his bid to overturn his murder conviction And has caused problems for Guardy In other serious crime investigations Now Justice Minister Helen McIntee last night Got approval from the cabinet to introduce Emergency legislation to fix the issues The minister intends to amend the Communications Act To enable Guardy to continue to access phone data For national security purposes She said while I do not want to comment On the specifics of cases I have been clear that I do not want a situation Where in God is she a conner, hands are tied Behind their back And lastly World's first gives new liver transplant hope A cancer patient is thriving after a world's first Transplant with a damaged donor liver Which was repaired on a machine for three days The breakthrough brings hope of saving hundreds Of lives every year by producing more viable organs The 62 year old patient was in a race Against time waiting for a donor On his cancer spread The liver from a woman of 29 who died of sepsis Was not initially accepted for donation As tests found it to be poorly functioning But a team who developed a machine able to keep a liver alive Longer than the usual 12 hours on ice Were able to treat it with drugs While supplying it with a blood substitute The patient received it in May last year And 12 months on is healthy So that means that hopefully that will be Used across the board that they'll be able to Repair organs To make more of them more usable All right, it's okay That's a run through what's in the front Or on the front of the newspapers this morning We'll start making our own headlines After we take this break In a bun Like to act Love to drop Want to get juggling Whether you want to run away with the circus Or explore your hidden talents Come out and play at the Student Eleventh For Krinyan and Oake A national day of creativity for big and little kids Go to koreanofarland.gov.ie to find out more Krinyan and Oake Supported by RTE As part of the national food waste recycling week Donegal County Council in partnership With Bryson Recycling and in Viral Grind Limited Will be having free compost giveaway events Householders can collect free compost Made from food and garden waste Food waste recycling starter packs Will also be available to support the use Of the food waste recycling bin Compost giveaway days take place on Wednesday 1st of June 10am to 12pm In current on a recycling centre And 2pm to 4pm in Milford Recycling Centre Thursday 2nd of June 10.30am to 12.30pm In Lahi Recycling Centre And 2pm to 4pm at Stronnoller Recycling Centre Householders should bring their own bags Or container to collect the compost Compost available while stocks last Okay now we're returning to the story we covered Earlier this year It's as it relates to the treatment of some students At Skolmora We are joined on the programme now by Nolene, is it good morning Nolene? Thanks for joining us Good morning Greg, how are you? I am good, I'm good Right okay so just recap from your perspective What the situation is at Skolmora Well this morning Firstly I want to start to say This isn't exactly the route I have wanted to go But unfortunately we have been left as parents now Without answers after numerous emails And sent so hence the reason I'm here today Speaking on behalf of myself, my son And I'm speaking on behalf of a few other parents That have joined with me today on this So basically we started our journey in Skolmora So we did the first year our boys Had been assigned to the content Which was the ASD unit So it was COVID had eventually Then and our boys had been transferred to a house In Bunkrana and it was called the Lake House The boys had been transferred there Speaking for myself And I think a few other parents had been in the same situation I was never notified of this change That was going to happen And I had only found that out So I had through another parent in my local village And I left Skolmora I didn't bring it up as an issue COVID happened It was a lot of people for everybody I left the house happen And the boys were safe That was the main objective However as time went on There was no communication made On when they were due to come back But in February We had all received the letter as parents After you had highlighted this Again from the other parents Children that was based downstairs in that house And in the letter it had stated the reasons Why they had taken this action To remove the boys from the main campus Before we get to what they said in that letter At that time on we were trying to help with this previously The room that was used in the school We were told it had been converted to a library That's what I had heard as well From your interview So it had that the main content Where would say ASD That had been transferred into a library And it was being used for all the mainstream students also So it was Right, okay Do we know if that is the case? That was the case, yes Right, okay Okay, so take us back then to the content of this letter Please, Noeline So like I'm speaking behalf of myself And the parents of who's my sons and what's in their class They were based upstairs We didn't cause any violence So we didn't On the last case when the parents reached out Because their needs were much greater than our boys' needs at the time It was an idea for them And basically we were all under the same illusion That when the move was to happen back over to school Where our boys were going to be based back into the convent Which we first enrolled them into Which was designed and like it was sold to us as ASD units But unfortunately Can you just tell us what ASD stands for For those who don't know That's the autism spectrum Greg So it is And like you have such a wide wide spectrum When a child is labeled with ASD No one child will ever be the same So like my house I could have a certain issue going on Somebody else's house could be much worse Each child is different Like so they are But the reason this letter to come on here now Was I had a next meeting With a psychologist and my son's teacher on the 15th of May And it was only the two people that was present I had initially kind of assumed That it would have been maybe the principal as well But that wasn't the case I had been asking for clarification in that meeting About where or when was my son being put back into the convent And you know asking was he going to be walked around To familiarise himself Because it had been out for quite a time now And it wasn't being able to be clarified Neff had said that it wasn't her position to explain That told me that it was Mrs Grant That I would have to speak to the principal So I left the meeting I had went I had tried to find her that day She wasn't available I had left my name, my number And asked for her to give me a call On the Tuesday I had still no call back I ran the school again And I was told she still wasn't available So on Tuesday I had emailed her And I had asked her for a call And on Wednesday I had a phone call with herself So this phone call went on And I had basically asked I had said to her like what was the plan I wanted to prepare my son for going back in September Where he was going What was happening And she told me that she still hadn't decided that That she was going to be deciding that during the summer And she assured me that they were going to be returning To main campus But where she didn't know She was looking at either prefab Or she was looking at classrooms In the main buildings But they were going to be ASD classrooms So I mean, pardon my ignorance on this Is it not best for all children that they be integrated? Yes, integrated But Greg like as me and other parents have said When we were going to view like schools When or like children were transitioning From primary to secondary We had viewed all schools But what attracted you to school more than in that context? What sold us basically in my opinion And I know that parents like other parents is the same Is because the school where I had the ASD unit Right They had the content And it was actually my grand We had met that day herself We had viewed the two schools the one day And what didn't appease me about the other school Was a prefab And we couldn't actually view it that day Because it would have caused the stress To the other students that was in that prefab And it just didn't seem to be suitable for our day Okay, so just so we all understand I'm sorry for these really basic questions You're not that fine It explains to me why say for instance If your child and others were in an ASD classroom On their own presumably in the main building Versus in a classroom on their own in the lake house campus What do you see the difference between those Why is what is the problem with it being in the lake house campus I'm not saying there isn't a problem with it I just want to make sure we all fully understand Well ideally the lake net isn't suitable So it isn't It's a house at the end of the day It's not a classroom I guess It's just a house with bedrooms Our main focus is the conference The conference had classrooms in it That were called ASD classes Okay Now they have toilet facilities there It's where the canteen is there Now if you base our children now Taking into consideration They have been moved from the conference where they had settled in They had a great set up there So they had If they like some of our students can They be in mainstream It's totally inclusion They can go into mainstream if they want But also if they're having a bad day They don't have to go to that mainstream class If they don't want to They can be in their safe place In the conference And they can remain there with their SNA And their support teacher This is the beauty of the conference So it is Where now Hearing that her plan is to be Putting them into mainstream classrooms You're not taking into consideration The noise effects Of how Them boys can handle it Each child as I said Completely different The hustle and bustle of it as well When they're not used for that And if they That's not their safe place Where do they have When they don't have to concentrate their base If you understand what I mean Yes, I still do I just wanted to make sure everyone did And you're making it clear to us, yeah The students have Like Ms. Grant has actually Voked to maybe one or two of our students And has explained That they're going to be on main campus And the students have expressed their feelings They don't want this Like each student has their own reason Why they don't want it And like I had sent her an email So I had on the 19th of May Because I was getting over in the phone call And I was left I was angry, hurt, annoyed This isn't going on two weeks And I said This isn't where I want to be But the fact of her replies And her emails are very vague Well, I'm hoping to speak to the school Directly rather than sort of You have an interpretation of this ladies' communications And I really need to speak to her directly But I understand and continue expressing But I just don't want to speak About someone who's not in on the call Even though we've invited them on Stay where you are And I'm going to come back to you I want to bring Jackie in as well Jackie, tell us how you view the situation Hello Greg Well, my son was told he would never go to secondary school He was caught late almost ASD For my son, he has a lot of anxiety issues His brain stops He can't cope with noise He can't cope with muscle He does most of his classes With his support teacher and his SNA And he has heard the rumors He's starting to worry He's due to do his exams now He can't sleep at night He walks with lower He's worried sick My son is black and white You tell him something That's what you tell him That's what he expects So we were going to send him to a different school Because a few of his other friends were going But when we seen this unit He was like, I want to go here mom Yeah And because we were told no secondary school We were like, really? And he was, yeah, we want to go here So we decided, yeah Well, they put in a new kitchen and all So the children could cook there as well And they had done so much to this building For our children They had promised it for the five or six years That they would be there And then COVID hit Yeah Wow And it messed up his head by time He couldn't manage school He couldn't manage anything He still wears a mask to school I think he's maybe one of the few that do He's afraid he's going to get sick And give it to us and give it to the grannies Or he'd take it on to the support teachers To keep petrified So his anxieties are still at an all-time high So we were sent down to the lake house Which was away from the school We weren't very happy about But due to circumstances that was okay He wouldn't even go into the room If there was one other child in it He would sit in the room in the middle part On his own Where the teacher would come and give him work And when the room was empty, he would go Because he was afraid of getting another child sick Yeah And then he started to get a bit more comfortable back there Things started to go about all right And we were like, this is great And exams was coming up as you know So we were planning for this And he started getting on to it again He was getting excited And then he says, I'm hearing rumors, mum Where are we going next year? And I'm like, what? Because I hadn't heard nothing And he goes, where's my classroom next year? When you were going to get in the lake house We assumed we were going back to our original room So that was all right I said, I look into it So as Nolene says there She had contacted us So I wrote an email to my scranton I had arranged a meeting with her She was very polite and courteous, I will say She was really nice We asked about the convent room And we were told that there's other ASD classes coming And when we started there was only one above us Now there will be six as of September Which is great It's great to see them excelling like this But we were told we were not allowed to have what we were promised So I was like, but why? She says, well there's wheelchair users coming in And the toilets are disabled friendly And that was all that is totally, totally understandable Like, you know the children need it But what about our children? It's what about upstairs on it Because it's still in the same place It's still in the same building And the children could go there No My husband asked five times and we were just told no There was no discussion of it There was no no And we were told they were already re-located And no, it was not an option So as far as your concern Where is your son going to be going to school then? In what space? Going down to Ewing Dark Hall at the back of the school There is where he's going That is one of the options And it would be the only viable one for my son Because he can't deal with a lot of people He can't, he can't even do a classroom sitting So we talked for a while and she suggested Putting them into this room But it all depends on all the children's needs You know, not just mine Is there a difficulty of balancing act here, Jackie, for the school though In terms of accommodating students with different needs And the space that's available to them? No, I don't believe so, Greg There is the unit that they have Has an upstairs with two or three rooms They still have access to the bathroom Those children should have what they were offered The other children that are above my child's class They are ahead Nothing has changed for them Nothing changed last year for them Everything went the same Now our son is talking about TY That itself is a big deal He even talked about going on work experience Which we never thought would happen And you're concerned then that if the situation isn't right for next year That he'll regress He won't, the progress that he clearly has made from your comments That he'll, that might be lost There's no might in it, Greg He will not, probably not return to school next year Which I made very clear to my scrams Because we have tried so hard to get everything set up for him Before COVID, he was excelling He was talking to people He was going out with the class He was so into everything Because of the support of support teacher Give him an SNS She is brilliant I will utterly say she is brilliant She's done so much for my son and other boys And Daniel has high respect for her He's her IT guy He's, you know, he's easy anything But the thing is he needs the support teacher To get him to the stem But then he needs some jump back in Yeah, Nolene, you feel there's a bit of a gambling Speaking about this publicly as well In that, you know, rather than strengthening Your argument or improving the situation You might disimprove it I had a loose end to be quite honest, Greg Because as I explained like in my first email After our phone conversation Like I had been told in that conversation It was her right to move Like children's teachers and ethnicities if she wishes And I had put plenty of questions forward I had explained my concerns as a parent And I've also explained like the anxiety and stress I want to know what did that actually mean For my child's future Like down to the day We've all chose that ASD unit Because that's what we've suited And it has worked for us the last three years And Greg, it takes an army of people Like of a sport network till build up your child So to hear that on a call And to worry that we are now Like all of us are in summer holidays And we don't know where we stand As where they're being placed Or, you know, the last email had said She would meet us later in June Like that's really unfair to our children and ourselves Because the anxiety and stress is that alone Like from when I set my son out in the morning It takes a bus driver and a bus escort They communicate well with me As in how's my son today Like if he having a good day or any bad day They can go and they can tell his like SNA and his teacher Like the support network we have And like only for them this last couple of years Like I wouldn't have managed in my home So, you know, there's a lot of things left unanswered And at the end of the day It's us that's left at home Not being able to answer these questions And as you say, and you said it right from the get go And I get it that this is the last route That you wish to go down You would have far preferred if this could have been resolved Before having to speak publicly about it And I understand that And all boys downgrade to simple communications And involve us in our consultations When it's regarding our son's education At the end of the day Like because it affects not school life But home life as well Do you see the same Jackie about consultation Discussion with the likes of yourself? Well, Greg, with me There was none It was my son coming home and telling me There was some rumors That was the first time I was not aware That there was going to be a problem I wasn't contacted I knew they were leaving the leg out I just assumed they were going into the combat Where they had been Other than that There was no communication with the schools About it at all Okay, right Well, we are okay No one needs to ask you seconds that We contact the school We'll try and get a response from them And get a response from the likes of yourselves Again to that response Rather than just leaving it lying there Obviously, I don't know the makeup of the setup So thanks both of you for helping me With that and helping the listeners Who wouldn't sort of have that intimate knowledge Of what's going on We appreciate it And we'll be back with any updates Not only in Jackie But thanks for sharing the story with us this morning I hope there's a resolution that suits everyone All right, take care of yourself No problem, okay 086625,000 Is the WhatsApp and text number there 086625,000 The Lintel Noon Show With Letter Kenny Credit Union Now offering mortgages With life cover provided at no additional cost Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127 Welcome back to Check Out Line Where the new Lidl beef campaign Is causing a bit of a storm You were saying that, cheese? 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Contribute to this fantastic charity And be in with a chance to win Dilly cash prizes of 400 euro Books are now available From your local retailer Okay, you're very welcome back To the programme We welcome on to it now Anna, who is a tour guide Good morning to you, Anna Thank you very much for joining us this morning Good morning, Greg And I hope you're very well And some is shining there as it is here It is always shining in one form or other No, it's beautiful morning Right, okay In terms of the tourism season Inbound tourism It looks like it's going to be good this year It looks like it's going to be good From different quarters to lots of cruise ships And what have you scheduled to arrive? Yes, there are quite a number Coming in to Kelly Beggs There are also a couple for Green Castle And for Derry as well Derry, Stoke, Glomton Derry And I just heard you mention In the possibility of trees perhaps Being planted in the square in Donegal time Which is a very famous spot for the tourists When they come in to Kelly Beggs And my experience of that I like trees are lovely But I really don't think that the square And Donegal town would be the best location for them No, and I didn't want to stir anything up But it's interesting you agree Because it sounds If what it feels like to me Is you have a lovely room Say you decorate a beautiful room With four lovely walls And then you pod a massive something or other In the middle of the room That obscures your view of this room It doesn't and then obviously then the leaves will fall And then the you know so But in terms of lines of sight The beauty of the diamond to me For someone who's been looking at it For what over 40 years now It's just that when you It opens out as you drive into it Yes, I think that's absolutely lovely And trees as I say are lovely But as you drive in from Kelly Beggs As you'll understand Well, you see you can see the castle quite clearly But it's a great opportunity for Gates To point out the various points of view Of interest rather As you commented on it Such as the shops The hotels The banks The post offices All that type of thing That they need to know when they're shopping around And then after their shopping is finished The nice seating area is there Where they can wait Because generally the coach The coach drivers are kind enough to pick up The tourists again in the town to see them And to walk back down to where the park originally When they come in And they generally stop outside Maybe one of the hotels there And people who are elderly Which many of them are You know, just like to take a seat there And wait for the coach to come back for them And it's just a lovely relaxing place for them to sit So if there are trees there That all that is not possible First of all The view coming in to point out the various places And afterwards for the places For the older people Younger people for that matter as well To sit and wait for their coach to come back Yeah, and in the illustration that's been created for it Half of the benches that you would sit out on Are in shade Which might be fine for some people But we're not exactly getting 40 degrees That you require shade And as I say If you look at the old pictures of Donegal Tan The beauty of it is that It's just the way, as I say You stand from any vantage point It's all there in front of you It all opens out I just Like if you step out of say For instance, the central Will you be able to see the signage for McGee's? For example You know, what is the logic What's the logic in blocking that? Absolutely none Like trees are lovely But it really, really is not the place for trees It's lovely as it is Just leave it alone It looks lovely from the sky And I think it's actually quite interesting That the image that's been published today Is an aerial photograph Because obviously, you know, from the top bedroom Of one of the hotels The trees might look nice I'm just thinking practically on the ground with them I just, you know, I don't Yeah, but how many people I didn't know those I don't like I know they do consultation And consultation's important Because what happens is Is you have your view You have your view in advance, don't you? And then everyone feels that they have their say I honestly did not know There was a public consultation ongoing I'm not sure if the likes of yourself In the tourism industry was aware of it But I would just love to see the process That went through that came up with People believing Surrounding the entire And for example, for those familiar with it The taxi rank There would be four trees across it And there would be seven trees In circling each of the circles Well, on your program There was the first time here Not that they needed to But I mean, that's, you know, I didn't Hear from the tourist point, you know From the any other area Just from you, I hear that But I just, I don't think The trees are lovely In their own place But not on the square And Donnie got down Yep And you're speaking as a tour guide You'll be welcoming people in And you do a fantastic job And I know that because I've been told that So you're speaking from experience You're at the front, maybe With the microphone Yes And it's not conducive To what you want to do Explaining what's there And it was just wonderful As you drive around As you know that you drive around Before you go down to where the park And places, you know Where you let the passengers off And it's just a great opportunity To point these places out to them Before they go down that far So then when they come up into the town They have an idea of where to go I would be with them But I'm not You can't be with all a coach load Because they'll all just Straight up into the town What about then though Just to play devil's advocate What about they get off the Get off the bus They get off down at You know down that Down near the river Here Yes, but then they walk up And then they explore the diamond Hidden by the trees You know What could be behind that tree Could that work? No, I don't know Yeah So I go when you're As you're driving in initially You know Because the bus has to do the circle Around the square And here's another thing too A lot of tourists now right A lot of tourists check places out On street view on Google Right So you go on the street And you go on the street And you can you know Zoom around and have a look What's around and pick where to go If I were a business owner there Depending on what side of the street The person lands on with Google street view Will they see the signage of my property Will they see the brilliant paint job I've just done on my building You know It's all part of a more You know we're in a new century now I just wonder if that's gonna be I don't want to be negative anyway The conversations might been had But sure there's no harm We can still have opinions can't we Anna we're not gonna get cancelled for this are we No I think we should rethink it It's a lovely idea And trees are nice But not on the square Right we'll see what other people think Anna Listen lovely to chat to you And come here Um we had a cruise ship in not long ago What do you know when the next one's due in Do you know it's due in And there's quite a number There's two in in June I think I can't remember exactly the dates Oh this month, brilliant There's a couple And June and there's a couple for Derry And there's some in August But there's quite a number now in Kelly Beggs Brilliant and it's great to see actually The likes of Donegal Town and other areas Getting the lift as well Yeah Yeah okay brilliant stuff Anna lovely to chat to you again And you too Greg Take care of yourself okay Any views 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 Or call 07 491 25000 Hi Greg would agree 100% That this be of a government exaggerated COVID But the Irish people are like sheep They believe everything it just shows how much of a joke COVID was and not a mention now Well listen The bottom line is is that's what people thought It doesn't necessarily mean what everyone thought was true One way or other I think people make it made up their own minds Hi just texting to say If anyone's flying out of Derry airport today With Logan Air flights are delayed Was meant to take off at 705 this morning And it's now delayed to 1250 Now moved to 31330 I would suggest that maybe there's a problem there In that the airport into which it's flying Is experiencing problems Because I know our regional airports The likes of Derry and Arland West They're a dream to travel through But maybe they're feeling the impact of The delays and problems in other bigger airports Is that possible? 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Hi Greg, how are you? It's good to have you with us Okay, so walk and talk for me Just around the corner now For those who may not have heard the story before Give us the background to how we came to walk and talk for me Yeah, so it's a charity walk We're hosting now on the 11th of June So about 10 days away at the stage So Saturday week And we're walking from our home place here in Newton Cunningham Where myself, Brita and our three kids We live here now Unfortunately we lost Brita last August to cancer She had a five year fight with cancer And unfortunately lost her last August And in memory of Brita So it's in relation, I suppose As much as anything, it's a charity fundraiser for sure But important to you, it's a remembrance And a celebration of Brita's life So we're walking to Brita's home place Where she was brought up in George and Bridget Gallagher's And on Enver Bay Which is on the Atlantic Ocean So it's a 77, 78 kilometre walk And we're doing it, as I say, for five great charities Who have been really good to us over the last five years And it's sort of, for multiple reasons as you've outlined But also, Brita herself saw the benefit And you did as well with Brita in walking and talking Yes, a massive benefit And actually, Greg, this is something I was really hoping that When we launched the walk Sorry, initiative six months ago That I was really hoping people would get that Those benefits from it The same as we've got over the last number of years And they really have The amount of positive comments coming back It really is, it's people being able to get out there Having those conversations That just don't happen elsewhere If that makes sense, you know what I mean And it's just really, obviously you get the physical benefits But it's just that mental benefits of being able to discuss on You know, and even if you don't discuss listening to music Or a podcast and a walk Well, you're in a different space There's no one else around, necessarily There's no TV on in the background There's no hiding anywhere in the background There's no way sometimes to run It just allows you to As somebody said to me, it's like a computer dump But you just empty the mind of And clear your mind of maybe Distractions and worries and concerns of everyday life And what that allows you to do then Is just literally function a lot better Sleep better And then ultimately you just function a lot better in life And that's exactly the benefits that we have And loads of like hundreds and hundreds of people have come back to me To say that that's exactly the benefits They're also starting to get now too So yes, the June 11th is the walk on the day Of the walk and the day of the walk But I really hope and I do believe People will continue this long, long into the future And bring walking and talking into their, you know Their life now, if that makes sense And have a part of their daily or weekly routine I think people that do it get it It's those that might go, well, I don't know That's it So the walk begins as you say June 11th, it's from Newtown Cunningham Where Breda, Carol and your children lived And it ends 80 kilometres away at Breda's home place Inver Bay Don't know how you managed to convince her To move from Inver to Newtown Cunningham I know, yeah, it was difficult You wouldn't have to say in fairness But in fairness to where we live here I know, I know On the other side here and it's beautiful also But yeah, what they have on their doorstep Literally in their front yard Is the Atlantic Ocean and the beach there Which is actually truly amazing So on June 11th we'll have hundreds and hundreds of people We'll arrive from the roads of Donegal To this beautiful scenic And hopefully fingers crossed the weller Starts the day for us on the day And they will get to see what Breda grew up with And what George and Bridget have on their front doorstep Now registration for the walk is closed But donations are still open And money raised is for Cancer Care West The Donegal Hospice The Marrakeaching Foundation Solace Donegal And the Good and New Cancer Charity And as I say, you know As well as this, you want to get the message out there Of it's not... Listen, it's not going to be for everyone But for the majority of people Get out there, have a walk and a talk And see how it works for you And you don't have to necessarily Because I think sometimes we do that stuff When things are really, really, really bad Or we think they're really, really bad But sometimes we kind of tick along You know, in our lives And don't realise that maybe Things could improve from where we're at Great, nobody knows what tomorrow brings If you know what I mean So it's really important that we look after ourselves Look after those folks to us in our family And more importantly, look after our own mental health If you know what I mean And that's just unbelievably important But on the charities themselves, again Unfortunately, Greg, as we know Cancer cases are rising And the statistics are proving that This is the... These are really, really rising in our country Unfortunately, something like 45,000 people a year Get diagnosed with cancer And these charities that is really, really important To just make the point that these charities Are really dependent on Charitable donations And it's unbelievably important that we... You know, the people If they get the opportunity Please, please help us out here And help these charities Raise the much needed funds That unfortunately, lots of people are going to need Going forward in these charities And the services they provide Are just truly phenomenal And fortunately, they were there for us We're unbelievably lucky And unfortunately, lots of people in the future Will need what they do And it's really important that we support them now At this time All right, walkandtalkforb.com Where you can go and make your donations Obviously, you're pleased with the amount of registrations And the uptake, Carl Because you never know And it's, you know People can approach this walk in different ways But it's not a 5K fun run Which is a fantastic thing as well So we're happy with how people Latched onto the idea A bit scared, to be honest with you, Greg It's over 500 people Yeah, it's fantastic Which is truly phenomenal And we actually had to, you know Pull back a little bit, to be honest with you Because the numbers are growing so fast Yes, it's truly phenomenal And obviously, number one The importance of this walk Is the health and safety of everybody too So that's a group we're concerned about And as the numbers grew That's something we did begin to be Very concerned about But at this stage to say It's going to be a great day I'm really looking forward to now It's going to be, you know It's going to be a roller coaster of emotions That's what I was saying You're going to be all over the place You're going to be, you're forward And it's going to be It will be It sure will be But I'll tell you What an amazing thing For you to be able to do for me though You know Because you've had the conversations The kernels and the ideas were planted And now here, a few short days out From over half a thousand people Plus those donating Getting involved I mean, it's a beautiful tribute to your wife And a birthday present or two Our birthday is two days later So it's going to be nice to mark that Celebrate that with family and friends That day during the walk And afterwards then We'll have some music and invert And you know what? That's going to be really nice And it's a gallon of friends and family again That we haven't seen a lot of them Over the last couple of years Obviously for various reasons Or if we have seen them It's been on maybe an occasion Where it wasn't so happy So on this occasion Yes, it will be mixed emotions But ultimately it is a celebration And as I say It's a gallon of friends and family That's really important for us all Brilliant stuff People can donate now Though registration is closed It can donate at walkandtalkforb.com Listen, Carl Again, thanks for joining us Just one thing I just want to say thanks to everybody That has donated so far I'm pleased to say get on the donation page But all the charities They've been the sponsors And everybody who has sponsored so far Thank you very much And all the... Anybody's helping to organize the event Which has taken a lot of organizing So thank you very much I was going to say Don't start mentioning them Because we'll be here until 11 All right, Carl Great, very good Take care of yourself All right, thanks very much indeed Okay Sounds like it's going to be a lovely thing And it's great to see it's such a success too I think it might have even exceeded Carl's expectations there Which is always good, isn't it? Morning, Greg Can you give a shout out To the Kilmerkrennen young at heart They're off to bloom today Will be some crack I've never went to bloom or similar But I've heard it's amazing And something I might enjoy I don't know Have you been to it? What's it like? Anyway, all of you from Kilmerkrennen If you're still within listening distance Have a fantastic time I know you will Behave yourselves now I was in Kong yesterday I stopped off for diesel 212.9 for diesel The entire way up the road It was 2 euro and 9 cent Where are these costs going to end? I do not know I do not know But you have Miehl Martin Laying the groundwork for this being A long haul for years I just wonder I don't think they'll ever come down now With what's going on in Ukraine And with the climate crisis I don't ever see them coming down to where they were But because I just don't think it suits Where the narrative in inverted commas, right? All right, we'll be back with more And then after the news and obituary notes Stay right where you are Yes, to life outdoors With fast acting Long lasting 24 hour relief Tell Fast Allergy Now available over the counter from your local pharmacy Tell Fast Allergy tablets Contains Vexofenadine hydrochloride Always read the label Distributed in Ireland by Klommel Healthcare In the heart of letter, Kenny Warehouse Bar and Kitchen Is an ideal venue for all your parties and celebrations At Warehouse You'll find delicious food and cocktails Served every day and live music Seven nights a week Mouthwatering lunch and dinner options Along with the new look, a cocktail bar Are waiting for you Our late night venue is your weekend destination Follow Warehouse Bar and Kitchen on social media For specials and updates In each tractor run, Sunday 5th of June A charredy auction plus barbecue on the spit There's live music from 6pm with Jimmy Buckley Jim Devine, Liam McDermott and Shuny Cramsey Proceeds to Cancer Care West and Donegal Hospice That's Sunday 5th of June In each tractor run With live entertainment in the Marquis Mellon stables Live on air online and on the Highland Radio app This is Highland Radio News Good morning, I'm Achille Clark with the news at 10 o'clock Parents of children with disabilities Attending school war in Bonkranah Are said to be left in limbo Over where their children will be housed in the future It was previously believed that pupils Who are currently based at the Lakehouse campus Will be returned to the main conference Campus to an ASD classroom However, parents have now been told That the pupils will be returned to the main campus But will be placed in mainstream classes Norling Who's son attends the school Till today's night on noon show That she doesn't believe the needs of the children Are being considered Hearing that her plan is to be Putting them into a mainstream classroom You're not taken into consideration The noise effects of how the boys can handle it Each child is either completely different The hustle and bustle of it as well When they're not used for that That's not their safe place Where do they have when they don't have the content As they're based? There's a renewed commitment from government To bring forward the publication Of the Bronten report Jenny Gull, Deputy Thomas Pringle Has claimed that the HSC Has not only failed vulnerable people And their families in the county But has also failed frontline staff And left them abandoned Deputy Thomas Pringle was questioning Public expenditure Minister Michael McGrath After further concerns were raised in recent days That more allegations of sexual abuse Could emerge in Jenny Gull and foot of the Bronten report And subsequent assessments that remain unpublished Minister McGrath told Deputy Pringle at the government Is continuing to work on the issue Minister Ann Rabbit, who as you know has taken A very keen personal interest in relation to the matter Has been to Jenny Gull And has had a series of meetings there And is most anxious that full details In the Bronten report would be published As soon as possible And again just to make the point that Minister Butler Is separately bringing forward a safeguarding bill And she expects to have that bill Before the Eructis, before the end of this year Just a day after the Taoiseach warned of Further fuel price hikes Petrel has gone above the two euro a litre mark It follows a decision by EU leaders To cut the amount of Russian oil Coming into the block by 90% Four courts across the country And aren't charging up to two euro And it sent a litre for Petrel Over diesel prices Which breached the two euro a litre mark last month Have moderated slightly ESRI energy economist Murn Lynch says Prices will keep increasing Following the EU decision When Europe as a whole Essentially cuts itself off From its major oil supplier That's going to have a price impact Across the continent And that will feed through To Irish consumers on the forecourt And also in the likes of home heating bills And to a lesser extent Through perhaps a further increase in electricity prices Culture night could be set to extend to culture weekend The 17th edition of Culture Night Will take place on Friday, September the 23rd But Councillor Jimmie Kavanaugh Believes the popular event Should be expanded to a weekend He recently asked Onigal County Council To ask the department If they would consider changing the event To culture weekend for future years Councillor Kavanaugh says It would give the county a financial boost Late in the year We've reached a point now with Culture Night Where we could extend it out To a weekend To allow people to get to everything that's on And also because it's late September I would think it would give an opportunity For people to have a lit weekend break In the county At a time when hotels and B&Bs And that are relatively quiet It would just be good economically And it would create a great atmosphere Around the county Ferry services are resuming today in Inishon The lock foiled ferry service Linking Green Castle on McGilligan And the Swilly's ferry service Connecting Bunkrana and Rathmullen Are fully operational as of today Both services will operate seven days a week Kierlock of the Inishon Municipal District Councillor Nicholas Croson says With people still very much opting for staycations The ferry services will simply enhance The offering in the peninsula Do we believe that staycations Is going to be a huge thing this year Because of the queues at the airports The cost of foreign travel And the aviation fuel prices There's only one way that's going to go up So I think that we in North Donegal And in Inishon Peninsula Are very well placed to attract more tourists And here in Bagel We do, we need them back in Inishon And to enjoy Inishon And the ferry service can only help with that Whether my sunny spells this morning However, slight shards will develop Through the day With highest temperatures today Of 13 to 16 degrees That's all from Highland Radio News For now we'll be back with an update again At 11 o'clock Until then, good morning The obituary notice says For this Wednesday morning, June the 1st The death has occurred of Leslie W. 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Lederkenny or Malin With a seven-year warranty as standard Driving a Kia makes sense Okay, now we are going to talk about The establishment or calls for the establishment of New Safeguarding Authority to Reduce Adult Abuse To help us understand these proposals Patricia Richard Clark A Safeguarding Ireland Chairperson Joins us on the program now Thanks for taking the call this morning, Patricia Thank you Greg for having me Thank you So we understand as much as we can what we're talking about Can you give us some examples of adult abuse? Many examples So for example financial abuse So if somebody And financial abuse in Ireland is quite prevalent actually So somebody is collecting A family member may be collecting the pension of an older person And using that pension themselves They're not for the benefit of the older person They're not paying the older person's bills So there's also of course psychological abuse Or coercive control Very high level of psychological abuse Appropriations on older people Again people who are old and frail Or may or many people who may lack capacity to make their own decisions And they're controlled by another person Or told what to do or their rights are not respected Or they might be put into a nursing home against their will And they want to be at home Now there are policy issues around that In terms of lack of proper home care But in many cases people Other people make decisions on behalf of people in vulnerable circumstances Just on those examples Say for instance coercive control We have already in law seen the first convictions of that The first in fact was in Donegal We see the Hickel report As it relates to people's complaints of how they're being treated Whether it's by a family member or a care or whatever it might be And we have those stats So what would a safeguarding authority do Beyond what's already there Because we do have a decent I think A decent feel for the problems And pathways maybe for people to sort of have them addressed So what would the safeguarding authority do? What would we do? Sorry, if you just forward to that Go back to coercive control Coercive control the legislation Is under the domestic violence legislation Which is limited to people who have been Or are in an intimate relationship The highest level of abuse of older people The psychological abuse or coercive control There's no legislation covering that And if we look again at the domestic violence legislation The applications to court for protection and barring orders Most of those applications are again people in intimate relationships They do not And indeed the court service did a kind of a manual Survey there about two years ago And 25% were older people against adult children Or nieces and nephews So again, they're the issues that we don't actually regard as abuse And the same as I say with financial abuse Test is a crime Yet if somebody pinches the pension of a person With an intellectual disability or their benefit Or an older person We don't regard that as a crime So that's what we're talking about So we have no adult safeguarding legislation We have no legislation A legislation framework To deal with those aspects To assess risk, people at risk And to prevent abuse And to protect them from abuse So we need not only a legal framework Again, as you rightly say You point Hicqua and other bodies They all have limited powers And they are actually all narrowly focused On health and social care But they're not dealing with what we require More integrated across the board Of financial housing, homelessness, justice services And all of that With safeguarding responsibilities Placed on all public and private bodies And organizations And we also need huge public awareness Amongst the public and professionals That abuse is taking place So again, Safeguarding Ireland Would have done a survey in 2020 Which was during the COVID At the end of the first year of the COVID And we found that 12% of adult reporters Experienced adult abuse in the previous six months And one third said They had experienced abuse in their lifetime So the figures are large And we don't regard them as abuse Yeah, and there's a big gray area there Like if someone comes into my house Grabs the TV and runs out It's very clear to me What has just happened And what I can do to address that And to seek justice But some of the examples you've given Does the victim even know how it can be pursued? And as you say That the organizations that count this And release the stats on it Their powers, as you've already indicated Are very, very narrow It's very murky It's gray It's very gray And any of the people we're talking about Are invulnerable for a consensus Or they're in a bad place And they may be under the control of another person So they're, and they may be dependent on another person So they live in fear So they don't complain Or they don't raise issues But we should respect their rights But they also, the other issue is that For people who lack decision making capacity That there's no piece of legislation We're waiting for the commencement Of our decision making capacity act But again, there are no safeguards So there's limited protective action available To address situations where those people's Those people's persons' rights are not respected So we- Yeah, because we don't want to try and fix a problem About creating another problem Or even a greater problem Yeah, well back to the reporting again The reporting, first of all We don't have any data collection on a national basis We have a very limited provision Where the HSE National Safeguarding Office Does collect data and collect reports But it's limited to limited HSE services For example, disability services mainly And services for older people But it doesn't cover private nursing homes Cute hospitals, all of that So there's huge under-reporting at the same time Another survey the Safeguarding Island did 40% of the population did not know who to report abuse to So that comes to our central recommendation Which is the establishment of an independent National Adult Safeguarding Authority Which would be have overarching responsibility For the promotion of standards The ensuring that there are reports And what reports should be made The whole question of data collection And indeed at the moment Although we have data protection legislation We have no provision for sharing data To protect very vulnerable people So again the whole sharing of data And then the enforcement of safeguarding laws And we need safeguarding laws in place, first of all You know, and there's a paragraph that jumps out at me Considering the prevalence of abuse And narrow focus of the current response The report proposes major change And warns that Ireland's current approach To safeguarding is deeply flawed And appears incapable of providing safe And humane care and support for all adults at risk I mean that's strong words But well justified you would say, of course Absolutely, and I mean Just think of the Ail case The Grace case The Brandon case What should we do? I mean, because we've no legal Proper legal framework in place People didn't know what to do Professionals But in terms of the Brandon report We don't know what went on We're not getting to see it And we can't really find out what's being done To make sure it doesn't happen again We've tried on this programme in that particular case Just tell us and tell those With other people that might feel they're vulnerable What are you actually doing? Who's being held accountable? Will heads roll? Not that it's a head on a stick job But it's not really clear If we have anything in place To actually stop that happening again So we need that independent authority To actually put in place standards and procedures For the reporting For the transparency For the accountability And all of that And we need organisations to be made accountable For things that happen and whatever And we need to find out And we do need to know And we need to have proper legal framework in place And a proper independent body Can ask those questions and get answers Yeah, is this an example? My sister's husband died recently And her adult step-children have redirected the money In his account to them And said they'll give her money as she's needed As is needed The caller says to me This is financial abuse Can they do that? And I'm not asking you to reply on that In terms of the legal situation there But that's an example That probably falls under what we're talking about here And just one case And there's probably thousands of those in Donegal alone Yes, absolutely Okay, who needs to run with this Patricia? It's there and there's a cycle now Where you're on stations like this and talking about it What needs to happen so that now in the next day or two We don't move on to the next thing Who needs to use it working really hard, of course, to make sure The message has gotten out there Does it require a TD to take it up? Does it require the government to? Does the opposition need to get all over this? Like what happens next To make sure this doesn't lose momentum? Well, we want again We want a minister and a lead department To take responsibility At the moment it's spread and no department Really sees its responsibility Health sees itself as having some role In the health and social care But it's much, much wider than that And financial abuse doesn't come under health, for example Which is very widespread So we need So we'll be asking the Minister for Justice To take a lead in this And then to work on an inter-departmental Intersectoral multidisciplinary And to establish, first of all To enact adult safeguarding legislation I should say there was a bill produced in the Senate In 2017 But it hasn't progressed Now it was brought back onto the order paper But it hasn't progressed But we need adult safeguarding legislation Part of that legislation We need the establishment of this independent authority So we need all legislators to understand the issue To be aware of the issue And to ensure that we see the enactment Of adult safeguarding legislation We were established in December 2015 Since then we've been calling for legislation In this area And we haven't yet received it And on the other side There is some safeguarding pieces And provisions which are very welcome In the Assistance and Decision Making Capacity Act That act was enacted in 2015 It's due to commence next month This month, next month But again, seven years later And how many And we throw money at We respond to things You know, when a crisis arises And we throw money at that Instead of having a proper framework in place To prevent abuse happening in the first place And to protect people from risk Listen Patricia Thank you so much for your time this morning I appreciate it greatly All right, that's Patricia Ricard Clark Safeguarding Ireland Chair Talking there about the calls for establishment Of a new safeguarding authority The Ninetal Noon Show With Letter Kenny Credit Union Now offering mortgages With life cover provided at no additional cost Letter Kenny Credit 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be our entertainment services But one listener, Marie Cannon has been with us now For quite some time And joins us on the programme Marie, thanks for taking the call Thank you, Greg, for having me Right, so tell us two months now Eight weeks you've been without services Take us through the story Well, we've got a phone call To see if we were interested in upgrading To fibre broadband And we said yes Didn't think any more of it Anyway, somebody came in here On the 9th of April to upgrade He spent 5 hours here And he left and he said Our landline will be up and running In 20 minutes to half an hour Nothing happened My husband rang him And he said There's another boy So we waited And he rang him again Oh, he says I'm nearly home now I can do nothing about it You have to wait to Monday Monday came To rang Nothing happened We've been ringing both of phones since We had no landline since that day And then And mobile phones We could make a call, text, out from that We had no internet We had no nothing for over three weeks So go ahead, Marie Go ahead Anyway, we kept ringing them And all we kept getting was 3 to 5 working days Every time we rang So the next thing we got was Somebody would be in on the 16th of May To connect a new modem Now we already had a new modem Connected on the 9th of April So man came in here On the Monday morning of the 16th of May Connected a new modem And We had an internet back on But no landline And we said it to him before he left My husband said Oh, he said I have done all I can Atop the border phone now And since that We've been ringing the border phone Every couple of days Nothing happened Back a couple of weeks ago They connected the landline With a new number But we knew nothing at all about it And it was only by chance That my husband was trying See if it was working He rang my mobile And he says the phone is working He says ring me back on So I rang him back and nothing So I checked the number on my mobile And it was a completely different number I said that's not our number So anyway, you rang them again Oh, it would take 3 to 5 working days To get your number back Kept ringing ringing The same story all the time What the result I rang one day And I did get angry with them I said look it This is going too long now We needed sorted I said I want my number back I have had this number for almost 40 years I do not at my age Do not want a new number Anyway We've been ringing ringing And Monday I rang I was on the phone for an hour Same thing 3 to 5 working days Yesterday morning I rang I was on for an hour And a half Now we can ring some numbers There's other numbers we can't She tried to tell me then That of course my handset I said that with the handset I couldn't ring any numbers But I can ring some numbers And not others Consistently It's not hitting me Some numbers you can ring all the time Others no luck Since yesterday this happened Now I tried it again this morning The particular numbers And no I can't get through to them Right so as it stands now Your internet is working Your phone is working intermittently And you've lost the number you've had For almost 40 years Well they gave me back my number Okay Yesterday morning It was my own number was back And tried to ring these other numbers Now a few of them She kept telling me to ring different numbers And I kept trying different numbers Some of them would ring Others won't ring at all I tried my husband's mobile Several times And all you get is an engaged phone Well that's one number That's one number you definitely want to be able to ring Of course As I said to her yesterday If I didn't have my mobile And I had an emergency In the last seven and a half weeks Where do I turn? Yeah Because the friends of mine Do not have coverage In their home Yeah You need to be able to get onto the landline You have to have That's why we're paying for a landline We're chasing up Vodafone as well So just so we're clear What is not working at the moment It's dialing out the problem Isn't it? You've got your old number back The broadband is working But it's your outward calls It's hit and miss Some numbers working Some not working That's the main problem at the moment That is the main problem at the moment And I just thought yesterday I can't seven and a half weeks I can't take any more of it Yeah And that's why I rang Highland If anybody has the same problem With Vodafone I've heard it before I've heard it before not But my sister actually had the same problem About a year or 18 months ago And she was three weeks before She'd finally got it sorted But I mean we're seven and a half weeks now And do you know what the problem is Marie? Every time you ring Vodafone Or any of these companies You get a different person So they say three to five days And then nothing happens in three to five days You ring again And another person goes Oh right Well this is terrible Sorry Miss Cannon I'll get on to this now It should be fixed for you in three to five days Nothing happens And so on and so forth And next thing We're almost eight weeks on free What they need These companies need Is one person Create a case number And they stick with Your situation until it's resolved That's exactly it That's what it used to be isn't it That's the way it used to be As I said When years ago When we had a problem with our landline You rang And there was somebody sorted it Within a day Two days at the most I mean they had told us at the start This is going to take Four, six, eight weeks to sort I would have said no Forget it Well let's not forget that By the way Use were ticking along Use were ticking along fine It's they called to you And they said to you We can do this for you Do you want us to do it They told you the moon and the stars As they do and that's what they do Because they're you know So this I mean obviously use made that decision But also too What's very interesting is These problems go past the cooling off period So say for instance Use says write stuff this I've had enough of this I'm going back to my old company You can't because you're locked into Vodafone now in this contract Because the problems have surpassed The cooling off period Listen as I say We'll chase them up and see They need someone in that company To take control of this situation I know they'd have it fixed in 30 seconds If one person just stuck their head at it And we'll see if it progresses at any Marie And we'll also see if anyone out there Is in the same boat I hope you get sorted soon That's exactly what I want You know as other people have Like we have been worth Vodafone Since April 2012 Yeah But it switched into fibre was the change That was the big problem And if it was no I'd say no thank you I don't want it Right All right Because the hassle we have went through All this time Have you added up how many hours You've spent on the phone to Vodafone In the last eight hours No I just said If I had done that I And they had to pay me For the time I spent on the phone to them I would be worth a fortune Yeah you've been moving into a big house The minimum I have spent on the phone Any one day is half an hour Like yesterday morning I went on the phone at 20 past nine And it was quarter to 11 By the time I got off the phone Monday morning I was a follower on phone Every single day that I ring them At a minimum half an hour And you're as far back When you come off the phone As when your purse went on Okay well I'm going to try My hardest to get this resolved For you As much as we can do We'll try and do Even if I have to go on Twitter And embarrass them I'll do that too Whatever it takes Because it's so free Life's tough enough isn't it With everything else going on And all you want to do Is ring your husband And give him a mere fall And you can't get through It's not even that Like I put away something And I needed to contact him At the balcony for Adam my mobile I can't contact him Listen I know I know And it's not an age thing by the way But I know with people in my life right The ability There's great security in knowing That God forbid if anything were to happen You can get through to someone As I say it's not age related And when that's taken from you It affects It affects you probably more than it should Because you be anxious about stuff You know So I do really understand the importance of You knowing That you can reliably contact someone In the event that you need to And that's been taken away from you From the last eight weeks So listen we're gonna We're gonna try and sort it out with you Marie It's not as though we're young people Like we You know we're under 70s We need our landline We wouldn't be paying for a landline If we didn't need it Of course Of course you'd say the mobiles But you want that security And I get it 100% Marie I hope you understand I understand I do of course Leave it with us all right And we'll see what happens And hopefully this nightmare comes to an end For you soon Thank you very much It's great for your health No no Anything we can do We do try and help Okay As I say Marie also wants to know A bit of solidarity Anyone else out there in the same boat Right some of your comments Coming into us today Hi just watching Virgin Media One They did a poll all over Ireland Asking where is the most expensive petrol or diesel It ranged from one Euro 80 Down the country to Donegal 206 On top for the wrong reason Why would tourists bother with Donegal Now I get what you're saying there But what happens is Is people are going to be motivated In that type of poll to highlight We know it's really cheap by us Or it's really expensive by us I'm not sure we have the averages You know And I would say the average around Donegal Is much lower than 206 Because you can travel North, south, east and west And get prices varying by 15, 16, 17 cent So the average nationally Is really perhaps where we're at I don't know why petrol or diesel In one place It petrol's more expensive than diesel And over two Euro later in another Diesel's more expensive than petrol Over two Now they will say Well it depends when you order it When you get it delivered And I do get that Don't get me wrong But I travelled a wee bit down the country And I found it got more expensive The further south I went from Donegal Now as I say That's just me I'm not saying it's the case But that's what I found Anyway Who came up with the idea of trees in the diamond Planners, no doubt Another caller says Terrible idea for Donegal Town Look what happened to Letterkenny Square What a very interesting What a very interesting analogy there And they're literally in the process now Of trying to undo What was done to Letterkenny Square It was a beautiful design But it didn't work And what's one of the major criticisms In terms of CCTV coverage And other things Trees What will the CCTV coverage be like Around Donegal Town With all those trees there Anyway Listen the conversation's been had I don't want to stir But thankfully we live in As I said earlier on But sometimes trying to have it the other way We live in a democracy Where people can have views And applied exchange of views Right okay And you can empathise With our previous caller Can't you? Good morning I can, good morning Greg And what was your story Ann? Well I had the same problem with Photophone I rang and rang and rang And sometimes you'd be on the phone for two hours And I would leave my mobile or speaker You know I'd just carry on to the kitchen Waiting to see if they would answer I never could get an answer But I eventually messaged them And I did get an answer Now I did leave them I threatened to leave them And then I did leave them And they said They wanted 325 for breaking the contract Yes And I said I am Because when I would report That they would tell me There's a problem in the house What they're laying And the technician would call And he would say There's no problem in the house And there's no problem in the lane He says it's Photophone themselves And when they wanted 325 euros I said well If you can go back And check how many times the technician has been here How many times I have reported the fault I said I'm not paying any Contract fees And I left them And he said to me It was actually a Scotch fan I got And he told me He said don't He said well We'll have to forget about it They waived to those contra And when you switched to a new company Did When you switched to a new company The problems resolved It was You didn't have any problems anymore No We just had to get a new modem Aye but what I'm saying is They were saying to you Oh it's inside the house inside It's almost gaslighting really You know it's not inside the house But they're saying it's inside the house Yeah And they kept telling us that And the technician was here 5 times And he said Well I have checked the line down the road I have checked the line at your house I have checked the whole of the house And there's no problem If there's no problem in the line No problem in your house The problem is for the phone themselves Well it's okay Very frustrating You can't get through them Because I have to message them And the end of the book We can get through to them Yeah Very frustrating But you got resolved anyway But it meant switching company And arguing with them About a contract breakage free I'm glad you got sorted down Thanks for that Appreciate it greatly Take care Have a good day Call us as I Let me start that again I had a similar situation I told them my alarm system Went through the number And they let me keep the number Well Through her struggles She did manage to keep her number My neighbour had the same problem With Vodafone He had broadband But no landline for two months I rang Vodafone on his behalf They checked the line And informed me That the wrong codes Were put in at their end They corrected the codes And five minutes later Lo and behold The landline was working We are with Air The package was 50 euro Now it's up to 93 And they say you can't leave Because you have a contract Listen Why is it up to 93? What are you paying for there? You can certainly You should be able to drop down The packages You are paying I imagine for gigabit broadband There you probably don't need it Air now are offering New customers 35 euro a month How did you end up on 93 From 50 Because It was you signed a contract for 50 Then it obviously went up After that ended That happened to me And I quit straight away Right So need to get back How are you in a contract How did it go from 50 to 93 Within that contract That's what would have to have Happened There is no need for anyone Anyone to be paying More than 35 euro For the phone and broadband Per month If you're paying over that You're probably paying for Something you don't need Unless you work from home But I don't have anything in my house I'm pretty tech savvy I don't have one thing in my house That can download at one gig Even with one gig I simply don't have anything Even the PlayStation 5 Can't do it And I don't get any chance To play that anymore Anyway, thanks Hodson Anyway Sally joins us now Hi Sally Hello Greg How are you? I am I'm good How are you? I will tell you We've had a slicker One of them long drawn out Saga from between the air and Vodafone It's like a dynasty Vodafone at the start of the year Yeah Because air wasn't doing anything With us all that we're doing Was increasing the bill every so often And we changed to Vodafone in February And we were to have the fiber installed Yes And whenever it was to come in On a Thursday after that And three months later We're still waiting for them to come And it's been going on and on So they did install it The air told us we didn't have it in our area It's past me window Next door have it And we've been giving the run around Greg Really and truly At we have the fiber But we don't have our landline And we're elderly people And we need the landline So you could There's no problem Downloading stuff accessing the internet On your home router But you can't make phone calls The phone everything's working on the phone Everything's dialed They do the dial But it doesn't ring out And it doesn't ring in And you're saying You're saying to air say We've been my sons are trying to get Them to work at it And you get different stories every day Yeah And I mean you don't get They're not being honest with the people I don't know how sort what's going on really You're threatening them with comrade now At this stage Yeah oh yes we have done that yes I air I mean air told us that Would be switched off last week And when my son wronged to do that For my husband They said oh you have to go for another Three weeks or something And then It's supposed to go off today Hopefully it will And what are you going to try and Switch to another provider now Sally Or what are you going to do But if they don't give me the landline I mean For a thing that the government Or whatever they're behind Or whatever I mean it's ridiculous The way they're going on I mean I'm not just only one Yeah and as I said It's not really on Like it's enough going on Without having to deal with this But I mean They put the bill up all the time I made several contracts with air And none of them The last bill I got from air was 89 99 And I was on 49 99 You know I had made a contract way back to them And I mean every bill That told us we're getting on the fiber Yeah And the ball went up Right well listen But we never got the fiber And that went on for three years Ivan I have a reminder set in my phone now 12 months From when I got I switched company And I'm switching again Because that's exactly what they do They they bump it up They send you an email That you probably don't open And next thing you know 93 euro for that service You're paying 720 euro Too much per year Sally That's that's that's half a tank of oil It's half a tank of oil They don't come back on Upgraded Well listen We're going to have to They go away coming back at all And it wasn't for yourself We've nobody to go to Yeah well listen Sally It's at the moment now You're waiting on them To cancel your contract with them Yes the air Or to cancel a contract with air Vodafone's supposed to They're putting on the landlines Right I don't know why or what's the problem Because everything everything's there And we have the broadband But we don't have the landline Okay right Sally listen That's what the deal You know that's what we were to have Both the landline and the broadband Yeah whatever it is Try and get out of that big contract Though because as I say that that's It's just way over the odds Sally and hopefully you get that sorted Keep us up to date will you I will surely Greg thank you Listen how are you keeping Anyway otherwise everything all right with you As I said when you get up in the morning it's fine Take care Sally Okay Right thanks very much indeed Hi again Good morning It's lovely to have you on the show Ken What's your situation Well a few years ago My contract was renewable with Vodafone And they offered me the sundermen And the earth theory sign Which is what it did But after three months of continuous phoning Anything they promised me I just wasn't getting it So what it did was and again you told me You know you can't get out of the contract You've now signed it So I actually contact a solicitor Now this is for an ordinary that I'm talking about Mm-hmm And explain the situation to him She said there's two sides to their contract Yep they have to meet their terms and conditions You pay your bills And that's your part of it Their part of it is as they give you What they promised they would give you And if they don't do that They're breaking the contract That's exactly what the solicitor said So I just informed Vodafone Yes That as far as I was concerned And my solicitor had informed me They had broken the contract And as far as I was concerned That was the end of it Now they threatened Disney Threatened that They were sending me letters Funny enough Every time I got a letter The one that they wanted was less I think they took on the wrong man here Ken Well they were taking the Well I'll keep it clean They were taking the Mickey so that way you know And it just wasn't because I had been with them For a long time Again you were getting You're phoning up speaking to staff And you're asking me to speak to the line managers And they were refusing me to let you speak to anybody So I just let the whole thing go And I actually went to another company there And eventually the letter stopped But they can say that's for the North I don't know how about operating the day I presume it's the same I presume it's the same Ken Listen but you got resolved But you had to go through You had to engage a solicitor to get it sorted I mean this is crazy stuff isn't it Ken Yes is that Well unfortunately I am a very belligerent person And once you get me back up I just keep going Okay Where are you listening to us from Ken? 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inspections However find that further improvements Were still required To ensure governance arrangements Were effective and ensured residents' needs Were consistently met Parents of children with disabilities Attending Skilwara in Bonkrana Are said to be left in Limbo Over where their children Will be housed in the future It was previously believed That pupils who are currently based At the Lakehouse campus Would be returned to the Main Convent Campus To an ASD classroom However parents have now been told That the pupils will be returned To the Main Campus But will be placed into mainstream classes The chair of the Eroctor's Transport Committee Says they want assurances That Dublin Airport passengers Will not face mass delays this weekend Senior management at the Dublin Airport Authority Including CEO Dalton Phillips Have been called before the committee today To explain what went wrong last Sunday When 1,400 passengers missed their flights Locs Willie Ornalli Were tasked yesterday evening To assist the removal of a casualty At Ludden Beach Just before 10-to-6 The Reshki Service was contacted By Mallonhead Coast Guard To assist the ambulance service The casualty was removed to an ambulance And taken to Letter Kenney University Hospital Families are having to choose Which journeys they can make in the car Because of the rise in the cost of fuel Petrol has gone above The two-year-old later marked this week Following the EU's decision To reduce its dependence on Russian oil suppliers Culture line could be set to be extended To Culture Weekend The 17th edition of Culture Night Will take place on Friday, September the 23rd The Kiherlok of the Letter Kenney-Milford Municipal District At Council Jimmy Kavana Believes a popular event should be expanded to a weekend Those are the latest headlines We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon Thank you, Michaela, back after this really brief break 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 HSE For Us All Okay, nice and busy on the phone lines this morning Thank you very much indeed 08, 6, 60, 25,000 If you want to add your voice to the conversation We had the same problem re-dealing with phone companies The lines don't seem to be able to take the 5G It takes far too long for a connection Then another issue is there are too many subcontractors My advice is if you have a reasonable connection Stick with it I understand where you're coming from I've switched a couple of times For the reasons I've been outlining And in my experience it's been pretty smooth And I would say the majority But some people are having trouble Convoy area When somebody rings the mobile phone I can hear them but they cannot hear me It's not a problem anywhere else Does anyone else have this issue? All right, so they know it's not their handset Because their handset works normally elsewhere But it must be one particular transmitter In convoy Maybe you've had this problem And you thought it was you They take a call They can hear who's calling them But the caller can't hear them I presume they can't hear you on speakerphone Either you've tried all that, haven't you? I have a similar problem with broadband But no landline since the 31st of March Every time we call We are told same story three to five days Apparently we were listed as a priority Over a month ago And we were told that calling Would no longer help things All my neighbours are okay Well, that's a dirty trick, isn't it? They're saying there's no need to ring us anymore Come here now That's not... You're going to have to keep calling them When the bill is needed The contact is made much faster Oh yeah, if you want to get through to them Quick pretend you're a new customer The phone's answered like that Greg, do you not find it's like that With everything now you can speak You can't speak to someone in phone companies Electric suppliers, banks If you ring a bank now You get untrained staff in a call centre It is... I think we're moving away from that For right or wrong And it's probably for wrong And also to even with the web chat A lot of the people that you're chatting to In the web chat It's a bot It's not a real person And it tries to sort out your problems So now even in web chat a lot of the time You're not speaking to a real person Until the robot or the bot can't answer your query at all Got an upgrade from Vodafone two weeks ago Promised me faster broadband speeds It's slower now We've asked them to remove the upgrade Still waiting 50 euro for five months then Until end of September It's 93 euro It's crazy It's just way way way too much Now you're... I just... I just was for years overpaying for mobile and broadband And I say it too much probably on the program And you can avoid it quite easily With a little bit of organisation And I'm a terrible person for organisation But I'm getting tighter I carry around WD-40 now Just to loosen myself up If you have to buy anything Vodafone's a complete nightmare The best way to get in touch with Vodafone Is through Facebook Messenger Say it's a caller there Alright okay Right let's focus now Well, this Wednesday now We are joined by our guest on the program Dr Ashtok Memmum Who... Memmum Who's a consultant stroke physician At Lettokennie University Hospital I hope I got the pronunciation of your name Correct Dr Thank you for joining us Thank you Greg Thank you Okay Ashtok isn't it? Yeah it is Okay super okay Thank you Right okay Talk to us about the services now available As it relates to dealing with stroke Lettokennie University Hospital How have things improved Dr? As you know that Stroke Unit Recently opened in Lettokennie University Hospital And definitely it has made a big difference Overall in the management of stroke patients In Lettokennie University Hospital We have seen now I mean thanks to the management That now we have a fully functional stroke unit With a very professional multi-disciplinary team Which like consists of a very well trained Nursing staff Dedicated physiotherapist Occupational therapist Speech and language therapist Dietitian And stroke specialist nurse And the specialist stroke doctors And trainee doctors Who have keen interest in managing the stroke patients Now overall these things have made a lot of positive outcome We have managed over 300 patients in stroke unit In last 12 months And figures are really incredible The number of the patients Successfully being discharged home is Significantly high The number of patients means who are re-admitted Before or have gone significantly down So the rate of the re-admission is significantly lower now And also we have seen that length of stay Unnecessarily length of stay for the stroke patient Has also significantly gone down So overall going in the great direction And we are looking forward to achieve Few more milestones like establishing rapid access Clinic like it's a minor stroke clinic For those patients who not necessarily need to be admitted Can be managed as an outpatient But we are working on that To get them actually that they can be seen On everyday basis by some stroke specialist For those minor strokes in the clinics We are working on that And hopefully we'll achieve that soon Brilliant now before we talk about The importance of seeing the signs And early intervention Can we talk a little bit if you don't mind doctor About prevention Because the majority of strokes is it fair to say Are actually preventable And if so how can we best limit our risk Absolutely Greg you're right that It says over 80% of the stroke Are potentially preventable It's a big number I mean it means if how to prevent It just means a few simple steps Lifestyle modification like you know Means avoiding that sedentary type lifestyle Okay it's a daily act of walk We can say like a brisk walk How does that benefit us doctor How does getting up off the recliner Or the chair and going out for a walk What is the link between us doing that And reducing our risk of stroke See physical inactivity will result in the accumulation Of the bad lipids in our blood vessels Physical inactivity will reduce the expenditure Of our energy So ultimately patients will start putting on the weight Physical activity will keep our muscles More in exercising way More blood vessels will be more in the motion So that will reduce the inhibit clot formation Not only that it will also improve the circulation of the heart Now it's not only that physical activity But means eating healthy diet Like avoiding the high fat containing things like Cheese, butter and fast foods And consumption of more green vegetables And also to sorry doctor Because sometimes people maybe And when I say people like you know Me or whoever it might be You know we are in a routine for the last maybe 10 20 years Okay putting on a bit of weight You know being a bit lazy about our diet Not getting enough exercise And they might say well that's it now This is me Are a lot of the problems from that lifestyle Reversible if we change Our exercise and eating habits Because often we don't talk about that So it's never too late Presumably to at least stop or even maybe Perhaps reverse the risk of heart attack or stroke Absolutely it's absolutely reversible And I have seen it in my patients My patients those who actually Means we then start them on those prevention Once they had the stroke And they change their lifestyle Dramatically with active exercise Reducing their changing their diet menu And they reduce your weight And we see them that totally new actually Means change in their patients They don't get them stroke They don't get heart attacks Now besides means this active lifestyle Exercising reducing the weight It's also necessary for all of us That keep a regular check on our blood pressure On our cholesterol and our glucose levels It's mandatory also that being in touch with your GP Means your nearest surgery actually That once in the while you check the blood pressure Keep an eye that your blood pressure is okay If it is high that your doctor can give you advice Accordingly if your cholesterol is high Can give you advice accordingly Whether to change your diet or put you on the medication That is manageable That is very very manageable actually I mean when I'm not talking about that Going to the doctor every month or every two months Means at least if the once in the year Or twice in the year of somebody Keeping an eye over these things Glucose, cholesterol and their blood pressure And their weight I can say that risk of stroke Not only the risk of stroke But risk of all the major vestular events Like heart attack and other events Can go significantly down Okay now in terms of our physique You know we shouldn't just look at the number On the scale Do we need to look at where fat is on our body As it might relate to an increased risk of stroke Absolutely I mean So this is what we are talking about like BMI So it's not only that you're talking about that General obesity You're also talking about that if the obesity is a central Our art Okay So overall we are talking about that a healthy physique Like a BMI in the certain range When it goes above that range We talk about that this patient is overweight Or this patient is obese So working on that Will definitely make the difference Okay Right okay so that's about prevention And as you say 80% of strokes are said to be preventable Now also with all medical emergencies Early intervention is important But perhaps even more so with stroke How important is it to spot the signs early What should we be looking out for? See first of all I want to tell to all these people Everybody was listening that We must understand that stroke is a very serious disease It carries high risk of disability and even death But also we need to know that stroke is highly treatable disease as well This treatment is time dependent Because majority of the stroke if they come immediately in the hospital And they can be recruited They can be tried for certain forms of the treatment The major form of the two There are two major forms of the acute stroke treatment One is the clot busting medication And another one in which we mechanically take this clot out If it is seen on the scan That is occluding thrombus or clot in the brain These both treatment are highly time dependent Because they can give maximum benefit If these treatment are started within certain time window And is it simply something like say for instance Driving your car without coolant It will drive okay for a very short period of time But if you keep driving The engine will be beyond repair If you spot the warning signs early You know the worst of the damage can hopefully be avoided It's kind of just like that for the human body Absolutely I mean it's very basic thing about it That when I see my patients on my post call round I keep asking them certain questions Certain questions like that about their views about stroke Whether they knew that if it was a stroke Whether that who did they call after that stroke Especially I asked those questions Those who are late presenter Now it is very very important that everybody Should be aware of the typical signs and symptoms of stroke Like typical signs and symptoms of stroke When we say that like sudden onset of weakness Or numbness of the face Or drooling of the face on one side Weakness or numbness of the arm or leg or even both Sudden onset of loss of vision If somebody starts suddenly develop problem with the speech Like slurring of the words If somebody develops suddenly problems with the balance Unable to walk properly or dizziness If either of these symptoms Not necessarily everybody will have all these symptoms together Some may have one of these symptoms Some may have more than one of these symptoms Some may have all these symptoms But the most important thing among all these things That if somebody develops these symptoms They must seek medical attention immediately Yeah because sometimes doctor when I've been speaking to people Someone said no I'll be alright I'll sit down and I'll be fine We'll see how it is in an hour And then I might do something What you're saying is these are massive big red flags From your body Do not try and talk them away Dispel any fear you might have of a hospital You need to address this as soon as is possible Because your outcome is greatly affected By how quickly you get seen Exactly and not only that Even if these symptoms are resolved Still you have to come to the hospital immediately Because in that case maybe we are dealing with minor stroke Now minor stroke is a window to open for the large stroke So that if the patient is coming to the hospital We are starting them on risk factor modification treatment That window for large stroke will be ultimately closed We will not have any major damage then Okay what is happening in a stroke Like in my mind It's like a lump in your blood Traveling through your system And eventually it hits a blockage Like can you talk to me about what is happening So it's a you can say that a blood clot A blood clot farms at certain points So there are the different risk factors Like one of the general risk factors Like a patient is obese Patient is having a lack of physical activity Patient is not eating healthy diet Our patient is diabetic Patient is having high cholesterol Patient is in high blood pressure Our stressful life These all actually means Increasing the risk of clot formation Ultimately these clots actually starts Making the problems with the blood vessels Which are going to the brain to the heart And those then small clots Which are around the walls of the blood vessels They can detach and go up in the brain And it depends on the size of the clot That artery will be blocked So the smaller clot will go to the smaller artery So patient will have less symptoms Bigger clot will go to the bigger artery Patient will have more symptoms Now not only that But there are the certain degree of the certain forms Of the clots which are actually being generated In the heart Especially in the patients Who are having problems with their heart condition Like irregular heart rhythm Of the patients who had a heart attack And recently they can also generate the clots in the heart And that can directly travel to the brain And get results in the large stroke So if somebody is developing like Having a risk of heart disease Or recurrent palpitations we call They also must speak to their doctors And see that if they are assessed And I presume anyone who is suffering that Should seek medical advice But presumably if some of the If your physique or your lifestyle is as we've been discussing Or people of a certain age Should certainly take them even more seriously As serious as we all should take them Exactly Absolutely Now when you talk about And someone's mentioned this on text here doctor Between issues like this about Getting our you know our blood pressure tech Cholesterol tech You know also obviously we need to go and get screening And we can get blood tests that can show early signs Of other conditions and diseases I mean like so many lives could be saved And so much heartache could be avoided If we treated ourselves like we do our cars I mean we religiously every one year or two year And CTR vehicles If we were doing the same to ourselves There'd be so many different outcomes you'd have to imagine Exactly I mean once you can imagine the Burden of disability overall Not on personal basis to that person's Overall mood Overall behavior and overall means their well-being But as a whole In that means so we can see that if Number of disabilities can be reduced from stroke The How will be the positive outcome in the community we are looking into So we have to look into the longer picture It's not only that we are looking at that Acutely managing the stroke But while managing acute stroke We are actually looking into the longer picture that we are Trying to reduce the disabling effects of the stroke And this is what actually the why the stroke unit We were struggling for that to open the stroke unit To minimize that damage so that patients care will be more centralized More streamlined and in the more abrupt fashion More immediately The risk of the disability can be reduced A caller says do you need to sit through the ED If you experience symptoms especially if you have diabetes I imagine you're triaged and they will direct you That is an absolute emergency And the sicker you are the quicker you get treated Presumably if you're presented with Some of the symptoms that we're talking about You would be fast-tracked doctor Absolutely So it is very much on our protocol Is that if from somebody coming with stroke type symptoms We call it fast positive FASD Face speech and then like time So we call it fast positive and they are triaged immediately By the emergency department And they are being seen by the medical department also On urgent basis And then after first line treatment and emergency department They will be transported They will be transferred to my stroke unit Where the further treatment will be continued All right doctor listen thanks for that conversation It's been informative And it sort of went beyond more than we normally talk about So I appreciate you engaging with me on that Thank you Thank you very much Okay that's Dr Ash Toc Maymon there Who is consultant stroke physician At Letter Kenney University Hospital Do we know if I don't know if some of us Don't like talking about that stuff But you know we can't 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highlight the problem of abuse of older people The services for support for older people is minimal And it is a scandal and listen that's laid bare And in very strong words in that report Just reading through the headline elements of it So in relation to that listener we had And it might not seem like it might help But listeners experience of reducing sugar intake And as the younger person gets older In this other person's situation There is, they calmed down a little bit for them Greg can you mention please The public consultation on parental alienation It's now open by the Department of Justice And it's vitally important that all mothers fathers Children's now adults and grandparents Who've been subjected to this form of abuse Make a submission on their story Noting that it will have to be anonymous If the case is in camera Please visit the Department of Justice site You'll follow the links there Go into justice.ie and you'll I can't read the url but because it's too long But you 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I've pushed the wrong button Or B. Kieran O'Donnell joins us for Business Matters And I'm delighted to say it is the latter Hiya Kieran Good morning Greg How are you keeping? Very swift this morning Yeah I saw you running in on the I thought you were getting your laps up there I thought you were running in on the security camera What did you forget in the car? Just my glasses Your glasses it's always the glasses isn't it? Well listen you are resplendent and be spectacled And it's good to have you with us Right let's start with some news before we talk Talk about the podcast And big news for Kieran O'Donnell Significant development Yes Greg Planning permission has been granted to Lidl To build a new store in Kieran O'Donnell The 7 million euro investment Will see a creation of around 30 new jobs Now the store will be located on Station Road And will form part of an adjoining development With McLaughlin's home value McLaughlin's have traded in Kieran O'Donnell For over 60 years And proposed relocating To a stand-alone purposeful facility Adjusted to the proposed Lidl store Good stuff The middle aisle is still a thing isn't it You a middle aisle man I'm no wild man if I can avoid it Start your own business programme Talk to us about that Yes study call local enterprise officers Start your own business programme Will commence on Tuesday next That is June the 6th at 6pm The local enterprise office Is making the programme available to online To help reach those budding entrepreneurs Who they may feel isolated or restricted So a total of 8 sessions are planned Over the next 5 weeks With each session beginning at 6 And concluding at 9.30pm More information on this course Is available from Joanne Kilmerton At joanne.kilmerton at leo.donegalcoco.ie Or on the Donegal local enterprise Office social media platform Great to see the busking festival back And it's great to see it back When it'll be able to be enjoyed By the maximum amount of people And in the same way It's a great thing I think for We had on Monday night sessions Paul and was on And Jimmy of course They had a young band You know not everyone's tasting music They were night loud and noisy But it was really good stuff I thought You know it's bands like that That get opportunities at the busking festivals And others as well And now we're going to be able to have lots of people And all the ancillary stuff to go with it It's coming up isn't it Kieran Yeah it's a great platform Greg as you say For young up and coming performance Performers The RKNN Chamber of Commerce is now accepting Applications for the 2022 busking festival That takes place on Saturday July the 30th So check out the RKNN Chamber's social media platforms For application form and more details Yeah I think it's going to be bigger and better than ever Okay huge part of our offering For the tourists and locals as well Are some of our ferry services Our seasonal ones Tell us what's the story there Yeah I heard McKella McKella mentioned this on the news earlier on Greg Donegal Coutty Council has announced that Loch Fowle Ferry Service Lincoln Greencastle and McGilligan And the Swally Ferry Service Connecting Bunkranna and Rathmoreland Will both be Fowle operational from today So both ferries will operate seven days a week And for further information on time details And ferries go to Loch FowleFerry.com Or SwallyFerry.com None of us are immune to the effects of inflation And it's hitting us too on the basics Literally just going in to feed our families Yeah look the story has been Buildings was over the last number of weeks Greg And you've touched on it a number of times on your show Grocery inflation has hit 5.5% And that's marking the first time It has risen above 5% since August 2013 Which is quite significant New research carried out by Cantor Shows that shoppers are changing their behaviour Buying behaviour to manage the cost of buying food Including turning to cheaper alternatives But Cantor say that people are now making Four fewer trips to the supermarket On average per month Than they were this time last year And just staying with supermarkets For the 6th consecutive period this year Duns retained a position as Cantor's biggest retailer And holds a 22.3% share of that market Interesting of course all of these increases Are off the back of the sanctions really Which the EU is imposing on Russia And you know I was reading I've been reading quite a bit on this As everyone should The sanctions really aren't impacting Russia at all In that Vladimir Putin is going to persist with this And there is a bit of a consensus that Really they're sitting back and going You know the Europeans are crippling themselves Right from the very top to the very bottom of society He's got his war chest The way that country is run He has the ability to continue with what he is doing So really the sanctions at least in the medium term It's us that are being impacted And it's not really that they say Some of the people that know more about this That if you are going to disrupt what he's doing It's through supporting the armed element of it And that the sanctions really are not making A bit of difference Anyway listen I don't mean You were going to get into that convo At the moment Kieran unless you've got a view on it Well I suppose waiting fuel of the two main things That are impacting fuel equals energy And we all need energy just to live And I think there is a growing sort of I suppose concern That just people being able to afford the basics Just to sort of get by at the moment That's growing and there's no poverty and no worth At the same time And also too with what's going on over there as well And it's not business related It actually literally breaks my heart And I think anyone you know with Particularly I think it's mostly young men Like they're being sent in There are thousands of Ukrainians And the Russians into the east there And we all look back in history And a lot of Irish people were the first sent over the line You know literally sacrificed on the front line And I just think you know when we When the dust settles on this And we start hearing more of the actual You know the realities of war We're going to see whole generations almost wiped out Being sent to their inevitable death To hold a line that was always going to be broken Now I don't know what you do to resolve that But there are families Thousands and thousands and thousands of families And we don't know the numbers yet Both Russian and Ukrainian And these young people are just being Sent to their deaths And then you ask for what And it's between that And then it's impact on world hunger And it's impact on general society There's just I don't know In the modern day, Greg, as a situation We never thought we'd actually be living through No, and it's just the loss of life And the impact on people's lives There has to be another way But unfortunately, you know To some extent the Americans are insulated They're insulated by what's going on here And they can fight this proxy war with Russia And weaken the power of Putin But again at what cost And for who and for what Unless it's not for any way In any way I'm suggesting that the Ukrainians Should not be defending their land That's not my point But I don't see any other avenues To try and end this Other than sending young men And women to their deaths All right, okay, this is sorry to digress But as soon as we start talking About things like inflation and all It makes me think of these people And their families And it's just it's devastating to me Okay, right, let's talk about This week's podcast Because it's in the bag You've done the work The work has been done What's in it Yes, on this week's Business Matters Greg, we have a special feature On the success of Ericka College students In the Bank Affair and Money Smart Challenge And they'll also be talking to the owner Of McGee's Pharmacy in Ericka, Jared McCormick So last month a team of fifth year students From Ericka College in Ericka Beat off a stuff competition From 600 schools around the country To win the Bank Affair and Money Smart Challenge And scooped 15,000 euros For the Dunningall ETV School In the process So during a visit to Ericka College I first spoke to two of the winning team Lily and Jody School Plans for Danny McFadden And Business Teacher Evan Gorill And this club Evan told me that the winning The winning of the national competition Was a great way to end the school year We've a prize given this week as well So it's great to be able to recognise The four students that made it To the national finals And won the national finals Like not to point anything over But this is not our final today They are the top in their category For this sector So in terms of financial literacy Which is an absolutely fantastic achievement For Ericka College And for Dunningall ETV So now I'm just pure delight with them And I'm hoping I will one next year Retain our title Maybe with a different cohort of students But I'm hoping I can just carry That bit of I suppose pressure towards them That they'll really buy into it But as well that they'll carry That confidence that you know Well we can do it We're more than capable And we can definitely compete Against the top dogs of the country Okay Kieran and it's not just Even you're talking to there As you mentioned there's a few Of those involved in that element of the podcast Yeah I talked to Danny McFadden, the principal And I spoke to two of the students On the winning team as well So we're good to get the interview Nice and it's good to get their voices heard And to celebrate that success Right now you talked about Chatting to Mr Jared McCormick I did indeed Jared McCormick is the owner Of McGee's Pharmacy on Main Street In the Rookinite He began working as a pharmacist In the family-owned business After graduating from the College of Pharmacy In 1983 And he's to go over the running Of the longest service business in 2006 Jared as we know is also involved With the Rookinite Heady Towns And the Rookinite Chamber of Commerce In this clip Jared recalls His first paid for job In the family business 42 years ago It was Christmas I was 10 years of age And my job was very very strict It was every half an hour I had to go downstairs And at that stage we used to have One big gondola inside the door And then there was a smaller gondola Further down And my job was to go round the shelves And tidy up Not to fill them But to tidy up the shelves Make sure that everything was neat and tidy And I used to be watching TV here Just beside us And then I'd be looking at the watch And I'd say I'd have to go downstairs And tidy up Tidy, tidy, tidy, tidy And back up again then And that was my first memory Of my first paid job Is that one of the jobs You have passed on to your staff During the generations And is that something you make sure That you're still doing, Gerard? Oh, definitely It's part of retail Retail is detail So it's making sure the place is spick and span and sharp So that's in me That's in retail Yeah, so it's not only the businesses It's the people behind the businesses And the businesses of the future The business people of the future The full interviews with Gerard McCormick And that special feature On Errigal College's success In the Bank of Ireland Money, Smarts challenge Are both available for you now As part of the one podcast Of course, on highlandradio.com In the playback section And on Spotify And iTunes Also on the radio On the airwaves, Kieran Yeah, on the broadcast On Sunday evening, Greg After these six o'clock news All right, and if anyone wants to contact you Or the show Yeah, just drop me an email please Businessmatters at hideradio.com Okay, Kieran, look forward to seeing you Next Wednesday All being well Enjoy your week Enjoy the longer weekend And what did you think of the Dona Gol game? I thought we were going to get away with it Well, seriously, that's a point Now, be careful now Seriously, that's a point You can't say anything negative So watch yourself I was really disappointed Yeah You know, look, I came down There were, I played out along expected lines It was extremely tactical But I suppose the lit lit drama Was the close range free You know, we were talking the way they were And we both burned the very in the car And the way back, you know, what-off What-off that had a ticket to Deflex and it wasn't done Or the rebound Was he very chatty in the car? Ah, well, we talk a lot Well, that's not a lot too But look, it wasn't to be And I suppose from the reaction from the dairy supporters I mean, it was a 20 You wouldn't begrudge them 23 years I mean, the whistle wasn't blown 30 seconds That most of the clonus turf was just a wash With red and white and fliers So, look, it's their day But look, we're not gone yet No, it's still in it We have the back door and the draw I think we've made this Monday So, look, we're still in the championship And hopefully we still have a lot of fun In the back door, do you want an easy game Just to get back to winning ways Or would you say something right we need to? 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It's Foe, yeah So, Foe, we're just a small creative studio That we specialize in production and brand activation So kind of things that'll be a bit more different to the norm And we try and cut stuff different ways To try and help brands really access The different communities that they're targeting Okay, and some recent research has shown That we have an own accent bias Or there's something to that theory Talk to me about it Yeah, so essentially we partnered with IRS Plus to look into this fact that Is there an own accent bias or a local accent bias? Now there is psychology of accent studies That have been done for years And essentially there is generally perceived An own accent bias Whereas the fact that humans will Focus on the prosody Or enjoy the prosody of a similar accent to their own Now that's the stress, the rhythm, the intonation Of an accent And essentially what it results in Is if you like how someone is saying something You inadvertently like what they're saying And that's because it accesses the emotion part of your brain And it's a thing called effective processing So like one thing it'll result in the other Now there's huge potential for this in advertising And what we wanted to do was look into this And see if there was a way we could do some research To show brands the power of that local accent And does it matter whether the accent is broad Or not or? Well what we seem to find So what we did was we ran our study in Donegal, Kerry The Midlands and Southeast We partnered with Nissan And we used their TV ad for the cashcoy So what we did was we re-recorded the voiceover script For that ad And then ran them on YouTube in those areas Just targeting them to see how they compared Versus the national ad And what we saw was Donegal, Kerry had very strong results In 25, 35 year olds there was 8% higher view rate So 8% of people in that age gap didn't skip the ad When they heard their own accent Now that could be the fact They were the strongest because we think potentially We were targeting a single county with an accent there Versus the Midland region and the Southeast region So what that kind of shows to us as for further research Is maybe it's bringing it to as local as you possibly can What does this mean though? What do you think we've learned from this? So what I think we've learned from this Especially for the bigger brands in the FMCGs The motors, the finance There's really ultra competitive markets Is that there's an opportunity for them To have their national campaign But also when they want to say run on local radio And they want to really bring a national brand To a local community That there's an opportunity to work with IRS Plus to localize their brand And how their brand sounds And then they could see the benefits Yeah and I understand that It's now working in a local radio So I don't want to shoot myself from my own foot But if I speak to my 16 year old son There's many different voices in his class And I'm just wondering if I were someone Who's lived here for 20 years But from a different country Originally in my accent is not a Donegal accent And I'm listening to you saying that It doesn't sound very progressive You know that especially in a very progressive Ireland even if it's what the Even if it's what the consumer wants Is it really what the company should want That they should be rooting out certain accents For commercial benefit Well I think you'll find that accents are important In voiceovers as already Do you know what I mean? They go and recruit accents Yeah there's probably not enough diversity In with any accents Exactly There's probably not enough diversity Of accents and voices to represent The population of Ireland Local and nationally at the moment maybe I would completely agree So what I think what this would do is When there's an opportunity to speak to A particular community Being able to get a diverse range of accents Attached to a brand could just I think that diversity is positive As opposed to it not being necessarily progressive Because the psychology around this Comes from as early as one year olds Leaning towards accents that they're similar for Just in a slight positive way So it's really trying to just Capitalise on that positivity Where possible and where it suits for a brand And presumably to this is beneficial to these companies Because they have marketing budgets It's in their interest that those marketing budgets Are spent wisely and reap results Yeah completely Now I think what's an interesting place for this For these brands to go into is Once they've ran their national campaign for a while And maybe it plateaus for them in terms of results And they really want to revitalise that Bit of creative and that asset We think there's an opportunity for brands To start testing in this area To see if they can see an improvement Or not depending on the asset that they update Yeah and some companies are all good at this Some companies are already doing this aren't they? Yeah well there is There's companies do this all the time With different access all around the world And they kind of can be more localised But where we're not seeing this necessarily is At a more smaller target area in Ireland So what we really wanted to do was kind of Get brands thinking about this Thinking what will actually work for them And for to ask the question Is it going to suit their brand Is it something that's going to suit their budget And is it something that's going to suit their target Yeah that's what's really important And to be honest a slight annoyance I have With radio at the moment is that I think And I think maybe sometimes this is from This is not from advertisement perspective But I think they think a certain accent Gives more credence to something to a product Or an advert or a promo or whatever it might be Do you know what I mean that maybe it sounds Well that sounds like you know BBC Radio 1 in Britain it must work here You know and this type of evidence Can translate across as well It's not just in advertising that you know People want to hear things that's more relatable And I think yeah and what's really interesting Around that is there's a lot of psychology Around that negative impact of different ads Or different sorry not ads Different accents on people Around that kind of more neutral BBC style And how that works in There's prejudice around assuming people's education Assuming where loads of things about them Based on this So it's kind of once you move out of your own accent There is just an inclination to assume things And people do that by not inherently So I guess what's important is What I would love and I think where it's really interesting Is to when a brand is speaking to that local community Is to potentially be able to employ a local voice For it and to see what type of impact that has for them And what have you read into if anything The fact that Donagolan Kerry in particular We have this accent bias Well my assumption on that was based on the recording We ended up doing for the midlands and the south east Now they were slightly more neutral They were they had an inclination towards those areas As a more I'm from the midlands myself But from a more midlands area or more south east But the Kerry and the Donegal accent were An awful lot more distinguishable for that particular county And I think it really came from the benefit Or the success of the campaign in those areas Was the fact that we were targeting a single county As opposed to a region Yeah and it doesn't surprise me actually Because I do you know Some of the brands that it benefits most Finance insurance telecoms They can be quite you know humanless I don't know what the right word I'm looking for Do you know what I mean They would benefit most from presumably Their product being more relatable through this It might be makes them you know humanize them a bit more I completely completely agree I think in those in those industries where They can be perceived as out of touch Somewhat sometimes by the community By different things leaving leaving towns and closing up And it's by having this voice or having this tone It's just might potentially be a beneficial way For them to be integrated into that community Yeah maybe a little bit of feel part of it Where necessary a little bit of Reputational rehabilitation Yes exactly I think so I think that's a real rich area for them All right and what kind of reaction have you had From the industry to this research yet I suppose maybe you're just getting that to the public And you'll prepare some information For the various advertisers etc Yeah so what we've actually done is So obviously we've gone out this week with it We've made a little case study animation video As well to put out them to explain it In very simple terms as to what this could mean For their brand and for them to get in touch With IRS plus but overall anyone I've spoken to Over the last couple of days have been Very positive and very interested in it Because in advertising it's so competitive To find anything that can give an edge The one percent worth exploring Exactly That just gives you that little And it's provable it's demonstrable Okay listen Shane listen thanks for that Interesting stuff and we'll see what comes from it It's been great having you on the program Thank you so much I appreciate it Good morning to yet no our pleasure Shane Brenner creative director with Foe 086025000 is the text line that remains Open throughout the course of the day But that's where we leave it on air for this program Thanks to Caroline and Donna Marie Who worked on the show back With you tomorrow morning at nine Stay tuned John Bresen is on the way around the North West