 goes in Alton and everybody wishing you the best day ever. Have a great day. Great good morning. You have a great day? I do. I'll do my very best. Anything exciting happening today? No, I'm taking the cat. You know, the cat that we took in, she's getting neutered today that we're getting. Really? Yeah. What if she's listening? Well, she's in the list. Can you just say she's going for ice cream somewhere or something? So she's getting neutered, right? I know, but you say it like it's nothing. She couldn't get food last night from six o'clock. Oh, no. Imagine. This is all new to me. I never had that. She thinks that was bad. Yeah, I know. She'll be all right. And then I have to pick her up at half-force. Like, do you know what I mean? It's tough, isn't it? That's the tough one. Why did you take a cat on? No, we see it was good. Well, and all fairness, animals are good. And for Weeley, it's good. And it's a bit of a responsibility. And it's calming as well. And you know you pet a cat and purr back. The cat's like, yeah. Do you know something? Not a big cat purr, but I can see all the benefits of it. What do you see? Until you have a cat, it's different. And there's no macy-macy's and all of that. Mousy-mousies or whatever you call it. I think if a few places cats might be needed or when you say that. Yeah, yeah. Not too far away in this kitchen, I don't know. I've seen that, Mous. I went out there. Should I have to say this, you know? I went out, right, and it was about half-six, and I heard this rustle and there's conflicts, and then, you know, people had their conflicts. I've seen him. I couldn't believe him. He's a big, long tail. Someone's going to think he's mixed cocoa, pops him with the cornflakes. There's no cornflakes out there now, yeah, I'll tell you that. And I think he had a row with the man's trap and lost. Yeah, he's gone. Well, anyway. Yeah, all right. Good luck. It's a big family. See you, Lee. It is the nightly noon show about to get off after the news update now from Donal at 9 o'clock. A minute passed, in fact. Good morning now. No, no. Who's Nile? Good morning. I don't even know Nile. Sorry, Donal. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. An attempted murder investigation has been launched after an off-duty police officer was shot at a sports complex between Oma and Khalid Tahir last night. The detective chief inspector was shot several times. He's in a critical but stable condition. Harry White is in Oma. The PSNI have confirmed the off-duty police officer who was shot multiple times last night was Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell. He was attacked by two masked men as he was putting away training gear into the boot of his car. A number of youth sports teams were here training at the complex at the time of the shooting where the victim's son is understood to have been with him at the time. Mr Caldwell is said to be in a critical but stable condition in hospital in Derry. He says the dissident Republican group, the new IRA, are the primary focus of their investigation. Thysiok Leo Radker has told the doll the Department of Transport will look into the recent series of flight cancellations at Donegal Airport in Carrick, Finn. Deputy Thomas Springle told the doll a number of recent cancellations were explained away as technical issued by the operator, but he said that term needs to be explained more clearly. Mr Radker told him the government will follow up on the query, describing the service as a genuine public service obligation. It's an airport that I've used myself on occasion and I know it's a very valuable service for people in Donegal. It's a genuine PSO, people using it to make medical appointments in Dublin and things like that. I'm glad that we're able to continue to fund it. I don't have a detailed response to give you now, in fairness, I'm aware there are some difficulties but not the cause of them, but I will make sure that either Minister Ryan or Mr Chambers comes back to you about it. The PSNI in Derry are appealing for information following a two vehicle collision on Tuesday night. It happened at High Street around 20 past nine, involving a black Volkswagen Gold and a black Mitsubishi Outlander, which was parked at 21 year old man's been detained on suspicion of a number of offenses, including driving while on fit through drink or drugs and obstructing police. And serious safety concerns have been raised about the safety of school children in Birkenport who are forced to walk along a busy main road due to the absence of a footpath. There have been repeated calls for a footpath to be developed between the local school and community centre, which is used regularly by the pupils. Last evening, Councilor Mehill, Colin Galaspuk, put up a social media post showing children walking very close to passing traffic. He says urgent action is needed before something very serious happens. This isn't good enough. This is our children. This is our community. And we deserve to have proper infrastructure put in place so that we can walk about our daily business without the hindrances of fear that a bad accident or worse could happen. Cold this morning with Annie Frost clearing quickly, a mostly dry day with some sunny spells, particularly in the morning time. Cloud will thicken as we get into the afternoon, bringing the odd light shower. Top temperatures today, six to nine degrees Celsius, moderate north to northwest breezes. That's Highland Radio News. Back with news again at 10 o'clock. It's not just that Sarah can't rely on the rains to come this year. It's not just that the only water left could cost her life. 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If you want to watch the program on your smart TV, your forestic, open up the YouTube or Facebook Watch app, search at Highland Radio, like and subscribe us there, or you can watch on those apps via your smart devices, like your phones and your tablets and all that manner of thing. All right, let's look at the papers. It's a Thursday, so plenty add a new significant delay of up to six months could see the four lane road project running almost a year behind schedule. And this comes as no surprise to me in my conversation with Councillor Donald Mandi. Kelly, I suggested that it would be much later in the year with information I was receiving. It's the same information clearly the paper house here. Donagol County councillors confirmed the project is delayed once again and the entire project is not expected to be completed until autumn around one year after the initial completion date. The project between the Polestar roundabout and Dryarch roundabout was expected to be completed by the end of March and the problems as they have right from it seems to get ghosts around the crossing of the river there. You'll know that shuttering that's there temporarily at the moment and big delays in original plans and plans being changed and back and forth. Not everything that we know because much of those conversations go on behind closed doors. We just suffer the inconvenience on to the Donagol Democrat now. GEA officials and Carl Lacey are understood to be in talks regarding the future of the Donagol Academy. A fallout led to head of Academy Development Lacey and around 40 coaches quitting their positions earlier this month. It's understood County Chairman Fergus McGee has met with Lacey and further discussions are planned. McGee said he did not wish to speak publicly on the dispute, although is hopeful of commenting on the matter next week. Lacey resigned from his position almost three weeks ago and was followed by the entire coaching staff a week later. The 2012 footballer of the year cited a lack of support in his message to his fellow coaches to announce his resignation. Not going on in that story I'd imagine. The Treconal Tribune speculates if Joe McGee is coming back to Finnegale or is heading back to Finnegale. Well informed speculation that Deputy Joe McGee is considering rejoining the Finnegale parliamentary parties energised the grassroots in Donagol. However, McGee's decision will be informed by the terms of the latest Micah redress scheme. But in the Donagol constituency that tiny flicker speculation is seen in Finnegale circles as the clearest indication yet that McGee may be tempted to run for election once more, especially given the fact that no obvious runners have raised their heads. Would he? I don't know. I mean, what would be in it for him? I think he made a sound decision in the one that he did. But anyway, and also really I can't see the new terms of the Micah redress scheme satisfying those affected by the crisis. And then at that point would Joe McGee return to Finnegale if the defective concrete block movement was not happy with the scheme. I don't see it. But anyway, listen, that's the good thing about politics. We can all sort of have a bit of speculation. The national media is giving a different spin to McGee's decision to retire, saying this will give Charlie McConnelogue a real chance of holding on to his seat. And since Fina Fall and Finnegale are now really close friends for the first time ever, and I'm reading here, their transfers can be expected to travel in much bigger numbers, contrary to the previous 31 general elections since 1922. All right, much more speculation on that informed speculation, it has to be said, in that paper today. The Dairy News tells us that a protest has been held at the site of one of Dairy's most notorious potholes as it emerged. There are almost 67,000 official potholes across the North. Can you imagine? They're actually counting them. According to recent government data analyzed by compareini.com, 7,076 of those are in the Dairy City and Stubborn District Council area. Although this figure is actually a slight decrease from 2021, potholes are causing widespread damage for drivers. Quite a bit of information. I wonder, do we have in the Republic, in Donegal, do they know how many potholes there are? And a protest at a pothole, that would be something interesting to see. The Irish Independent this morning. A leading bank is in contact with Garde as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud scandal involving a retired GEA star. Sources that the Irish bank confirmed they have been engaging with members of the Guard of National Economic Crime Bureau since details of all the allegations against the man emerged. It's understood Garde are now carrying out inquiries regarding the former player's financial history and previous dealings with banks. Garde yesterday arrested the man under section six of the Criminal Justice Offences Act and it can be held for questioning for up to 24 hours. And perhaps people now have started to put two and two together. Garde in the Eastern region have arrested a male in relation to an ongoing investigation into alleged fraud, a spokesperson said. And Garde Shea Conner does not comment on unnamed persons. Another poll out front of the Irish Times this morning and shows that, well, it's a poll of the popularity of political parties. Sinn Fein are at 35%. They're unchanged in four months. Finnegale at 22%. They're unchanged over the last four months. Finafall, they're down 3%. So a significant drop for them since Meeho Martin took over as T-Shock. The Green Party, they are, as you were, at 4%. Labour Party have taken an extra point. They're also at 4%. In terms of leadership approval, satisfaction ratings in various individuals. Mary Lou McDonald's satisfaction rating is 42%. Dan, 3%. Lee of Radcast's approval rating is at 43%. Dan, 1%. Meeho Martin unchanged at 45%. Eamon Ryan at 22%. He's up 2%. So reading on here, support for Finafall has slipped since Meeho Martin left the T-Shock's office. I got that the other way round since he left not took over. Finafall has slipped since Meeho Martin left the T-Shock's office in December with the latest Irish Times Ipsos poll showing a three-point drop for the party since last year. Support for Finagale and the Green Party holds firm. And satisfaction for the coalition and its leaders remains largely steady. Sinn Fein remains by some distance the most popular party with 35% of voters who express a preference saying they would vote for that party in a general election. That result would put Sinn Fein in the driving seat to form the next government with by far the largest number of seats in the Dall. But it remains unclear who might join the party in a coalition or if Sinn Fein would end up in government at all. The drop in support for Finafall, which declines by 3.18%, is the only noticeable movement in party support since the last Irish Times Ipsos poll. The Irish Daily Mail highlights I'm sure what many people out there are actually enduring and know all about. More than 66,000 pensioners are living in consistent poverty. I don't like referring to those pensioners, but people of an age that they receive for pension older people, they are living in consistent poverty in Ireland. 66,000. The total was almost trebled since 2019 when 22,700 people over the age of 65 were in the same dire situation. Numbers from the CSO show. Inflation coupled with the cost of living crisis means tens of thousands of elderly people are struggling with the price of home heating, transport and basic necessities and it's not hard to work out why, because many pensioners, many older people are on a fixed income. There's a little variation in it if there's a slight increase at the time when the budget is announced. But the reality is it's certainly not enough to absorb the cost of living crisis. It's not enough to absorb the cost of living crisis. It's not enough to absorb the cost of living crisis. It increases and they're already living week to week and obviously every increase that makes things even worse. It's head of advocacy. This is sorry. Inflation coupled with the cost of living crisis means tens of thousands of elderly people are struggling with the price of home heating on as I mentioned there. This is according to age action. The head of advocacy, Celine Clark said that the results of the survey on income and living conditions highlighted the need for an increased income. I want to read any one vote against that. I think that's what people would want. It should happen. Now it's obviously the big story of today we'll be discussing as part of the main show of course. But it's only papers late to print that and got delivered up to the Northwest that carry this story. And this is that of a senior Pearson I officer. He was gone down yesterday just minutes after he'd been coaching youth football team. It's thought that around 67 young people were at the sports facility in Oma County Tarot when the gunman open fire and the officer at around shortly, sorry, at around just before 8pm. This is slight spelling misprint here. According to on confirm reports, around seven to 10 shots were fired at the policeman with three or four hitting him and it was a callous attack. It's really sad and it's shocking and it's shocking because this doesn't happen as much anymore. It's been a number of years, I think what six or seven since we had a police officer in Northern Ireland shot. This happened at a hugely popular sports venue in Ulma and I'm thinking of young people, you know, who are seeing firsthand maybe what they heard from their parents or grandparents, a new generation seeing what can happen in Northern Ireland. The police officer has been named. He's obviously very seriously injured but he's stable. He was shot a number of times. He ran off. They followed him, shot him again, two people shooting into him, but he has survived and the hunt is on now for those who are responsible and there has been widespread condemnation of that attack. On to the son. Now this is a story that has been covered greatly in the media. It's a small enough old party, the Social Democrats, but apparently it's quite significant that Catherine Murphy and Roshin Shortall have quit as co-leaders of the party. Nominations for the next boss will close within two weeks with first time TD Holly Karen's already favourite for the job. I think the four TDs so the pack of contenders is quite thin. Murphy and Shortall started the party with Stephen Donnelly. Where's he now? He's the health minister, but they started it with him in 2015. The Social Dems now have six TDs and 19 councillors. So I suppose it's not insignificant. I did them in the service. Four TDs and the two leaders I suppose make six. Both TDs yesterday said they are committed to contesting the next election, but they had stepped down to hand the reins to the next generation. Are you a Social Democrats supporter? Does that affect you or weight 60, 25,000? Front of the Irish farmers journal, I'll tell you if you're getting it, there's plenty to read. It's as thick as a phone directory. Over 50 new eligible items, a higher grant aid of 60% or up to it, an increased investment ceilings were unveiled in the new Tams 3 scheme launched this week. There are new items for most sectors ranging from cattle fencing roadways and carving cameras to bale spitters, tillage and slurry equipment. There's also a new package of grants for farmers with horses. Applications also opened this week for grant aid for solar panels to power both farmhouses and sheds. However, farmers are still waiting for crucial terms and conditions for other investment and clarification on the controversial exclusion of dribble bars. And last but not least, do you remember from time to time stories would come up of people who assist school children crossing the road and receiving abuse and all? I kind of thought that was a thing of the past and I kind of thought it was a British thing if I'm being honest. And I'm not saying it didn't happen in Ireland. It's not an anti-British statement. It's just not something really I thought happened an awful lot here. I thought where I was reading about it was from Britain. Does that make sense? Well apparently primary school has difficulty finding someone to become the new lollipop person after the last one retired following abuse from angry motorists. For the past three months over 245 children have had no crossing guard at Castle Marta National School in County Cork. From 7am onwards, heavy traffic floods the village as commuters try to get to Cork City Castle Marta Parents Association. Their spokesperson Dave Scully said before the last worker left, she said she found the position to be dangerous and that she was getting abused since then. Cork County Council has been trying to recruit someone to take up the role but there has been no success. Wow. So are you, have you been a lollipop person before? Maybe you're one of the people that gets angry at them. Get it off your chest now. 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Because I presume we all draw from the same international markets. We do indeed and you mentioned there are some UK supermarkets. What it is, I suppose a problem in Ireland as well. There's been some shortages in the last week of tomatoes and cucumbers in particular and I suppose the IFA kind of hit the nail in the head last night or yesterday when they were out with a comment saying that look it's it was a symptom of a broken food supply chain is how they're describing it with an imbalance of power between say the the horticultural grower, the farmer, the middleman, the agorada, wholesaler and then the retailer. And they're saying it's a symptom of that you know that's led to these shortages but I suppose that the crux of it is and as you said there it's been about bad weather there in Spain, Italy and Morocco and they be countries that we traditionally would import the likes of tomatoes and cucumbers from and we kind of ramp up our own supply there and I suppose it'll come on stream about the middle of next month and into April and May before we see any big volumes but at that stage we still only I suppose supply about 55% of our cucumbers and tomatoes so we're very heavily dependent on on kind of importing those products because we just it's I suppose you don't have to claim it to grow them here but in the first week of January there was about a heavy frost in Spain in particular and in some parts of southern Spain there was snow on the ground even so unusual for that part of the world and that part for that part of the year and what it did was it really hit the tomato and cucumber crops and the ripple effect of that is now when they should be ripe six to seven weeks later they're just the supply isn't there and it's driven up the price of those products so we're talking to one tomato grower from Dublin Matt Foley's name and he was explaining that the the current prices are just they've really rocketed in terms of wholesalers bringing that produce into Ireland for sale to retailers and they're just not doing it so you're typical kind of 250 gram punnit of cherry tomatoes for example they come in nine pack boxes and they would traditionally cost to be six to eight euro for the whole centre to bring into Ireland and they've gone up to about 28 euro this week so they're just not buying them and they're not supplying to Irish supermarkets at the moment but it is a symptom as I said the IFA are saying it's a broken supply chain and it's not looking good for Irish producers here either with over the coming weeks and months. Why is that? Well again I suppose it's reflective of the inflationary economy at the moment they've really been hit hard with the likes of gas prices for example and rising electricity costs and rising costs to labour and so on and they're talking to another producer there Shane Halpin they produce cucumbers in Rush in Dublin and they would traditionally plant or sold out their cucumbers in January of each year but because they just can't afford the gas to warm their greenhouses at that time of year they've pushed it back to March last year and they're not selling again until next month this year so that's kind of a produce coming on stream it's coming on stream later which doesn't have the gap or the shortage coming from the market to be import from and they're saying look it's all looking towards kind of you know an era of cheap food coming to an end they simply can't afford to stay producing at the levels they are and so they're having to produce later in the year and to some extent produce lower volumes. This will settle down though in terms of the international markets will it not because presumably get different stuff from different places at different times and the the turnaround from some of this produce and in how it's grown is relatively quick so we're not looking at 2023 without tomatoes in the next couple of weeks things should start resolving themselves somewhat. You could say that yeah look I think you know would say we will have for summer barbecues and salads we'll have a few tomatoes and cucumbers about they won't be gone altogether but I suppose look no it's it's looking like you know that that frost has had its impact now that frost and that's no in Spain and but for crops maybe sold a bit later or planted a bit later you know that they kind of got away and escapes that that impact again but it reflects all I suppose what the farmers here are saying is the retailers are currently paying like I said they're that six to eight that six euro to a 28 euro per box jump in terms of the price of tomatoes they're paying more now than what they would pay if they paid an irish producer a little bit more that producer you know could spend that on that the gas needed to heat the greenhouses and be producing it at a lower cost so it's not a it's you know it's a loose loose situation at the moment the retailers are paying more and true that I suppose the consumer eventually is going to be asked to pay more but if the retailer could provide maybe a stronger base price for the irish producer they could they could afford that gas to grow that the produce here and that's kind of frustrations they're sharing the consumer can do it's bit too because there are local suppliers as well which they can tap into now and do note some stores are putting buying limits on some projects I'm not sure if that's happened here yet definitely happening in Britain perhaps Northern Ireland now there I mean I don't think this is a bog roll bandit situation I think really what they're afraid of is restaurants and what have you who are struggling with their own supplies going in and buying up the produce for supermarket customers really I think there's there's still stuff to go around if people don't try and hoard it although who'd be holding tomatoes you'd wonder Greg yeah but I suppose you might have seen there yourself the tweets and the kind of the social media commentary particularly in Britain from people going into their supermarket and being one frustrated that the fresh produce they're looking for isn't there and two just you know frustrated that there been when it is there they're only but I would probably say I don't know if it's two cucumbers a tree cucumbers or whatever it is but you know there's there's a control on the volume they can buy and again look it's reflective though of we our global food markets you know we don't produce in Ireland all the food we eat here we import and we export and it's that trade that goes back and forth but it just it's reflective of the importance of the the primary producer in the supply chain the farmer the grower and it's not just an Irish thing at the moment for growers hit by inflationary pressures brought on by the war in Ukraine last year they're really struggling and another example of it would be the egg packer the egg producers egg farmers in Ireland we've another piece in the farmers journal this week looking at their frustrations over price and some of them are going out of out of business to be particularly up around your part of the country likes the cabin monaghan where it'd be strong poetry area of the country and they're looking at it where you know that they're getting at that margin squeeze where their input costs be it the cost of feed the cost of electricity and labor are really have skyrocketed and then they're just not getting that give back from the retailer and down through the egg packer and they're getting that that margin squeeze and that income squeeze that's just driving them out of business yeah okay it's all very interesting and I think it's really quite interesting too that we see that you know we talk about supply chains and you know what is the phrase theology about the next day thing and we have that conversation when there's really bad snow here in the lorries couldn't get around but also how quickly you know a spell of poor weather in some of these countries that produce what we consume how quickly it can have quite a serious knock on effect and I suppose maybe with those with an eye and on climate change might say you know well this could be this could be something we might have to get used to I don't haven't heard that conversation more widely this is a random spell of weather in Spain but it just goes to show you know how things can change so very quickly in what we take for granted very much so and it's again look reflective I think that the farming community and producers they often get kind of maybe tired but you know that they're not aware of climate change they don't see it happening and that they're the main contributor to it but farmers and horticulture growers every day are seeing the impacts of climate change year on year and you know that whether it's the the dry period last towards the end of last summer in August and September or whether it's you know Spanish farmers looking at frost in the first week of January when they traditionally would have that much warmer climate you know it's it is happening and it will change going forward how we produce food both in Ireland and wider a field and you know there'll be opportunities and I suppose challenges within that all right Barry keep up the great work you and the rest of the crew at the Farmers Journal thanks for your time thanks all right bye bye take care right some of you commenting on Facebook as it relates to the lollipop persons getting abused James says sands to me that the crossing guard needs to take their stop sign and whack the irate driver and tell them to stfu now we would never condone such behavior uh Dara also messaging hi Greg I saw you in Kilmer Crennan shop yesterday yes you did indeed and I had I was a very good boy I actually had a tuna roll because of the day that was in it say hello to Bridget oh shocknessy in Kilmer Crennan from her grandson Dara who's also listening all right great have you's on board keep all your calls and comments coming into 08 660 25 000 that's the whatsapp and text number um with regards to DJ Kerry in the AIB bank debt write down says a listener I had a business that had to close down sold off all my stock and assets to make sure everyone I owed money to got paid fully then went to the bank and asked how much they owed them for the business loan and paid every last cent of it early and got no relief from them do you I wonder how you feel now though do you feel that you did the right thing and you have to live your life and you've no regrets or do you think wow you know I was I was foolish there should have put myself first I wonder how you feel what's going on with the exchange rate when shopping in the republic versus the north of Ireland say as a listener what an item costs in a chain store in northern Ireland is half of what is in the republic how is it justified I can change my year up to sterling and still get it cheaper in the north well um we've been through this before Charlie I think it is that messaged in there's different VAT rates on different things different import charges you know yourself so it's not like for like the difference in value of a product in the north and south and in some cases it's vice versa is not simply the difference between Euro and sterling there are other charges in terms of bringing stuff in through Dublin versus Belfast or the import charges or VAT or VAT and certain items we have items in the republic that we charge VAT on and in the north they don't so I imagine that's as much to do with it as anything else for those going off sugar for lenses a listener have just disappeared today sorry I've just learned today that there are 56 different names for sugar how sweet for reading the label all right okay thanks random but we love a bit of randomness uh right okay uh let us uh travel now um well let's move now our attentions uh to the north of Ireland an attempted murder investigation has been launched after an off-duty police officer was shot at a sports complex in Oma in Tyrone detective chief inspector John Caldwell was hit multiple times by two gunmen after coaching young people at football and police said he was putting uh balls in the back of his car around 8 p.m accompanied by his young son he remains in a critical but stable condition at Alton and Galvin hospital there's been broad widespread condemnation uh of uh this crime cancer Errol Thompson uh joins us now and um it's awful Errol isn't it that we're uh we're talking about an incident like this again and particularly I imagine for you as you would be um you would have known John for a long time as well yeah thank you for letting me on this morning um first of all I would like to totally condemn the savage act of terrorism against John Caldwell and the fact that it was done in front of so many children is really about uh violent republicanism beyond the pale at this time I have known John Caldwell from he was about 13 years of age I know him and his family very well and I would call myself a personal friend of John's um and I was saying a little earlier on it's awful isn't it uh an awful lot of young people that this very popular complex it's it's awful isn't it that they're having to witness and wake up this morning to events that are of the past or we hope they were of the past that their parents may have related to them or their their grandparents a new generation of young uh northern Irish people from all different communities uh at this complex being faced with you know what a lot of us are so familiar with uh Errol we really hoped it was just a thing of the past yeah we all hoped that as opposed uh growing up in growing up in the town of Oma I've experienced a fair bit of terrorism that has affected our town over the years I think particularly of obviously of 1998 with the Oma bomb and everything that happened before that uh from 19 I suppose 1970 on I'm old enough to remember all of that and then obviously uh in 2011 the murder not too far away from from the scene of this last night's incident uh the murder of Constable Rowling Care uh I was one of the first on the scene after that incident that was there last night after this one and it was there this morning again it's a very traumatic experience uh for all those young children and especially his young son who's with him at the time and he was attacked there's no doubt this was an attempted assassination given the description uh of what what went on that uh both of the uh assailants uh fired their weapons John ran off fell to the ground they continued to to fire their weapons at him I don't think we can be in any doubt can we that the the aim of this attack was to to murder him can we speak is there I mean maybe even don't want to give it the time of day to talk of a motivation but who would do this why would you talk at this person in this fashion well I just um my own view is that there's still people out there uh and the finger uh and over here this morning and we're all in a state of shock and disbelief and quite a bit of anger as well and that that finger is firmly being pointed at violent republicanism at this time I mean we're no strangers to that as I've mentioned the previous incidents we've had in this town and I welcome what uh or the beggary ampere you said this morning and I would courage anybody okay the phone line sorry the phone line broke down on yeah go ahead sorry pick it up there we had just I would I would I would appeal for anyone with any information to bring it to police service and on there and immediately so these terrorists can be brought before the courts and put away for a very long time are you in any way encourage that there has been widespread strong condemnation of this with calls from all quarters for anyone with any any information to bring it to the police no matter how small it might be uh is that at least something that might feel a little bit different uh than than times of the past yeah well I mean I've been encouraged by that but the same happened at the aftermath of the the morning of rolling care in 2011 and then the aftermath of the Omobom in 1998 so I welcome all the condemnation but we need to see actions coming from that now as to get these terrorists put away and very finally is there any update on John Caldwell's condition at this time well I suppose uh all we can do is the as the official line at the minute is that he's critical but stable and I I hope I hope and I'm praying very hard that John will make a full recovery from this terrible situation these and and we pray for his family family circle at this time as well all right uh Councillor Errol Thompson thank you for your time this morning watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com new football boots for the season ahead at Brian McCormick sports classic triple black boots in soft ground adidas predator accuracy with improved texture 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program then we'll select one you guys will select one and they'll go forward to a national competition i'll give you more details on that later but the four finalists are going to be announced on the program tomorrow now i was just waiting there to until such time as liam kelly the chair of the police federation for northern arland was ready to speak to us and and he is now liam good morning to you i'm sorry to be speaking to you in in this context following this awful attack in olma last night yes good morning i mean an absolutely cool blotted talus attack on an off-duty officer and bought in community activities absolute disgrace deplorable and say i want to make this appeal to the community here in northern arland please help the ps and i identify who the perpetrators were of this so we can put them behind bars where they belong um obviously mr. cordwell very seriously injured and by all accounts as to how events unfolded this was uh an attempt on his life there's just no doubt about that yeah i mean he's been shot a number of times by by two gunmen uh i won't make it even more deplorable uh it was in front of his own son uh and a public area where there were lots of young people lots of members of the public i mean completely reckless uh cool blotted talus attack has to be condemned in the strongest possible terms and i might say welcome the the cross community and our political leaders uh you know collectively calling out uh this behavior i mean and i'm being outraged about what it is because it is an outrage i mean in northern arland here we're 25 years on from the signing of the good friday agreement uh terrorists and those criminals should no longer be in our society however they are and again it's just a stark reminder for our officers that police in the northern arland is a very dangerous occupation and that has exceptional risks for our officers both on and off jury yeah and and that condemnation coming from all quarters as you mentioned because this is a facility that's not for any as far as i'm aware not for any particular sections of the community there would be children uh from all different backgrounds here all for the first time very sadly uh witnessing uh you know getting a pay perhaps a look into the northern arlands past if that makes sense yeah i mean you can underestimate the the impact that this is going to have both i mean obviously has had a major impact on john and his family but also the community impact down there i mean that the our our assistant chief constable has explained that and some of the footage um that that he has seen uh as as people running away screaming and terror i mean it's absolutely deplorable absolutely terrible uh that these sorts of things are still happening you know 25 years on from the signing of the good friday agreement but credit has been given to two members of the public who ran towards john as he was injured to try and assist him and also the fast reaction of the emergency services that stabilized him and were able to get him to hospital very quickly to give him the best chance of survival yeah absolutely i mean that that an excellent intervention from firstly that the members of public and the ambulance crew at the scene have have greatly assisted and given john a chance uh in saving his life and i mean and the hospital staff when he arrived at the hospital he has stabilized him although he's still critical uh are are are absolute you know they either see the utmost gratitude certainly from myself and my colleagues about what they have done because if they hadn't acted in that manner i think we could be easily talking about a fatality today yeah indeed um okay uh liam kelly thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it greatly thank you all right liam kelly there who's the chair of the police federation for northern island who has condemned that gun attack in oma i call us says it's terrible that he was shot i'll come back to that one actually um i'll take a 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that way for the day anyway a cold start frost clearing quickly it'll be mostly dry day with some sunny spells especially this morning cloud those expected to thicken during the afternoon will bring the odd shower highest afternoon temperatures just six to nine degrees anna joins us on the program now hi anna good morning greg how are you this morning i'm feeling a little bit vulnerable and i'm not going to like this line seems to be very faint is it my phone or yours how about now can can you hear me better now oh i can hear you all right i can hear you all right now you're maybe it's just as well if i'm not heard well we wouldn't have invited you on if we didn't want to hear you anna i feel a bit vulnerable because i think sometimes my grandma ain't great uh oh my goodness um come here you are what is it about grammar that has uh got you thinking i'm just wondering greg i'm just wondering do the teach grammar in schools nowadays you know when i was at school it was a very important thing but i suppose there's not the same need for it now with regard to writing letters or such like you know with everything now being done online but if people were going say to a position for like if they're going to be authors or reporters or having to uh correspond and writing in some way and that would know how to write a letter it's a good question but i wonder would be anna i think too though and it's not just a new generation coming through i wonder if people like myself for others who once perhaps would have been able to pen a letter well have lost the skill because we just don't do it any longer no i know that well that was that would have been one of the things that we would have been taught at school but i'm talking about a hundred years ago you know yeah and um i said write a letter donal cabinet on time i'm sure you can't be bothered answering but he was talking about letter writing so i wrote one of the old-fashioned style but however that's not the other thing the other thing is are the top grammar for instance the like of the euro or currency or irish currency the plural of our currency the euro is still euro it's not euros there's no s on the end of euro for the irish euro okay that's the one thing and the other thing is when you're talking to two or more people suppose you're going down the street and you meet two people you say are you going to the show tonight use use our sheep that's it's still the singular for talking to two people two or more people just think little simple things like that greg is what i was thinking about yeah and words like those and them uh sometimes you know some some apply to people and some apply to things don't they yeah so i just wondered if you know if there's such a thing as taught in scouts and the other thing is although it's not grammatical um with regard to st patrick's day you know very often hear people referring to his patty's day it's not patty's day patty was known as an irish man so and he wasn't certainly wasn't irish so at st patrick's day so that's just my other little club yeah but i noticed too in conversations with young people anna that you know they will say do you want me uh shall i put this in the trash you know or they might say i actually heard a young person say and i was just walking down the sidewalk right so they're obviously picking up now again this isn't grammar right but i'm just wondering is this part of it that really maybe they're getting their education from youtube and the tv rather than the teacher what do you think of that anna uh well i'm not sure the lane is a little bit faint greg or maybe it's just my hearing no it probably is the line but what i'm saying is is we're starting to see a lot of american isms coming into you know uh general language does that bother you oh perhaps that's part of it anything else that annoys you on a day to day basis that we say casual i i suspect maybe sometimes i can be a bit casual with how i speak uh lots of us do but is it something that you spot almost in every conversation now well i suppose as long as we are understood i suppose that's the most important thing if we speak in a way that we can be understood i suppose it's not it's not really that important it's just you know i'm one of the old-fashioned type as i say i was at school a hundred years ago i left school at the age of 14 years of age but i do recall the nuns you know been very uh you know they thought that a grammar was a very important thing and speech speech of all kinds so god bless the nuns i'm not sure if you text much yeah i don't know if you if you send texts much on on your phone anna but i just noticed as well with getting texts from young people you know nephews nieces my own children that they communicate for the most part in a completely different language uh they'll instead of saying what about you they'll put in wbu uh if they want to say never mind they'll put in nm i used to resist it uh but unfortunately i've found it so widespread now i can't resist it any longer anna so maybe the language is changing into shortening words and skipping syllables and all manner of things well i suppose that yeah i suppose that is right great i do text but i don't use that short form that you're mentioning i do text and i do yeah do a little bit of work on the computer but uh not a lot i wouldn't i wouldn't be a wizard but i can get through okay good stop anna listen it's uh been lovely speaking to you thank you very much indeed you get a couple of examples there right okay no and i'll get donal to write back to you how long is it since you wrote to donal kavana oh god it must be oh could be six months ago for that matter like you know i'll write a letter to you someday i shall write one back to you i shall frame it okay i'll try and get everything correct all right take her bye bye anna that is anna there do you agree with her i i don't disagree with her of course i just wonder if we've gone so far with that we can't go back now and and actually some of the uh i think there's an awful lot of journalists that some it depends on the on the on the on which area of journalism that you work in but in radio there's not as much written down as there might be in newspapers so uh i'd know a few radio journalists not working here of course who perhaps you know we all could go back to to school a little but that's not a criticism it's just i think it's about how often you use it's like how many people out there now listening to me uh were fluent irish speakers uh in their uh youth and now struggle to to string sentences together if you don't if you don't use it do you lose it and i wonder even if you are taught after you come out of school i'm still waiting to use algebra but after you come out of school uh if you don't use it then eventually it goes from you uh call us as it's terrible uh that that police officer was shot but it's not all terrorism related that's the first thing that's brought into it it could be simply a dispute with someone he knows going over the top well i think there's enough information um from from the police to to rule that out now i'm not saying you are wrong by the way but i think they have a fair idea of the motivation for that just to warn listeners i've got a call yesterday from an english mobile phone trying to sell me shares on the stock market and they wouldn't take no for an answer then he said what type of phone are you on so really it was just a way of getting me talking and then he'd hack my phone yeah possibly but listen the people of different actions some use whistles and all that type of stuff right i'm sorry to uh skip from one issue to another and some very very serious and some not so but because of this emerging news uh from last night we are getting people onto the program just as they become available uh tom elliott's and mla australianist mla for formanna and south toron tom and i think the tone of our conversation is going to be the same with other guests we've had this morning uh a shocking shocking event we witnessed in all my last night absolutely greg and and it's despicable and you know i feel very very sorry for the the police officer that has been shot and indeed his family and his young son who was with him at the time it's just terrible that that can happen but to do this in a sports complex you know in front of young people where he as a volunteer was coaching young people these people just want to impose their own will on the rest of society and the rest of society don't want that so that's where there is a significant difference of opinion here and the sooner these type of people are taken out of the society the better and you know they probably saw the children as collateral damage in that perhaps one's guard might be down thinking that someone's not going to do something like this in a highly populated area with children so it makes it even more sinister perhaps absolutely and and as i say these people didn't really care about the young children they didn't care about bystanders they didn't care about others that were there and and what is a very very basic sports complex and on people are enjoying themselves and you know sport is a great leveler in life and and it's often a good get-out and on iCloud sport myself during the time of the troubles here in Northern Ireland and was a great way of building community relations it was a good way of getting to know people that you wouldn't otherwise have known and you know today in society it's even better and to do this at that location to do it anywhere is terrible and absolutely atrocious but to do it there the sports complex in front of those young people is terrible and it just shows you the main set of these people and that they just don't care about society in general and very finally the consensus is is that this type of action has no place in society and that's a consensus well it is but until until people that know some of the truth about this until some of the people that know these individuals start giving them up and start pushing them out of their society and get them imprisoned where they should be then this isn't going to work either so there are people around them that know what's happening and and it's time that they made a stance as well and and put them out of their society and ensure that they don't cause these types of actions again. 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looks like a duck walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it's probably a duck regards an aisle i mean there is an international obligation in two quarters here obviously the european response to the ukrainian situation the EU has agreed certain criteria for housing ukraines displaced by the war people arriving from different countries uh are free our clusters different types of refugees and that's why there's a different response hi gregg it's really annoying to hear our children described as kids nowadays a kid is a young goat not a child keep up the good work well you'll find that very rarely i use the word uh kid um because it is a little it's not something i don't i don't mind it but i just uh i prefer children to be honest with you instead of the word kids anything else annoys you about people's language nowadays i perhaps shouldn't ask that because as i say sometimes i'm a bit fast and loose with how i say and describe things but is there anything that annoys you about uh the way people speak at the moment or wait 60 25 000 it's not a serious conversation of course it's only a bit of chat but let us know there must be something that someone says that annoys you all of the time and if it's me let me know i'll try and change how can we have proper grammar when they're sticking a teacher in jail for defending proper grammar well he's not in jail uh and he wasn't in jail as it relates to proper grammar either but i take your point gregg i hope and pray that police officer j cordwell makes a full and speedy recovery that comes in from mary uh and a couple of things i want to mention um coffee morning is being held in the bali liffen lodge and spa tomorrow in aid of the oncology unit letter kenny university hospital it's from 11 a.m to 2 p.m a great raffle prizes as well i'm told so if you want a cup of coffee in the beautiful bali liffen lodge and spa i think i was supposed to go and stay there would never got around to it but hopefully i will in the future 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we're offering up to 70 percent off across all tiles wood flooring and bathware and each week 25 lucky customers will win their order for free that's right for free right price tiles and wood flooring up to 70 percent off birthday sale now on the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account you welcome back to the show uh very pleased to welcome on to it now eileen lim june uh colo plaster nurse uh stormer care specialist good morning to you eileen thanks for joining us i can't hear you if you just don't mute for me eileen that would be fantastic please sorry not so ed we're very we're all very new to the zoom crack on eileen um there's a free um pop-up ostomy support clinic taking place in the radison blue hotel letter candy this coming tuesday the 28th of february it's from 10 a.m to 3 p.m and we're going to invite people to attend and tell them everything that's going on but first talk to me about uh a stoma because it's quite likely that most of the people listening uh would know someone that does live with a stoma is that i'm not over exaggerating there i don't think am i no you're not probably not um i'm sure most people have had some experience with somebody close to them or someone that they they have known that that has lived with a stoma or living with a stoma so we think we have maybe maybe 12 12 or 13 000 people in ireland at the moment living with a stoma um so we have you know over 2000 2200 maybe performed surgeries performed every year in in ireland so yeah there's quite a few people out there living living with them right so you might tell us uh what a stoma is um and why someone might end up having one so uh we have a stoma is an artificial the ones that we talk about they're artificially surgically made openings from the body for our bowel excretory waste and urinary excretory waste so so when a bladder is removed and that a bladder will mostly be removed for a bladder cancer is probably the biggest reason for that but there are other reasons as well you know there could be some radiation damage there there could be some trauma and those kind of things so that would be a urinary stoma and then a bowel stoma again bowel cancer being number one in in the reasons for these stomas being formed and and we also have diseases like inflammatory bowel diseases crones and colitis which are quite prevalent in our Celtic regions and so we have a lot of people with those diseases that would have have bowel stomas and we have two different kind of bowel stomas that we see normally one bowel stoma is coming from the the small intestine so we're that's where the whole large bowel is either out of action or gone and then we might have one from the lower bowel which is which is the large colon and is it correct to say that in some cases the stomas are temporary bypass to allow for an operation or a recovery but in some cases and as it's still referred to as a stoma that would be a an ongoing solution to a problem that's right that's right so sometimes we have you know we have pathways and we have plans for first we'll say rectal cancer or tumour and where the the surgery will be performed a temporary stoma will be given and that allows time for recovery and for maybe some more treatment to be had and then that can then be reversed but there are some situations then where a stoma where a bowel is maybe so diseased and just needs to be put out of action and a stoma is a permanent fixture then. Now obviously every individual case is different for a lot of people though and I presume this is the some of the conversation that will be happening in letter Kenny on the 28th people with a stoma live full active lives engaging in activities and sport and work and and everything else. Do some people do you think when they're told that this is their their treatment plan that initially they might think oh my god this is terrible my life's over not literally of course and then a realisation comes about as I say it's not going to be like that for everyone but I think for for most people. Absolutely you know any kind of pathway or treatment plan that's put into place for somebody is going to be a big change for somebody but certainly when there's a big bodily change like a stoma formation being involved in it it can be quite distressing and who knows what experience a person has had with a stoma in times gone by or maybe a few decades ago they had a relative that didn't have a good time with a stoma so that counselling and that support is hugely important and absolutely we you know techniques have gotten better products have gotten better we've gotten better at managing people and people live very good lives out there with stomas and that's our absolute aim to get back to what you can do before you back to life back to work school sport everything that you had done before. I'm not trivialising it in any way shape or form and I hope people people realise that but I've spoken to people that name the the stoma that can be an attachment that comes to it it is that a like what happens there because it's it's it's I'm not saying it's unique but it's a it's a it's just a reaction some people have to it don't they that they name the the bag and it's almost like the name the stoma and it almost like becomes a part of them a friend or something I don't know what the psychology is there Eileen maybe you can give us an insight it is absolutely as I say it's a new it's a new way of functioning for people and and it it needs to be minded and it needs to be considered and it needs to be you know taken into consideration and everything in in most things we do and you know and and yeah absolutely some people some people like to name their stomas and and I suppose it's it's it's allowing for them to to be part of their day and to to make sure that's included and that's and that's a lot of of the coping mechanism as well and and the thing is just to plan around having that stoma make sure you've got your supplies with you make sure you know where your favourite toilet in town is that you can go and and be comfortable and just it's all in the preparation when you're travelling make sure you know you've leave yourself plenty time that we all should before the airport things like that just not to be rushing and just to consider it and make sure that you've you've given a time to be to be looked after right so this pop-up asked me support clinic that's taking place in the Radisson blue hotel next Tuesday the 28th of February or this coming Tuesday dependent on how you view it it runs from 10 a.m to 3 p.m and people are invited to book a free stoma review so I was going to ask sort of what type of people do you want to come but then I don't want you to give examples and anyone feel excluded so maybe you could just throw out the the the net widely there Eileen and tell tell people what's on offer sure so I'm as I'm a I'm a stoma care nurse or stoma therapist and so it's anybody who is living out there living with a stoma your ostomy ileostomy colostomy that would like to be seen a lot of people maybe haven't been seen by stoma nurse from for many years and would just like to come and have a little review of you know we've got we've got new products I suppose and and new techniques and new ways of minding stomas so if they want to review and just an update on on on their products and update on their on their minding and certainly people if anybody is having if anybody is having any types of skin trouble or or or if if a stoma is stopping somebody from doing something in their lives that they want to do whether it should or not because maybe there's someone who hasn't travelled now not many of us haven't travelled for some time but they haven't travelled because of of a stoma and they don't know an air pressure and this that and the other so someone like that and I know that's maybe the more positive side of things but someone like that could come and get some advice and reassurance as to how that's done absolutely yeah yeah absolutely so anybody who needs any sort of support um with you know diet hernia prevention travel socialising all those things that we want to we want people to be doing their most with and to ensuring it's being worn correctly that's fitted fitted correctly as well so people have freedom of movement things like that as well I'm sure absolutely absolutely to get the right fit on you it's because you know if you can imagine wearing a bag like this this waist needs to go into the bag comfortably and well and we don't want any um we don't want any mishaps we don't want any leaking leaking is a big thing for people um so a person absolutely needs to be comfortable while they're wearing the product yeah and people might be suffering with their not not sufferings the right word but challenged by their self-esteem because of this they might feel a bit different in terms of their their diet they might feel outside of general society all of these types of emotions that people might have will be addressed and support and help offered at this event absolutely yeah yeah yeah um yeah there's also yeah any support that a person can think of and the reason about and and it's it's very individual listen to finally Eileen everyone's situation is different people cope with things in a different way and what's a challenge to one person might be a walk in the park for another so it's a it's a an open invite for everyone who no matter how they are feeling or coping or challenges they may or may not have that's right that's right everybody's individual and um and you know I've a lot of experience with people and it's from people that I get my experience so it's it's sharing those experiences and um and helping people to to um to get along with with their day to day okay yeah right booking is advised you can email GBKDN at coloplast.com or call 019190190 now people know our number is off the top of their head I hope at this point because God knows I mentioned them enough so if you give us a buzz we're more than happy to pass on this contact information booking is advised and that lets you know how many people will be there and you can dedicate time and resources appropriately so that makes sense Eileen anything you want to add just before we conclude um just yeah really looking forward to coming up and and meeting people as I say I get so much from meeting people and that's that's how we that's how we um share experience and and and are able to help people so please do book along we'd love to see you on Tuesday yeah and I get the impression that someone who is new to this or someone that has had a stomach for quite some time will benefit from this never any harm to have more conversation and a refresh and maybe you're doing things one way that could be done better to improve your life in another okay Eileen thanks so much for your time take care and we look forward to seeing you next Tuesday thanks so much Greg goodbye okay that's Eileen Lim June coloplast nurse stomach care specialist that event is on the uh Tuesday this coming Tuesday the 28th of February runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. into the radison blue hotel letter Kenny so it's if you have a stoma but presumably maybe it's something that is on the horizon for you uh and I think lots of people would benefit from that because either those listening or someone close to you if you're listening probably has a stoma all right we're all speaking and listening we're asking where our listeners were listening from it's brilliant I was expecting people to say kill car Duncan E. Lee uh you know what I mean uh from outside the franchise area you know the north Donegal area uh listener uh in Malaga listening to us good morning uh they're uh from Donegal we're in Canada listening online and missing home well we miss you as well we really do but great to know that you're listening to us in Canada we've got listeners in the West Indies great to have you on board listening to us in the West Indies I'd love to know what these are all doing out there maybe we could do a whole show we're talking to uh uh our um neighbors who now live far away good morning Greg listening in Falkirk Scotland as they do all day every day best radio station bar non-ps hope this grammar is correct um and Corinne in Falkirk and I'm not the one that I'm not the one uh to judge it to be honest with you because I'm terrible uh right okay so where are you listening to us from 08 660 25 000 from outside the republic 0035 08 660 25 000 that's to say it's that it's lovely to hear from you guys out 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and clear go ahead it's right no this obviously is our fifth road safety plan the first plan was published in 1997 we've made a lot of progress over the intervening years obviously a lot more to do one life obviously last in our roads was one too many but if you look back where we were 10 12 years ago we've moved a long way but we still are in the position of continuously losing lives on our roads and we need to address this and there's a number of issues of concern based on the figures that we've had over the last number of years pedestrian fatalities have increased drastically over the last number of years and and if we look at the figures that and donnelly go alone nationally figures for fatalities and pedestrians last year double but over the last eight years and donnelly go there's been 12 pedestrian fatalities major concern vulnerable road users are a major concern we have a lot more people using the roads walking cycling running traffic increased considerably but we need to focus on protecting our focus will be over the last next number of years is promoting the use of greenways promoting the use of safe sector and routes and so on and continually appeal to to drivers mothers everybody drives a vehicle to slow down yeah look after everybody uses the road and well we'll talk about what we can do but I want to know what the authorities can do we all know areas where street lights are out okay we're inundated by callers saying a street light side it's dangerous we need that fixed we know of dangerous junctions we know of roads that are full of potholes we know of cyclists that prefer to use the hard shoulder than the greenways that are available uh you know we can do orbit as well but are you satisfied that enough is being done to ensure that the infrastructure uh contributes to um a vision zero scenario uh because you know as I say it is an important factor I think in quite a lot of of the issues that we have on our roads it's not talked about very much though seemingly oh that very very sorry but we we we have to continue to focus on improving the road network we know that we continually appeal to the powers would be to to increase the funding to give allocate more funding than it all to improve the road network there's only got road safety working groups main aims and main focus and and probably a remit is to oversee the implementation of a road safety plan to focus on uh road safety awareness to promote safe driving on our communities to appeal to everybody to do that's the remit that we have outside of that we'll try and and to push our energies towards trying to improve the network but our hands are tied to a certain because we work on different uh different strands with them local authorities and so on and you focus on what your role is and what you're supposed to be doing but outside of that you can only make representation to be I get you and that's a frustration because that's the that is the you know as I say we can do our bit but I'm we raise issues and want to say we don't mean I mean listeners and it's like oh well it's not the council's problem it's the TII or lack of enforcement of reduced speed limits outside of schools uh you know pedestrian crossings being put in without no beacons on them uh on dangerous corners that aren't even lit uh you know like we want to do as much as we can but then I look at the people who are charged with making the road safe in the infrastructure some of the decisions are mind-boggling especially if we are heading towards this vision zero vision zero's a focus that obviously the national strategy has pinpointed over the next intervening years it's going to be a tall order to achieve that if you look at where we're going over the last couple of years fatalities have increased I know what you're saying I agree with what you're saying but we have to try and all focus because if there's particular uh groups out there they're concerned about road safety they have to they have to channel their energies in the right way I know what you're saying about bad corners potholes but unfortunately that is not within my remit no I get you no but I'm actually speaking brown-hotening that people are hearing our conversation I'm not expecting you to go out and sort this all out but I did get a document from you uh that your name was on that that said that these new crossings for instance in balibaba faenchenola were very safe and that the pedestrians loved them and yet we didn't get one single contact from a listener that says the same so we have to make sure I presume that our research work is maybe reflective of the public out there the document that I would have put my name to was in relation to the safety of the pedestrians and to ensure that when a pedestrian approaches a crossing that they have the right of way to appeal to motorists to actually slow down motorists should be in a position to slow down when they're approaching a crossing motorists should be in a position to slow down when they're entering the town the village drive safely they should not be going to excessive excessive speed and putting the lives of pedestrians in danger if there's a crossing there the the crossings the pilot scheme that supports there at the minute is there to protect pedestrians and do you have just before we move on are you happy with those crossings or would you prefer to see uh uh beacons at them for example I would prefer to see sign you say anything beacons yes okay all right that's it I'm glad to hear that not that it matters what I think but I'm it I thought I thought that's what I thought that's what you would say Brian now let's get back to pedestrians and cyclists and when I ask these questions off you Brian I'm not expecting you to do this stuff and I hope you understand that I know that and the listeners know that but when we talk about cyclists and pedestrians like do you think we could be doing more uh to get into schools to educate about uh to educate about how we share the road space do you think we're doing enough maybe to engage with cycling clubs to have the conversations about you know cycling abreast or using the road instead of some of the greenways because they'll say to you yeah but the tyres on my bike are such that the the actual roads better than some of the cycle paths do you know do you think we need to have more of a conversation in in that regard in terms of education maybe even a little bit of enforcement certainly do the education is the first strand of where we start to work there's a lot more strands there available enforcement getting into schools getting into groups getting into cycling clubs and appealing to them to actually address the concerns that we have because there's people out there that have no regard for the safety of themselves and the safety of other road users they don't have they don't have the regard they don't have that and and and we have to appeal to the people that are actually using their road that they look after themselves and go out the road because there are people out there that will not give one task about them yeah and every day I'm traveling and this is no exaggeration there's people out walking with no high vision or the cyclists without proper lights on and you just I think to myself do you know if you get home you're going to be lucky because it's down to pure blind luck because these people aren't visible I just wonder how do we get the message across that if you're out in the roads that you make sure you're well lit or that you have high vision Brian when people would there is the average person average probably not the right word to use but they go out there and they'll protect themselves as best they can but there is others that will not wear bright clothing because whether it's uncoon it doesn't fit we want the way the gear that they're wearing but the ultimate responsibility of everybody is to protect themselves and look after their own safety and if they start on the right foot and if they start the right way they're making a start then we have to concentrate and we keep concentrating on drivers and movers to look out for the pedestrians but we have to start first of all with them pedestrians and cyclists looking after themselves yeah and I think you put it in in a simple sentence it's it's quite an impactful one road safety is everyone's responsibility it's not one group it's not people driving agricultural vehicles or lorries or cars or cyclists or pedestrians it's everybody it's not one individual group no it is not and when we step onto a car in the morning I've said this a number time we decide who loves our eyes as a motorist because you're driving a vehicle that will actually kill somebody and unless you take responsibility and treat that vehicle with the respected care treat the roads with respect and treat everybody else on it with respect you're driving a machine that will actually kill so we are ultimately deciding who loves our days when we step onto a vehicle every morning okay uh yeah we all have a responsibility definitely for sure and we've a responsibility on shows like this and and and the media broad day to assist you guys in getting that message out there we're all of the one community and we all have to work together and look at where have someone's pulled me up and saying look at and I didn't sorry Brian I got a text in there that someone says I say look at a lot right and I was listening to you and glancing at it and I says I never say look at and in the next sentence I said it's so sorry about the distraction but my point is is that anything we can do to support what you're doing the work you're doing you know it's not just about highlighting problems or whatever but working you know in a productive and constructive manner I know me personally in the show more than happy to work alongside you Brian because as you said right at the very beginning this isn't the important thing and we can talk about individual situations we don't want anyone or as few as possible to have to endure a their loss of life but the terrible hole that I leave in so many people's lives in our community and we all have a role to play in in in getting to that point if we ever can Brian that's right that's very true I'm like what repeat would you say there thanks very much for all the the help that you've given us over the years like promoting this and this will have to continue like it will have to continue this conversation will be held in a few months time again maybe in relation to another aspect of road safety but what you're doing there and what you served the help you're giving us is very much appreciated yeah and we we we've suffered greatly haven't we with the loss of life on our roads but lately you know every there seems to be so much happening in Galway at the moment and and and just there seems to be you know there's been so much loss of life there of late different instances multiple vehicle death and I was looking on thinking we know all about that and God help all the families of those that have lost loved ones down in in Galway but it just seems to have they've gone through an awful spell at the moment Brian we all understand it we all understand it's a county county unfortunately all right it's a county problem it's a nationwide problem it's a european problem all right Brian thanks for your time take care of yourself great to chat to you as always all right bye bye that's Brian oh donal there who's the road safety officer we've done a go county council I'm not I hope I didn't give Brian a tough time and asking things that he's not responsible to but I can't sit here and then not put across what we see as a reality don't we as a collective us mean all of you out there the issues that are raised in terms of people not wearing high viz to stay to the roads the likes of those crossings in the twin towns but Brian there right across it all and took on board all what we were saying and after all the dust has settled as I say we all have to work together to try and ensure as few of us and it could be any of us lose our lives or seriously injured too on the roads there's a ratio there of people that for those that die there's a much greater amount that suffer life-changing injuries and mental health injury as well okay let's take a break and we'll get to some of your comments and our next guest after these the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union commission on real all font ish 60 seconds to plumper skin almost nine out of 10 women say they have dehydrated skin new generation hydro essential from clarence formulated for 24 hour hydration it helps skin naturally boost its hyaluronic power by day it hydrates and plumps at night replenishes moisture levels hydrated skin 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lot of what you said is more sure than i'm was through very true but you know there's a yawning gap there between the dryouts around about and just past the primary hotels and dryouts there and i'm just wondering what is a plan for that there is it going to be left open or they're going to cross walley nilly or what's the story actually i was fed to believe when this thing was muted about the barrier got up the center of the road that was from roundabout to roundabout from the bolster roundabout to the dryouts roundabout so i'm just wondering what's happening there i don't think it's very safe the way it does so at the moment i think it depends on where you're living and where you're trying to access uh but a lot of people might cross actually on the roundabout where you've very little protection from one side to the center island and then to the other i think if you want to have a traffic crossing that's going to be further up more outside the clan rave from what i can see uh john and what was in the plans is that good enough do you think if that if that comes to pass if there is an actual crossing a little further up the road i think it's suicide you know if there's a barrier there people won't cross that's the roads open even though they shouldn't cross fully into traffic they're going to do it i've seen them doing it they've done it in the past and they'll do it now yeah i've seen it myself i think that's that's that's that's crazy but john if you say john you're on foot right and you want to cross one side of the road to the other i don't know if you happen to have to do that what do you think the safest way to do it is or do you believe that road's so busy there's no safe way to do it i i did the only safe way for for pedestrian would have been a walk across a walkover bridge yeah yeah it was not safe in any shape or form that pedestrians could cross it at the moment but if there is a bad but yeah i was going to say john though because i think the plans do set out for an actual traffic lit pedestrian crossing further back from the roundabout if that is put in place you know and the lights would go red cars would have to stop that surely is safe enough though john isn't it if people use it uh as i do because that's the street where the road people are coming out there there's two lanes it's epic common one way there's two lanes going the other way you know all it takes is a couple of idiots well it's john my concern right from the get go was about that crossing because what actually happens this is you've got three lanes of traffic trying to get into two and as soon as people come off that roundabout they put the foot down so i hope if there is exactly if there is a pedestrian crossing i hope it's not too close to the roundabout because i i have the tape uh that was one of my concerns right from the get go of these plans john and you live in the area so listen i'm a blow in passerby you know the story yourself yeah that's that's i i think it's it's it's it's more dangerous now than it ever was right well we hope because as you say people are coming off around about there's certainly before five months coming down or give back coming out the other way that's a bottle like that around about whether the lake you believe that or not any morning all you have to do is look at it any morning any evening on the support like that and look at it there are but so stated to come out around about the foot goes down yeah and what you have is as i say you've got three lanes of traffic trying to get into two then you've got traffic trying to turn left just off the roundabout and traffic trying to turn right just off the roundabout as you go into letter candy it's it's uh it it's it's it's i don't i'm not a big fan of dry that tiny little stretch of my whole journey from donagall town to work coming off that roundabout is one of my least favorite parts of the journey if that makes sense from a safety perspective john oh it does uh i'm telling you it does that that's that's exactly what i'm on about you know you just put it in the perspective when you said people coming off around a bit got the thought down to do yeah well we all do it you know okay but anyway john at least you'll be able to cycle safely into letter candy if you want to you know that's the other thing i was going to say to you know and i admire people that cycle and cycle lanes and but you get guys that there's a piece there for cycling on you know it's it's a cycle track it's tired and they're still out on the road to rest even though all right john i don't think we're going to sort it out but i'll tell you like it's great it's great it's great to see the development but when the dust settles and when it's finally finished we're going to have what we had before but a concrete barrier part of the road and a cycle lane it's an expensive cycle lane and barrier but anyway i suppose it all had to be done and we can't stand in the way of progress john well if it's for if it does progress i would not stand the way that i just don't think it's progress away to us as long as they don't have to dig it up again to get water up to your house don't be surprised if it is all right john have a lovely day god bless you thank you okay bye bye john i'll wait six sixty uh twenty five thousand right so some of your comments coming in here about grammar i've noticed recently that when asked a question a lot of people start the answer with the word so it's really irritating i know what you're saying probably guilty of it myself greg you have a great saying when you're talking to someone on the phone come here a minute again this is like look at i didn't realize it okay i probably shouldn't have asked this question the english language is destroyed by the all too common use of the f word in practically every sentence and context and indeed the f word can find itself in between another word uh like well i'm gonna give an example you know what i'm talking about greg look at can you please ban look at from your show i first heard it in rte now here regularly in highland enough please sure look at i'll try and pack it in all right thanks uh there there is a thing when you sit in this chair because i don't do scripts right i don't know if other radio stations do i don't do scripts and i don't put on a voice and i just sit here and speak okay now what happens this is though there is times that you have to fill so a phone line drops or a caller that was due to come on isn't available and you do find yourself leaning on certain words um there's no doubt about that you try as best you can to to avoid it but as i say i don't do anything scripted i don't have any scripts or anything so i'm flying by the seat of my pants uh one phrase that annoys me is can you do me a favor yeah um what about when someone says to you can ask you a question and you they already just have come out with the question you don't have you've asked a question if you can ask a question can ask you a question yeah another one you've just asked one um listening to island radio in the shetland we're from killi bags lovely to have you on board thank you very much indeed the grammar things are nasty thing older people use these words as it is part of the culture you should not punish these people and make them speak in an unnatural way to them i'd rather hold on to old forms of speech and it should be cherished yeah speaking in question marks okay what's that in relation to oh do you mean like speaking in question marks is that what you mean is that what annoys you um i can't remember the name for that started in australia but it's widely widespread now re-speech and grammar it's february it's not drawing room okay it's drawing room in february and the one that really grinds my gears is the command by waiters etc enjoy oh come on it's it's nice isn't it hi greg my pet hates the people who start a sentence with so and people had the letter s to euro this thing about euro and euros i'd never noticed before i'm not sure if i'm guilty so again i think i might do that now and again but normally it's while i gather my thoughts unfortunately there's a lot of people okay well that's a separate thing and slightly more serious uh we'll come back after 11 and talk about the road safety thing uh good morning greg it's a cold but dry summer i'm listening from desert martin as i do 24 seven every day of the month every month of the year this there's no show like a highland show the best station on air also always brightens my day keep up the good work and continue to success to all at highland thanks greg for mary well mary the only way we have continued success is if people like you listen because uh without you and the others that listen we uh are nothing really hi greg i really hate it when people say it was so fun uh it should be it was so much fun or it's so funny everyone seems to be saying this best wishes to you greg and you mary yeah 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good morning donal thank you great good morning president michael di higgins says the shooting of detective inspector john caldwell in front of his son is something that will be condemned by all those who believe in democracy and the peace that we need to sustain the president says it's also to be welcomed that members of all communities have expressed their revulsion at the attack last night mr caldwell was shot by two masked men after an underage football training session at a sport centre on the kilitlahar road outside oma hickwell has today published two inspection reports on residential centres for older people in dunigol there were 11 non-compliances identified at brentwood manor nursing home in convoy and three at carndon a community hospital in both instances the providers have set out details of how the issues are being addressed in most instances those measures are already in place more details and links to the full reports are available on our website highlandvideo.com teacher gree of ratger has told the doll the department of transport will look into the recent series of flight cancellations at dunigol airport in carrick finne debbie tomas springo told the doll a number of cancellations were explained away as technical issues by the operator but he argued that needs to be explained more clearly mr ratger said the government will follow up on the query describing the service as a genuine public service obligation serious safety concerns have been raised about the safety of school children in burton port who are forced to walk along a busy main road due to the absence of a footpath there have been repeated calls for a path to be provided on the route in burton port between the local school and community centre it's used regularly by the pupils last evening councillor mehill column will ask book put up a social media post showing a photograph of children walking very closely to passing traffic and culture minister and national famine commemoration committee chair catherine martin has confirmed this year's national famine commemoration will take place in millford it'll be televised and it will take place on the 21st of may though the headlines were back with headlines again at 12 all right donald thank you very much indeed i'll never forget the first time we arrived at our beautiful lot our cozy base for the next week of fun we cycled through the forest for hours and washed down the rapids again and again and again everyone dad couldn't even hit the board at archery and when the ducks wouldn't stop following our boat we'd never giggled so much it really was something special and that's why we love to go back start your story today center parks island family forever book now at center parks dot i e okay you're very welcome back to the program greg could you ask your listeners where could you get fresh gluten-free scone bonds okay now our hugely resourceful listeners will help us i'm sure where can you get fresh gluten-free scone bonds let us know why did these modern roundabouts have traffic lights they solve so many issues why don't they i wonder is what you mean yet indeed you see them elsewhere unfortunately there's a lot of people not wearing high viz when walking in cycling that's part of the problem well they say that's the problem but i would add it is part of it and i hate to see it because i think my word i hope they get home okay we had a great pathway made from the mountaintop to kill mcrennan but no cyclists use it they continue to cycle on the road it cost three million to make it so what is the point i do see people on it regularly but i asked a member of a cycling club specifically why and it was because of the speed they're out on bikes that they want to travel fast on and it's not not for all of them by the way i can't speak for all cyclists but i did ask this specific question and for them it's safer on the road they say it's safer on the road uh because of people walking dogs or prams or whatever i'm not quite sure if the surfaces have never walked it but if you're on a bike you're probably going down that hill at 40 kilometers an hour and you're certainly not going to achieve that speed safely i don't think on the path but i'm open to correction on that i call us as people are always walking out in front of me in balaba fae every day on the zebra crossing but there's no lights there it's a danger to pedestrians and cars and it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt but the problem is motorist is you are supposed to stop and give way they are classed as beacon pelican crossings or whatever they're called zebra crossings so they're not stepping out in front of you you're stopping you're not slowing down to stop to make sure they can pass i'm afraid if i'm reading your text there uh correctly let's stay on the roads uh go to george now hi george hello gregg right okay are we back on the four lanes here george have you a suggestion well just uh i'm on a special policy committee with the council on roads and transportation and i heard the road safety officer we had a talk from him on monday at our meeting and it was great to see that the statistics are showing that fatalities and injuries are down on the roads and we welcome that but a lot of the time so it was uh spent talking about the four lanes too and the difficulties and the delays but i wonder myself will there be any improvement to traffic flow even when it's finished but i suppose it's probably uh focused on pedestrian travel maybe and uh active travel they call it but one thing that crosses my mind all the time is why is there not uh even a temporary access from bonnigie industrial estate to the old to the roundabout through the old filling station even if they made some agreement with the people as a temporary measure you could do it in a day get where that uh that industrial state down there bonnigie you have ten days and you have mcmanham and commercials and all the rest of them and they're uh very very busy and it's almost impossible to get out of there yes so just so i'm aware that getting in is even more dangerous yeah george so i'm aware uh and the listeners are aware would you access this currently on the road adjacent to the bar there yes that's right okay so you're saying close that and bring access out behind the filling station and onto the roundabout yeah yeah filling station okay i don't know if there's a dispute about land or whatever's wrong there but it seems to me that it's it's an obvious solution to an awful lot of travel you'll be far better exiting and coming on to a roundabout often on a roundabout than you would offer to a carriageway yeah and as well as as well as that too you will have access that will uh you'll have cars that will access uh that um business there by crossing the road that you're talking of coming out onto the two lanes so in other words you have a convergence of traffic that's not really controlled there as such is it i mean it's uh i'd say there's the odd tip there it's impossible to turn right of course but uh you have to go to the roundabout to get back into letter kelly yep to do it safe okay i don't think i explained what i'm talking about say i'm coming out of letter kenny right and i want to go into the garage uh i could be pulling in i'm not sure if i should or shouldn't but i could be calling calling into the near entrance but i have to cross the business park exit do you know what i mean and i think that's also that would be alleviated with your suggestion true that's that's another problem that could be solved that way but i don't know why that's not and i actually mentioned this to bernie mcginnis five years and late bernie mcginnis i'm sorry to say about four years ago and and he picked it up and said that's an excellent idea but uh we didn't progress it any further but perhaps there is uh uh you know that dispute about land or anything but if it was even temporary there was a grounds level and to me west ground behind the the old following station and behind the the dry arch complex so you know to get that traffic in and out from the roundabout to me would seem an obvious solution i haven't heard it before george but it sounds like an obvious solution okay listen thanks for that i appreciate it problem uh problem focused uh uh solution focused problem i appreciate it right george take care of yourself and keep up the good work you do uh as part of that committee uh we welcome on to the program now keely to verner a psychotherapist author and coach great to see you again keely can you hear me okay how are you keeping i can hear you loud and clear as i can you are you well yeah live in the dream i don't think you mean that i do what else is there to do i've got too far to turn back now i know i'm only joking uh and i think this is our first conversation of 2023 so happy new year two you can't believe we're so far into it already um and uh just to let listeners know as i mentioned keely's a psychotherapist author and uh coach and she does one-on-ones with individuals and couples uh and can do it remotely as well as keely's based outside the country and we'll remind you a little later on as to how you can uh contact her because keely you know i think and i kind of say this when i'm flagging my piece with you that sometimes if it maybe it is the worst thing to do or it's the last thing you want to do is divulge an issue you're having with a sibling with another sibling or with your partner to your parents do you know what i mean because you're afraid of planting seeds in their minds against the person that you want to resolve things with and that's why i think it's always good to speak to someone maybe removed from the the family or friend circle absolutely it can be really important to ensure that it speaks to someone outside because sometimes people will end up creating many more problems than we initially intended so there's a real value in being able to to take that away and and you know when you know people people have different interests different relationships and all of that can have a profound impact yeah because you could share information uh to your best friend about your partner right and then you sort things out with your partner but that your best friend will always have something in for that person you know not always but you know it can happen i'm sure absolutely and then your friends are annoyed on your behalf but you and him have made up now um and then they're carrying resentment towards the partner that they then can make things awkward so there's a there's a there's an interest there's a there's a fine line because we know isolation is is not helpful being able to talk about things and share your challenges with friends can be helpful it and then and then depending on the complexity for example if you're embroiled in an unhealthy toxic dynamic that in itself can result in us going back and forth and you know for many people that i support um i did a video once and it was like you know if your friends are tired of hearing you talk about your relationships problems it when your friends become exhausted and you know they are and then they don't and then you stop telling anyone you know when your friends are bored with your situation that is a really important kind of queue because that can also lead to the isolation which we also know is a really fundamental factor in terms of unhelp the toxic relationships dynamics yeah maybe just talking about your toxic relationship is some sort of a coping mechanism when obviously if you feel you have to vent so much there's there's a fundamental problem there absolutely and i was today i was reflecting on empathy and relationships and i know personally for myself it's really important to be mindful of relationships that draw heavily on your empathy if you're a highly empathic person you're agreeable if your relationship is dependent upon you being empathic making justifications explaining the way unhelpful behavior that's that's a red flag and that's any relationship that's not intimate relationships if you find that you're often making justifications for poor behavior and you explain things away oh they did this because and that becomes quite persistent you know notes itself yeah because often we're great and we're kind of programmed to look at other people's red flag behaviors but what about our laying away someone's behavior i have to be careful i have to be mindful yeah okay let's get to some questions our connection's not fantastic today but we'll we'll work through it here i was in a two-year relationship with my girlfriend we both moved to Australia and it was okay but made me realize that she's not my person when we came home we both moved back into our own parents until we found a place now she's talking about marriage but i want to break up how do i do it well i think the reality is this is a difficult conversation to have and well if the challenge is let's just think about what will happen if you don't have the conversation if you don't have the conversation with someone who wants to move to the next level you're either going to have to pretend lie and it's going to catch up with you problems that are avoided only get worse so it's either going to be you're going to have short term gain and long-term pay so i believe it's important to begin to share your concerns unless you feel voiceless in a relationship but if you've got an avoidant personality style if you tend to avoid things then this is the the problem that you'll have so it's about trying to make space or at times you know consider investing in you know suppose you had a dominant partner who makes all the choices and goes full steam ahead and you feel voiceless there can be some support in terms of either going to see a couple's relationship individual so that you can try to have your own voice because i'd be more curious about that individual and their capacity to be assertive i'd be curious about their capacity to advocate for themselves and this issue will show up in an intimate relationship but it might also be likely to show up in other aspects of their life so this is where being agreeable is particularly problematic and someone else will make decisions and if you end up going along clearly this individual doesn't doesn't want to to be getting married and if plans are being made deposits are being paid this is this is a particular and understandable and maybe they should get some support around in this person's case do you kind of have to make sure that you're understanding your own emotions let's just say they move to australia right and they realize it's a big wide world out there and there's loads of different people and maybe you know there's other options and you know it's open to rise and they're blinded by that uh and maybe they need to make sure why they're feeling the way they're feeling in case they give up on a very good relationship maybe they've grown as a person but aren't given the person they're with an opportunity to grow with them or to talk to them do you know what i mean do we sometimes have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater and that's the difficult conversation to have and that's often what we don't we don't want to hear but it's it's a risk isn't it it could be like i want to pause and i want to go and spread my wings and test the market or that that if that's the reality is relationships are optional and we often think we're sort of tied in but at the end of the day people can choose to leave relationships obviously if you're married that's much more complex but i i think that it sounds like you don't you know the quality of your relationship isn't something that you talk about and that might be something to to begin to bring up to share your concerns because if you if not then you know then you're gonna a different character will evolve out of you which is in genuine which is very difficult to keep a mask up because it will usually be something that treat you spilt milk something you know the washing up that these little things become a trigger for a massive argument that actually isn't about the milk or the fact you didn't put the toilet seat down it's all the stuff going on underneath that's been avoided yeah you know so i mean i don't know if it's even a fair question to ask but say in terms of couple therapy do you sort of get a sense from the outcomes that you people can resolve the problems within the relationships or versus they both then come to a realization that you know they've been keeping going for maybe the wrong reasons like are most relationships resolved or and it would be very useful to do with the likes of yourself kitty to comes that realization that right okay both parties concede that maybe there isn't a future is there a breakdown percentage wise there anecdotally what's anecdotally but it'll off the top of your head well if i think about couples relationship but even when i was training as a couples therapist one of the challenges is that we're not there to fix relationships and we have to be very mindful of that we have to listen to each person to be able to work out where there are areas of similarity but where the big clashes are where the conflict is and once you get into the areas of conflict you can work out quite quickly whether it's something that's negotiable or non-negotiable whether people are prepared to bend so say in this instance this gentleman isn't prepared to bend then actually that needs to be evoked and that difficult conversation and that's the conversations i've facilitated many times in couples world difficult conversations to have and sometimes people don't feel comfortable being able to have that by themselves and that is the benefit i think people assume couples therapy is about fixing things and it really isn't it's about having truthful communication in order to work out you know if there's any viability for the relationship because some often by the time people come to couples therapy usually one of the partners is checked out yeah i get you and also keely too um you know the the reason why it probably would be useful to speak to someone like you too i wonder how many couples who are having problems can actually have that conversation without escalating into a row and they might you might have one uh partner who's tried to have that conversation 10 times but every time it blows up and someone storms off and you remain the same whereas i presume in the environment that you create it stops that in other words you have to see a conversation out you know i mean obviously no one has to do anything but you know what i mean rather than trying to have that conversation on your own with with you there to not moderate but there to say well hold on now let's take a breath because we're getting somewhere you know what i mean absolutely and you also have you also have to be mindful that for some people they request couple but the other person in the couple won't come and that actually is quite important for the individual who is trying who wants to repair the relationship who wants to get into understanding the deeper dynamics in the relationship well that in itself is is quite important um in terms of what it may mean for them as they endeavor to to to do the difficult work because relationships aren't easy yeah you know so there is a real benefit to having like i said couples work couples therapy is not about necessarily healing the relationship but it can promote i would say decent decent breakups but it all depends it's all exactly exactly and you have a decent breakup though rather than catastrophe do you not like the drama not not this age no no no like a drama free keely i recently met a really nice fella and it came to the time to meet his parents and his mother did nothing but compare me to his ex and it really hurt he's dismissed it saying oh they just got on great she means no harm but after the fourth meeting and she's still saying it should i just be direct and tell her to stop it's hurtful and insist that he takes a stand and talk to his mother about it i don't know about taking her on directly but anyway uh you're the expert keely well in this instance i think there is some value in talking to um her partner in order to encourage him to have a word because um well my my hope would be and we don't live in a perfect world that he would sense uh an uncomfortableness about that and want to have a word too however um depending on his personality style for example if he's passive if he's avoidant if he's got a tricky mom who's quite domineering that that may result in some of his passive behaviors which may well be norm in his relationship with his mom so i do think there is some responsibility on her partner's side to be able to advocate for her because other instances like this will come up when you would hope your partner would advocate because it's his family just as it would be the same if if he had a tricky family member who might be overbearing yeah and also you have to get to the bottom of mom's motivation now is she trying to make this person feel uncomfortable throw a spanner in the works or is she innocently reflecting on someone that was a big part of her life and doesn't know any better if it's the the former uh well that's that's that's a problem because she might wait she might wait until the the the fella in this situation is out of the room before dropping something about his former partner we don't know how devious he is or what our motivations are either absolutely and sometimes the thing is with motivation and intention is often it's unconscious so for example if her intention was to make the new girlfriend feel uncomfortable if you explicitly asked her usually you're going to get defense and pushback people don't generally tend to be truthful about their intentions so when you expose it you're not necessarily going to get you know what you're right i am trying to make you feel inadequate because i really like his ex-girlfriend and i'd rather her than you so the reality is we have to protect ourselves and like i said it would be for her to raise those concerns with her partner and if her partner isn't prepared to take action to protect and support her then that might be something to to talk about because otherwise if she goes and defends herself and then she gets into high conflict with the mother and the partner isn't prepared to advocate for her that's that's something you have to ponder upon in terms of is this what i want for myself moving forward how would this be moving forward should we have relationships should we have children families and so on um is is this what i want for ourselves that's an important conversation to have yeah i feel like my friend fancies my boyfriend she turns up everywhere we plan to go i don't know why that gave me a giggle but i can just imagine this scenario oh oh hello but anyway i feel like my friend fancies my boyfriend and turns up everywhere we plan to go and it's really annoying me so how do i say to her to stop presumably give us a bit of space but is she showing any other other than just turning up is she touching his knee or flirting or whatever there might be more to this than meets the eye but anyway unpack that one for us keely so you think your friend fancies your partner yeah because she keeps turning up every time we're going out somewhere yeah i'd be that that's really annoying i'd be well curious about what do you notice but i guess you know we can sense if someone has taken an attraction um i guess personally myself i'd want to have i'd want to raise it i've just noticed and again i'd want to raise it that's not always possible for people who don't have difficult conversations but i'd also be mindful about what i'm communicating so if on social media i'm putting i'm checking into the cinema how is this person able to track our movements i'd be curious if my partner notices i'd be curious if he has experienced the flirtation if he's fueled that i'd have want to have that that conversation just to check out um what their experience is um of that and think about it's a it's a difficult conversation to have most definitely um but i would always start from a place of curious i'm just curious um but also be mindful about how much i would disclose and also though we've say she's saying are you uh me and greg are heading to uh we're heading to such and such restaurant on saturday and the friend goes oh lovely i've never been there that'd be fantastic that she makes sure that she says well it's kind of a couples thing or something do you know what i mean you have to make sure i'd imagine keely that you're not facilitating it and then seeing it as a problem but maybe you're actually avoiding a conversation or you know that in some way you're now you throw in the fact that she might fancy the boyfriend it starts getting a bit more more complicated but you know but if you're an oversharer as well you know we also have to be i'm a massive advocate of taking responsibility for myself yeah so if we overshare if we tend to tell people chapter and verse about um our lives that's also something to be able to to monitor to to also best protect yourself that's not necessarily as i said again if you make that over if you said to your friend do you fancy my boyfriend generally most people are gonna say no so you have to be discerning about what you you say but also mindful about what you disclose um as well and and maybe you know sometimes we have friends for reasons and seasons and what you might need to think about in terms of doing in terms of distance in yourself but actually secondary what my curiosity would be what insecurity if any is she tapping into in my in your in the in the caller so is there also an insecurity that she's tapping into within you and is he playing up to something himself as well is he is he sort of yeah is he flap fluttering he's eye eyelashes back all right uh i'm gonna phrase this question a different way in that maybe this is a person that finds it difficult to get out there and have an in front of your face conversation what can i do to encourage not tell encourage my husband to help keep our relationship alive by giving me little random gifts so maybe they're seeing their friends getting roses for valentine's day or someone says you know my husband landed home with a this you know little pendant or something right say that's what they want so they want that in their relationship is there any way that you can uh encourage your other half to sort of maybe play that role a little bit so one of the way if you like gifts one of the way and your heart your partner will you feel you feel envy as you notice your friends get these tokens one way to begin to address that could be to look at love languages so that you you know you could randomly ask your partner show them the kind of five love languages ask them what's their preferred style um and then you know that that raises a conversation about well this is my love language um there are also relationship cards out there that you can get that ask questions um so that that that these are small tools that you you can utilize to help have conversations about the quality of your relationship but love languages is a really um helpful tool because people express in different ways too and it's possible that say for instance your friend gets a nice gift from someone that that's just for show that could be massive gaps in your relation in their relationship that aren't in yours i'm not saying compare yourself to other people but you know maybe he's demonstrating his love in a different way and just needs to kick up the arse absolutely but the reality is he may express love in in in a way for example by being reliable he might do activities and trips pay for holidays but actually that may not be your own love language yeah true that's the love language again yeah yeah yeah if you can express to someone you know these are the things you know that really do it for me he may you know get your car washed and yeah but you might be someone who likes a tree and if we don't understand that about each other we just miss each other he might think he might think you know fixing the dodgy plug socket in the bedroom is his way of showing he loves you he just speaks a different language kelly before we remind people how they can contact you what is your optimism meter like in london england at the moment things all right not for you necessarily personally as a nation because since we've been through some tough times together me and you cold in and out then we had the pandemic then the the political ups and downs and you know maybe a hardening of people's views against you know people that are different to them are things improving or well what's the state of play as you see in your you know what sometimes i think i think you know i work i work for myself and i'll be honest you know being a psychotherapist it's a lonely career and to keep my optimism up i do you know i have to monitor how much i take him because i'm at the cold face every day it's very challenging times it's incredibly challenging you know what i did last night i switched over to bbc to watch the news i think it was at eight o'clock and i switched straight out again i thought i said to myself i am actually not fit for this i i could not now i know you're talking about taking in different bits and bobs but i i lich and i think it's one of the first times i said i says i actually don't have the capacity for what's probably about to say say to me and i think i've watched an old episode of who wants to be a millionaire anyway kelly if people want to get in touch with you how do they do so you can find me at key4change.com all right 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located lastly watch a video guide on how to properly use a defib so you feel more confident using one if needed in an emergency so we're going to go through that again with our our guests but i just wanted to get that out in the first instance so you know exactly what we're talking about and it is uh it's legit because i'm thinking myself i know there are defibs in my area but i do i know the process for accessing and and what have you right we've two guests in studio tag mcfaden who was uh who is a community first responder and has a strong connection to our second guest harry walsh former deputy editor of the dunigol news gentlemen both of you thank you so much for joining us good morning greg thanks for having us along well we'll start with you harry because um what was your awareness of the defibs and and their network prior to you really happened to avail of them not great greg to be perfectly honest uh i i knew where two or three were located in our draw through down the local football pitch in the local chemist but uh how what where when beyond that uh i was one of those great people this never going to happen to me never going to affect me or anyone to do with me and unfortunately little less than a year ago it came came to me front and center and i suppose in terms of how you access them is there a code on them uh you know like we'll get through that but i'm on about as i'm sitting here now and trying to be as honest as i can be i'm thinking would i know in that instance when every second counts how to get at them how to get at them and what to do uh take yes greg um in our draw we've decided to go with open access defibrillators and i have to say our draw is a fantastic community if you know it because in 2017 we had one defibrillator locked away in the ga clubhouse we know 13 static defibrillators around our draw um there is a code um to access the defibrillator but the code is very very clearly printed on on the outside case of the box uh the reason for that is is that we wouldn't have a lock on the on on the on the defib box to stop young children just innocently opening the box and maybe pulling it out so there's a for our draw at c159x for every for all 13 boxes we also have two spare defibrillators i have one in the boot of my car at the moment actually it's better out and about rather than in a cupboard um so they are they are used they are checked on a monthly basis um and you know it takes a lot to run these things as well because each each requires new batteries and pads every two or three years and that's about 160 160 euros a time and indeed after every use they're not used that often fortunately but after every use the battery pad has to be replaced yeah but it's like even cpr you know it's a huge drive to make sure everyone knows cpr but again it's something that is not routinely used but you have that knowledge and i think that's why it's quite important maybe to to familiarize yourself with the video guide uh that sounds like something i'm certainly going to have a look at that myself as to you know so in other words that there's a bit of unconscious thinking in that crisis moment that you have knowledge stored our brains an amazing thing you know it can be unconsciously stored but then brought to the fore when you know you need to be thinking about other things as well absolutely and certainly whenever i've had the few occasions i've had to do cpr the training does kick in it takes over and certainly when harry and i and kevin and guay are we also attended that morning had been walking around the hills around aceranka waterfall the previous saturday so so we've got to know harry and it's definitely you're doing it as someone you know i suppose you're more invested um but the training does kick in it's important because cpr actually saves people's lives it keeps them alive it's it's probably more important than defibrillation um but certainly um you know the first thing to do is 999 or 112 you then commend cpr the people often they will talk you through as to what you're doing and let's break it down because we say we're going to dedicate a lot of time talking to harry and his experience as well but just the basics like cpr is a very basic thing that you're doing what you're doing aren't you is your uh you are assisting the functional replacing the function of the heart to keep blood flowing to protect the brain to protect the other organs that's what you're doing so you're manually doing the work of the heart until such time as the experts are unseen it's it is as it's complex but it's as simple as that really isn't it it's incredible simple gregg and basic what you do is you get the heel of your hand your all hand on top of that and you press quite firmly in the center of the chest but exactly between the nipples about five centimeters down and you can press about 100 to 120 compressions per minute because i have to i've had to do this and even in the the heat of the moment and even though it was a life-saving or that was the effort it was it was it was the aim was to life-save you still feel that you're hurting someone or you're doing damage especially if it's someone i think that you know personally right how do we overcome that in our minds um take it's basically a case of life over limb in fact harry and i have spoke about this i'm certainly someone doing cpr that morning it might have been myself probably was broke harry sternum but better that than his heart not working and so it really is a case of life over limb okay and you can recover from from from from broken from broken ribs and that's a key message i would really want to try and get out there is to say you know don't be don't be afraid of having a go um island is very progressive and that we have a good Samaritan act and that actually protects me against harry suing me for breaking his ribs effectively um but with the intentions obviously to save someone's life yeah of course okay right harry um so advance in advance of of your heart attack and you i think you speak quite freely about this too i mean you were all you you would hope or come another health challenge hadn't you and perhaps thought right where that's that's behind me now let's just crack on with what's left you know what i mean uh so do you want to talk a little bit about that and then lead in to to your cardiac arrest of course Greg towards the end of 2018 i was diagnosed with bowel cancer and that necessitated an operation followed by chemotherapy radiotherapy and an ileostomy which a couple of years later got that reversed that's that's a bag which allows you to to go to toilet and what have you to got that reversed uh on the April of 21 and thought at that stage had been through me cancer me chemo etc etc and back on happy street greg and uh thought that dodged that bullet and that was me living through me nineties etc etc and then the 12th of march lost that was a saturday morning um went to bed as normal unfortunately didn't wake up as normal and i've lost the next couple of days in my life effectively um and i'm piecing them together a bit um 11 months later i'm still trying to piece together some of the events of those couple of days and did it come out of the blue harry because you're quite active person aren't you i'm sure you've got your vascular and all that's all all all up to shape you're out walking and all that kind of stuff like was there any looking back now anything that could have flagged this for you or just to push out of the blue i don't think so greg as takes us earlier on the previous weekend we walked about 15k as part of a group must be 20 of us you know and not a bother but again looking back in it i was stopping say halfway up a hill taking photographs and maybe three quarters away up the hill taking the photographs but i tend to be a bit clever well on the serious you're taking a breath at the same time yes exactly i do like taking photographs but looking back at it now maybe i wasn't fit to work any walk any further up the hill i guess it was an opportune time but it was serving two functions i'll get you okay um so did you have your heart attack in bed was it or i was i was lying in bed and again there was a couple of circumstances i was i was extremely lucky my good lady had contracted covid the previous day and trish is a nurse and trish had been due to be working that morning that was luck number one she was in the house luck number two i was asleep downstairs in my daughter's bedroom but she was home that night so i slept up with the boys which is across the corridor from my wife and that was luck number two and luck number three the lads happened to wake up and heard me seem to do a bit of snoring greg um but they heard why you're in every room in the house but possibly so they heard a grunt or a groan and thankfully one of them didn't like the sounds of the grunt or the groan he went across the corridor to patricia and uh by the time she came back across the corridor i stopped breathing and i'm told i was thrown on the floor unceremoniously at that you know and uh trish is thank god she started cpr immediately one of the lads rang 999 and then my daughter who was downstairs she was aroused and came up and uh i found out subsequent that the megan had done cpr uh in transition year at school and with trisha with with the covid trisha got tired quite quick but megan just took over and i was chatting the take outside and he was saying megan continues the compressions until they arrive some 21 minutes later when he comes in but it's something like this it affects the whole family i mean you know it's it's not easy for uh sons or daughters or a partner to see you incapacitated like that yeah you know like and that takes a bit of getting over doesn't it because we're going to be talking now about your recovery right but that sticks with you doesn't it they have they had that pro they've had to and probably continue to have to process that as well and then the fear is it going to happen again tomorrow or correct do you know what i mean no very well said great my initial kind of life steven technique kicked in as in i wanted to stay alive you know so the next number of weeks i was trying to get well again to be there for my family but as time passed then as you rightly say what about the two lads they were there they seen me and you know not breathing my daughter see me not breathing trisha see me not you know so i was concerned and continued to be concerned for them but that's because again as well that's also actually a wait for you to carry yes because you're obviously going to look out for their emotions and feelings and particularly had been through the cancer a number of years previous to that that i was trying to be brave for my my mum and dad is still late thank god be brave for my parents for my wife for my children so even now i'm still processing it because i was being brave for everybody else yeah and now all of a sudden it's kind of it's uh i've more time to think about it and this is now poor harry them in one sense you know i get you and i think that's i think that's a familiar story to people listening out there because you're blessed with a big family circle but that means a lot of people are impacted by something happening to you as well so it's a can be kind of double-edged thing so take the they between patricia's wife's name is it patricia and harry's daughter they were able to continue this process at this point harry's heart still stopped is that correct as far as we can determine pretty much and it's been it's been it's been activated artificially by by the cpr um that's taken over the working of the heart now we don't blow in maths anymore do we or do we not currently okay not currently we were we were at that point uh we'll use a hygienic face mask especially designed um but first of all we we get the call to attend and and fortunately we get the aircode and as i was driving up i'm picked up kevin maguire who's one of our first aid instructors on newt and and we put a call out to several other other members of the group as well so uh fortunately we had the aircode because i hadn't a clue where harry lived i knew he was roughly in this area in fact when they were driving up i said said to kevin maguire i think i think harry harry walsh lives up here not realizing it was harry we're going to and so when we arrived and patricia was downstairs the boys did like to straight in straight to the room upstairs there was no delay and usually when we walk into a medical emergency um we have a high visit of his jacket on gloves etc people stop stop what we're doing there was no stopping megan megan was just pumping away on her father's chest front and center hard and fast and it wasn't until i was kneeling opposite her at the other side of harry's chest i said to her okay megan i'll take over so we did not skip a beat and we just kept going kevin maguire i got the defib out um attached the pads etc and so that's what you bear the chest do you the chest was bare at that point you do that if you have to you have to bear the chest and you apply the pads and the instructions so is there a verbal instruction with the defib there is there is a very very clear verbal instruction um the training actually helps because you can get ahead of the verbal instruction i get you yeah um but the verbal instructions are very very clear they're loud they're clear they're designed to happen in a to be used in a busy street for instance or in a restaurant so with a bit of lots of ears on the priority in this process i get you right loud and clear and um and basically it it alerts you it alerts you that it's analysing so your hands off so it's not analysing you it's analysing the patient um and then it'll say whether you want to charge or not so i'll say to charge advised now charge is actually to apply the charge to harry it's a shock it's quite a violent thing to do and see i have to say because the whole body effect just bounces off the ground um but it's essential in terms of restarting the heart properly and and uh i think we delivered three shocks to harry before the album's arrived i don't think there was any delivered by the album how do you know the painting of those or you know like there's the there's a flashing button on the defib that you try and keep pace with in terms of the cpr but it's the defib itself that determines whether there's a shockable rhythm in the heart understood yeah um sometimes there is sometimes there isn't but you just continue with the cpr and again it's it's very clear about hands off when it's still in the charge but you deliver the charge yourself and you make sure no one's touched the board and that's traumatic to reflect on as well you know the the machine shouting at you effectively and i'm only saying this not to put anyone off but that we all go in if we have to do this with a rise wide open that's going to be something you're going to have to process after the fact as well it's a stressful situation for some people i have to say but myself and kevin mcguire and kevin gifford was there he's one of our other trainers he turned about turned a couple of minutes afterwards we did have that cool down period afterwards we there's something with the national ambulance service called syslums critical incident support management we you take time to reflect to to recognize signs of the trauma you've been through and the impact it might have on yourself as well um but certainly myself and kevin mcguire we've had a walk for a couple of hours just to calm down but you know there's nothing better than this world and saving someone's life you know particularly something like sahari that you know how walking companion and somebody you know yeah um yeah that's what i've said to people you know don't be afraid to keep it afresh so i mean obviously the ambulance response times can vary right so um how do you know you're doing everything right so you've applied three shocks of the i'm i know you know everything but i'm thinking of it's a person out and about do you know what i mean so like the machine's instructing you you're continuing uh you're continuing the cpr and you just keep doing that until such time as the don't question whether it's working or not or give up you just keep going until because those ambulance crews they will keep going uh when they get there even when it seems all hopes last and they've got machinery that can apply you know extra force and all that kind of stuff right okay um so harry you're oblivious at this point uh what's your next memory wake up and elton gilvin hospital but again greg that's a that's a hated off memory it's my daughter reminds me uh at that stage i was repeating myself i was saying i would sort of say i'll use you an example i say what's your name you say greg we from lahe and two minutes later i would say and what's your name again you know and after about the fourth i'd say sorry i think i've asked that before haven't i yeah and you would smile and like we'll go on i got you and that that continued for a couple of days i was in a i the i found out since the process is you go to elton gilvin you get stanted or whatever needs to be done then you go back to let a kenny hospital and then and down here in the south you go to go away but because uh i can't do things uh by half i fell when i was in elton gilvin going up to going to the toilet which i shouldn't have done and i banged my head so i ended up spending a couple of nights in elton gilvin so then i came back to let a kenny and then i went to go away and uh by the time i went to go away uh the stance had closed i had to be restanted and go away so it just wasn't i wasn't your kind of your normal patient you know and did you kind of were you assured with the great care you would have got through your cancer treatment that really you must have thought right they've everything going on here it's been flagged again you find out subsequent to that you get blood i'm getting blood to continue to get blood taken regularly but now i'm getting blood taken for my heart and also for any flags correct and also for cancer but seemingly the different types of bloods taken in different ways and looking for different cancer markers for the cancer blood you know and different markers for the okay so it's cut along story short greg that one doesn't necessarily know that there's something wrong and then there could be other markers for a brain tumor or something or what so you have to have the right set of bloods done for the right thing yes um and obviously are you all here because of people like take your in the first instance your family and and you talked about the series of lucky things that happen but obviously you're here for a reason someone wanted to stick around so and also the importance of this awareness of how to use it to defend where they are familiarize yourself video again don't want to over focus on that i mean they didn't have to ask twice for you to sort of talk about this i would imagine harry absolutely not i mean a couple weeks after the event greg i happened to say to my mother i must do the lottery and she says no son you won the lottery and i think that sums it up um you can call it whatever way you like you know but if trisha and and the kids hadn't been there and then take and kevin the lads hadn't been there then the ambulance crew then it was airlifted from donnie goaltown to you know so all the constituent parts everything needs to fall right for me thank god everything fell right for me and we're chatting here today and it's hard to believe that twelfth of march i effectively died you know i didn't affect me i did you know and even even saying it it's it's one thing saying it it's another thing processing it i'd say because you know it's you especially with your background it must feel like you're writing someone else's story but you're living and not only that but it's an unbelievable story you know about three sentences into that greg i would sort of say no that didn't happen yeah that's something the page take the clock as is flying here so is there anything else that you want to get across here well it was really to say to people not to be afraid to have a go identify where your local defibrillator is be aware of where it is actually go up to it and open it i mean the one's an hard drive because when you're opening it just now your calm when you're opening when you need it you're not calm so i have a go at opening it just now also know your defib now we've launched the the message in a bottle initiative within the ardra area for for glinty's ardra and port new and it's for people with underlying medical conditions but the front and centre on that form as as uh your your ear code and from Glasgow i haven't a clue you know the town lines around that is if it's a weakness but i do understand the context yeah exactly it's just a bit geography and there's an iron here in ardra you can't charge your car but you can charge a harry all right listen harry it's great to to to hear your story and as i say there's obviously a good reason why the cars fell as they did and we're delighted that they did and you take you just keep saving lives we're looking for volunteers at the moment all right in about 30 seconds if you don't mind i look for volunteers without well both ardra and glinty's first responders but you can also contact the volunteer centre um because there's other groups around and they go looking for volunteers all the time you get full certified training there's ongoing support as well um do you know what we might actually do if you don't mind we might get you even if it's on the phone and do a separate conversation about the recruitment of responders because i think that's such an important part of this yeah uh 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