 Gregory, is that a little yawning that everybody could see, you know, is this yawning? Did I have it? Enjoy your yawning, go on. No, it wasn't yawning at all. There's nothing that's worse than when you're doing your yawning and somebody tries to pop their finger into your mouth, do you know? I think the general, who would do that? Yeah, I would do that. No, but it's just to put them off the yawning, because then you haven't yawning. So whose mouth do you pop your finger into? No, you don't actually put them, you just kind of put them off the yawning. Who? Like, if someone was in the car next to you in the traffic jam... I know, you're really digging a deep hole. Who are you on about? You wouldn't know if they were sitting on the sofa or something like that. Ah, at home. At home, not in the car. Sorry, I thought you went there. Let a Kelly shopping centre or something. No, I mean, in your family circle and a friendly, kind of jokie, do you know, it's like, who farts in the sofa and then says, who did that and have the wee giggle? You wouldn't do that in public. But do you know? What do you be doing in your house? Farting and poking each other in the mouth. We're just like everybody else's house. It'll be so posh, right? Everybody farts, even girls, right? Well, we call them bang-bangs. Do you not call them bang-bangs, do you? No, because the F words are swear words, bang-bangs. Right, bang-bangs, right. That's for you, see? But we don't... You bang-bang too? No, we don't. Oh, you don't... No. Stop being so nice, you do. Let a hair out. Anyway, Lee, I am having this conversation with you. I'm sorry. The seat is not as hot today. No, that's just very quite cool. Do you stand up for this? Do bang-bangs. Ha-ha! Donald Kavanaugh has the news headlines. Good morning, Donald. Thank you very much, Indy Gray. Good morning. Bank of Ireland says a technical issue which impacted a number of its services has now been fixed. It meant customers were able to transfer and withdraw funds that weren't actually in their accounts last night. Cues formed at ATMs across the country as people rushed to withdraw cash after transferring non-existent money into their Revolut accounts. In a statement this morning, it says, in such cases, the transfers and withdrawals will be applied to customers' accounts today. It's also urging any customers who may be in financial difficulty because of overdrawing on their account to make contact. Personal Finance Editor with the Irish Independent, Charlie Weston, says if you're one of those who tried to capitalize on the glitch, there is no hiding place. They're not able to say how much has flown out, how much money, but it's obviously going to run into millions and millions. People need just to be aware now that you'll end up having to pay this back. You know, the word might have got out but this is some kind of an IT blunder where the bank can't record the fact that it's given you access to money, but I've been told by Bank of Ireland they will record that. The government has been accused of not investing properly in rural and regional areas. The Rural Independent Group of TDs says the government remains too Dublin-focused. A recent survey suggested a farmer's party would prove popular among the rural population. However, Rural Independent Group member Deputy Matty McGrath believes that wouldn't be the right move. Definitely not. It's not a farmer's and the rest of the country. We need, as I said, a party of grouping and thinking has changed that represents everybody in a rural parish, not just the farmers. A farmer's party just wouldn't gain the traction and it's not a simplicity of that. It would really make the divide worse. And the 43rd McGill Summer School gets underway this afternoon in Lenties asking the question, a new global order, is it precarious and dangerous? With more detail, here's Miquela Clark. Government ministers, parliamentarians, heads of industry, trade union leaders, economists, sociologists and a range of public representatives from the north, south and beyond will gather at the Highlands Hotel in Lenties over the next four days as the McGill Summer School gets underway. In its 43rd year, the Summer School opens this afternoon with the war on Ukraine dominating. A master of Ukraine to Ireland, Larisa Gerasko, will be in attendance. Tomorrow the attention turns to China, the European Union and the Irish economy with the annual Hume Lecture, which we'll hear from Congressman Brenda Boyle concluding events on day two. Discussions will centre on the future of Russia and separately the future of Ireland on Friday, while Tsimissini will be remembered on the 10th anniversary of his death along with Brian Freel. The event will draw to a close on Saturday with talks centring on the planet, climate change and artificial intelligence. Well, the forecast, any lingering mist and fog will clear shortly leaving a rather dry, bright and pleasant day. A mix of sunshine and scattered cloud, generally dry but a few like coastal showers in the afternoon are possible in top temperatures of 18 to 20 degrees Celsius. Winds just light. And that's how in radio news, we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. Are you suffering from dodgy internet connection? Symptoms include endless loading, embarrassing freeze face. Luckily, there's a cure. Three home broadband in Ireland's fastest and most consistent 5G network. Get it free for the first three months and for only 39 euro per month after that. Plus, no setup costs. 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If you're listening for our website, the Republic 0035386 6025000 and more of you texting in from Northern Ireland, particularly all the time, which is great to have you on board as well. 07491 25000 is the telephone number 003537491 25000. Start off with some good news, shall we? Because I know many of you out there are dog lovers. We had two beautiful big box of dogs that we're missing yesterday from the Chrysler area and they turned up in the afternoon, so all's well that ends well. Not sure as to what happened to them, whether they were stolen or left back, whether they walked off, wandered off and wandered back, who's to say. But that doesn't matter now at this point because those two doggies that you would have heard, they appeared about yesterday are now back in the loving embrace of their families. Okay, let's look at the newspapers. The Finn Valley Voice this morning tells us that almost 19,000, 18,950 children in County Donegal will benefit from free school books, work books and copy books from this September. The initiative introduced by Minister Norma Foley has made or was made possible through the provision of a 1.8 odd million euro worth of funding. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McUnilogue, who confirmed the news said this is a landmark moment for Irish. And then you have to turn to page three, which I don't have. I presume it's students and families or parents. The initiative shown independent this morning, Bunkranna remembers Oma. Bunkranna will today mark the 25th anniversary of the Oma Bum in which three of its sons and two visitors lost their lives. Memorial will be held from 3 p.m. at the Cala Drive in the town close to the homes. That eight-year-old Oren Doherty and 12-year-old Sean McLaughlin left on the morning of August 1998 never to return. The boys, along with 12-year-old James Barker and Spanish visitors Fernando Biasco Baselga 11 and Roquillo Abad-Ramos 23 were among 29 people murdered on Market Street in Oma by a car bomb planted by the real IRA. The Innis Times this morning, an issue we're going to be talking about a little later on in the program, traders on Street have warned that the removal of the town's half-hour free parking will lead to the closure of businesses. The warning comes amidst a review of the on-street parking in the town, which is being carried out by Donegal County Council. The local authority is building a consultation drop-in to get feedback from businesses, residents and other stakeholders on the operation of on-street parking in Bunkranna. It's understood the council is considering doing away with the free half-hour of parking partly due to an increase in the cost of street parking and the fact that on-street parking scheme in the town is running. The last traders say the free half-hour is crucial to much of their business as it suits customers who only need to make brief stops. Taking it away will reduce trade on the street and the town's centre for dozens of businesses, they say. But what do you think out there? We welcome all comments, particularly obviously if you're in and around the Bunkranna area, maybe you're a business on the main street or maybe you're frustrated with the lack of parking and you would prefer to see on-street parking charges introduced from DOT, in other words as soon as you pull into the space. Have your say now, this is part of a consultation and you know the conversations we have here too are important in that whole process as well. So get in touch with us now. We'll be chatting about it later. 08 60 25,000 or call us 0749 125,000. The Donegal Post tells us that on a major housing development in Bondorin, Donegal County Council had granted conditional planning permission for the development at Church Road in July. McHenry Asset Holdings Limited had sought permission for the construction of 73 new houses on the site. However, local resident Mark Pickin has lodged an appeal to Ambar Planala who will now probe the case. Mr Pickin in an appeal submitted in late July argued that the application was initially invalid as the applicant had applied for development on lands that were not within the applicant's control. Subsequently, the applicants admitted submitted new draining with a different site boundary. Mr Pickin pointed out some knock-on effects to an amended proposal and you can read more about that on the inside of that paper. Right, on to the Irish Times now and RTE auditor Deloitte has been drawn into the controversy over Ryan Toberty's pay after accountants Grant Thornton examined the firm's role in the affair. Now the upshot of this report which will be published later today is that it will pretty much back up what Ryan Toberty was saying that he wasn't overpaid but actually RTE for reasons unknown declared his payments to be under €500,000. So there was a 15 sorry there was a, let me see it's 120 in total, there was a €20,000, €50,000, €50,000 which was due to him he didn't take it right so his salary what RTE decided to do for reasons unknown is they took that money off his salary so when they published the figures it made it look like he was earning under €500,000 when in fact he earned €505,000 I think €520,000 and €520,000 that's €17,000, €18,000 and €19,000 so he will say look this is what I said at the Euructus committee not in the public eye I would argue but certainly in his own mind he'll feel somewhat vindicated but anyway the RTE board is discussing a new Grant Thornton report which investigates how the national broadcaster under declared Mr Toberty's pay by £120,000 between 2017 and 2019 the report is understood to set out that the misleading figures RTE published in 2021 were different from the correct figures recorded on RTE's payroll system this reflected a decision to not include a total of €120,000 from Mr Toberty's declared earnings after he waived a €120 termination fee due in 2020 at the end of his contract RTE's position was that Mr Toberty's unpaid end of contract fee could be set off against his actual pay because his outgoing contract said that €120,000 be waived including services additional to his radio and late-late-show work which were not provided. There's still plenty in there for the OCTIS committees to get their teeth into but as I say it questions as to who made the decision within RTE to under declare his income and also still questions to be asked as to why although he did address it why he didn't say I got paid more than you've told the public or you've told the Dall if you've set out publicly but anyway he said that was a mistake we shall know shortly this is according to the Irish Independent the make-up of Donagall ahead of the next general election because the new constituency boundaries and the number of seats in each for the 34th Dall will be announced in two weeks time. The Electoral Commission which has been given the responsibility of redrawing boundaries has confirmed that the results of its deliberations will be made public on August 30 with potentially huge implications for the future careers of serving politicians there will also be a number set for the total number of seats in the next chamber which is sure to swell by several extra TD births because of recent population increases there is speculations to what the future might hold for Donagall as a whole as a two-seater or how it might pan out would it be reunited will South Donagall be reunited with the rest of South Donagall so we're going to know in a couple of weeks anyway and there will be some I would argue particularly Fina 4 will be keeping a really close eye on that there's certain people that were elected politicians before that I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them emerge on the scene again all dependent on how things pan out there. Right there's a lot of people are going to be bothered today because there was a problem with Bank of Ireland and it was put out in social media that you could withdraw transfer money you didn't have effectively so if you were at 0000 on your bank account with Bank of Ireland theoretically you could log on to the app and transfer it a thousand euro to Revolute or you could have withdrawn it from ATMs. Now there was a big rush in ATMs yesterday. One thing that happened which I thought really quite peculiar is Guardi was standing at ATMs what is the role of Vongada Shia Khanna to protect the assets of Bank of Ireland and where are all these Guardi when there's people getting beaten up in the streets that's not a criticism of the Guardi because they are instructed to go where they're instructed to go but that's what jumped out at me. A, why are RTE protecting Bank of Ireland cash machines? I thought that really strange and B why should they you know what I mean why should they but anyway so what's going to happen this morning is that the Bank of Ireland if it hasn't happened already you're now going to be overdrawn which there are penalties attached to that and I see now a rush of people trying to get through to the Bank of Ireland saying well I didn't realise what happened and I thought and this that and the other to try and avoid extra fees and they're not going to be able to get through because the bank's going to be overwhelmed with calls so I'd imagine that's tomorrow morning's front story but anyway Bank of Ireland is facing a crisis after thousands of customers descended on ATMs yesterday evening attempting to take advantage of a major IT glitch. The bank notified customers early yesterday afternoon that there was an issue with its online app and personal banking website after being flooded with complaints and by the evening customers had detected that they could access cash from ATMs despite having low levels of funds guarding as I say we're instructed to clear the queues from ATMs. Again I don't understand why they did that but anyway as people lined up to take advantage of the glitch thousands of people were last night queuing around the block outside some branches to withdraw money that they did not have in their own accounts so like I would be really interested not to labour the point as to who instructed the Guardi like were they concerned there was a public order offence happening I mean this was a an arrangement between a personal private person and their bank again I don't see what the rule of the Guardi is a middle person is there but anyway did you get money out you regret it says the bank told you yet that you have to pay it back because you could be forgiven for taking the thousand out if you had no money going and spending 300 euro on a big big shop you know what I mean to feed the family what have you and you left with 700 euro and you owe the bank a thousand and it's going to take an awful lot of time and effort to get back into to get back into the black again but as I say affected by that at all let us know oh wait 6, 6 to 25,000 so what do RTE do with their money we know they they're top staff as they call them extortionate extraordinary amounts of money but they also spend your money on things like the Eurovision so how much did it cost us to send Wild Youth to the Eurovision 1.3 million euro let me read that to you again 1.3 million euro cash strapped RTE forked out more than 1.3 million euro trying to qualify for the Eurovision song contest since 2018 so it's not just last year but it's still accumulative it's a lot of money the station yesterday revealed the latest bill to send Wild Youth to Liverpool to the song contest in May splashing out almost 340,000 euro in two weeks in Liverpool and the paper can reveal the station splurged 52,000 on 14 people to stay in a hotel a further 10 grand was spent on food and drink for 14 people hungry hungry people Wild Youth failed to qualify for the song contest with their song We Are One and the M&S at the M&S arena in Liverpool so since 2018 1.3 million euro spent on that. Leo Veradkar's been doing the rounds in the media he's in the sun today a pictured smiling Leo Veradkar admits he struggles to live a normal social life as T-Shock but says most people he meets when out are nice the finna girl leader who's 44 to escape abroad where he can be anonymous as he sometimes feels like a fish in the fishbowl back home and in a rare personal interview Leo Veradkar tells how being a public figure gives way to a very different way of living he said it's nice to get abroad sometimes where there's nobody looking at you or talking about you or whispering thinking you can't hear them that's one thing that is sort of an escape when you get abroad just to be able to take a taxi or go to the shops without anyone looking in your basket or smart comments even just someone coming up to you and saying thank you for doing a great job that happens a lot most people are nice you wouldn't think that from online but in the real world most people are polite and nice but it's nice being able to escape that from time to time him and his partner have pulled back from being a public about their relationship to protect their privacy it doesn't help either of course when there are messages from his partner about attending royal events and all that become revealed and then it's all controversial you get pictured in the nightclub or whatever might happen the Irish Daily Mirror RT's Joe Duffy's accused the wolf tones of glorifying slaughter in a war of words on air with the bands frontman I didn't hear this I'm not sure I'll listen back to it either after a video circulated on social media of revelers attending the failure in Belfast taking part in pro IRA chanting on Sunday evening videos of the concert showed around 10,000 fans chanting who are up there are at the concert in the Falls Park in West Belfast Warfield who penned Celtic Symphony in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of classic Celtic football club he said he was a little bit sick of all this nitpicking the band has received over the years over the particular song but anyway this riled Joe Duffy and they had something of a row but he invited him on maybe he invited him on with both barrels loaded but anyway he was his guest on the program I didn't hear it probably won't listen back 20 past nine how are you getting on this morning get in touch with us again to remind you there's always 660 25,000 or give us a call and 07491 25,000 now around about two million live minutes of view to the program and across our social media and website every month and we really do appreciate you engaging with us that way two million live minutes so that's people watching live across various platforms not to mention those that watch back there after amongst them this morning Maggie, good morning Maggie in early she even said good morning to Lee Rosemary's there, Annie and all the rest of you, thank you very much if you want to watch the show and most of the guests that join us it's a little bit like a TV show I suppose you could say you can do so on YouTube Highland Radio Ireland you can watch on your phone tablets, laptop, your smart TV as I've said before most smart TVs all smart TVs now have the YouTube app you might as well use it we're also on your fire stick as well lots of you have those through the YouTube app and across our Facebook pages Highland News & Sport and Hub alright let's say hello to our first guest after this short break we're always looking for the best place in the northwest to get a bed or mattress bed or mattress? 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Now a listener texted in to say, Greg, can you get someone to explain how it is that you are prescribed maxilif sulfidine for long term pain and the pharmacy doesn't have them in stock yet. They can sell them to you over the counter in the same pharmacy. I'm wondering is it because I have a medical card, PS1 chemist is selling a 24 pack for 13 euro, another for seven. How do they explain all that? Well, I mean, let's get an insight into it. And it's not any of Tom's Tom Murray's pharmacies that that listener is referencing, but Tom's good for coming on and maybe giving us an insight. So Tom Murray, Treasurer of the Irish Pharmacy Union and owner of Murray Pharmacies. Good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. How are you? Not too bad at all, Tom. So do you understand where the listener is coming from? Absolutely. I absolutely understand the frustration that the listener is coming from. And to be honest with it, it's a frustration that the pharmacists share as well. So to be clear, the sulfidine that is in the dispensary, a 60 pack of sulfidine is a prescription only product that can only be supplied on prescription. And it's currently one of the nearly 300 medicines that there's a shortage of in the country at the moment. It's reimbursed through the HSE, which is a deal that is done between the government, the HSE and the drug companies. And it's a different product in the sense that the over the counter pack is a smaller pack that's a private sale that the drug companies supply to us that there isn't a shortage of. But certainly sulfidine and maxileaf and a number of other medicines, which have both over the counter and prescription only status, the prescription only product is currently in shortage in Ireland. And it's part of the 300 medicines that we face daily shortages of that frustrates patients, pharmacists, doctors, nobody more than patients though. And pardon my ignorance, what would stop a pharmacist from putting together 60 tablets, in other words, two packs of 24 and another 12 and making up the 60 pack? Because they are different products in that they're licensed differently and they're reimbursed completely differently. And there is an element of the reimbursement, the 60 pack, which is at a price done by the HSE is at a much lower price than the drug companies sell us the 24 pack for. And I think people have to remember, we have to remember that a pharmacy is a business as well. It's an important part of a community, but it is a business the same as a butchers or a news agents. It absolutely is. And the over the counter medicine is a private sale between the pharmacy and the customer, just as any other product in any other business is bought and sold. The dispensary packs are supplied through an agreement between the state and the drug companies of which the pharmacist has absolutely no say in the price to medicine. But what is going on here? They are fundamentally the same medicine though, aren't they, in terms of? They are exactly the same medicine. So are suppliers playing games then because they can seemingly have enough supply, or maybe there's not as much demand for private sales, but then through these schemes that they have with governments and the health services of governments, there is a supply shortfall. So what do you think is going on there? Because obviously it's patients and you guys that are being caught in the middle of all of this. Yes, and if the patient is more than anybody and absolutely the patients are having to wait while we ring doctors and get an alternative medicine, which hopefully can treat the patient's chronic pain as your listener referred to in their email into you. There are over 300 medicines short in Ireland at the moment, not just in Ireland, it's a European issue, it's a global issue. There is a supply and demand issue where the manufacturers aren't able to come up with global demand coming out of COVID. Most of the basic ingredients for medicines are supplied through China and India, and there is a delay in the production for those which has led to as I say nearly 300 commonly used medicines in short supply. And unfortunately patients are the ones that are suffering because the drug companies are slow in making that supply. We also have to remember that Ireland is a very, very small market in the global market, and we may not be the first choice for drug companies to supply to when they look at the markets they have in Europe or America or in Britain or, you know, it's a lot more profitable for drug companies to supply the population of France than it is to supply the population of the Republic of Ireland. Am I correct in saying that you believe things might get worse before they improve at least for some medicines? I think that the global shortage of medicines is an ongoing and fluctuating problem, and it increases and decreases, but I can foresee that the shortages which we've experienced this year, which has seen the shortages rise to almost 300, I could imagine that that may get worse for commonly used medicines, yes, in the next period of time, because I don't see that the drug companies have managed to to keep up with the demand globally, and I do think that the problem may worsen, yes. During COVID, which you mentioned, we acquired, did we not, vaccines European-wide, and then they were distributed pro-rata. Why don't we do similarly with medicines? You know, we are in a union, we are a small country, and maybe if we were able to do it that way, it would work to our advantage. Well, what Ireland does as a state, it does sit within the European average in terms of the price of medicines, and there's a basket of countries which are assessed, and we sit when the government is setting the reimbursal price of medicines and negotiating with the drug companies, we do sit in the middle of that, but there isn't a pan-European-wide medicine purchasing project. As of yet, that does not exist within the EU. It did in the global pandemic because it was a different response to a different condition, which had taken the world by surprise, and there was a lot of things that happened in COVID where countries acted together and proved that they could act in unison, but that doesn't exist for the purchase of medicines at the moment. Is there anything that can change here or needs to change? I mean, are we all for prescribing some of these medicines? I presume that can't be the issue. No one is going into a chemist or being prescribed by the GP, you know, with acute pain or severe pain and trying to get some relief from that unless they actually need it, so I presume that's not an issue. But is there anything that they could be looking at locally that could ease some of these pressures? There's a lot of questions and that's a complex question, and there certainly isn't over prescribing, but I suppose there is an element where if patients are having to wait on long waiting lists for hospital treatment and their pain, they're chronically prescribed painkillers whilst they wait on the list. That's one issue, looking at the waiting lists and the hospitals, which you have discussed many times. In terms of the other issue, there is a requirement by drug companies to identify and to notify the government and the HPRA, the Health Protection of the Health Policy Regulatory Authority and the HTC about shortages coming up. They are supposed to give three months notice. Currently, they give less than two weeks. Sometimes when we go into the pharmacy, we get told that day that a medicine has gone into short supply and can't be obtained. So there is an element where that can be done. There's something that we have called for in the IPU for many years for a chief pharmaceutical officer who could work within the Department of Health at the strategy around medicine purchasing and medicine supply into the state and would be able to produce or provide a bit of leverage and a bit of power from the government into that sector for medicine supply and shortages into the country. And just finally to their point that one chemist is selling a medicine cheaper than the other. Again, that's a private sale. For whatever reason, I might choose to do that. In terms of over the counter, that's just saying, well, why is a loaf of bread 80 cents here in 220 there? I mean, that's just up to them to make those decisions. Exactly. It's a private business transaction. It's why, as a pint again, it's five euros in remelton, and it's seven, 80 or eight euros in Dublin. They're private transactions and it's up to the individual business for how they price those things. There's absolutely no way that pharmacists could sit down and agree pricing. That would be completely illegal and we wouldn't want to see that happen. So it's just a private individual market. And just members of the Union, Iris Pharmacy Union, like how are they culprits? This is a difficult working environment. It's ongoing. I know there's good cooperation between various pharmacies to help out if there's supply in one place and not in the other. But in terms of just operating a business, I mean, is there a tipping point here of frustration or are they just going to keep their heads down and soldier through so to speak? There is certainly a tipping point and in a survey that we did on the Irish Pharmacy Union, on behalf of our members and pharmacists, employees and owners throughout the country, we found that over 90% of them are experiencing burnout and stress. So there is a tipping point and there is a point where the system balances very, very finely between productivity and falling apart. In terms of Donegal, I will say that one thing we do have is we have a fantastically collegiate pharmacy practice. So we have a WhatsApp group with all the pharmacists and Donegal, all the pharmacies and Donegal on it. So if I'm short of a medicine and you came in looking for a medicine this morning, as has happened to me many the time lately, I can put up into our WhatsApp group, hide, does anybody have this medicine, where are you located? And then it's either I can ask the patient to travel there and go to another pharmacy or if they can't do that. There have been times when I have gone in the evening out of hours to collect medicine from another pharmacy and bring it back. And all the pharmacists and Donegal do that. As you said at the top of the interview, we are very, very central to the community and we take that role very, very seriously. And pharmacists love living and working in their own communities, that's why we're called community pharmacy. And we're really lucky that in Donegal we have a very collegiate attitude between the pharmacies in Donegal. Yeah, before I let you go, this came in yesterday and came in again today, because we've spoken in the past about pharmacies having maybe a little bit more discretion to replace one medicine with a similarly acting medicine, but to this person's text. But when our GP writes out a prescription, and when you go to the chemist, they sometimes give you a cheaper version of the doctor's prescription. Why is this, why do we not get what is written on the prescription? Now, I mean, there are generic brands of stuff as well. And sometimes you'll get a different brand of the same product, three or four months in a row. Okay, you fit the nail on the head. There are a number of medicines which are called reference price medicines where the state has set the maximum price or the only price that they'll reimburse for. And very often that's not the proprietary brand, the proprietary brand may be more expensive. So the pharmacist is obliged to provide a generic. And that's what we do. We provide that the state will reimburse for. And that's not a uniquely Irish thing. That is a global phenomenon. Generic medicines are all over the world. And that's a cost saving. And in fairness to the Irish state, they have done a good job in reducing the ongoing rising costs of medicines over the last 10 to 15 years. The Irish state has been very aggressive in its reduction of costs of medicines. And that will continue because we all know what the spend on health is in this country. And that's probably not sustainable either. So it's all part of a complex issue. But that's that's the choice. Well, Tom at 934, I was handed a note saying that you needed to be gone by 930. Okay, yeah, well, actually, I actually am going into a meeting with the Department of Health. So I do have to go. I know. Sorry, that's it. All right. Thanks, Tom. Tom Morrie, Treasurer of the Irish Pharmacy Union and owner of Morrie Pharmacy. So hopefully that answers maybe not to your satisfaction, but certainly answers those queries as they came in there. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at highlandradio.com. The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union, with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. We're sorry to inform you of yet another delay. No, not the train this time. It's John. He's delayed getting his eyes tested. 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As more people use social media and websites to buy everything from strong painkillers and sedatives to erectile dysfunction tablets, there is a warning that people with addiction are increasingly at risk of fatal overdose by using black market prescription drugs to supplement heroin too. Professor Colin Orgara is a consultant psychiatrist at St John of God Hospital. He joins us now and thank you so much for your time this morning, Professor. How are you keeping? Very well. Thanks very much. Good to be on with you. Thanks very much. Right, okay. I mean there are obviously tight regulations around the use of medication as we were just before we were joined by you, speaking to a pharmacist by coincidence, but people are circumnavigating that quite easily? Yeah, I think so. I mean, the prior to Covid, there was to be fair an issue in terms of, you know, once the smartphone came along really, there was, and I suppose the development of the internet in general broadband, you saw sites developing around, I suppose around the world basically, and what we've seen is a general increase in the sophistication of those sites online and also the amount of drugs that are coming through the, well it's essentially the internet, but it becomes the last piece of that as the postal system. So, yeah, I mean definitely concerning prior to Covid, but once Covid hit then, we all kind of went online and there were a lot of restrictions then in terms of being able to go out because of the lockdowns and actually, you know, get your hands on drugs from that room, so certainly it increased, yeah, the online piece was very important then. Yeah, I mean, because obviously people's addictions didn't pause, people's wished to make money off their backs didn't pause, so really that drove probably improvements of a company like that in an online network. Do you know the same as local shops started to say, right, we need to be able to do some of our operations online, those involved in this type of activity also would have had to have found ways to maintain their addictions or their income. Absolutely, and I suppose what striking for those of us working in clinical services at the moment is the ongoing commercialisation and the ability of those who are selling drugs to make the product more attractive and to normalise it in many ways. I mean, we've seen this for decades with cocaine, but in terms of the normalisation of the selling of the product, you have WhatsApp messages going out of menus produced in almost a way that you'd associate with retail outlets and listing the kind of drugs that are available. Obviously, young people, when they get this, it does add a layer of, well, this has got to be okay on some level. I mean, we saw this with ecstasy pills all the way back to the early 90s where the pills were all stamped with, say, a commercial entity like McDonald's or Mitsubishi or whatever. Again, these are the methods used to normalise the drug use and online space has been developing all the time. I suppose the last piece of that is just the postal service where I mean, there's all kinds of methods being used over the years in terms of getting the drugs through. A lot of the drugs we're talking about are very small. Traditionally, it would be hallucinogens, acid in particular would be printed on paper and very easy to distribute. More recently, the deadly drug fentanyl, which is an opioid drug, is very small as well and is causing havoc in the United States in terms of deaths. The transportation, if the drug is small, it makes it a lot easier. A lot of the poster route I suspect is dominated by small amounts of powder that can be transported to individual users. You're not transporting a large amount. It suits quite well that it can be transported. Our custom colleagues, I guess, are like it's very difficult, I suspect, to if it's coming in in volume like that in small amounts but very high frequency, very difficult to intercept. Even recently, I got a delivery from Amazon and it was like Russian dolls. It was a tiny little bowl within a box, within a box, within a big box. You're just thinking, you put a million of those over a period of time. How do you decipher what's in them or not? I'll get back to the postal side of things, and this is slightly different though. We were talking recently to a cancer on this program and he talked of how it's easier to get cocaine in Donegal and the Northwest now as it might be a pizza. After that, someone sent me a video of how they, through Snapchat, within seconds, had made an arrangement to go and get coke, piece of cake in the local area. But that's not specifically what we're talking about today. And I think sometimes, Professor, as we were speaking, people might be imagining in their mind the type of person that they might sort of think we're talking about here. But in your experience, you're coming across people from all different backgrounds, all different classes or social statuses and inverted commas that are all availing of these postal services to maintain and worsen their habits. Yeah, I mean, it's the demographic is really striking, I guess. Traditionally, we'd associate stimulant use, particularly cocaine at the moment, with perhaps a younger age group. And what we're seeing is people basically in their 50s and 60s who haven't had a history of maybe using drugs earlier in their life, taking up drug use at this age. And you've got to ask, well, what's the situation there? How does that happen? And what we're told is that it's a lot of good is to do with pubs, and rural pubs in particular, that were never associated with drug use. I mean, if you go back a few decades, you'd have identified pubs in cities where drug use would take place. And most people knew, well, that was a drug pub, or that was, you know what I mean, the people in there would be taking drugs, and there were few and far between, to be fair. But what we have now is a situation where basically there isn't a pub in the country at this stage, I would argue, certainly from what I'm told, I mean, like places where, like very rural places, where traditionally, there was just alcohol and tobacco smoking, obviously. But now you have, maybe if you start off with a group, maybe younger group using cocaine, and then an older group would say, well, you might have an individual there who hasn't been doing well, maybe suffering depression, going through a difficult time. And they'd say, well, look, I might try some of that. And that's these are the kind of stories that we're told in terms of how an older age group might start. But it all comes down to the availability. The more availability, the more available a drug is, the more end harm you're going to have. And essentially, obviously, you're going to have more people introduced to it. Yeah. And it's all in different levels as well. You have people that will go from chemists to chemists getting strong painkillers to satisfy an addiction that they have, it's on all different levels. So what do we do, Professor? Because there's two things going on here. There is the demand, which seems to be increasing like lots of people seemingly taking illicit or illegal drugs. And then we have sort of the way they're coming into the country. I mean, firstly, you want to get to the root cause, the problem say, you know, why is that person that you talk of feeling so lost that they feel they have to go down this this route of addiction, or is it, you know, we need to invest more. But I mean, I just can't help but feel that if we stop, if we were to crack down on moving this stuff through the post that the people will find a different way to do it, if you know what I mean. So what do you think is a professional working in this area we need to do and to try and stop this spiral we seem to be in? Yeah, I mean, you've you've hit all the good points there really, in terms of the way we look at it is the situation clearly isn't working at the moment. I mean, when you have such high availability, whatever has happened today, it is broken. And I don't think anybody can argue against that. I mean, I think we need to look at why people take drugs. I mean, a lot of people take drugs without a difficulty. And we have to be open to that idea. We have to acknowledge that. But there's a lot of people that take drugs as a coping mechanism for the treatment of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, various kinds of trauma, maybe their psychiatric medication isn't optimal and isn't working. So really what we've got to do in my view is we've got to it all comes down to are we going to put in funding and we're going to really fund proper services where if you do come across somebody who's using drugs, can we, you know, persuade people in that situation to do something that might be less harmful to their physical and mental health and something that that would be more that would be better for their overall well being. Yeah, I speak to professionals like you who work at the cold phase and see, you know, between people like yourself, counselors and others who see what's happening in this country and express concerns. But then, you know, things like vapes, cannabis, cocaine, widely used amongst young people. There doesn't seem to be any organized public information campaign from those that perhaps are responsible for it to discourage it. You know, we've dragged we've dragged our feet so much in the vapes. It's embarrassing cannabis. The message out there is well dependent on who you listen to. It's not too bad at all. And, you know, cocaine is cheaper than drink. It's handy. God won't kill you. I'm not saying that those are the cases. But if you're 18, 19, 16, 17, that maybe that's the message you're hearing. There seems to be no alternative narrative or no drive to sort of try and change people's minds. You know, we're talking about the problems and the outcomes and all that kind of stuff. But where is the messaging and information to say, you know, this is what you're doing to yourself potentially? Yeah, well, it's it's lost. It needs to be two sided, you know, it needs to have the harm piece, which along the lines of it was called talk to Frank a campaign in the UK. It was probably about 20 years about this stage. But it was a very highly effective sophisticated campaign in terms of the harms of in particular cocaine. We do have to present that we have to present the stroke debts, we have to present the cardiovascular debts there. In fact, there's a piece in the paper today about isn't the Irish Times today about a quote said doctor from the matter hospital in Dublin talked about the complications that that drug users get from a cardiac point of view. But you're dead, right? But that that part of it gets lost. But also the other part of it is, you know, that people do a lot of people do take drugs without a difficulty. So it's there's a two sided piece to this. And all the information needs to get out there so that people get an informed to get information which which which is relevant, which is evidence based and is properly informed and and isn't slanted in a particular direction. And then for those people who do want to move away, or perhaps people who are caught in the criminal justice system that they're diverted into, they're not stigmatized number one, and number two, that they're treated compassionately. And those who are motivated to move away are helped to do so. All of that takes great funding. And today, the particularly the last two decades in this country, mental health and addiction service funding has been completely insufficient. And I guess as a first step, that's it. But of course, there's so many other competing interests in medicine in particular. And that's the challenge. How do we get the funding to it, you know? Yeah, we need another three hours for that one. 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Uncraving Community Centre Terman, mark your calendar and be part of this informative event. All right, welcome back to the 9 till noon show. So yesterday we were speaking to a lady from Dublin who was up visiting in Donegal and she had her cockapoo I think it's called for walk on the beach and another lady who had her Alsatian stroke German Shepherd with her and the Alsatian stroke German Shepherd went for the cockapoo I think it's called again and attacked it. The dog seems to be okay. It got veterinary treatment. But anyway, from that we got contact from the Cahiroch of the Glentese Municipal District Chancellor Michael McClafferty, who has views on this. Good morning, Councillor. How are you getting on? Good morning, Greg. How are things? Good, good, good. Right. Okay. So what's your view then as it relates to is it dangerous dogs specifically, I suppose? And I suppose, how do you categorize those? Well, I suppose the thing is great to be fair with the German Shepherd's Alsatians slash Doberman slash Rockfider. They're grand dogs as such when they're okay. But the problem is with these three particular dogs that I'm aware of anyway, and I say that because of my own experience as well, I've been attacked. They can just change the click of your fingers like that is the problem, Greg. You can have them for years and years, lovely pets, whatever possibly around kids and so on as they do be. But unfortunately, for whatever reason, someday or some night, something can just snap in their mind and they will just go for you. Yeah. And I would never trust a dog, to be honest with you, because I've seen them. I've seen a dog turn. What was your experience? You were attacked by a dog? I was attacking him by an Alsatian, notably three times to be fair, but the third time was almost fatal. And I suppose the third time to be fair with the Alsatian question, I would have been, I would have been killed that night, Greg. I'm all to death only for me and my employer. The time has shown happened to be close by and was able to save me. But if he wasn't, if he wasn't there that night, as I say, I would have been all to death. There was no question about it. The Alsatian had meat. First of all, the Alsatian had broken his chain. He broke his chain in the process of diving in the air, if you like. You see it there sometimes on the internet or whatever, you know, a fox or whatever, diving for a bird or something like that, or a wolf diving for something. But anyway, you can imagine when I leaping in the air, front legs out just leaping in the air. And I was actually facing him when he leaped the turned round as he was leaping. And the first place is two legs, landed two front legs, landed my, my shoulders, a leg in his shoulder, and he tumbled me to the ground. So in the process of him tumbling me to the ground, Greg, first thing I honestly don't suppose instinct kicks in. I grabbed his neck around his head, if you like, because I knew if it didn't, he was going to tear the face off me. So he did proceed in tearing basically from my neck right down, all my clothes on that for the, for the few seconds or maybe slightly longer that he got away until, until my employer's son at the time. Were you surprised by the power of the dog? I wasn't surprised by the power of him because obviously I knew he was a big dog. Like any big dog, you know, you need to respect their powerful clearly. I was surprised now that he broke the chain because quite a strong chain was on him. But nonetheless, he managed to break it. He managed to break it out of rage, whatever, anger, anger to get at me, possibly, but he done that anyway. And he done it. He done it comfortably to be fair. I mean, so yeah, but, but that is my experience. And really in a nutshell, because we don't have a ton of time between the stories we've heard your experiences and a general common knowledge, you believe that the likes of the Alsatian or Rottweilers, they should never be off a lead and never be walked without a muzzle. No, in public, yes, Greg, they shouldn't be off a lead and a muzzle, a muzzle as well. Yes, definitely. When you're a public place, like beaches, parks, etc., the likes that lady the last day, there is no point going down to the beach for any of these dogs or the parks or wherever and a bulked up area, even through a town or such, where they'll be occasionally see them from time to time. You cannot take that chance or that rush. And I think people still don't realise as nice as this lady, the lady's anonymous, okay, so we're not jumping on any individual person, but that they're lovely, friendly Alsatian bounding around the beach. If I walked down there with my toddler, he would scream the house down. He's got a fear of dogs, don't know where it came from. I would have to leave. Do you know what I mean? So that cute experience that they're having, and it's a lovely little animal that won't hurt anyone, there are people simply would have to leave the beach because of a fear of the dog being out of control. And by out of control, I mean, not being on a lead. Yeah, well, of course, all dogs at all times should be on a lead, slash muscles in public area. Okay. And I think as well, to prepare Greg as well, people need to realize as well, when you go into the public area, particularly the beach and that, for the likes of yourself, Landry with a leafle there, you need to respect that as well. You can go down early in the morning, go down late at night, you don't need to be there family, orient at times or such with your dog. You know, and I think we better respect and appreciation on both sides. You know, we'll go a long way to as well with the dog owners. All right, listen, go there when it's not. Thank you so much for your time. I really do appreciate it. And we'll chat again soon. And I'm glad I didn't realize you had that experience. Not nice at all. Okay, take care of yourself. That is Councillor Michael McClaffety-Kahirlock of the Glentys Municipal District. Okay, you are tuned to the Ninetal Noon Show here on Highland Radio. Coming up, we have the second hour of the show. Of course, that's after the news and obituary notices. Stay right where you are. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. Imagine a dream wedding on a lake all day casual dining by a magical shore. Fine dining or glorious afternoon tea surrounded by beautiful mountains or a fabulous bar filled with music, laughter and song. Imagine no more. Harvey's Point, Locke's, Donegal 0749722208 or harvyspoint.com. 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For breakfast on the go, that mid-morning slump or afternoon pick me up, find your new favourite snack in selected super value and centre stores and get ready to crunch. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. Welcome back to the programme 9 minutes past 10 on this Wednesday the 16th of August later on we have business use with Ciaran for you and lots more besides but I want to get to some of your comments. I now insist on getting exactly what the doctor prescribed because my pharmacist was giving me generic medication but charging me the same price as the genuine product. When I challenged him on this, he said sure it makes no difference, no difference to you, you get it back from your insurer. I'm now with a different pharmacist. Another here. Tablets for my pet cats cost £7.99 in a pet shop where I live. They cost £18.99 in a tan nearby daylight robbery they say. Greg it's hard to believe that people thought they could get free money from Bank of Ireland. The next couple of weeks could be dodgy and office. I would think the bank won't be offering any easy payback schemes and any money coming into the account will be used to reduce the overdraft until it's back to zero. Could be a tight few weeks for lots of people depending on their circumstances unless they still have the original money that they got and I'm sure there will be an interest charge as well. Well you see that's what I was trying to articulate at the start of the programme so we're on the same page there. Treasure on Facebook said maybe the Guardian there to prevent crime anyone lifting money they don't have on purpose is effectively stealing. Well they're stealing from themselves. The bank is not at a loss so the Guardian went to the ATMs and the reason I have a particular issue with this is that the Guardian went to the ATMs to the only crime that was to be committed if it is a crime is a person was to steal from themselves but also if and I've seen the videos guards standing at ATM you go up to the ATM you can use any bank card in most machines can't you and you go to use the bank what do they say to you excuse me do you have the money in your account take money out you go yeah take money out to get a taxi or something do you know what I mean like it's I presume it was an e-jump reaction but I would just like to see that type of a reaction to crime on the streets of our towns and villages that all of a sudden as soon as there is a threat to a bank the Guardian are instructed to be on command at ATMs to screen whether someone has money or not I don't know but yet we don't see things move so quickly and and as I say it is not the Guardian on the street by the way because they are instructed as to what to do so I don't want anyone to think that I'm being critical of Guardian they go where they're told to go maybe Guardian were there because it's fraud well is it that would have been a very quick ruling another caller says it's a sad indictment of Irish people who weren't ashamed to be seen queuing at ATMs in order to steal money one guy even posted a TikTok video of himself holding a fist full of 50 notes since these geniuses had to insert their pin to withdraw cash they'll have to return it yes and they're going to be overdrawn I don't I don't see it as I don't necessarily see it as stealing money but again sometimes I'm a bit soft on these things and maybe I'm not reading the the the views of the people maybe Guardian were there because it's fraud I think I did read that one great to see Guardian can come out and force and stand in front of ATMs but yet not want to be seen when tourists are being attacked see the priorities Greg just thinking why don't you get some priests on your show to answer questions like why do they stand on the altar and preach about money and them getting enough and why they think they can still rule the people I'm not I think that's your views and that maybe that's how you perceive priests not everyone would but look at we have priests on from time to time if you're listening text in I'll put those questions to them poor Leo having a rough life the big pension he'll receive will soften the blow hey while our children can't get a decent job to get a mortgage and our own people can't get houses they're living on the streets through no fault of their own it's a very well rewarded job I think people are entitled to a certain element of privacy regardless of what they do but it's not only the pension it's going to be the european job as well that will be coming alongside of I I would sympathise with anyone who is being you know bullied or has people protesting outside houses or anything like that there but you know if you put yourself in the public eye you are going to get criticism and you're going to have to have a thick skin Greg it's hard to believe that people thought they could get free money from Bank of Ireland the next couple of weeks could be dodgy enough okay I read that one already yeah okay that coming twice yeah the interest charges and what's going to happen is is people are going to be ringing up as I said at the start of the show to say oh sorry I didn't realise that was what was going on and they won't be able to get through because there's going to be tens and tens of thousands of people trying the same crack hi Greg Julia I'm writing from Moscow Russia just wanted to say that I'm listening to your radio show well would you take a call Julia be interested maybe to get the insights of someone living in Moscow as to everything that's going on not getting into the nitty gritties of it as well but just to see what life is like over there at the moment and 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the possibility that free on street parking from bonk rana could be removed there is a a process ongoing at the moment it's a review being carried out from by donna gold counter cancel one of the options on the table is that half hour being removed so let's talk to those that might be affected by this paul brogan is owner of food for thought in bonk rana he joins us now hiya paul hi great good morning i'm good i'm good now uh you are organizing a petition for the businesses in bonk rana uh is it to object or in favor of the removal of the free half hour parking i wonder well first of all now great um i'm wearing two hats here um i'm the owner of food for thought uh health food store in bonk rana the last 26 years and i'm also the chairperson of an his own credit union and that's going to massively affect our credit union because we have hundreds of members coming on on a daily basis so i'm representing both here this morning and one only little point i'd like to get across is that i support the park and charges so it's not that i'm against park and charges per se in bonk rana but it has never been done right in my view and the council over the last five or six years have got a lot of emails a lot of calls because we would have issues before this has raised its ugly head so we're against the abolition or the suggestion of abolition the 30 minutes fleet parking in bonk rana because we feel that you know as small retailers five ten minutes that's all these people are actually taking it'll take them that time to get to the sheet and back and in the winter time maybe getting getting soaked so it's going to affect around 30 40 50 businesses and then the other businesses because these people won't be coming to the town is there um any variance within the businesses paul in that you know a shot where you pop in for something it's really convenient but say for instance if you're going into a restaurant or to a hairdresser's or a barbers for example you might need more than half an hour but maybe there's those spaces are taken up by you know people popping in and out like in other words do you businesses that might benefit from people being able to find a space and park longer are they also in favor of the free half hour i wonder well the people that can park longer that are going to hairdressers or restaurants as you say they're going to be longer than a half hour so they're going to pay whether they're paying enough is another thing because if you're spending 30 or 40 euro in these businesses an extra 50 cent this is not going to matter but if you're going on for a newspaper or for an ice cream or you're going to post a letter the extra 50 cent it's not fair you're penalizing the people who are not picking up a spot all day you're penalizing the vast majority of people who are supporting the town on a daily basis and like it's not just from crowded people you know i personally have customers from all over and they show them from there from there or can i we're established 26 years we've built up a lot of people and you know council need to realize is that they don't create jobs it's the people who take risks the business people they create the jobs and the council are supposed to be putting the conditions on for the business people to create jobs we take the risks we pay out the money we pay the wages we pay the rates we pay we pay everything and they're sitting there saying well we made a mess of things here or budget isn't that enough we shouldn't be told to pay for that they have to pay pay pay for that what do you think if there were to be change okay because i say you know scrapping the free half parking is one option what would you like to see changed if it's to be retained well i would like i would like to see the council come to a group of a business who paid people like myself who are on the ground were the people that no swap was on in the town there are the people that sit in the offices and they come up with some crazy adl and let's let's just put the charge up without thinking if businesses go they're going to lose their rich so it's a it's a it's a kill kill situation it could be a year or two before it's realized but it'll never come back so i would like to see the council sit down with a group of local people who know what goes on in the town and listen to what's going on in the town as i said i support the parking charges i think that's up the sep for somebody who's staying longer than half an hour it's maybe a little bit light um that could be looked at first um i think anybody who's staying on the main street without paying should be moved and that's another thing that the council know about uh it's a bare bug with me over the years that some people are paying and other people aren't uh the two hour parking has never uh been enforced um so people are parking longer than two hours they're taking up the spaces that people from outside of town come through the town can't get parked and they drive on they don't know where the car parks are but the people who are parking all day do know where the car park is all where there's laziness where there's selfishness and um you know you could say there's some corruptness there too from the councils by debut because they're not unfortunate and um i have it i'm sure there's no i have it i'm sure there's no corruption there but uh that well well i'm sure there isn't but i know that's your view paul uh when you talk about sitting down with with with interested parties there is uh an event taking place in the inner shone gateway hotel on wednesday the 23rd that's a week today is that enough does that go far enough i mean you know that is a consultation process well well they they started last friday when i got word that this meeting was on from a local councillor so i acted on it because um if we do nothing um we're going to get nothing and then it'll be uh you know who's fault is it uh so what i've done is i've contacted three or four of the local businesses in our area um they are strongly uh supporting we've come up with uh with the petition that i uh will go around town with tomorrow to the shops i would ask if there was anybody out there who wants to give me a hand because there's about 60 to 80 shops i need to cover so if there is a couple of local people who are retired or people who were in business who who feel strongly or people who are going to be impacted you know people who bring their mothers or their uncles or their their best friend the post office just to get their pension uh if they would uh you know make it known to me today and the more people help them the the the the less work it is but i'll i'll i'll read i'll just read what the petition says and this has been agreed so it's it's really on the sign of business owner or represented off the business because not all owners are on the premises strongly oppose the suggestion of abolishing the 30-minute three parking in montrana this will be fought rigorously to keep it retained by whatever is required now there has been suggestions to me about what they will do if it wasn't uh retained um but i won't talk about them on there okay well that's for another day paul listen thank you very much for your time paul brogan who is owner of food for thought in boncrana the owner of odonal's ice cream shop in boncrana is john odonal and he joins us as well john i mean of you i've are you of a similar mind to our previous guest there yes great how you doing great yeah i'm not your fight uh paul there has covered most of most of not all the issues that would be concerned to traders in boncrana but i would what i would like to say prior to when this was introduced at the very beginning maybe 15 or 16 or a few years ago the problem was then that people were coming into town who were going to work in the morning parking up their cars on the main street going off to work in another car and the whole main street would be blocked for the better part of the full day the traders at that particular time had a real problem with that because lawyers were coming to the shops that delivered and they were they were parked on the middle of the street and there were queues out the car color road that was absolutely horrendous so traders at that point went to the council and asked them to introduce pay parking when that was introduced nobody knew that either the traders or the or the or the urban council at that stage knew what the effects would be and how it would work out so we left it in a way that after a few months we would meet up and see how things were going at that point we discovered that half hour at that stage was essential because the traders were losing business because people wouldn't go in even to buy and would stop the main street in Hong Kong or even to buy a newspaper or a nice cream or go to the post office because they were afraid of being booked so it was agreed at that point that a half hour would be introduced to help the traders and the whole reason for the parking being introduced in the first place in the first instance was to facilitate the trader in Bongkran now by doing away with this half hour after all these years will be detrimental to the entire community of the main street in Bongkran at this absolutely essential can you imagine Greg of an older person parks their car up in the main street maybe they don't walk too well and they have to go and find they get to pay their their their their 10 cents up or their their their euro make their way back to the car to put it on and the traffic warden has them already booked yeah maybe going to the post office can you see those people coming back to the main street or wanting to buy a paper or to buy an ice cream or make their way to do whatever they're going to do it's just not practical and these counselors know that some of these counselors even at a time spent time working on the main street and trading them into they understand what this means to the trader and it's absolutely essential like Paul said for the trader to retain this half hour it's ludicrous even to think about taking this away and I think too when they talk about the reasons they might it's mentioned here that it's due to an increase in the cost of street cleaning and the fact that on street parking scheme in the town is running at a loss but factor in business is closing and if one business closes it can have a daisy chain effect the loss in rates and other revenues they need to consider that when making this decision and not just try and cover their costs through parking charges well of course as one of that prayer when the street was cleaned in the past the rates covered cleaning the streets present the color the what's actually happening now with the you know the lorry they have a sweeper going around now but it was the rate pair that covered that now it should be the case where our where's our rates going if it's not to cover the like that right now at never was at never was at any time seen that the that the fees at the left would cover the pay parking the rates always covered the pay parking yeah and they just have to look at it again in a different way okay thank you so much for your time John O'Donnell owner of O'Donnell's ice cream shop in Boncrana uh Councillor Nicholas Cross and an independent Councillor I mean obviously we've only spoken to two businesses there but the the consensus is there from those callers Nicholas that they don't want to see the change or if they do want to see change they want to see maybe some refinement of it Greg I would like to see I'm going to go the opposite to Paul and John and I have meetings with both of them but you're in the town council days parking charges was introduced just prior to Christmas of 2006 in Boncrana and it was introduced uh it was asked and John was 100 the business people wanted the charges and to free up Boncrana Main Street so when we took on the parking charges to Boncrana Town Council it was I think now I can't be a hundred percent but the the figures that we left it in parking charges were somewhere around about 280 000 and it went up to about 2010 when we done away with the 10 minutes free parking which we're not doing away with the half hour that's kind of a false should there that we're doing away with the half hour we're not doing away with the half hour we're reducing it to 15 minutes that's what the proposal will be but our revenue went down from somewhere in the region of 287 000 down to 81 000 in one year and we were we were told as members of Donagall County Council by our engineer at the time that what happened yeah and I said from that day forward yes that was a mistake that I made to do away with the 20 minutes at that time from 10 minutes to 30 minutes free parking um but we most look and I'd like to take care of another thing the the the parking charge parking pay and display is not coming out to pay for the street sweeper that's just that the rates that there's that's on the budget for for Donagall County Council that where we you know the pay and display will not be paying for the street parker or for the street sweeping pay and display will be introduced and help von Cranagh I'd like to tell the people that the only revenue that's lifted by Donagall County Council that stays in your own hometown is the parking charges and if you look at the benefits of letter Kenny Alaba Faye and Donagall Town get received from the parking charges it's phenomenal stuff with Donagall Donagall town gets from parking charges they're able to want events like the the food festival they're actually able to give thousands of pounds to the Christmas lights and to other voluntary organizations and other voluntary organizations will benefit from the pay and display uh and the reason that I'd like to introduce this is because when I was involved with the public day the Christmas ritual whatever involved the organization you're steady going to the business on the main street and say look I'm running this event can you get me thing open the towel give me touch the quarter Nicholas I I get exactly what you're coming from but when we're hearing from businesses now and they're saying that if if this is scrapped that our business will close like these are people in the business and have been business for a long time they're not saying that for the good of their their health they're organizing petitions and and perhaps the majority of business will sign them they have to be listened to don't they because they are really the only ones other than through our local property tax that actually contribute to the running of this county um you know through their rates and what have you I mean they are the people you have to say right okay we'll let's look at another option or let's look at you know let's retain what we have yeah there's no two ways about it all people have to be listened to but there are businesses who want the the the pay and display and they're just as well because they can they can see the benefits of it instead of like we're talking we're talking probably at the time of 14 minutes and the pay and display to make the difference and that the mean look we must look this is where the difficult difficult decisions would be very very simple for me to sit back in my oars Greg and say look just leave it as it is well first of all I can't stay the way it is at the moment because it's costant on a local county council somewhere around about 15,000 a year to run it because of the government that they just uh policy recently that uh councils had to pay the VAT on their car park okay but Nicholas like I get what you're saying right so it costs the council 15 grand a year so say even one business closes say one business closes and three jobs are lost so I'm being really conservative here right I'm not saying a massive shop's gonna close and 30 people are gonna lose their jobs but let's say one shop does close because of this and uh you know next thing that's a vacant building we see other towns uh in Donegal where you have to make sure you're getting it right because there's an awful lot of vacant properties sitting there you know like for the sake of 15 grand is that a risk worth taking that maybe three mortgages go unpaid and there's a a gap in the town because no one wants to go in and take that shop for the same reasons as the one before it closed you know 50 like I don't think when the town council was in Bunkrana we'd be worrying about 15,000 euro well the reason that the first of all the reason that the charges he's brought on was because of the traders and and then it was they come down and it was to be a pilot scheme a pilot scheme for for 30 minutes free parking but it never revered it back so and I can see where the truth was to come from and business people on the main street but what I'm saying let's give the 15 minutes to try and look at the big picture where we can we're now we're going to ask you by O'Daharty's keep to make two big improvements on the uh the leisure center on on the uh green power in Bunkrana on the shorefront there's millions of pounds on on their horizon in grants common to Bunkrana over the next three to ten years we must fund that money at a value of somewhere between 10 and 25 percent I think that like on Saturday I had to drive around the town two two two and a half times before I got one park in space and then we're done the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper didn't agree with me no no you can't and I'm saying I think it'd be better if I was a big nip and well for 15 months I could go on and buy a paper do a lot or get it do whatever I want it and and five or ten minutes or go on to I can do I'll tell you the simple thing Greg I haven't paid parking charges in Bunkrana and I couldn't take the last thing because I can do but how much money do you spend yeah but how much money have you spent in Bunkrana that you might otherwise not I drive down actually any main street don't get a parking space and just plow on you're not going to get parked on the like you're not going to get parked on the street in Donagall town I can guarantee you that unless you're incredibly early or lucky and Balaba Faye Stranawler particularly Balaba Faye is the same you know what about okay you haven't contributed which would probably be a total of you know even if it was 30 euro in parking charges but how much have you contributed to the economy by parking your car and nipping into those shops I would say it's much more than 30 quid uh Nicholas I use a shop from Bunkrana on a daily basis and but on the Bunkrana main street exactly so they don't want to tell them on the one day I I know but the amount you're spending right the amount that you're spending being able to access and not be discouraged because of charges far outweighs what the council would have brought in off you off parking charges like I'm praising you for supporting local business right but I'm saying others might be to be discouraged if there's charging so we I just think that all has to be factored in is all I'm saying really Greg if I wanted if I want to go down and do business main street in Bunkrana today I have to think to myself okay well first of all will I get parked down the main street if I was able to drive down the main street stop and get parked not plenty of business for 15 minutes yeah and there's no way that anybody's going to because the minute my point is is my point Nicholas is is that I know for a fact there's no point me trying to drive into Donagol town and park on the diamond because there'll be no spaces do you know what I mean and they they don't have a display exactly do you know so there's still no spaces even with paying display I'll have to go and park in behind the bank of Ireland and it's a three or four minute walk yes when you what you do you know you don't get parked in O'Connell State Dublin or on Point State and Derry or on the main street in the Plerican we must I think it's a progression and people maybe in general are afraid of change and Greg listen to me it'd be very very easy for me to say just leave it as it is I think that you but you must look at the big picture if we are to to improve Bunkrana yeah and move Bunkrana on and make it back into a tourist destination how are we going to be doing this with the parking charges costing Donagol County Council 15,000 a year at the present time is not feasible okay we would be offered head and the best thing you do is just open it up and say okay park wherever you want but for the purpose of this for the purpose of this chattel consultation I've done that not just because I finished this point of course you can RD and county laws don't know where's the park and charges uh in 2014 I think when the town council was a little bit getting abolished laws the county council are going to re-enter just ID and if anybody goes through ID it's one of the way the streets in Ireland it's almost impossible to get through at the moment what do you see with the park actually pre-adopt but but Nicholas let's just say right let's just say it is changed and people pay for the parking on Bunkrana and that means I can drive Bunkrana pull in and do a bit of shopping and pay right yes where the person that was parked there they're not there spending money like unless you're saying people are just abandoning their cars on Bunkrana main street like if if there are spaces there now because charges are introduced that means there's someone not in a shop in Bunkrana or there's someone not spending not necessarily what in other so what are the cars parked in Bunkrana main street doing there are you saying they might be staff parking they're they're obviously the staff part yeah there's people who stop just pull out the main seat of Bunkrana because they have half an hour to spare they can go for a walk up on the main seat of Bunkrana get their car and head off again that's lost revenue you know it's not they say that everybody parks in the main seat of Bunkrana is going to want to shop that's known as other there's people who park in Bunkrana main street for the best part of the day there's people who park outside because they can't they park outside their own premises their own business premises because they can park outside it and they have a permit they park outside their own business and these these are the people you know and look as I'm going to say it again it'd be very easy for me just to say oh she will leave it because there's not a lot of people and business that maybe mightn't be as vocal that but who want the introduction purchase because they see the benefit of it and we must look at the big picture and I can't emphasize that enough if we are to improve Bunkrana we must be pro progressive and we must progress with how local government in Australia means local government we're going to have to raise one a one and we can't keep going back to the taxpayer on the main seat of Bunkrana and ask me for an increase of rates and increase of rates and increase of rates let's spread the burden a little people a lot of people get my little brothers and little people get my lot okay well as I say you've got more local knowledge than I I mean I just don't I would love to see an example whereby there is the type of charging that you talk of where you can get you know parking and I gave examples locally I haven't seen any other and as I say I would have my concerns that if there is empty spaces on the main street because of charges maybe not all of them but those people aren't in spending but listen I take your point and I respect that you've got you've more knowledge of this situation than I thank you very much for your time Chancellor Nicholas Crossen there watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com the nine-tone in show with letter Kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt 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lived in bunkrana all my life and the only thing that deters me from going shopping on the main street is the traffic congestion like if you if you're approaching the town from the milehead direction by the time you get to super value and sometimes it's even worse the traffic is congested that far back so it's not even a question of can i get parked in the main street it you can't get near the main street that's what i find happening enough a lot and you have to swing left at the at the general shop there you have to go around the back of the town through domestic roads to to basically bypass the town you know or else you have to swing down by the castle and go along the shorefront to escape the traffic you know so the main issue is the traffic congestion on the main street that i see and the traders there would know better than anyone as to what's causing that congestion in my own personal experience i think i suspect it's people trying to reverse park into positions and they're having three and four goes at it maybe they're not very good at reversing into a position and it takes a couple of attempts but the traffic is backed up while they're trying to do that now you can imagine numerous people doing that on the main street all every hour throughout the day you've got a backup of traffic and then if a lawyer comes to deliver to any of the stores of the main street in bunkrani you have the same situation you know so so what do you think the solution is christopher i mean because it is about whether people should pay for it or not what what what do you think should happen well i don't think the 50 cent makes a damn bit of difference to really be honest with you i think it's the inconvenience of it like somebody having to go and find 50 cents somewhere to put into those machines i mean we really should move with the new age and have that card tapping mechanism where you tap the machine and and that's it done you know i mean we're moving to the 21st century and and and it may be adopt the the technology i get that the council leads the funding and that's a good source of funding for them but the traffic congestion is far more serious i i find also there's car parks in bunkrani they're not being used there's a car park there to the rear of the plaza there um that was built primarily to take the the pressure off the main that's never been used line empty you know it's a brand new car park as well as that too i mean it is i think people know when the traffic wardens about for them to sort of initiate the half hour they have to scan your number plate to begin with and then you have a half hour from that you know what i mean i mean that let's truth be told people pull in it's not half an hour from when you pull in really it's half an hour from when the traffic wardens scans your number plate the first time now i'm open to correction on that and please no one make any decision based on what i've just said but i presume that's local common knowledge people know when the traffic wardens around so uh i i don't think people even availing of the free for car parking are probably just taking half an hour they probably know where they can get most of the day or or an extra hour or whatever it might be dependent on when their number plate is scanned the first time yeah i supposed to look in cars from northern ireland you can't really chase them for any penalty so cars from northern ireland would know as well as you do and i do that if you're you get a penalty notice on the main street in bunkrana it doesn't transfer to the north so they're kind of you know they're outside the law same applies for cars in the south and the north so that you have that going on but uh i lived in dublin for 10 years and i'll tell you it was ruthless down there like a church car was not almost the bad yeah it was it was one right ninth and bracelet on uh before you know it all right christopher listen thanks for your insight as always continue safe travel do 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crash sector that area but despite this over 180 crashes have closed since early 2022 elaine donnie's chair of the early high early childhood providers federation and joins us now good morning to you elaine good morning so just before we actually start when we talk about crashes early childhood so what service is this that is being provided that we're actually talking about i i i know it's going to be obvious to the majority but i just want everyone to know precisely what we're talking about here it probably isn't going to be obvious because there's so many different variations so i will go into them for you you have the early childhood care and education services so they're the ecc services that are open for three hours then you have part-time services you've got school-age services at breakfast club you've got full daycares so there's quite a difference between all of those types of services and when you see the government keep putting out a funding model that one size fits all this is where the biggest problem is and the other problem is is that we don't see that you hear of all these big figures from our minister in the department of how much money has been pumped in from government to the sector but we have never actually seen the breakdown of that funding if you're seeing services closing down then there is a huge problem with funding and with um burnout as well for providers and administration burden micromanaged there's so many different issues so in the Irish independent today they're covering the story and they talk about this the stress the crash closures and they say uh this is despite major state investment three centre child doesn't sound like major state investment is that an inaccurate headline and this is not i'm not trying to pitch you against the independent that's not my motivation but obviously that's a regular person reading this will go well obviously the question is they're creaming it here okay so um what we've got this year so we had core funding came in last year um they would have had a calculator up on the department's website okay called the red director so when you went in and put in the number of kids number of staff you got this massive number and thought you were getting huge amount of funding but it turns out that the red director was inadequate so there's a problem with it okay so that was the first problem last year and then we went into it and people started to realize that the funding they were promised isn't actually what's hitting your bank so now this year um they have given us a three cent per child per hour hike um rise in in the the core funding for this year and two cents of your school age service with breakfast club okay so you tell me like if we are stuck and many of us are we are stuck in fee free dating back to 2017 a lot of the average providers that's where we are fee freeze 2017 not 2021 can you tell me one thing you know that it's the same price today as it was in 2017 just one thing no there you go to this show child care well there you go yeah okay so child care providers are yeah and listen this is not anecdotal we see the evidence lots of people and it's happened right across the country in this region as well crashes are closing now some of those spaces we're seeing maybe a little bit of a consolidation i'm not sure if that's good or bad but but we do know one of the biggest challenges in letter kenny for example the biggest population center in donningall is not necessarily housing and it's not uh accommodation necessarily what i'm hearing from employers it's child care that is the biggest recruitment uh that's the biggest recruitment challenge they're facing at the moment no and and that is correct and that is nationwide and we are really starting to see that so we did have a meeting with the atg last monday before we started doing the nationwide we were we're around this weekend or this week traveling around the country we weren't on you go last night and his words to me were the child care crisis is now on par are coming up on par with the housing crisis and i would agree with that and it's unfortunate that our minister and his department are not seeing these issues we have brought all of the issues to the department of children we have told them what's going on we got a document um done outsourced and we sent it into the department as well the issues are all outlined but unfortunately nobody seems to be listening to us um you know and that's where the biggest problem is we the the federation of early childhood providers we are we are not government funded in any way so we come out and we are very vocal we are vocal for a reason we have many members in donningall we've many members all around the country and you have to listen to everybody we had a meeting last night in the abbey hotel in donningall town and we had one tg turned up to that meeting and like they were broken women in that room by the way um yes there was an invite put out to local councils and tgs now i will say the next meeting there is a big meeting to happen on the 5th of 5th of september and it's going to be in letter kenny and we're asking parents providers and radio stations everybody to come to this meeting because you will see exactly what is going on and i think we need to keep a close eye on the politicians that turn up at that meeting as well too because this is a huge issue uh and and it's that i'm not sure if they're back from the summer holidays at that point so right you know say for instance health it's not simply throw money at health and and housing it's not simply throw money in housing and sometimes we do that and it's wasted is it more simple in terms of child care is it actually more investment the infrastructure is there to make the best use of it and to maintain the sector is it a bit simpler in this area that we need more resources we have the infrastructures in place and it means that we can stay open and we can continue to provide the provide these services and we absolutely need more funding there's no doubt about this and when we start to show um people the breakdown of funding people are going oh my goodness like we thought you were absolutely loaded and we are being portrayed as greedy providers but that is not the case but when you're seeing parental choice being removed and children children who have a right to be educated being displaced then there's obviously a huge issue you know but when parents are ringing me and ringing the federation looking for us to help them find places around the country and that is what's going on at the moment i just got a message there half an hour ago from a parent in Kilkenny please help me i'm entire streets you know so we are getting those phone calls and we are here to help the parents and to inform parents as to how bad things are for us and we're with doing that we're hoping that parents will come out in support we have other sectors now coming out and supporting us as well because if we close our doors every sector is impacted no i beckon all of this organization should be screaming from the rooftops as well if they're not already because it is as we've already both agreed it is a a serious impediment to employment and also to we've got really highly i mean obviously we've got really passionate providers but we've got really highly highly qualified people that you're not going to be able to hold on to they've got degrees and excellent qualifications and the money they're being asked to work for is not it doesn't sit very well with the amount of effort they've put in to get to where they're at absolutely um i mean these people on the ground that are working in the rooms um they are not paid enough money absolutely not but if government funding is stopping us from you know continuously raising the wages for the staff they are going to leave we ran a survey recently and it clearly shows us a lot of our degree-led staff are leaving the sector and they're going to be to the Department of Education as SMAs they're going to our own departments like Tuesla, Pobos, the county child care committees you know so we can't compete with those wages if we're in a fee freeze coming back to 2017 i mean it makes no sense whatsoever you know we have to be able to have a proper fee structure in place before you're forced into a fee freeze and i mean and finally and parents that shouldn't be taking the hit sorry of course not parents shouldn't be taking the hit you know i just understand that we are so we're told all the time that we've got such a wonderful economy that it's a wash with money and yet we don't see it filtering down and then people wonder why people get frustrated with with governments and what have you but listen Elaine for now we'll talk again in and around that september meeting thanks for your time today Elaine Don who is chair of the early childhood providers federation any views on that oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand or give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com okay heading into the last hour of wednesdays nine till noon show after we get a news update and it's good morning now once again to donal cavern thank you great good morning bank of Ireland says it will be recovering overdrawn amounts transferred during an it glitch from customer accounts today there were queues outside atms across the country last night after it emerged a technical issue meant customers could make transfers and withdrawals despite not having the funds in their accounts the banks as anyone in financial difficulties because of what happened can contact them donal county council has been asked to sit down with local businesses in bunkrana after it emerged the half-hour free parking on main street may be abolished when local business owner is taking up a petition as officials carry out a review it's after it emerged the council is losing around 15 000 euro a year on the coordination of car parking in the town a public meeting takes place next week to discuss the issue and seek the public's views a midlands northwest MEP says there's an urgent need for policy reform around gar the grooming and appearance maria walch says with recruitment numbers well below target this year we shouldn't be wasting time discussing the pros and cons of tattoos the finnequella representative was reacting to news that three trainee gar thee were sent home from the gar the training college in temple more this week for having visible tattoos one third of people in ireland are working from home at least three days each week the annual report from the communications regulator comreg says 44 percent work remotely for at least one day a week in its annual report comreg says it's imperative that targets for complete broadband coverage across the country are met and the government is being accused of not investing properly in rural and regional areas the rural independent group of tds says the government is too focused on dublum a recent survey suggested a farmers party would prove popular among farmers however rural independent group member deputy mattie mcgrow says he doesn't believe that would be the right move he said to create a new farmers party would be divisive and not solve any problems and we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon okay donal thank you very much for that as a woman you know your body better than anyone but when you're looking for answers irish life health now gives you access to gps who are specialists in female health in areas like menstrual health contraception fertility and menopause to find out more search irish life female health female health consultation available on all hospital plans from september 1st 2023 teas and sees apply irish life health DAC is regulated by the central bank of ireland okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show thank you so much for all your calls and comments coming in so far on the show today lots of you messaging in as it relates to the parking issues or conversations that are happening in boncran and i will get to those as this morning wears on in fact i can bring in a couple right now traffic in boncran is chaos the main street has to return to two-way traffic the place is constantly jammed up how would that work i wonder um is it wide enough for two-way traffic uh nicholas half hour parking is invaluable for doing your weekly things with banks and pensions and shopping if it was just like the 15 minutes we'd be left like benny hill uh to get everything done from long time boncran a resident another i'm not a driver but this is ridiculous reducing the free parking time to 15 minutes yes greg will not help the business people and although nicholas is from the town uh does he give a heck well of course he does and and and you know it is not easy sometimes to come on and express a view that you know is not necessarily as as popular as another uh and respect to that i parked in strabine yesterday for six minutes it cost me 78 pence i know it's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but that is over 10 p a minute i paid through the parking app which mostly works out slightly cheaper i would have been able to park for well over an hour before for about £1.50 another listener says i live in clon mani i'd rather go to car and don at his shop it's a bigger town and i don't pay anything for parking how do they maintain their town with no charges at all and on the go right okay this week's wellness wednesday we are joined in studio by oren carlin who was born with a rare genetic blood disorder which means he cannot go out in natural light and we're also joined in studio by his mom uh brenda brenda good morning to you thanks so much for calling in good morning and oren how are you keeping okay so talk to us brenda first if you don't mind about uh oren's condition or maybe oren you'd prefer to talk about it i don't want to be presumptuous you want me to start yeah go on you go ahead brenda yeah so he was born with a genetic blood disorder called atheropoietic podopoferia and normally you wouldn't start showing symptoms until you're four years old but oren started started displaying the symptoms from he was two so he started off just feeling really a lot of pain and his arms and legs would have swole up when he was young so it took a couple years and then he was diagnosed with a genetic condition so um he has inherited the gene from myself and my husband which has given him the condition but do you and your husband have the condition no it's just yeah just oren because we have two um two genetic two chromosomes so i have a normal and a deletion which means i don't that doesn't affect me my husband has the c gene and a normal so it doesn't affect him but oren got my deletion gene and my husband's c gene which has given him the severity of the case wow so it's just a happenstance that you and he okay okay bad luck and sorry when did it first become apparent when he was about two years old okay and how long did it take to get a diagnosis well we had taken him to a and e a couple of times and the pediatricians were baffled what was wrong with him so at the time they had thought it was maybe allergic to a plant out in the garden so me and my husband started looking up and just googling things that he might be allergic to and then we just came upon this condition and once we read it he he ticked every box for all the different symptoms so we took the printout to the GP and then we were referred to the pediatrician and she listened to what we said and i took a printout and asked her if she could do the blood test and i actually was hoping that she was going to tell me he didn't have it but when the test came back he was he had it and before we chat to oren when we talk about natural sunlight or natural light sorry does it is it sunlight or is it daylight like for instance to do can you block it with with creams or so what it is is an ultraviolet light so basically the ultraviolet light porphines bald in his blood so it's actually his blood that it reacts to so the porphines bald in his blood and then when the ultraviolet light goes through his skin it reacts to the blood and that causes um like an inner itch first and then severe pain and then the next day it'll get the swelling so any skin all stretches and then with the skin stretching it will split and then it cuts from the inside out wow that's like further down the line that's a couple of days and then once he has that first reaction he cannot quite in any light at all then for at least 24 hours and the worst case was a week he had to sit in the dark so whenever he was young and he had a reaction and his hands were swollen i thought well i'll take him to um jungle king so he'd be on door playing but you see these lights here above his hands started reacting to their artificial lights because they already had it was already affected so that means constant in the front room watch tv it has to be not after it has to be in the dark once he has had a reaction until it settles down uh oran and as a young fella too how's how does this affect you or i mean i know you've you've lived with it all of your life and it's it's your normal i suppose you could say but that doesn't take away the fact that it impacts on your life and you have to change how you live in because i play football and then i've had so many and like i just can't go in to sit on whether everybody else could play it especially if you have a football match i have a football match and that i mean obviously you're trying to protect yourself from a physical reaction but it must be very mentally frustrating for you because i mean you're there you're fit your health that you could you know you could run to timbuk too but you've got this thing that prevents you from being able to engage like you would like to just hold it back whatever and is this something that you would ever grow out of oran so this is something that's going to be a part of your life forever forever okay what about treatments brenda yep so there is one only successful treatment called senes and at the minute there's an implant and they're working on a tablet form and so far it's only available to 18 year olds and um it is still not available in the uk or ireland so we're trying to make his condition aware so that maybe nice could pass it and when he's 18 he could get the implant and what is the what what how is it working if you know what i'm like um you know what kind of case does he hearing is it really helping people yeah so nice is saying that um there's not enough evidence and it's not cost effective but america china israel germany switzerland neverlands austria and italy are all using it to treat their epp patients successfully and now australia has just passed their health body has just passed it so it will soon be given out to their epp patients and for oran and for us that is our only hope that that he's passed by he's 18 and then i wonder why to wait is it over 18s in the countries that you mentioned over 18s they're working on like pediatrics now you know to get it on a younger age but that nothing they're just still working on them trials so i don't know anything about that yet and oran what age you know 14 right okay so it's it seems like forever away but it's actually on your end the corner isn't it and the bottom line is is unless you get awareness out there or you're organized with other people are affected nice you're going to look at this and go well it's only a couple of people will then focus on something else and unfortunately you have to be the noisiest wheel sometimes to get the oil brenda so they're trying to get it passed we nice since 2015 and it's been turned down twice since the stall there the pail was stalled for four years and they've just made a decision again in may and and our recommendation for oran and anybody we pp is doing quite in the light so it just must be so frustrating so frustrating as a you know because there's so much that people have that there's no cure for or there's no help or there's no advancement yet here we have other people successfully on this implant and hopefully the oral drug in the future living normal lives and then you you'll see the frustration that oran's going to have i mean all of us would have unless you're superman you know we'd all be really frustrated by it like you aren't superman are you know okay just in case it was and it's so hard watching him because like last year we had went to do peer jumping and it wasn't a sunny day but we thought it'll be good enough for oran we could maybe get a half an hour but he was so worried about getting reaction to the sunlight that he got himself worked on this and took about 25 minutes to talk him around he leaving the car so i mean that's not that's not fair yeah but that's a completely normal reaction oran it's frustrating but i think we'll all feel that way so can you describe how it feels are you the first to know that that that the uv light started to have this reaction or your body started to have this reaction to the uv light it feels like it's like an edge yeah but whenever yeah it's just sore like like yeah very sore and it's an itch you can't scratch yeah so it's like having your leg in a cast within itch and you can it's like scratch on the outside of the cast it's doing nothing it's worse and worse and so you just described it as an anorech like an edge unsaid yourself you can't scratch but you've successfully managed to spot the early signs and prevent any sort of escalation of it have you oran we try but but the weller so predict on predictable yeah that sometimes he still has the reaction even where all the precautions that we take family holidays presumably certainly to sunny destinations are off the well at the start we didn't go for years and then whenever he was younger me and my husband decided that our job was to make him have as normal life as possible okay so we tried to work around going in the winter months yes when the sun would go down in the other countries at like five p.m so we could wear shorts and t-shirts go out in the dark for his meals yeah we would go day would an umbrella be would you is that the at the minute he wears he wears hats he has a sun snood yes he has gloves and he's always covered and it's a solution but you want to feel the same as everybody else does as much as possible right okay so the hope is is that really i think if i'm reading the the the room correctly brand is is that you know the chances of maybe oran getting this now or 16 is not it's to make sure that this is available for people like oran when he hits 18 yeah that's the best case that's exactly what a miracle could happen but yeah so whenever he was eight we first um read about senes and back then um i always said to me husband it'll be okay sure there's plenty years it'll definitely pass by a time he's 18 and then just whenever we got um the week for you on may from the bpa kind of from clenuville telling us that it was the pill was turned down again then just made us so angry and frustrated we thought we need to do something for the swing you know yeah okay and we're going to talk about fundraiser coming up and how people can support it i'm just trying to get a sense of how many people are affected by epp across the north maybe it's where you have might have the figures for well um five years ago we've had a bpa meeting which is a brother of british paferia association but because there is none in ireland they have now taken ireland under the wing so five years ago there was 13 people with epp in the whole of ireland and um they're roughly at base one and 140 000 so it's rare but it's not not rare rare sort of thing it's it's actually quite interesting that they have made such advances on something that is relatively rare because sometimes you know that they focus on where they're going to make tons of money these drug companies um and just once again someone texted in what were the early signs and symptoms and from what age as rare as it is you just never know uh someone wants you to just a reminder of that again yep so whenever he was we he would have been out playing in the sun and with shorts and t-shirts on and then he just would have screamed would have cried for no reason and then eventually his arms whatever part of the body is exposed is where he would swell up so the blood vessels leak and that's what causes the swelling and that was a very early stages okay so we were we were always told we were so lucky to get him diagnosed so young yeah because there's all our sufferers who'd be adults before they know or maybe never find maybe never so even if this helps someone else for sure I think so yeah because we talk about it being rare but that's the rare because of the cases we know it might not be quite as rare and that's all the part of what you're doing at the moment right talk to us about the fund raising then for the bpa which is the british porphyria association but it is they have taken an Ireland because obviously yeah that's it so what are you doing so we're doing a sponsored walk on this sunday the 20th to the stairway to heaven and county for mana so our friends and family are getting a bus down and we're going to do the walk which is approximately four hours and we're just taking sponsorship for an aid of the bpa okay and don't know if this can be made online to Brenda's just giving page oren's fundraiser for the british porphyria association porphyria association but i'd say if you go oren's fundraiser for the british search it'll be there okay is there anything you want to say oren yeah okay now we just i don't want you to leave here and think why didn't you ask me that well that's perfectly fine too less is more about your hopes for when you're 18 and i just hope it gets released i think so that's his best day to get on with your life yeah i know can you imagine it's tough you know in fair play to oren and hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel for when you hit 18 and thanks to the work of your mother and others in the bpa if you have other children do they automatically i have i have one other daughter but they she had a one and four chance so she's obviously gotten she's ever like me deletion in the normal or my husband with the cg in the normal given that the genes met or she could have two normals he was just unlucky to get both our fault genes but he's definitely passing it on yeah oh for sure really so he only has the deletion or the cg so he's definitely passing one lemon so we met with a geneticist so he whenever he's meets his partner the love of his life yeah yeah um hopefully the love of your life she could get a blood test on and make sure that she hasn't got similar genetic faults so it's it's even if the you know it's something that has to be considered Brenda it's been lovely having you on the show thank you very much i do hope all your efforts do pay off and that it wouldn't be lovely you know to sort of have that to look forward to yeah and you can sort of see that right okay this is what i can do going forward so i really hope it happens for you and everyone else affected by uh epp so that's wellness Wednesday we were chatting to oren carlin and his mother brendan and if you want to support the bpa you can donate to brenda's just giving page it's oren's fundraiser for the british poor fear go ahead poor fairy i was so close association all right okay and we'll link that on our socials which is probably much handier than me stumbling my way through it every time thanks both of you for traveling today also just anything you want could i think um the northern iron rare diseases partnership for helping us getting our awareness out as well and 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expressway bringing you the time ass okay the time is 20 minutes past 11 thanks to brendan and oren again kirin old donnell's going to be joining us in a bit but i want to get through some of your comments uh want to get to some of your comments sorry not through them get to them uh right okay bonkrana needs a bypass says the caller hi greg never mind the 30 minutes parking one of the major issues in bonkrana is the traffic delays coming in from the cockill road directional roads leading to main street fork at the bottom of the west end bonkrana leading to long and lengthy traffic delays it can take upwards of 15 minutes sometimes to get through the town the council would be better served addressing these issues first and foremost in my opinion a caller says does nicolas crossen want bonkrana closed down and it sickens me when he says what's good for bonkrana what did he and his fellow councillors do when the likes of fruit of the loom closed down this is the same nicolas crossen who wanted to bypass the town but didn't get support there are others that still call for that but as i say i'm not here to sort of represent councillor nicolas crossen but uh you know people should be able to express a view that may be against the norm without anything getting personal anyway but i'm not saying you are but you know we need to make sure we make the right decision and the way we make the right decision is considering all uh different options i think a half hour free parking is too long 15 minutes is adequate for most shopping other than big shopping where there usually is a large free car park you say that though but then filomena comments on social media 15 is too short it's stressful to make sure to have to get back to your car went around bonkrana three times to get a parking spot someone who's slow at walking has to park way down the street to go and there's a queue especially uh christmas so my point being and thanks uh filomena for your comment there in facebook as well my point being is as well we also have to consider that not everybody is as quick uh on their feet or or doesn't want to be rushing around and we have to make sure that whatever we do is inclusive of not just businesses but people with various uh abilities as well what about people living on street in apartments with a permit i'm not familiar with that i'm not sure how much uh i'm not sure how much um oh of course this is a good suggestion actually that even if you're parking for free that you print off a ticket and the time you park there to begin with is on the ticket i've not heard that one before and i'm not saying it's a good fit for bonkrana but that's a blooming good idea so even if you're only parked for half an hour you have to print a ticket and the ticket your half an hour starts from when you put that ticket on so it's free right but it's very clear when that ticket's expired i like that idea i don't know why it just seems clever whether it's good or bad for the problem we're talking about i don't know but everyone who parks prints a ticket and the first half hour is free i like it okay it's clever uh should be a sign on the machine saying your parking payment helps fund this and that let people know where it's going yeah it would be useful just have that information i'm not sure whether it would encourage more or less people to pay for their parking i have a comment to add to the conversation about parking in bonkrana there are other additional problems ignored by the council i live on a street in bonkrana where paid parking is in place as residents were entitled to a residence parking permit which we renew annually my husband has a work van which is not entitled to a permit according to the council which means he cannot park outside our home without running the risk of fines which has happened on a few occasions another it now just on relation to that if it was a car would he be able to get a permit is it the fact that it's a van that he can't get a permit just if you could clarify that because i'm kind of interested about that or is the fact that only one vehicle can be registered for premises let me know but they want to say another issue is my neighbours are all very elderly many with carers and family members who are required to stay with them overnight during the day as there's no guest permit system like the area i used to live in london it means that carers and family members have to pay to care for their loved ones it's amazing you know when when things like this don't affect you and they don't affect me that you just sort of be oblivious to these uh oblivious to these uh i was going to say little issues but they're not insignificant either uh if you're heading from dairy to bone crana there's a large tail back at least fan and i'm sitting here for 25 minutes i'm going nowhere now i'm not sure if that's changed or is still the case uh but let us know right uh we are going to go to business managers of course in a mo but first we're going to go to mikaela clark from the newsroom hey mikaela how are you getting on good craig how are you i'm doing good now i used to get on to mcgill summer school mcgill summer school but my circumstances have changed you're heading down there what's well this it's it's kind it's not unique because there are other summer schools around the country but this is a particularly uh well regarded one isn't it yeah it seems to attract so many every year and even looking at the schedules and previous years i've always been dying to go because the things that's really thought provoking the topics they have like this year the theme is a new global order precarious and dangerous and like we start today with um the war in ukraine and then it moves on to china and we talk about ireland's future and um europe as well so yeah it's good and like people come well brend boy the congressman was due to come but people generally come from all over the world to it yeah some might feel it's like just the double and bubble located to donnie gall i don't know or any local newspaper journalists any radio this is not a question yeah any rate local radio journalists invited to attend or is it just uh is it just the irish times the irish independent and the politicians that they're used to um use but we'll ask you afterwards yeah right the proof of the puddings in the eating yeah so we will see yeah i'm going anyway i haven't been invited but i'm going no yeah exactly but no it's very very interesting i just wonder um i've never been asked to participate i'm not sure of you i don't know i don't know i don't know any of the newspaper uh if they're invited or not but anyway that be that as it may i'm not i don't want to be i'm just saying so uh what what what's uh it starts today right so what's happening today you're heading down at three so what's the topic of conversation today start with the ukraine war today and the ambassador of ukraine to ireland is going to be there and there's going to be later on um some music and culture events ukrainian music and culture events and then it'll finish with the question later on how and when will the war in ukraine end so there's a number of professors that will be there to discuss that so today focuses solely on ukraine okay interesting tomorrow tomorrow then it is the topic the first topic is how to restore peace and harmony to a dangerously distressed world and the role of china um i heard your discussion earlier about how even events in china affect you know through medications so it will be interesting to hear how hopefully how it affects ireland and what can happen there yeah well i mean they pull the strings let's face it in in many areas be technology the phone in your pocket uh or the medicine you or i want to say you generically would take uh so um and that's what day is today today's wednesday right so that's in the morning in the afternoon then they like the european union down at the migills summer school that's up for compensation marina mcginnis is going to be there along with professor bridget laughing and tonally connelly the european editor of rt in brosso so to be a panel discussion about the european union and how they're fulfilling their mission and then into the evening the 23rd annual hume lecturer and you mentioned brendan boiling attendance uh i think he is the person the last person elected politician over there with who is the son of an irish person you know many claim to be irish but i think he's the last serving elected rep there right that is actually second generation but anyway go ahead a bit of controversy because there was planned protest i don't know if they are going ahead now he was due to be there in person so there's planned pro-palestinian protest and because he supported or he sponsored an anti bds bill aimed at punishing companies that boycott is really good so oh he opposed that did he that's really quite interesting okay he sponsored it sponsored it yeah so yeah actually i wonder will there be many uh protest well he's appearing virtually now so i don't know yeah it's okay now i don't know if it's in relation to the plan protest but uh joe mahan said last week his wife was going through surgery so okay i'm sure that's the reason but you know as i say there's a lot of people down there there's a lot of big issues in donogall as well and some of the people with influence on that so on to friday then uh the future of russia and its place in the world post war presumably of course yeah so that'll be i'm sure a lot of people will be interested in that to see what is discussed and kind of as it relates to the war in ukraine and then it moves on then to a conversation with senator michael mcdowell and then there is in the afternoon the heeney and frill on the 10th anniversary of she miss heeney's pass and there's an event there and then we will look at ireland and its future so there'll be a number of politicians from the north and south taking part in that one and uh ireland the future then uh charlotte mcconnellogs amongst those um there's not an awful lot of donogall in this is there um the council's still financially backing them yeah i think they do you sponsored yeah right okay uh yeah no there's not many at all no not really oh no uh actually now there's like so large times journalists rt journalists which is all grand that's fantastic if you're into that type of thing which you are and you're going to go and report on it because i'll tell you one thing will come out of it is news yes plenty and you are not only going to be reporting extensively uh for the news um because that's what you paid to do now when you open uh because obviously you're down there for that but also to you can have a bit of a blog going on the website as well which i think you're going to do a bit of colour to it as well is it just going to be someone said that just to give us a sense no we're going to put in some pictures as well hopefully and we'll just as much as as accessible yeah when i get down there and we'll put in like our intervention stuff but we'll post them separately as well and they'll be on air to you and they'll all be in this blog okay which will hopefully get pinned up because i think it's going to be really interesting and as i say i've been down to a few of them i always find them interesting i'm just getting a bit older and cynical and i would like to see a panel discussion about defective concrete uh but anyway maybe next year maybe next year okay but that's me uh but that being said i have a lot of respect for those involved and the organizers and dr mulholland as well but i can't sit here and think something and not saying because that would be dishonest to the listeners and um might not be popular but you know what i have to be honest okay mikaela enjoy it i look forward to hearing the reports i look forward to following this blog to get a sense of what's going on there as well as the the actual news story so i really appreciate your time you're heading down there kicks off at three kicks off at three yes all right have a lovely time well it's have a nice plenty's is beautiful it's a it's up there in my top 10 of places alike across our region okay kiran old donnell is the presenter of the business matters pod he's going to be joining us uh with business news and to look forward to that podcast after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account barbecue rhymes with ballymaloo coincidence don't think so because you can't think of a barbecue the burgers the bangers the steak and the grilled veggies without thinking of a delicious dollop of our legendary relish too bring taste to the table with ballymaloo relish get a great clowns gift this 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in donnell goll greg has increased by 22 percent compared to august 22 according to the latest report from daft dot ie so nowadays people can expect to pay an average of 1,077 euro to rent a home in the county and that figure represents a significant jump of 12 percent since the turn of the year and just in relation to the buy and sell of house prices the average price of a house in donnell goll is now 170 000 euro that's according to a new report by the data technology startup geowux so the findings show that wicklow is now the most expensive country to buy a house average price in the garden county is 425 000 euro while our neighboring county litram is the cheapest at 1,000 sorry 100 and roughly 1,000 euro you know i would suspect that there's not an awful lot of movement in the property market here in donnell goll and what movement there is are people snapping up those 120 130 140 000 fixer uppers i can see that i can see that um average house price going up really quite quickly because i i think you would struggle to go out if that's an average you'd struggle now to go out and buy much property around the county for under 170 k uh kiran what's your feelings yeah i suppose supply and demand is really what you're talking about uh great the prices at the minute don't seem to have jumped an awful lot i've been keeping a fair close eye and there hasn't been any massive movement on it yet compared to the rental and i suppose that's why i started to hide the two in the gill under that one breather because you know i saw a fifth uh since last year and i saw quite uh i saw eight percent well you get now you get now uh it depends on your mortgage and and your term and what but you're getting out to the point whereby uh rent is getting mortgagey in terms of the cost in donnell goll uh but the property now is getting beyond like a 170 000 euro house you actually have to have really quite a decent deposit and income to sort of reach that threshold now i know there are schemes but you can see even in our county how things are starting to become really out of reach so my son's 20 he wants to move out right i presume he might hopefully if he did or i don't know hopefully he wants but my point is is that's a big chunk of anyone's income uh now i should say that is an average but you can sort of see where the problems are starting to really come home to roost in what was traditionally seen as the cheaper part of the world to live in yeah and you throw in the cost of loving crisis along with that too greg that sort of becomes a bigger problem for people right okay development ongoing in that you can however yeah permission to demolish glennany house on leara kenney's port road to make way for a large residential and business development has been granted permission by donnell goll county council the developers m and b kelly partnership say the scheme will provide a significant economic boost leara kenney both during the construction phase and when it's operational and william donnelly and the associates have been appointed to design the 240 000 square foot scheme is that on tisco around about that yeah it's just on the left and say okay right i don't know so it's a major uh it's a major development and it's going to bring jobs both as the build as the developer site and the creation and when it's up and running all right errigal bay are uh hoping to expand what's their plans yeah the owners of errigal bay greg the fish processing plant based at minna neary and kerrick are seeking to expand its facilities permission has been requested uh from donnell goll county council for a 28 000 square foot extension to the factory that was opened back in 1962 as a food processing co-op and i think that was under uh phallar mcdyer's time and influence and the company currently employs around 200 people all right tell us about lead tech and this uh application extension yeah the closing date for applications for lead tech that is the networking program for donnell goll tech companies with ambitions for growth and is funded by tech north west skillnet is this friday august the 22nd the monthly tuning and network sessions will run from september 2023 to february 2024 at the co-label of the kenny the initiative will be led by garrett hart and rean mcgoteer and bobby care has been lined up as one of the guest speakers for more information on the program contact chevon on 086 2707 277 or email info at tech northwest skillnet dot com and sorry to be an ah it's february 24th to february 25th no it's already underway then no sorry it's september 23 to February i thought you said february that's my mistake sorry about that i wasn't okay right inflation is dropping slightly again just the old yeah it just means things aren't getting as expensive as quickly but gone yeah the annual rate of inflation in july was 5.8 percent that's down from 6.1 percent in the 12 months to the end of june and that's according to new figures from the cso office however the cost of goods and services rose by 0.2 percent in july when compared with june and that's according to the consumer price index so let's just back it up exactly the point you made there greg higher prices and the recreation and culture sector which rose by 3.4 percent in july were linked to more expensive package holidays and concert tickets so we can blame taylor swift and cold players well and that's a factor if it's amazing you know if you're talking about going away say three four five years ago for a package and going to a concert and going away now even over the last 12 months the massive like the average cost of a package holiday rose by 64 percent compared to july 2022 but these these organizations and people are going to screw us to the point whereby they will have milked the cash cow and i hope they realize it i haven't already i just wouldn't go all stuff don't go and they're going to come back and saying oh we need people don't think they'll say oh we need some support for this sector because things are slipping down or you know we need to uh change that rate so artists come and perform here because and you know what the reason they'll have done it all themselves and let's remember that when the begging bowl comes out because they're absolutely hammering us was it's it's the last thing of a dying wasp it is just like before the recession where 130 mortgages free money blah blah blah you know it's all starting to feel very familiar and those who can get the must ring the last few quid out of us right now are doing it right now all right okay this week's podcast is a shop actually really like yeah my guests this week are the owners of alexander's joe and tracy alexander the business was taken over from the mcclure family by joe's parents in 1960 and has been trading successfully since joe bought over the shop and became the sole owner in 1989 and in 2019 his wife tracy who had been a medical secretary for 23 years and a local practice began to work full time in the business alexander's which has a coffee loft a bookshop a grocery section a diy department currently employs a team of 15 people and during our chat i asked joe what he thought he would be doing today if he had followed his childhood dream job probably going to be an astronaut i um uh no i always liked like working with my hands you know like making things maybe working with wood i probably wouldn't like to be in a carpenter and i still would do a good bit of the diy work about the shop here and i enjoy doing that and it's sort of a finite sort of de-stress as many times there if you make a table or something you know that helps you and job satisfaction as well i definitely you know like most of the work in the coffee shop here um a good lot of this work we would have done working late in the evenings and um you know you look around here now and that's you know the parts of the seating parts of the floor and stuff like that that was all stuff that was done late in the evenings okay kieran and you also chatted tracy and this piece greg tracy talks about the decision to develop the coffee loft on the first floor of their premises on balba phase main street three years ago whenever i came in i came over here and uh that was in 2019 prior to the pandemic and at that stage we had a gift shop upstairs here and it was you know we we kind of felt we wanted to develop it more because there there seemed to be a need for that in town so i always had a notion as well about opening a coffee shop and joe always tried to cut me off it um we said you know you work and you come home at the end of the week and your money's in the bank and you don't have to worry about staff and electricity and you know all of this um but i still had that sort of longing for it um and i would bake away at home all the time and just give it away so what was the what was the deal censure uh the deal censure i don't know we talked about it then and then we had friends that opened a coffee shop uh opened and posted it actually and we have been talking to them and the more we talked about it the more we thought you know what we need something different and i always loved the idea of books and coffee i just thought that was just if i was away in holiday summer or away visiting this is the sort of shop i want to go into and you know i love books we love homewares love food and bacon and the hospitality and people oh i just love i just love working with people and meeting people every day okay so the full interviews with joan tray c alexander are available to download at highlandradio.com right now they're on our website there or on spotify or itunes and the show goes out uh live i suppose we call it now even though it's prerecorded because you've been out in ballet buffet but it's broadcast live it's scheduled for sunday kieran talk to me about that yes after the six o'clock news greg on sunday evening and if anyone would like to get in touch just drop me an email please businessmatters at highlandradio.com kieran listen it's always a pleasure thank you so much indeed look forward to seeing you next week goodbye ready take care all right now just a little bit of breaking news donagall garter division is going to remain as a standalone division there was a review ongoing including leadership interviews a consultation with internal and external stakeholders it also this review took into account the population and demographic changes in the country since the development of the original operation model in 2018 so uh it looked at the number of incidents in the relevant division along with the operational and community needs staffing and accommodation were also factored into the review so the three county divisions reviewed were leash awfully kildare uh wardford killed kenny carlow and donagall sligo leacham now under the revised divisional structures the divisions will be the donagall division so the donagall division is being retained um now i'm not sure how it's going to be enhanced or what have you but anyway it's not being chalked in thankfully with sligo and leacham which themselves will remain um tied together leach awfully is another division kill dare carlow another division uh wardford kill kenny another uh division so things have been moved around a little but donagall is uh to be uh is is going to be um its own divisional structure which had been a call from many so i think that will be seen as uh i think that will be broadly welcome we shall see all right back with more in a sec the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today it's the summer of savings at supervalue enjoy great offers like super value fresh Irish round roast better than half price selected keeling super value and signature tastes large pork berries three for ten euro maria sovignon blank ten euro and money off 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furniture making homes great since 1998 now um you you will we covered it on this program before some concerns particularly around the donagall town area about camper vans parking in that area um and it is one it's it's proving really popular i presume it's talked about on forums and what have you and amongst people and that's why it's become popular because it's it's a decent place to park and you've got access to a thriving buzzing town uh but as i say there is a a negative tone to the conversation and coverage of these camper vans pulling into the key park car park down there in donagall town and i'm sure it's not exclusive to that area jason comedy is chair of the irish motorhome working group and i presume jason it's a small enough country a small enough community uh this criticism has come across uh you've come across it and would be aware of it hi craig thanks for having me on firstly um yes craig so um basically you know motor homes are very popular in this country and there's a massive increase in ownership of motor homes and donagall town is a favorite spot for many motor home owners to stop over and so there was kind of i did see the publicity there last week on many forums as you just said and a small little bit of a negative kind of a tone to it both a lot of positive things uh i'm from people living in donagall town i suppose the spin on it is for donagall town um a lot of motor home owners will stop off in an area and will park for the nice go to local shops and restaurants and spend their money locally um so i suppose the thing is um a few people have mentioned that some of the motor homes may be parking in in two spaces yeah well we've seen evidence of that so that's not anecdotal i know that has happened yeah um and it happened recently you know so either across three or four uh i don't listen they're wide okay so if you take up to parking in the way i've seen big landrovers do the same thing um i wouldn't get too caught up about that personally now that might not be popular but anyway that's my view but i think certainly parking across spaces is is a bit ott yes indeed yeah and what we would say if anyone sees someone doing that they should contact the authorities but that's a kind of a not a lot of people that i know would do that now for sure but the angle i would go at is uh donagall town council and county council um now have the opportunity to push uh proper facilities for motor homes in the town and for example the hub in greg namanna um before they ever had a motor home uh specific parking down there uh the town council came together and they've now turkey uh designated motor home spaces in that village and they're bringing into the economy nearly two million euros a year because of motor home owners parking in that village in town if you speak to anyone in greg namanna they're like they said it's it's after revolutionizing the town uh the amount of jobs and the amount of money that could be spent in donagall town being on a switch uh the endless amount that could be so donagall uh county council and donagall town council uh i think it's now time for them maybe to put their heads together to say is there somewhere in the town where we could put i don't know six spaces initially or ten spaces motor homes and charge 10 euros a night or 12 euros a night and all all the motor homes want is a space to park maybe gray water facilities and water and that'd be it yeah maybe somewhere to plug in because you know i think what happens is is that i think it can be a little bit popular to criticize them to because there is some perception out there that you come in with your packed lunch you eat your lunch you dump your papers out the door and your gray wall turn your drive off right i know that's not the case but i think it kind of be if you're looking for clicks and stuff it's or whatever it might be look i'm not saying people are doing that but it's kind of popular to criticize it's like teachers it's kind of popular to criticize because you'll get a bit of traction right but really uh really you're of the view and i think the council is of the view because you i presume your group submitted into the public consultation in donagall a couple of years ago as to how we can all see the benefits of of the monies bring in but not tie up local back roads you know all that kind of stuff so i think really need to sort of say right this is a branch of tourism um and it needs to be if people feel it's a bit chaos and haphazard now we'll then put something in that's organized exactly now there's people passing out donagall town i know i've heard of people saying because sometimes it's very difficult to get parking in donagall town now i know a lot of people park down there by the river which is a brilliant in front of the the tourist office which is a brilliant facility and you know once people park correctly and do the right thing it's great but i think it's now time for donagall the county council and town council to look at putting designated spaces in donagall town because the benefits outweigh the few negatives that may be there the benefits for donagall town would be extra jobs in the area would be up to two million euros extra in the economy like the hub and greg the manna look at the likes of cove down in cork for a very small amount of investment by cork county council to put 20 spaces below in cove they have a turnover now just in parking fees just in park fees around 200 thousand euros a year which goes directly back into the coast town council and then there's about one to one and a half million spent in the local economy by motorhome owners going to shops restaurants etc etc okay so obviously you represent motorhomes right so the majority that we'd see down on the key there are effectively you know they're they're purpose built motorhomes or converted transit so whatever it might be do you differentiate then for caravans do you know in other words like when you talk about having 10 spaces for motorhomes is it motorhomes you're talking of or would someone be able to pull the caravan in there as well pay their fee and and go and explore for the day in their car like do you as a group differentiate yourselves from the towing homes so to speak we we have to because the towing homes that caravan and a car are just too long altogether so no matter what size of a parking bay you'd posted you just wouldn't have spaces that place so with that in mind then and with that in mind we're not talking about a place now some of the motorhomes and it's not often you'll see maybe tell a car in a trailer or have bikes or what have you but really for this to work you need to be within walking distance reasonable walking distance of indeed the nightlife the pubs in the restaurant there's no point having to place a kilometer out because then you have to source no taxis and all that type of stuff so if something is to provide a specific for motorhomes and you've given an example that it's a central location indeed and look at the likes of clan mel only last week clan mel town council and opened up 12 parking base for motorhomes and the positive response that the town has got and the pictures that I go up online with the spaces full every night is just amazing and so like the you know that all the positives outweigh the negatives so we are specifically talking about motorhomes because motorhomes are self-contained and you basically sit in the motorhome there's no chairs there's no awnings whatever you park in your space you pay if you're allocated space for 24 hours and then you move on whereas caravans tend to go to a specific caravan site they detach the caravan and leave it there and drive around in their cars so they can tour around in their car space beside it is accommodated now let me ask you because we don't have a ton of time is there's not an actual official list I'm sure but is there a can you grade counties on their friendliness to the benefits of of of the motorhome community in other words are there counties with reputation that yes of course you can go there and the people are lovely but you get more of a tone of an unwelcoming tone like could you rank Donegal out of the 32 where we sit in terms of you know you'll still come the scenery is beautiful and of course we're lovely people but in terms of sort of the more broader risk of a negative experience so Donegal in my opinion is one of the counties where they love people in motorhomes to come into towns and villages and because they have a great reputation in Donegal we do the right thing motor home owners 99.9 percent of us do the right thing we want to do the right thing and we want to spend our money in local economy so Donegal would be one of the more welcoming counties there's not very many that are unwelcoming as such it's very very positive in this country but just we are campaigning for facilities in this country to motorhome owners there's an opportunity here for tourism Ireland for the wild Atlantic way to put facilities in and bring the tourists in and small towns and villages and areas and a town like Donegal town will see an immediate increase in jobs in expenditure into the area and so on and so forth. We're talking about Donegal town now but it could be Bonkrana, Lettercanny, Dunlow, Killy Beggs and I'm not saying there aren't facilities there so I don't want to be sort of suggesting there aren't but what I'm saying is is obviously we're talking now in the context of Donegal town but you would say you know it's not just what someone sees the gateway to the northwest but there are other towns could benefit them as well all right well listen it's out there and Jason will see what the see what the public think listen for the most part I think those who are peed off or more inclined to get their phone out and text and complain but that's fine too but I would imagine the majority do see the benefits that you talk of. Have a lovely uh are you out on the road at the moment now? I am I am a DJ we're down in Corktown at the moment for a week with the Irish Champion and Caravan Club and brilliant facility down there in Westeros yeah tough place. Jason enjoy it Jason the comedy there chair of the Irish Motorhome working group okay thanks to Carla and all who researched and produced the show and Neve working on the program as well and tirelessly on social media both doing a great job we're back with you doing it again tomorrow morning from nine stay tuned Kevin Fury's up around the north