 Funding has been confirmed for the HSH who carried out a feasibility study of the site proposed for the Lifford Community Nursing Unit. The site is part of a council-owned plot of land on the outskirts of Lifford which will also see social housing and business units developed there. Kanto Jerry Crawford says this is very significant. It will allow for a full capital submission to be submitted and in the HSH's own words this is very positive news. I agree with that. Lifford Community Hospital has been an agenda for many years now, very very often on a negative light. Very strongly supported and cornered thought by the friends of Lifford Hospital. I myself have raised it on numerous occasions as HSH is something we just won't let go of and this seems to be a very positive step. The Donegal Donkeys Sanctuary has launched a fundraising campaign as it is running dangerously low on supply. Ninety-eight donkeys are currently being cared for at the facility with the number of foster homes becoming scarce. Manager of the facility Danny Curran says they have been facing additional pressures over the past a number of years. Since the pandemic we've seen an increase in the number of donkeys coming to us. You know you've got the pandemic and then the cost of loving crisis. We're taking a lot of donkeys now from you know house repossessions and you know marriage breakups and people immigrating and then we always have the cruelty cases going on as well. Weather night Clydey and Watt this morning with eye breaks of rain brightening up this afternoon with sunny spells and showers developing highest temperatures of 13 or 14 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Happy news from Aldi. 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You can watch the show live of course we're broadcasting live on our Facebook pages the Highland Radio and Highland Radio News and Sport Facebook pages. You can also watch the show on our YouTube channel Highland Radio Ireland. So if you want to see me in all my non-lory you can absolutely do so and what's really good about that actually is when we take calls in on Zoom as we do frequently over the course of the program you can actually watch the Zoom calls as they unfold as well so we suddenly become a TV program all of a sudden which is very interesting and gratifying and from my point of view the great thing means I can just put the screen on the person to whom I am speaking to and that is all the better for everyone. Let's start with the papers it's a Tuesday morning which means we have the Tuesday edition of the Donny Gold Democrat Save Our School Girl Skull Fights Back. Parents, staff and peoples of Girl Skull and the Garamastry have mounted a determined fight back against the decision to withhold funding for the new school building. Shivwan McNamara writes that after 24 years in prefabs and numerous delays all stages had been approved and we've had this on news and on the show indeed over the past number of weeks on a number of occasions everything was ready to rock and suddenly because of a lack of funds it was decided a number of projects across the country would be stalled. Nagaramastry is one of those projects which has been stalled when the local community are saying we've waited long enough for not taking this lying down and there's a lovely perspective on this there was a recent announcement from the minister that free books would be provided for school children and there is a lovely picture of one of the pupils and her teacher standing outside the prefabs with a big sign saying where is our school and a big stack of school books and they're effectively saying thanks for the school books minister where are we going to put them because we don't have a school to put them in and that's a very clever way of drawing attention to the plight there. Front of the Derry Journal you'd have heard this on news yesterday, Micah Redress Paul Pledge 84% of homeowners surveyed by the Micah Action Group say they will vote in the next election based on how well or poorly the government has put in place solid measures to commit to 100% redress image. Careperson Lisa Hone outlined how multiple submissions have been made to government in relation to draft regulations and many many issues still to be resolved there. Irish Independent this morning, main story, state sitting on enough land for more than 60,000 homes you'll have heard this on news with Micah over the course of the morning. Affordable housing sites spanning 10 counties, Philip Bryan outlines the land development agency has identified state owned property in five cities and five regional centres. Letter Kenny one of those regional centres, Sligo one of those centres as well actually where the state could hand land over to the land development agency and it could get on with building homes and certainly people will be looking at that with interest. Long discussion in Domingo County Council chamber yesterday by coincidence you have heard a Councillor Jerry McMonigal on on news today as well and the council discussing the homeless plan and how Domingo County Council is to tackle both emergency homelessness in the county and also lots of discussion too about the provision of social housing and the eviction ban. The council as a number of councils have been doing the council did pass a motion calling for the eviction ban to be maintained. That motion moved by Councillor Albert Doherty the motion was passed. Now whether the government is going to listen to what Domingo County Council has to say and change its own mind that's questionable to say the least but the council still took that decision yesterday and the issue of the eviction ban still very much a live issue in Domingo County Council and in chambers I suspect right across the country I suspect there's very similar motions being moved pretty much at local authority level in every county in this country at this point in time because this is one of the real national issues the effects of which are being felt literally everywhere. The other story on the front of the independent this morning Kerry Baby key DNA from close relative of Baby John DNA at the centre of the Kerry Baby case was voluntarily handed over by a person who Garthee believed to be a close relative of the deceased baby. This was a breakthrough which prompted the investigation team to make the high profile arrests of a couple in Kerry last week. Now as we heard and we discussed this yesterday even if the parentage of Baby John has been proven and it could take some time before that is achieved and obviously DNA samples have been taken they're awaiting the analysis of those samples and they're going to be analyzed believe you me they're going to be analyzed more carefully than any DNA sample was ever analyzed because this case has been so controversial and has been so awful for so long in this country that nothing is going to be done on the Kerry Baby's case and on the case of Baby John until every eye is dotted and every T is crossed three times triple checked three times and then checked again another four times just to be sure and also a picture of Nathan Collins his last gasp header on goal that was saved by the French goalkeeper last night in the closing stages of Ireland's match against France that could so easily have been a one-one draw and after questions being asked of the Irish soccer team in recent times I think a lot of those questions were answered very very forcefully and very very comprehensively in the Aviva Stadium last night I know a number of people had travelled up to the game from Donegal not least actually recall we spoke to Brendan Daveney yesterday previewing the deal debate and Brendan was en route to Dublin with his nephew at the time for the match and I hope he and his nephew had an absolute blast I'm sure that was real edge of the seat stuff to be sitting at and a lot of people saying this morning how proud they are to to say their Irish fans because there is certainly that team has got its mojo back and long may that remain the case big worry now of course is that can they keep up that momentum and can they keep up that strength against the teams like Greece because you know if they can replicate that against Greece then you know what they could be going places a photograph on the front of the Irish times actually from the other angle it and it shows actually how close that goal was it just shows the French goalkeeper Mike Mangan making that save that denied Nathan Collins Collins the equaliser in the 90th minute also on the front of the Irish times the main story again review finds scope for 60 000 homes on state land statutory inquiry into defense forces abuse likely a report will be published on the basis of claims of bullying harassment and sexual abuse of defense force members and that full statutory inquiry should be established that's according to the independent review group which was established in 2021 the report is understood to make for difficult reading and to detail patterns of inappropriate and illegal behaviour within the military also in international news Mark vice in Jerusalem writes that Nehan Yahu the Israeli prime minister Benjamin that Nehan Yahu has delayed controversial plans to weaken the judiciary following mass protests across the country and a general strike he said he had ordered a time out on the proposal let's look at the Irish Daily Mail this morning the Irish Daily Mail as coalition faces a crucial confidence motion the supply of new houses has slumped by almost 20 percent new blow on home building is the main headline there the story by Craig Hughes and Brian Mangan and they basically say the coalition has been dealt a fresh blow ahead of tomorrow's crucial confidence motion the supply of new homes has slumped by almost 20 percent around 6000 fewer new homes available than at the same time last year and given that the whole confidence motion in the government is being sparked by the response to the housing crisis and in particular the refusal to maintain the eviction span for those in rental accommodation that will not be music to the government's ears now we are hearing this morning in other areas that a lot of members of the regional independence and people that the government are dependent on for support they are indicating that they will not be supporting the labor motion so when one would have thought the government is likely to survive this vote this week and it will keep on going now if it keeps on going as a limping lame duck or it keeps on going with a huge groundswell of support behind it remains to be seen I suspect the former may more be the case and certainly the vote will not be as comprehensive I suspect as the eviction ban vote was last week we'll see how that pans out also on the front of the Irish Daily Mail cancer test backlog due to staff shortages there is a significant backlog intense cancer test results due to a shortage of medical scientists that means some anxious patients are waiting up to six months to get potentially life-altering test results that's according to the economy of clinical science and laboratory medicine its president Bernie Quirk said it's a major concern that 13% of medical scientist posts are unfilled and we're hearing that right across the health sector at present so many unfilled posts and that is a matter of serious concern I reached daily start this morning killer kept any bag as souvenir it's DNA jackpot according to a top cold case cop and Larry Murphy must be quizzed Annie McCarrick's leather bag we're told could be crucial to determining what happened to her that case was upgraded he'll recall last Friday I think it was from a missing person's case to a murder case so one can only assume that Garthee have got new perspectives and some new information to hand and we'll see how that one pans out also on the front of the star on a side bar there Bailey to be evicted from home writer Ian Bailey is said to be evicted from his west cork home the 64 year old who was questioned twice over the murder in 1996 of Sophie Tucson Duplantier but was never charged received a motion to quit before Christmas it'll be enforced with the imminent ending of the eviction ban looking at the Irish Sun this morning and that's the main story Bailey's eviction hell Ian's homeless fears as ban ends that story there on the front of the Irish Sun also for a fingertip from joy another very good photograph there of the French keeper making that save which denied Ireland an equalizer in the dying minutes of that game against France in the Aviva Stadium last night and finally the Irish daily mirror Kenny's heroes feeling blue miracle save breaks Irish hearts and X cops theory killer took missing Annie's bag former detective believes it was kept as a trophy after her murder that's Alan Bailey who had been probing the case at the time the papers that's what's happening in the world of our newspapers this morning as we said if you want to make contact with us you can do so oh it's six sixty five thousand for your text or no oh it's six sixty twenty five thousand excuse me for your text or whatsapp messages oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand if you want to give us a ring on the phone we'll be back after this short break the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly centra mountaintop letter Kenny the sea store national 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this one first because i find this somewhat fascinating anyone who's seen the banshees of an issue and will know that colin farrow's character has a donkey of whom he is very fond don't want to give any spoilers to people that haven't sort of watched the film yet but the donkey sort of features in the plot of the film and you reckon that's actually led to an increase in people looking for donkeys as pets and that in turn has led to more donkeys coming to you yeah well i haven't actually seen the film myself but i've heard enough about it like in the colin farrow the family has this donkey jenny and a lot of people look at that there but what they don't realize is that's a highly trained donkey a very calm quiet donkey and they think then that this would be an ideal pet for a child or maybe for themselves to have now there is legal requirements you have to have an equine number an acre of ground a stable and a lot of people sort of rush out by these donkeys and the next thing they realize they don't have all the things that they need and they don't have the time and they don't have the skills now one of the things i will say is if you're thinking about a donkey come to the sanctuary talk to us we'll take you through all the steps and everything that's there and maybe you'll think this is for you and maybe you'll realize you don't have the you know the proper equipment or the training or to do that how many donkeys do you have on site at the moment we are feeding directly 98 donkeys at the minute and to date we have over 800 re-homed and we have we're just checking there a week ago we have 37 donkeys waiting to come in that we don't have room for and and and presumably when you re-home them you will re-home them to people who are responsible you're going to be very careful to vet them to make sure that that donkey is going to a good home and that all the criteria you've outlined there are met and that the most important one of all is met that that donkey is going to go to a home where it's going to be cared for and it's going to be loved oh yeah we have we have a lot of re-homing rules and some people contact us and they say that we probably have too many rules but what you have to bear in mind is a lot of the donkeys come to us and that you know they've had a hard life and they've been starved and they've had a lot of cruelty so we want to make very sure that when they move on from us that you know they're going to a proper home and the other thing is we never lose ownership of them even though somebody fosters the donkey it always remains that it's still under the care of of Donnie Doe donkey sanctuary yeah in terms of the actual cost of keeping a donkey when you take a donkey into the sanctuary you're not just taking a donkey that you have to feed a bit of hay to you're taking in a donkey that's going to incur veterinary bills may need comprehensive care if that donkey's been abused and you're taking on the responsibility for every aspect of that donkey's well-being and that's going to go way way beyond just chucking a bit of hay into a trough yeah like well you know like if we take a nostalium it has to be gilded you know you've got other costs farrier costs the vet costs we even have to employ an equine dentist to make sure that their teeth are looked after properly you've got warming costs you know there's a lot of people who say to me oh you're squeezing one more donkey but what they don't realize is even like we have to microchip some passports them all the legal requirements have to be met and then you know that donkey could be here for two or three years to get it tamed down and adjusted and ready to go to a new home it's clear Danny that you and the family and others involved with the sanctuary have a great love of the animals but what you don't have is a bottomless pocket to match that love with you've got to have funding you've got to have support how are you managing to fund it at the moment and what sort of pressures are you coming under because of the extra workload and because of the fact that there are more and more donkeys now in need of help and in need of sanctuary well we've been here for a good number of years though so we do we do have a following of supporters but because of the pandemic and the cost of loving crisis and you know the aspiring costs of diesel and even veterinary medicines have gone up in price you know a lot of things they are there so like we're just finding it harder and harder and there is more donkeys you know you've got house repossessions people losing land people immigrating all them things factor in we end up with more animals and it's just getting tougher and tougher and as you say we don't have a bottomless pit we we have to work with what we have like what a lot of people don't realize is we are actually like a fully functioning farm we've got a tractor a loader a quad and all them things need to be maintained looked after you know but unlike other farms we don't sell an end product you know we we take in the donkeys we repair them make them better tend to all their needs and then we re-home them out and we just wait for the next one to come along and there's always plenty more to come along so it's getting harder and harder all the time and I presume you're you're taking donkeys in from far more than just the county of Donegal they're probably coming to you at this stage from far and wide because you have that reputation for being a good sanctuary and for being an area where a donkey can be safe two weeks ago I was in Kilkenny lifting three donkeys and you know like we we try to work from Dublin to Galway North but you know it just depends where they come up and you know how you know how desperate the situation is and we work through other organizations as well so sometimes you know you could have an organization that's been called out to pick up three horses and there's a donkey there as well and they like we don't have facilities for horses or dogs and they don't have the facilities for donkeys so we step on then and take that donkey off these other organizations as well there's there's a whole network nationwide of support organizations and you're at its center well you know there's there's we do we do our best on that's the handiest way to say it like you know we we can't solve every problem that's out there to do with donkeys but you know we we try that's that's all we can do in terms Danny of the way people can support you obviously you have won off events but uh you've launched an online funding campaign now and uh how can people give you support if they so choose to do well if you go to our facebook page there's links there to the go to the GoFundMe campaign or you can go to our website I think there's a link on facebook to our website you can you can donate there or you can call to the sanctuary visit the donkeys and make a donation while you're here yeah and you know uh another um caller has said you know uh you know with their um the cost of living is is is hitting everyone someone saying and look they say much as people would like to support you sometimes they just can't because they just don't have you know the the resources to actually do that and you know another caller saying you know look plenty of us have donkeys but there's no collecting money for us all year well I think that that's a fair enough point if you have a donkey and you're keeping a donkey that's absolutely your own business but what Danny and and and and his colleagues are doing are trying to take donkeys in and make them safe when other others have abandoned them and I think it's fair to say Danny you have what 97 that you're feeding at the moment with another 35 outstanding that you could take into the into the sanctuary right now yeah there's always a queue of donkeys waiting to come to us I would love if we could wave a magic wand buy more land build more stables and be able to solve that problem but we just have to take everything one step at a time we we're here in our 12 years and we have a full facility built here it has to we need we need more facilities but as I say the pandemic the cost of living crisis that just sprung up and has set us very very far back and we just have to try and come forward from that again now the caller is saying look how can we donate we'd love to help well as you said go on to facebook or just go and search donnie goll donkey sanctuary that'll bring you to the facebook page the website and ultimately the go fund me page Danny thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning we wish you well and you know well done and all you've done up to now because I know and I have had the pleasure of meeting you and some others involved over the years and you know I know the great work that's done and I know I know the love that's behind that work and it's very important that it's underwritten by love and I think there is no doubt about it that the donkey sanctuary in in donnie goll is a place where animals will find love and and that may be particularly to an animal that's been abused that's as important as as the food and the water sometimes yeah thank you for having us on donnell it's uh it's great to get a chance to promote our work and like one thing I always say to people people say it's work you know I enjoy what I do I love animals and I find every day coming here to be very very easy to do we do deal with some bad cases and some some terrible sites you know but most of our work is very enjoyable Danny thank you very much indeed it's been a pleasure you take care thank you that's uh Danny there from the donkey sanctuary in lyford uh caller says regarding the donkey sanctuary glad that's clarified initially I thought you were referring to the council office in lyford so says the caller uh we'll say no more and move on I think at this point another caller says Danny and his family are amazing people I would urge anyone to support them with a donation if they can at all thank you donnie gold donkey sanctuary for all that you do okay I'm telling what we're going to do now we are going to have a discussion in a few moments about the promotion of job offerings through the gaa it's an interesting concept we'll be speaking to somebody about that in just a moment right now though we are going to take a very short break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com we're sorry to inform you of yet another delay no not the train this time it's john he's delayed getting his eyes tested if he's accidentally sat in your lap knocked over your suitcase or kissed you instead of his wife we can only apologize john has now been informed that I test sunglasses from the 69 euro range of spec savers are free with PRSI or medical card so there's no need to delay booking an appointment find out more at spec savers dot ie john can you get off my lap wheezing or sneezing when you're feeling under the weather 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birthday matters to me as much as my own being a garada is a really tough job but it is definitely a job worth doing you can apply now at publicjobs dot ie and of course we'll have our garady community information slot later in the program that's coming up at around about eight nine minutes past ten or thereabouts so we'll be doing that later on in the show as i say also because tomorrow the show is coming from brussels and as i say more about that over the course of the program because tomorrow is coming from brussels it means our usual wednesday slot with cure no donald business matters will take place today instead so we'll have business matters this morning at around about half past 11 rather than tomorrow morning now also want to talk about a business issue now because kevin mehan is the business development manager with the gaa and i'm delighted to say kevin is joining us now on zoom to discuss a rather interesting idea that's been promoted by the organization kevin good morning to you good morning thanks very much for having us on it is our pleasure kevin um you're promoting jobs through the gaa the idea being that there are businesses in local areas that have jobs to be filled the gaa has access to a large network of young people many of whom will be seeking employment and let's be honest many of whom will want to stay in the local area and the gaa want them to stay in the local area to play for their club to play for their parish and hopefully ultimately to play for their county and one of the ways of doing that is to try and ensure that jobs that are available locally goes to people within the organization it's a very interesting concept yeah thanks very much um i suppose it's important to say um just when you mention uh the business development manager title with the gaa works that i is our business um we're such a private business separate from the official gaa if you like but still um working in the in the whole area obviously of of gaa so yeah as you say um what we're trying to achieve is i suppose um to make people and in particular members of gaa clubs across the country aware of the great opportunities that there are within local communities in every county um in the hope that um it will keep people connected to their community living in their community and working in their community from the point of view of what's being done and we know there was so much discussion in the past about immigration and about communities being decimated and one of the ways that traditionally got sort of exemplified as it were was in the fact that local football teams were decimated local hurling teams were decimated in hurling counties and and you had areas where parishes and clubs at times could not put teams on a pitch anymore because there weren't enough young local people left in that area now we're told so often that there are jobs to be found and a lot of the time people don't necessarily know where to find them so this may be a way of addressing that particular issue that people in their own local area can find work in their own local area definitely and and that's exactly what we are trying to achieve so uh suppose our website gaaworks.ie allows a business to advertise not only their product or service but also any career opportunities that they have and it allows them to specify the area that the job is in and then the searcher on our website or the applicant if you like would would see where those jobs are listed by an easy to use filter that lets them check what county it's in what job category it's in and see the options that are available so at the moment we have over there's 142 businesses registered on our platform and there's 178 live career opportunities there so and and that ranges from apprenticeship opportunities to part-time jobs right up to full-time senior positions so we're really trying to place an emphasis that there are I suppose a huge variety of job opportunities out there not only for more experienced people but for young people who may be leaving college and maybe leaving second level school and have no interest in going to college and so there's certainly a big a big interest in as I said the variety of job opportunities that are out there as you say you're independent of the gaa itself but your motto is we are all supporters and I presume you work closely with the gaa and for instance you'll get some of that you'll get promotion in in programs and clubs themselves will be promoting what you're doing on a on a local level just to try and make sure that this message is getting out to as many as possible and it's interesting you used the phrase the gaa community and if there was anything that sort of did you know embody the word community surely it's the gaa absolutely it's probably as you mentioned earlier there's has been some communities right throughout the country you could say in some ways decimated by the removal of whether it's a post office or a bank and the gaa club is very much still the focal point that I suppose you could say the only focal point that is left in some rural towns and villages across the country so I think I suppose from from our side we're really trying to place an emphasis that it's important to keep these gaa clubs active keep people that are involved with these gaa clubs employed and living locally so that they survive and and certainly and as you said albeit not official gaa we are working closely with each of the county boards that we come into contact with so the plan is to take the the initiative nationwide at the moment we have launched in four counties and our first port of call in each county is to is to work directly with the county board and with the local clubs who thankfully today have been really positive towards the initiative as you say it's in their best interests to keep people connected in the rural in the local community and and that will hopefully keep them active members of the of the gaa community as well if businesses that do have jobs want to get in touch how can they do so they can check out gaaworks.ie and have a look through the website they may also email us info at gaaworks.ie and we have a presence on social media and all the usual platforms there as well uh kevin mehan thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning that's kevin mehan business development manager with the gaaworks.ie that project hopefully will see more people stay in their own local areas and hopefully it'll see more local people staying to play with their clubs to play with their county and like the rising tide if the lift all bolts kevin thanks very much indeed you're very welcome thank you excellent that's like kevin there from gaaworks.ie and that's the website to go to if you're a business that has something to promote or indeed if you are seeking employment that's the place where you can go as well now i just want to take a look at some comments that were left over from issues we discussed yesterday our monday focus was a discussion on over-the-counter medicine and specifically addiction to over-the-counter medicine and one caller says it's doctors that need to be educated it's very hard to get a doctor's appointment nowadays and when you do sometimes they think nothing of handing out big boxes of pain medication and that may include um salpidine and similar drugs that uh you know can be difficult you can still buy them over-the-counter in a pharmacy but um someone wondering you know is is is the actions of doctors uh one one of the issues here now also uh caller saying in we discussed the eviction ban obviously a caller says the eviction ban was illegal terrible every landlord would sell and only the mega landlords will rent houses at top rents that interview with the finagle counsellor was one sided and a poor interview by the way i'm not a landlord um i think that the interview with the finagle counsellor that they're saying is that a person was a a man and his wife and their children were taken from their rented home in the middle of the night and they were thrown onto the street by a group of men who illegally went into their home at a time when an eviction ban is in place this came without warning this came without notice as far as i can see on the face of it every rule um in letter as well as in spirit was broken so if that interview came across as being critical of and condemnatory of what happened that family in bandoren um well i don't have a problem with that i'm sorry but that that that is the situation now i want to go to line one because there is a very important um documentary coming up on tg kaha it's being broadcast tomorrow night and circa nick ohan is the uh producer circa apologies for butchering your name but a very good morning to you you're okay no problem they missed these to miss me on the roll call as well so you're not the first person i would have been in i would have been in time to say um nick ohan but it's nick ohan is this or it's uh uh uh uh uh oh god oh god oh god um yeah so on the on this coming wednesday um the second part to the documentary series with the third series of morrow and our mask um which goes out on tg kaha um at half past nine on wednesday um and this we in this documentary we're looking at the the story of the disappearance of arlene arkson and and that's for for for the older of her listeners that's a story that we literally have been covering on this radio station for the guts of 30 years she went missing in 1984 last scene uh attending a disco in bundoren or enroute to bundoren and uh originally from castle derg not seen since uh believed to have gone missing in donnie gall and it's one of those stories that is still as big a mystery now as it was on on day one even though there have been various theories and uh people questioned and so on and so forth we still don't know the truth yeah well i suppose in um some parts of the truth emerged are were sealed i suppose and in um on the 21st of july in 2021 um at an inquest from the coroner um a coroner's inquest finally um concluded um and with that conclusion um the coroner brine sherrod um reported and his findings um that robert howard um had um killed uh or had murdered arlene's likely um uh she was likely sexually assaulted as well and um that her body was likely to be in and around the castle derg area um so those that kind of put to bed a lot of rumors that had been and suspicions that had been uh wrongfully in um circulating in the early days of the investigation um and these rumors had kind of brought attention to the arkansas family themselves and had even you know um kind of wrongly implicated um katlin arkinson and her partner um in the disappearance of arlene at the time i was actually there on the day that officers of what was then the or you see actually started digging up katlin arkinson's garden and and i was there on the day and and i spoke actually that i spoke to arlene's father and and the question that his father was was asking on that day was what about robert howard what about robert howard so the first time i heard the name robert howard actually was from arlene arkinson's father on the day that the or you see were actually digging up her sister's garden wow yeah but it's it's crazy like i mean eight when you think about it now you know you're you're a family who's um you know for katlin arkinson this is her 15 year old sister who had just turned 15 that april um and so she was a child and you know she's missing um they were their their mother had died when arlene was 11 so the family was already kind of upheaved in some ways um and um you know you're struggling with grief and you're struggling to find answers of of where your younger sister is and then the police come knocking on your door and and dig um and dig deep down into your back garden eight eight inches deep or eight feet deep sorry um in your back garden and you know i don't know how like what surprised me all time and time again is the strength of katlin arkinson to be able to continue and to be able to continue to try and find answers and try and find her sister's remains and and the hope that the family has now i suppose is you know for any information that might be out there you know as as little or as small as as one might think it may be um that could help in them finding arlene's remains in order for them to have a burial um a proper christian burial um as the arkinson family's wishes are um and that she might be placed in the same grave alongside her mother and alongside her father who's now deceased yeah and as as as as you said the the ruling that robert howard was responsible for her death came from an inquest it it's an interesting one because it hasn't come from court of law what's the legal standing of that finding in in terms of of the law because it's something that i'm not a hundred percent clear on to be absolutely honest i mean it's the is is a presumption or is that taken as a legal decision in the same way that a court decision when i i i believe it may be slightly different it is slightly different as far as i understand and i'm always with this case i'm so cautious in terms of the legalities that surround it um but um as far as i understand um you know it's the it's the why um the what and the how and not the why so um we know the the inquest um can can conclude who has done this um and where i suppose they have done it or where the crime has happened um but they don't give us a a jury um hearing um that happened in 2015 i'm obviously our 2005 this case goes on for so many years it was it was 14 years going through um through the the the inquest um uh proceeding so in 2005 there was actually a um a court hearing um while Robert Howard and the jury found him not guilty but that of murdering Arlene Arkinson but that jury was unaware that Robert Howard was um in fact serving life imprisonment at the time for the murder of another 14 year old girl in um Depford in southeast London um there had been a blanket um to the jury the jury uh wasn't aware of of of that crime um and his um his imprisonment um for his imprisonment excuse me um at the state at that time and they were also unaware of his previous crimes so Robert Howard was a man who had um had kind of a vast history of offenses um dating back as far back as the 1960s all the way up to 2003 when he's finally um arrested um for the killing of of the 14 year old girl in Depford um and you know i it it it battles me i suppose um how how he was able to kind of or you know kind of get away with it for so long and uh one thing that frightens me and kind of kind of dawned on me halfway through what we were making this or halfway through researching into um Robert Howard was that in fact we don't really know how many victims um you know Robert Howard affected or had um and we probably will never know how many victims um fell fell before Robert Howard yeah and it's the the real tragedy of this case as you say is we did subsequently get that ruling at inquest as you say that the the coroner ruled that Robert Howard was responsible for Arlene's death but we're still using phrases like her body is probably buried in Castle Durga and the bottom line is we still do not have a body the family Kathleen in particular still do not have somewhere where they can focus their grief and Arlene's father and and you know he was a very passionate and upset man obviously over the course of all this that he died not knowing and and that's always one of the going to be the one of the terrible things about this I think the hardest thing um and throughout the series so they this this episode is part of a four part series that airs every Wednesday night and this is the third series of this program um and throughout um throughout since the making of these programs we work um directly with the the victims families are you know close where families aren't available there's close um close friends um so the and it's always with the family's consent as well um which is important to say um but what I do notice is that um you know families are left behind um when their loved one gets murdered and they're left behind to navigate you know their grief and also um the legal system also trying to understand I suppose um the the shock and the trauma of a sudden um violent death which leaves a you know a lasting effect on on um on the family members and oftentimes we find that you know their grief is so prolonged um and like at the end of the day Arlene Arkinson was a 15-year-old girl and she was on her way to a disco um you know she was hoping that she would be able to go back to school at the end of somewhere she was interested in art and you know she was deciding I suppose and planning in her head you know what her future might might hold or what might what might be in store for her um and you know she didn't come home that night and you know I know there's countless parents or countless people out there who you know every time their children go out the door um to the school disco and if they don't get that text you know to say that they're on their way home or if they don't you know hear the the key and the lock at a certain time you know their anxiety is heightened but that anxiety for the Arkinson family has prolonged for close to 30 years it'll be 30 years next year um that Arlene still hasn't walked through that door and and I suppose now they have kind of um they they know that it remains that they're looking for that and no longer is you know Arlene is no longer going to walk through that door um but like you know if there was anybody at all who has any little bit of information that you know whatever their role might have been or you know they might not have had a big role at all but it could be something that might help it could be something you know in the back of somebody's memory from that time that felt a bit odd for them or felt a bit wrong um you know that they that um that could indicate in any way where Arlene might be Circa thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning um that program on half past nine uh tomorrow night on tg kaha it's looking at the murder of Arlene Arkinson in 1984 from Castle Derg had been going to a disco in Bondoran 15 years of age and as of now her body still hasn't been found Circa that's Circa there and uh it it was a terrible story and again it's one of those stories that I first uttered the name Arlene Arkinson in terms of a story about a missing person who was last seen on Friday and that's it's one of those stories that I mean obviously has been covered so much and the name Robert Howard was a name that was in the ether right from the start I mean from the mid 1990s we were aware of the name Robert Howard he was subsequently as Circa pointed out he was found not guilty in a court of law and then the coroner's inquest um has ruled that the belief of the coroner 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southwest winds easing later mild though temperatures will hit 12 to 15 degrees Celsius this afternoon which is good so we'll have a few showers but we'll get some sunshine and the temperatures will hit around 12 hey that that's good we can live with that now you will be aware that hamza yusuf has been elected as the new leader of the scottish national party he will go on to become scotland's youngest first minister he will also be the first uh muslim and member of an ethnic minority to be first minister of scotland and i'm delighted to say i am now joined on zoom by uh neil slater who is a former director of learning and teaching at the open university uh neil good morning to you good morning you have obviously been keeping it close eye on what's been happening since the resignation of nicolas dirgin and the election yesterday of hamza yusuf is it today he officially becomes first minister he's already officially the leader of the smp and i've forgotten whether it's today or it's very imminent anyway yeah i mean he will be ratified once once they sit in hollywood it'll be a formality he will be ratified once once hollywood sits um you you've obviously been been keeping it close eye on what's been happening and i'm sure you've been monitoring the election quite closely uh this wasn't really a surprise i mean he was pretty much in in the driver's seat it was believed by many right right from the off well it could have been kate forbes and in fact the result was very close it was a bit like the brexit vote in the uk it was 48 percent for kate forbes and 52 for hamza yusuf so that was actually very close and it could have easily gone to her from the end uh in terms of nicolas dirgin though she had developed quite a reputation and quite a presence over the years she's going to be a very hard act to follow oh absolutely and uh hamza yusuf is young he's 37 and relatively uh inexperienced i suppose in life but uh he has been in the government for quite a long time he's had a number of different jobs justice secretary health secretary so he's got a fair bit of experience there's no doubt that sturgeon is going to be an extremely hard act to follow yes as you say he has been health minister now health care as as is the case in many places here here included health care not not in the best state health minister sometimes there was a former health minister here once described that position of as the angola of of irish politics i'm sure it's not all that much different in order yes i think that's right especially with um problems of not enough staff as you've got in ireland uh the wages salaries are not high enough perhaps to attract a lot of people we've got immigration issues controlled by the uk government so we can't actually get enough people in sometimes and the budgets are uh not high enough arguably and the health the health of the population uh is not great in scotland uh with an aging population as well so we we do need a lot of work and health sector the one of the problems for scotland is that uh ultimately our budgets are really controlled by the uk government and we don't have the ability to raise our own um loans government loans so even if we wanted to improve the health a lot we're kind of at the mercy of what is doled out to us by west minister nicolas dirgeant had the reputation of being someone that was listened to and when she went to west minister she went to west minister with an air of authority she went to west minister with an air of equality and she went to west minister and sat down and looked successive british prime ministers in the eye and said i have a message for you and i'm going to deliver it to you and i'm going to deliver it to you as an equal and she very much had that sense of authority in her dealings with the pms and others is homes you're so going to have any difficulty getting that same sense of authority getting that same sense of presence i think he will initially because uh despite having been in government for quite a few years now he's still a bit of an unknown quantity uh first minister's question time which happens every week in in the scottish parliament is a pretty ruthless uh business and i don't know how he's going to stand up to that exactly to the the uh questioning that he's going to get from the conservative members in particular uh so especially because the record of health hasn't been perhaps as great as it might have been he's going to be hammered every week uh on the the what he's done in the past so whether he'll be able to uh stand up to rishi sunak and some of the other people he's going to come into contact with i don't know he's apparently got a reputation as a as a nice guy and i think that's why the green party is prepared to work with him but also because of his more progressive views than the other candidates so things like ldbt uh rights uh the trans issue that we've had a lot of discussion of recently in scotland uh he's pretty much on the more liberal uh left wing side of those debates so he will come into a lot of conflict with the more conservative more right wing elements in the uk government and how you stand up to that i i think remains to be seen because being nice is a great thing but it's not necessarily the quality that's going to get you the the credibility to lead a country finally in terms of independence niclas sturgeon had made it quite clear she was seeking another independence referendum and it was not going to take no for an answer will humza yusuf uh pursue that with the same vigor and with the same sense of purpose to cheat it i think you'll have to because he's uh in the uh the leadership of the scottish national party that's the raison d'etre of the s n p is to go for independence so if he's going to keep the membership on board he's going to have to do something about that but whether he'll uh manage to i don't know i mean we're in the subsurred position now in scotland of having to ask the uk government if we can please have a referendum to find out if we want to be independent or not uh and of course the uk government is saying no um so about half the scottish people seem to want independence in the other half are not convinced and i don't know how we actually move forward on that and what humza yusuf's plans are to do that it's been a pleasure new thank you very much indeed for for speaking to us on the program this morning thank you very much thank you that's new they're speaking to us news later former director of learning and teaching at the open university in scotland time in highland ready was actually approaching a minute to 10 o'clock it's uh time's catching up on us almost time for news so we are going to very shortly be saying good morning to mcaleb clock um so please do stand by for that and we'll be with you for the second half of the show once we've had the news and the obituary notices show the monday blues the door kicked him into touch banish them for good 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time when we need action in relation to housing and that is what the government is focused on well dunagall county council jerry mcmonagall fears the ending of the eviction ban coupled with the lack of social houses and high rents will lead to more people becoming homeless in dunagall he was speaking after the draft homeless action plan for the northwest was presented to councillors yesterday the plan sets out four strategic aims to tackle homelessness in the region counter mcmonagall says the plan has potential but needs to be adequately resourced i think the right policies are there it's about providing support and pathways back from homelessness to being back to having a riff over your head but what's needed is for that to be resourced our housing department within council are already overburdened with the amount of housing issues that we're dealing with at least of all the mega situation letter kenny has been recommended as one of five regional centres in the country for development at least 60 000 new homes could be built on land already owned by the state across the country the finding is contained in a new report from the land development agency set to be published today it's identified land in dublin cork limrick gallway in waterford which could provide for around 60 000 new affordable homes five regional centres in total are also recommended for development in sly goat letter kenny dun dog drawre and athloan however the lda says there are still obstacles to unlocking state land for housing the full hearing of enog berks dispute with his former employer will since hospital school in county west meath begins in court today the teacher refused to refer to a transgender student by a new name and pronouns last year and claims he was suspended and ultimately dismissed from the church of arnan skill for this reason the skill denies that and claims it was because of his behaviour which they find a minded to gross misconduct mr berk is expected to call three senior church of arnan clerics to give evidence in relation to his argument that transgenderism goes against his religious beliefs court's correspondent frank grini says it's very hard to predict an item but it has been set down for four days which is quite a long time for a case like this but it is complicated it is complex what's interesting about this is you know i feel like an enog berk correspondent these past few months there have been so many cases in relation to this but this is the main event because enog berk chose to run his case a little bit differently than you would normally see in the sense that he went after the injunctions first funding has been confirmed for the hsc to carry out a feasibility study of the site proposed for the lyford community nursing unit the site is part of a council own plot of land on the ice skirts of lyford which will also see social housing and business units developed there counter jerry quafford says this is very significant that will allow for a full capital submission to be submitted and on the hsc's own words this is very positive news i agree with that lyford community hospital has been an agenda for very many years now very very often on a negative light very strongly supported and cornered thought by the friends of lyford hospital and myself have raised it on numerous occasions as hsc it's something we just won't let go of and this seems to be a very positive step the dunigold donkeys sanctuary has launched a fundraising campaign as it is running dangerously low on supply 98 donkeys are currently being cared for at the facility with an additional 37 waiting to be housed there manager of the dunigold donkeys sanctuary danie currents as they have been facing additional pressures over the past number of years since the pandemic we've seen an increase in the number of donkeys coming to us you know you've got the the pandemic and the cost of loving crisis we're taking a lot of donkeys now from you know house repossessions and you know marriage breakups and people immigrating and then we always have the cruelty cases going on as well weather night cloudy and wet this morning with up wrecks of rain highest temperatures today of 13 or 14 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this Tuesday morning march the 20th the death has taken place of patrick j don harry don leary county dublin and formerly of chur moth county dunigold reposing at karnagy's funeral home mongstown county dublin today from two o'clock until four o'clock funeral mass tomorrow morning at nine o'clock in st john's church montaigne dunneary followed by burial in secret heart church yard moth county dunigold at around four o'clock the death has taken place of aamon ferry karnamoga opart letter kenny remains reposing at his home funeral mass tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in st cathron's church octerlin with burial afterwards in rath mullen cemetery family time please from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow the death has taken place of philmina morrison 22 colnick hill remelton remains reposing at her home funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in st joseph's church rath mullen burial afterwards in rath mullen cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on mcm media family time from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow the death has occurred in london england of joe long formerly mean carrigate ballet buffet funeral will take place in london england tomorrow a memorial mass will be celebrated in the church of mary and macklitt strunowler tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock the mass will be streamed live by the parish webcam the death has taken place of hugh holly fisher molla via port new remains reposing at his late residence funeral from there a quarter past 10 this morning to st connell's church kilclini for 11 o'clock recreation mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery hugh's funeral mass can be viewed live and shovlin's funeral home at facebook page the death has taken place of michael joseph stream 223 ross sully all-time letter kenny funeral from the eternal light chapel of rest mountain top letter kenny this morning at half past 10 for recreation mass in st junan's cathedral at 11 o'clock while by interment and comwall cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has occurred of molly burn nick gallin raria new mills and formerly of mina ray killie gordon remains reposing at her late residence funeral this afternoon at 1 o'clock in st junan's cathedral letter kenny with burial afterwards in the family plot in comwall cemetery family flage only molly's funeral mass can be viewed live at church services dot tv the death has taken place of mary ellen warsky warsky shop the mall remelton reposing at the family home milford road remelton family time before the funeral this morning funeral mass this morning 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wary of now my my understanding would be that humza yosef and and mishie sunak would be from slightly different traditions and leo veradker his family would be from a very different tradition again now i'm sure if you ask leo veradker where he's from he's going to tell you he's from dublin and you know so you know it's always it's i think what it is is that we are seeing a multicultural society develop and there's an argument that says we're all the better for it that we have lots of perspectives we've lots of traditions and we're getting a situation where we're developing far more understanding of the world far more understanding of ourselves and i think the more we understand the world the more we understand ourselves so maybe it's a very good thing that that's happening now caller says two headlines in the journal dot ie the first as you mentioned a family of eight is physically thrown out under the street by a sinister group the second is an ex-finafoil politician gets a write down of 4.4 billion euro on his debts there can't be a more glaring example of the horrendous inequalities in our country so says a caller arlene arkinson and mary boil two terrible tragedies that someone somewhere could help to soothe the awful trauma being suffered by both families may they rest in peace all one can say to that is amen and another caller says best wishes to danie and the donkey sanctuary they are fabulous caring animal saviours uh another says someone says oh sorry i'm i'm not doing that sorry i'm not doing that um and another caller says just wondering if you know anyone in the locality with the cure for a sprained ankle there was a man in sligo but he passed away um and that's from a caller um i'll be honest um i have had a sprained ankle and i have found the cure is raise it up and rest it um if if there is someone that has a cure for a sprained ankle we would love to hear from you okay it's uh 30 minutes past 10 time for the bingo numbers so if you play uh ncbi 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security 91 26025 this is the 90 noon show on the highland radio it's a tuesday morning it's just gone quarter past 10 which means it is time for our community gar the information slot and delighted to say we're joined this morning by gar the sergeant union walsh union good morning very well indeed um union can you just pull that microphone down a little bit closer to your arm and just take it a bit closer to there you're sounding about that's an awful lot better that that's that's the ground union a couple of things to get through this morning so we'll go straight into it starting off um fairly recently actually just this week a burglary in moth yes uh donald garry in in munkranna are investigating a burglary which occurred in the calderi lane area of moth on saturday night sunday morning past sort of in sunday morning the 26th of march at approximately 4 30 a.m entry to a private dwelling was gained through a downstairs window and a safe containing a substantial amount of money was stolen from it in the house so we're appealing for anybody who may have witnessed any suspicious activity in the area uh around that time that's sunday morning 26 sunday past at 4 30 a.m to contact the gar the munkranna 07493 20540 and again anybody traveling in the area around that time who has dash cam footage we'd ask them to make it available to the gar the munkranna and again the gar the confidential line can also be reached at 1 800 treble six treble one a number of assaults that you're seeking information about the first of them on main street in milford yes this is assault uh which occurred uh donal on main street milford last wednesday the 22nd uh at approximately 11 45 p.m outside the license premises uh we believe the man has been assaulted at location where he received a substantial injuries to his head and hand fortunately none of which are believed to be life threatening and again if anybody witnessed the incident or any information in relation to assault to contact the gar the at milford 07491 53060 another incident which happened in the before area yes this assault which happened on one of the 27th uh at 8 55 a.m so early in the morning a dispute took place between two males in the area of the main street um one of the males was physically assaulted again injuries were sustained but fortunately not life threatening in nature so again any witnesses or anybody who've heard anything or seen anything to come forward to contact the garady at let the kenny 07491 6700 or again anybody in the area who has dashcam it was passed near to make it available to us guardian munkranna are investigating the theft of a ride on more and that took place in burn foot last week yes between monday the 13th and thursday the 16th so the week before last at illa beg burn foot a a ride on more was stolen the more is a cubota gr 1600 a ride on more bright orange in color so fairly distinctive with a serial number of three six three six two six so bright and orange in color has a flat tire on the front right hand side and damage to the handle on the rear tipper there was a bar in the tipper twisted so again fairly distinctive so anybody comes across a similar type more for sale or even offered for sale please alert the garady and munkranna immediately and again any other relevant information in relation to the theft to contact the garady at munkranna 07493 20540 or again the confidential line is available 1800 treble six treble one staying in in its own and we have an incident of criminal damage in munkranna itself yes this occurred last sunday the 13th at approximately 10 10 p.m in the london area of munkranna a white mini car was parked at the location near the filling station in london and we are aware the two males who were unfoot dressed in dark tracksuits with their hoods up made their way over to the car and caused damage to the four tires so again two males on foot dark clothing with hoods up so we're appealing to anybody who traveled along that busy stretch of road at london around the time and a may have dashcam to make the footage available to garady at munkranna or again anybody saw two males in the area acted suspiciously again to contact the garady at munkranna 07493 20540 an incident of criminal damage in the lifford area yes this is a substantial damage is caused to house in the beachwood grove area of lifford on tuesday 21st of march front window off the house was damaged and substantial damage to the front door and fortunately entry was not gained to the house although we believe some attempt was made to get into the house so again we're appealing to residents in the area or anybody who saw i think suspicious to contact the garady at letter kenny 0749167 100 so that's the criminal damage incident at beachwood grove lifford last tuesday the 21st of march one 10 p.m and an incident in the old town area of letter kenny sunday just passed yes this is another substantial damage to a house also in the old town area of letter kenny sunday past saturday night sunday morning so approximately five a.m to five ten a.m the window of the front porch of the house was smashed by a what we believe is a young male who at the time was wearing dark clothing white trainers and again with the hood up so the youth left on foot in direction of the letter kenny town towards the old town bridge so if anybody was traveling in that area at the time or again has dash cam to make it available to the garady so that's a young male wearing dark clothing white trainers and a hood up sunday morning past at approximately five ten a.m and obviously anyone with information about any of those incidents we've just outlined there as well as contacting the local garther station if they wish they can also contact the the garther confidential line 1800 666111 now people will have heard on radio and seen on tv and in their papers the latest garther group and competition opened late last week and uh the the adverts appearing regularly here and elsewhere it's a very big recruitment campaign it is have you seen the ads have you i haven't even pressed or i'm quite impressed actually yeah they're good ads i mean it's it's an interesting message i mean the message being it's a job worth doing you know it's sort of focusing on that sort of the the role of the garady within the community and it's going beyond just a detective and solving crime it's it's going into that community role that that you weren't tempted no um i did i put it this way i did the exam at the same time as my brother in 1981 um i was invited for interview but i also got another college place so i took that my brother was invited for interview and i think he's got 32 year service now he's still in the job he's still in the job oh very good very good so yes as you said the recruitment campaign opened last week and again anybody interested in in playing for a garady shikana can do so at www.publicjobs.ie and you must apply before 3 p.m on 14th of april 2023 is it's a hope to recruit a thousand new garady before the end of the year so the competition uh donals been run by the public appointment service on behalf of garady shikana and as you said the recruitment campaign is along the tag then it's a job worth doing and gone live across tv national and local print and outdoors since the 24th of march so the campaign is based on insights from garady and features real life examples from individual garady throughout the country again it seems to show the nature of the job working 4 a.m making arrests physical activity as well as the significant personal social benefits as engaging with communities arresting criminals helping victims of crime and of course the camaraderie that we have in our organization so on the public jobs that the website there is a candidate information booklet which uh deals with the selection process and what's involved to become a member of garady shikana and also a recruitment open day will take place in the garady boat club island bridge dublin on saturday saturday week to 8 of april from 10 a.m to 2 p.m and again a variety of sections of our organization will be showcased on the day and information assistance with the recruitment process will be provided again it might be a bit far for people running all to travel so we'll be having here all information stands and career related events at shopping centers and other areas over the coming weeks and again anybody who's wants to join or thinking of trying to contact the local garady station speak to local guard again call in maybe how i know people who've joined previously have also been provided with a look around the station to see what's involved and speak to some of the specialist units and other parties in the station yeah it's certainly one that you would advise anyone you know to have a think about because it it is as they say a worthwhile profession and the role of the girl that a hugely important yes and there are just there is a facility if you're currently studying for a degree or whatever in your final year and you're considering joining there is a facility to you to apply and hold off on your your acceptance until you finish your your degree course yep all that information publicjobs.ie and as as you said they're calling to your local garady station uh sometimes nothing beats just having a chat with someone and just sitting down and saying listen what's the story here exactly and people will be only too delighted too visited that you know pleasure as always thank you very much and well thanks for having me this morning thank you and we will see you again that's a sergeant union mulch there that was our community garady slot on highland radio uh we're going to take a short break back after these if you have magic moments or great memories sitting on your phone or in the cloud have them printed at mcgee's chemist letter kenny get larger seven by five prints for the same as six by fours 35 millimeter and film from 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treatments dermal fillers and laser treatments for all skin conditions hair and makeup packages also available janis's aesthetics and skincare clinic adore zero seven four nine five three two five seven five this is the ryan til ninja on highland radio let's look at some of your comments and one or two comments that have been held over from yesterday cyclists cycle side by side so they can chat to each other but surely with today's technology they can have earpieces and mics to chat and stay in single file that's the perspective of one of our colours we spoke to a representative of the cycle safety organisation yesterday um caller says the eviction ban was illegal terrible law every landlord will sell and only the mega landlords we actually did that one and not necessarily i would like to hear the landlord's side of the story about that eviction what if the tenants were not paying the rent and therefore the landlord could not afford to pay back their mortgage and the bank threatened repossession there are some nightmare tenants out there as well who hide behind the rights of their children to take advantage of the law and that is absolutely the case that is correct but what i would say to that is there are procedures in place and from what we know about what happened in bundoran there was no procedure followed whatsoever so in the case of bad tenants in the case of money owing there are procedures there and as far as we can see from what we know of the incident in bundoran i am not aware of any procedure whatsoever being followed now we're going to talk about the eviction ban and homelessness because as i said earlier on don't you go to county council yesterday adopted its plan for dealing with homelessness in the county and the council also passed a motion that was moved by councillor albert doherty uh basically calling on the government to retain the eviction ban now we're joined online by two councillors councillor jerry mcmonagall who spoke on the homelessness issue and councillor albert doherty who was the councillor that moved that motion calling on the government to retain the eviction ban councillor albert doherty i'll go to you first a very good morning to you good morning to one more good morning and councillor jerry mcmonagall good morning to you as well uh good morning oh no good morning to all of us as well um albert i'll go to yourself first as i said um you moved the motion and and councillor adopted it that you're calling on the government to retain the eviction ban realistically speaking um the government having reached the decision it reached last week and and got through the doll with it realistically the government is not going to change its mind based on what's coming to it from donningall county council but maybe so there are two national um matters that will uh government will have to deal with uh this week one from the labour party and one from sinfane as you say there may be no change but last night and yesterday evening i appealed to my colleagues and referred to my colleagues in donningall county council to um whole issue over the eviction ban it was there and it was designed to protect tenants who met their obligations tenants who paid their rent tenants who adhered to agreements just no fault evictions and we in in a particular county affected with the defective block issue um we have the impact of 88 eviction notices coming into forward in donningall on saturday next and my appeal was to put this to the front desk of minister o'brain and to say yes up here it's different we're facing the defective block issue we're facing a lack of supply we're hosting hundreds and hundreds of visitors from ukraine and uh those involved with ipass and we have not had the supply and the country the government themselves were saying that they still have to uh put in some features that will mitigate the worst impacts of the bans removal we have three days they have three days so it's not going to happen and i think the eviction ban it has to be retained councillor jerry mcmonagle you obviously supported your your party colleague on that in lyford yesterday you also spoke at length on that homelessness policy one of the points you've been racing over the past while at meetings is that of modular homes you uh moved an emergency motion uh some months ago late last year calling on dara o'brain to consider modular homes as a stopgap measure as councillor albert has pointed out within a matter of days we will have people facing evictions but still even though we are in need of a short-term solution both to problems with evictions and problems with homelessness not to mention problems with defective block homeowners the reality is the government is showing no uh inclination to move toward modular homes and no uh alternatives with regards to a short-term solution that's correct don't know uh and i i don't think any right-thinking person can understand the government's stance on uh lifting this eviction ban and how it's going to help and assist those who are affected by mica and whose homes are being demolished as we speak uh we have known for quite a while now and we're bringing in motions at dunnegull county council and indeed our housing spokesperson o'brain has been bringing in several uh uh motions to the the doll in relation to how we could address the growing housing shortage and this is falling on deaf ears the government's attempts to address the housing shortage has failed miserably and all the initiatives that they have tried to introduce and it's because they aren't putting the effort into it they aren't thinking about it they're just coming up with ideas off the top of their heads if you ask me and and trying to say yes look we have the housing for all we have uh the derelict uh housing grants and but there's no substance to it it does not be sourced and for anybody to access uh any of these grants or any of these initiatives it's it's taken an extraordinary left of time and while this is happening there's no uh new social houses being built and the private sector has all but stopped and i'd be like dunnegull so we're in a fantastic storm here and we've seen yesterday with the report uh that was given by eamon brown in relation to the homeless action plan going forward the difficulties that we have we currently have 2,700 uh people on the housing list in and cutting down the gall half of those are being served by the private sector and now a lot up to 88 people are facing the fiction notices as from uh this weekend and we have nowhere nowhere to cut these people we have no emergency accommodation and we have no uh social houses which are available to house these families and we've seen what happened last night uh the night before and in relation to bond doing we're a family of six we're put out onto the street in the middle of the night and this is what's going to be happening in the short term and this is what's going to be happening in the long term until we put together a proper housing policy for one of the one of the points being made by government is that we have what they're calling the tenant in situ plan whereby local authorities will be given clearance in cases where someone is facing eviction and the house is going up for sale that the council can buy the house with the tenant in situ and that the council will continue to rent the house to the tenant has done you go county council received any formal notification of that scheme and has done you go county council received any indication from government as to what level of resources and what level of money is going to be given to the council to allow it to implement that scheme because at the moment from what we're hearing from Dublin it seems to be very heavy on policy but very light on actual resources and and this is the problem the policies might be there but they aren't being resourced in relation to the tenants in situ i've spoke to our director of housing and housing staff and asked them is it the case that as from next monday if a tenant who is being evicted from the home and it's up for sale are we in position just don't go county council in the position to buy that home and the response like that was not very positive it was look there's a lot of questions that still have to be answered by the department there's a lot of eyes have to be dotted and teeth have to be crossed and that they were recently there at on friday past and resume with the department and all of the directors of housing from across the state were there in every county and they were far from happy at what they're being told so there is still a lot of work to be done or not and while some houses have been bought it is still not clear it's just coming out of the the major urban areas into the likes of Donegal mayo litrium slag and we still have not got a pathway to going in and being able to buy these houses where the tenant in situ is being effective. Albert Doherty going back to you and as a councillor and shown who's been working closely with many people affected by defective blocks you know that there's been a huge gap between a policy being enacted in the doll and then that policy being actualized and resourced by the department of housing. We've seen legislation go through the doll and a year later still nothing really happening at department level on the back of that legislation is it your fear that the tenant in situ scheme will go the same way that the government will make a big announcement but the department of housing will allow it to become completely mired in bureaucracy. It is my feeling that Longfinger approached me again result the language used in my reply received yesterday was that in relation to tenant in situ the local authorities are encouraged to purchase homes that's not good enough they must be instructed know that they are these mitigation circumstances are in place that they cannot instruct councils to buy. I mean minister Kaleri advising that Daryl Breen pleaded with her chief executives to act positively to increase the housing purchase throughout the different local authorities. I haven't seen in black and white the word instruction that's what's required not encouragement yes everybody wants to resolve but we need to have the proper legislation in place that enables our council to purchase houses that begins to increase supply and yesterday in the chamber in Lifford there was excellent support all around but we asked where is our town regeneration officer and action and why are we having so so long to wait on the enhanced scheme in relation to defective block Donnie Gall we're on the Longfinger and we need an immediate response that allows supply and a resolution to this overdue enhanced scheme that's awaited in the country. Well the the answer you were given and councillor McMonagall a similar answer was given to questions at the letter Kenny Milford MD just some weeks ago when the question was asked about the the vacant homes officer and the town development officer we're told the town development officer is in situ and is transitioning into the role and the vacant homes officer final interviews are taking place this week and it's hoped that position is going to be offered shortly so we will hopefully in the not too distant future have a vacant homes officer and a town development officer in place and both of those will be working closely particularly in the area of dereliction now dereliction on the agenda for a lot of yesterday's meeting in Lifford dereliction also on the agenda at the various municipal district meetings as well but I mean in in terms of taking derelict houses and bringing them back into use the problem here is the same as we've already discussed it's going to take some time for that to happen and it's not going to be done particularly by next Monday when this whole issue with the eviction ban is going to start kicking in. That's absolutely true and they will need to be properly resourced they will need to be properly supported with legislation of what they can do we will need a carrot and a big stick approach we need an incentive for people to become involved in the town regeneration and we need also encouragement incentive and resources as well to allow for the dereliction story to be confronted and we do want to put life back in our town centres, village centres and there's so much to be done there and the sooner we have our resourced support to commence this in the county the better. Jeremy Morgan can I put a point to you because we've had a caller make a point and it's been made on several occasions both here and elsewhere as well right across the country nationally as well as locally someone saying very often when we speak of landlords we're speaking as though they were vulture funds we're speaking as though they were big evil multinational corporations out to suck the money from communities causing the reality is in many cases a landlord particularly in an area like Dilligual a landlord is a local person that has a second home who is renting out that second home and all the pressure being put on landlords at the moment all the pressures from the eviction ban and everything else is going to make many of those reconsider sell their houses and get out of the game and one of the problems is that the more pressure you put on landlords the more they're likely to say to hell with this I'm out and they'll just leave and there'll be fewer properties available to rent on the private market I would hope not don't know and my experience and I've rented a brief two houses in better county over the years have been in it I've always had a very good relationship with the landlords they've always been quite good up front trying to help an assist you in every way they could and I would like to think that that would continue but unfortunately there is the vulture type funds who have multiple dwellings and they are not as good a landlord as the local landlord as you've described us and we we do see that there and we would like to help and support those local people who have maybe bought a second home put up a family home for rent and it's providing a fantastic accommodation for local people and for the students that come to letter Kenny and attend ATU and that's to be very much welcomed and as I say in the norm that in the main that there is a good relationship and a good example but there is the the vulture funds and they're coming more and more into this and there is the the multiple house owners who maybe have taken on more than they can they can chew at times and sometimes they're the service they give slips but for the ordinary every day we understand that fully and fully support them as I say my experience has been quite a good one with them but there is others who have multiple home ownership and the vulture fund it is not as a good experience as well would be for the landlord who is one of maybe two houses and the other problem that we have here I don't know I'm trying to get out of this homelessness situation and housing shortage is that the banks and the lending institutions are refusing to lend money to people who maybe are looking to invest and building more and new houses and also in and turning their their like homes into homes for use again for by families and individuals and banks need to set up and take those of us they have a role and a part to play in this rebuilding as well and and they get enough from us and have got enough of us down through the years and it wasn't the ordinary but just one person on the street to bankrupt the banks they need to be stepping up the plate here and making funds available for people to borrow to be able to utilize their their derelict properties and bring them back into use and for contractors to be able to buy new homes as well as well. And finally Councillor Albert Doherty, Donegal County Council locally as well as government nationally have a very big job of work to do now in in the coming weeks and months to to do what they can to alleviate and address the housing crisis and as we always say in this county we have that added pressure of work being done on homes affected by defective blocks and the perfect storm in Donegal and that phrase used on a number of occasions at the meeting in Lifford last evening the perfect storm is going to be that right at the time we have this huge crisis in terms of availability of rental properties we also have many many homeowners will be looking for alternative temporary accommodation while their homes are being demolished and rebuilt or being made made good in in in other areas so we have this situation where there is this added pressure on Donegal and as both you and Councillor Jerry have said that doesn't appear to be Ondaro O'Brien's raider and he doesn't appear to be reacting in the way that really as a minister with responsibility for this he should. Yes Donegal and the last item with Contra and McMonigal the the small land the small landlord is the jewel and the crown it's the person who is providing the much needed housing supply at the moment and there needs to be appropriate incentives there and if there's tax implications that can be lightened or reduced then that's important also the experience that I've had over last summer for one individual to be released from the Latter-Kinney University Hospital we couldn't locate one suitable property for that person that would enable that would enable him to leave hospital and have an appropriate roof over his head in our own situation in Cardona we faced an autumn marriage has passed where because a landlord considered not extending his leasing there was implications for six or seven local families and it caused tensions it caused stress it resulted in Christmas decorations not going up it resulted in Santa not being able to receive letters and that uncertainty over this inability or not wish to lease again these are all implications and as you mentioned now with a housing supply we don't seem to be Ondaro O'Brien's raider and that's why yesterday when I took forward that motion on the eviction ban to be extended that was Donegal saying until we have a suitable number of supply of housing and housing facilities this ban has to be extended we gave her message yesterday I'm not too hopeful that Minister Daryl Brain has his ears open to the people of Donegal and we may have to send a further message at another time in a different way. Thank you very much both of you for speaking to us this morning there is no doubt in my mind we will be discussing this issue again in the not too distant future and we will be discussing this issue frequently on the program no no doubt at all but for the moment Jerry Albert thank you both very much indeed that's a councillor's Jerry McMonegal and Albert Doherty there it's time for a short break back after this. I can't wait to dust off the golf club. I can't wait to dust off the golf club! Or maybe I get some R&R in the spa. We could book in some paddle board. Or maybe kayak in this time the kids would love that. There's loads of great options for dinner and drinks. The main question is what do we do first? Create moments to remember find great value breaks at visitardsandnorthdown.com slash offers. There's nothing like a full Irish from done stores. Rashers, two packs for four euro. Sausages, eight for one euro. Beautiful bread toasted and topped with quality butter. 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However, it'll brighten up in the afternoon. We'll have some sunny spells, some showers as well. After a blustery start with moderate to fresh and gusty south to southwest winds, that too will ease. It'll be mild this afternoon. We're told with top temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees celsius. So that permanent drizzle is going to go. The wind's going to ease. We're going to hit 15 degrees celsius and we're going to have some sunny spells. Let's be optimistic. We'll be walking on the sunny side of the street before today is out. Now, I want to go to Anna Doherty, who is the CEO of London Dairy Chamber and Anna joins us on Zoom. Anna, a very good morning to you. Good morning, Donal. Anna, a very important initiative coming up in the Innishawn Gateway Hotel, a business brief, a breakfast briefing on cross-border tax. Still a huge issue in this region. Yes, absolutely. So this is an event that we run in collaboration with the Lettokennie Chamber, obviously our friends across the border. And in association with CB Pears, which is the cross-border partnership for employment services, which is a partnership which works across the border region, across the whole of Northern Ireland, plus Cabin, Donalville, Leecham, Laos, Monaghan and Slido in the south. And really is operating to help facilitate free movement of those who want to work on either side of the border. And we've had many discussions recently, particularly after the pandemic, when the word glitches came up in the law, which meant that someone living in the Republic and working in Northern Ireland couldn't work from home in the Republic. And that proved quite an issue. And that proved quite a lengthy discussion with the Finance Minister. I think that one has been slightly resolved, but perhaps not fully resolved. And there are still some outstanding issues like that, which I'm sure will come up for discussion. Absolutely. That will be covered, certainly, Donal. And we have our tax expert, Rose Tierney. She will be coming in to explain all of the issues and bring everybody up to date, because it's such a changing situation. And as you say, there have been lots of issues like that. For workers, like myself, actually, interestingly, I live in a show and work in Derry. And so, yes, that working from home issue is high on everybody's agenda. I mean, we know there are literally thousands of people who do exactly that. I mean, I think your counterpart, and that is Kenny, is the exact opposite. Actually, if I'm correct in the way I'm thinking. In terms of people registering for that, London Derry Chamber.co.uk registration is advised on that. And in fact, as far as I understand it, this isn't a walk-in event. You do want people to register first. We do, Donal, very much so. And it's open to both employees who are working cross-border and employers. So there'll be information for both. It's totally free. And as you say, it's a breakfast event at the Inner Show and Gateway Hotel hosted there. So it'll be from 8.30 in the morning till 10. And you can register on our website. And it's Thursday, the 18th of May. It's a little bit of a distance away yet, but it's worth planning for, because as we said, this is a major issue. It affects workers, but it also affects employers as well. And employers, particularly those with their workers welfare in mind, which all employers obviously will have. Important for employers too, particularly those who may have a lot of cross-border workers, just to know exactly where they stand. Because I mean, ultimately, in many cases, in PAYE, it's the employers or the ones who are going to try and traverse this minefield and figure out exactly how much they should be charging everybody on behalf of the state. Exactly. And as things are changing so much, and the fallout continues to happen after Brexit, and there are changes, keep coming down the line. And as I say, Rose Tierney is right on top of that. And she'll be able to advise employers and employees. Excellent. Anna Doherty, CEO of the London Dairy Chamber. Thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning. Thank you, Donal. And as we say, you can register londonderichamber.co.uk to register for that particular event. Now, I want to share with you a rather lengthy email that came into the show, but it's one that does bear some discussion. Carlos says, Greg, I was listening to your show last week. I came across a section on an instance complained about two carers that called to her home to implement care. You read a lady's complaint about two particular carers not wanting to do their jobs and just wanting to get paid or not show up. You stated the person who wrote the complaint said she was afraid to complain about it and be threatened with her care package being withdrawn. She is entitled to complain without being threatened. This shouldn't be the case. They cannot do this. Can you readdress this on your show? The lady can complain to the HSC. Have your say.ie. The text you read resonated with me as I have had a similar issue with two particular carers. I have a mother who I care for with dementia, bipolar, hard of hearing. We have a sit-in service as well as three visits per day for her personal care, such as shower, incontinence, and any other needs. I had a few breaches in her care plan. My mother's care plan stated there needed to be two carers three times a day. Her care plan is broken in 45 minutes in the morning, 30 in the afternoon, and 30 at night. She wasn't getting that. What should have been 45 minutes in the morning was turning into between six and 10 minutes and out the door again on most days. That's six to 10 minutes out of 45 to get her changed, into the shower, hair washed, dried, and redressed. My mother, as I mentioned, has dementia, bipolar, hard of hearing. She was being rushed. At times, only one of them was turning up and still implementing care in under 10 minutes, signing both carers' names on the designated care log. Her plan stated there's supposed to be two people present on each visit. Luckily, we had CCTV outside the house. Therefore, I went back on CCTV to check out the timings of the care plan. I was able to prove the breaches were happening to the HSC using video footage. It was the same two people doing it all the time when I wasn't present. The person who contacted you needs to get this addressed about those two carers that were causing trouble for her. That person shouldn't be afraid to voice her complaint and concerns about these carers if they have an attitude of just being there for the money and electing the client. They should not be in that line of work. Maybe the Home Health Office doesn't know this is happening. There are a couple of things the person can do. She needs to get a hold of her care plan and see how much time her loved one is allocated by the Home Health Office. She can phone the office in Lifford and ask to speak to the line manager or someone who is above them to voice that complaint. She's entitled to do so, particularly if she's receiving a service from them that she's not happy with. There is a complaints department in the HSC. You can write to haveyoursay.ie. You should get a very quick reply. That issue will then be investigated. If you're not then happy, you can contact Consumer Services Office at .ch01 at hsc.ie. The outcome of my situation was they contacted me by phone first and apologised for what was happening. Then they changed the staff, the brand new staff. They then sent me a detailed report of which my complaint was upheld. If you're not happy with those solutions, you can contact the ombudsman at www.ombudsman.ie. Thank you very much indeed to the listener who emailed this in. 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Very well indeed, thank you David you've seen this picture I'm sure it's to say the least it's distressing Yeah well I suppose Donald since that picture has arisen there's actually a litany of racist graffiti spray painted across the estate and actually it's actually more explicitly violent than what you just mentioned there now talks about gun violence and so on which is extremely extremely disturbing and no human being should be subjected to that and I think first and foremost when we're talking about this Donald it's really important to remember that there's actually people behind this there's people that live there have lived there for many years from ethnic minority backgrounds yes there is newly arrived people people seeking asylum and refuge and so on staying for more in horrendous situations and these are the messages that are spray painted and very overtly there to see toward these individuals and clean and simple Donald it meets every criteria for the definition of overt racism you know towards the black community of explicitly says black individuals and I completely as I think equality project and as a professional working within the think equality project and as a member of the travel community I completely condemn them kind of acts and it's very upsetting to see I think a majority of people in the response on social media and in that community are condemnate and are very upset to see that it has been done by a small minority of individuals within that community you know are there any indications as to who is behind this and is there anything in terms of being able to make reports to Gar thee that that perhaps we'll be able to get something done about this on a legal level yes so I was contacting the think equality project is situated within the Donegal intercultural platforms offices and we have very good relations with the community Gareth Sharon and Brenda in particular so I was speaking to Brenda this morning and just to see and liaison with the Gareth Chicana in terms of you know to an investigation because it most definitely is a hate crime and you know there's an insinuation and I'm threatened of violence within that Donal but I think what's really important to say as well Donal is that on the 21st of March was the UN day for the elimination of race discrimination and we as they're going to go into cultural platform collaboration with Think Quality are now a reporting centre so we've also reported to ENA which is the Irish Network Against Racism where you can make reports about racist incidents that happened happened around the country and I think it's really important for any individuals those who witness it you don't have to experience it Donal, if you witness racism happen that you can come into our offices at the St Oliver-Prunkett Road and we can support you in making the report and the report just goes to the ENA headquarters and they stored and they publish a report every year about the racism that happened in the country and most recently Donal from last year you know the most discriminated group to face the most racism according to their 600 reports was black African, black Irish and black other communities so it's a dire and I think Donal we have seen instances of support and goodwill have done it all towards nearly arrived individuals into the county but we do have a problem at the individual at the systemic and institutional level with racism and however crude this act was I think sometimes this overt instances of racism actually I'm hoping will open up people's eyes in terms of the the damage in discourse and movements across the country in terms of anti-Israel and anti-refugee sentiment and other forms of racism that occur within the county but also within the country you know and as you said it is heartening that so many people within the community of that area are actually coming out condemning this graffiti and supporting those who it's thought it's directed towards yes and I think Donal as a community and a county you know we must continue to work together like acts of those who are residents calling out as a collective and we must really reject racism and the expression of hate with the strength that's in our communities you know and there is strength in our communities and there is collectivity and there is people that are calling out and rightly so and I think it's really important to understand that you know when we think about the black community as well I don't know we know across the globe there's been horrific instances of violence and racist acts throughout history and it's happened contemporary and the trauma that this causes the impact of this racism on individuals and their physical and mental health you know to be subjected to instances like that as I said at the very beginning I remember the Traver community I lived in a house about three years ago and my house was graffitied and spray painted across the front of it and I had a child at the time about one year old I know as a member of a minority community how it's free to be targeted like that and I can say with every fiber of my body it is extremely damaging on who you are as an individual you've consented to your safety you've consented to your mental wellbeing you've consented about you know how do you progress through life with your ethnicity and identity and tact you know there's real human beings don't only really appeal to that there's real human beings behind it but as I said in terms of the efforts of the residents and in the Lifford area and I would be reminded of Martin Luther King he says darkness cannot drive out darkness only night can do that it cannot drive out hate only love can do that and I think we've seen an instance of that don't know in the Lifford area and I want to just you know really acknowledge the individuals that stood up and spoke out because it's not easy don't know other you know for individuals to speak out especially with the discourse that's going on across the country in terms of minority groups you know and I suppose you know it's kind of arising from that discourse but another point is don't know which I think is an important one we're talking about the eviction man we're talking about ongoing crisis in this country the crisis in this country from electricity to petrol prices to the homelessness crisis to the housing crisis is not caused by the presence of ethnic minority groups it's caused by the systemic policy failure of our government in this country you know we've had issues with healthcare housing homelessness for many years now you know and those with the power are those who sit in government you know and they have the ability to make change it's not the presence of ethnic minorities in this country or this country that is causing these crises and I think that's a really important message as well in terms of those behind this graffiti there's two ways of looking at it number one we can look at it as a couple of idiots who perhaps have got too much drink on board and they're just acting the maggot the other way of looking at it is that this is something more sinister and that the threats that are implicit and indeed explicit in what's being written are threats that people intend following up and they're doing this with sinister actions and sinister motives in mind which of the two do you believe this is? I think don't you know all we have to do is look at past experience you know when we talk about if we think about general discourse or talk among people and hateful remarks and so on and I'm not bored listening to the power amount of hate but the power amount of hate actually documents out how these things escalate if we look at what happened in mobile for the hotel that was the asylum centre at that time it was burnt down if we look at travel accommodation in this county it was burnt down you know so I don't think you know prevention's better than cure don't know and I think we need to take this very seriously and I do think you know racist graffiti we know across the globe and in this country it's threatened and oppressive and it's imbued with hatred and prejudice it's a step further don't know from just making a hateful remark or racist remark it's actually an act you know a racist crime in a sense so I don't think it's just it's just you know youngsters they heard that as well and some kind of and considerate people this took time it took thought and it took action you know so there was an intent and there was an action behind it and I think don't know you know it's escalating as I said from the sentiment the hateful remarks the comments the marches that are happening against ethnic minorities and newly arrived people to this country I think if we don't have an intervention now and we don't hear from those community leaders especially councillors and guarantee and all those with power and society and in this county everyone should be standing up and condemnant you know for the past two days don't know to be blatantly honest it's being myself and yourself hiding radio was contacted me and I just came on and spoke you know there has been there has been residents of the local area that have spoken social media but there has been no condemnation from any other group as of yet as I have seen and I could be mistaken on that so there's really a responsibility and all of us who are working towards human rights and eradicating racism and media platforms including that to stand up call it out and to make sure from the community level that there's a response and intervention put in there not just for those who are from ethnic minority groups but for the residents living in that a state don't know can you imagine the children who are able to read that you know and this is why I always say no one is born racist don't know that's a complete lie racism is taught and is taught through acts like that that's a very crude act a very overt act you know but paid for remarks and when they see graffiti young children read that and when they understand and they internalize it you know it can be it can be deployed in different ways as they move throughout their life because they've been learned to hate on the basis of difference and in this case racial difference which I think is really really upsetting and also it's really upsetting that you know with the national action plan of racism just launched you know where there's a recognition from a government that racism is a systemic and embedded issue here in Ireland and then we've actually this happened you know with the BME conclusion strategy with Donegal where organizations came together and worked really well which was then I've done a go on to cultural platform and working to eradicate racism within our society at different levels and we've actually just happened you know so I think Donal to answer your question consistently we need to take it very seriously we need to call it out and then we see an adequate response at the local and community level to acts of this because it's not acceptable and we've seen before Donal as well there was anti-Ukrainian anti-Ukrainian graffiti that was spread not so long ago as well so we're seeing things slowly but very surely starting to escalate and I think it's now we really need to get that area intervention and we can't go on when the fire is fighting when critical incidents happen the caller says I was really shocked to see just how backwards this comment is I often think of racism as microaggressions well maybe it's not microaggressions maybe it's actual overt aggression another caller says can you ask the gentlemen what we can do to help I'm disgusted and I'm what we can do to help as you say David is quite simple we speak out yes we speak out and I would say Donal you know in your home and across the dinner table it's not the most topical conversation but have a conversation at your table look at yourself and your own unconscious bias or prejudice or thoughts or values that you hold towards different communities and that goes from traitors to Roma to the Jewish community to the black community because we know Donal categorically that these things have been happening and have been deployed and this county and throughout the country for many years and what I would say to people sitting back and listening today is that you know we're not condemning everyone as racist that's not the case but we're asking people to step up and step out and start to examine one their own conscious bias but also to become allies because you've seen it's a perfect example of what happened here them actually done the residents came together they spoke out about it there was a positive response people started to stand in solidarity and we're addressing the problem we're naming it and we're addressing at that local interpersonal level which I think is really really good and shows that there is there is the need for there is the case of positive action within local communities there's people out there that want to be anti-racist and address these issues which I think is really really positive David Trillo thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you David thank you Donal have a nice day now you too pleasure as always that's David there speaking to us from thinking quality Donal Gull and a very important message and that's David there now I just want to mention the Tuesday the 28th of March at nine o'clock today is the closing date for taking part in the Skull Column Killed Parents Association Easter draw you can buy tickets online and you can do so online through the school and donate.ie as I say until nine tonight a number of prizes available including the top prize actually it's a very interesting top prize it's free orthodontic treatment for one worth up to €3,600 which is an amazing prize it's a different one but many many people seeking orthodontic treatments so that will be very very welcome for someone those tickets for the Skull Column Killed Parents Easter draw can be secured up to tonight nine o'clock online I'm sure they're being sold around the area as well and the draw then will be done shortly a couple of comments that have been coming in caller says lifting the eviction ban will cause widespread immigration caller says I've reported the sale of cocaine to my local garden station it seems nothing has been done I don't understand it and it's things like this put people off joining now I want to say congratulations to Helena congratulations to Patrick Joseph O'Donnell of Church Hill 80th birthday today Patrick Joseph have a very very happy birthday and that comes from all of us here on the 9 till noon show have a great day indeed now caller says I lived in London for 20 years the final 10 years I experienced awful racism as a white person on a daily basis this is never talked about and definitely is attributing to ongoing issues there is a divide so claims a caller do the holiday draw wait no I think this is actually yeah that that's an instruction to me that's not a comment from a listener and just want to make mention of the Highland radio holiday of a lifetime draw have you bought your tickets for the Highland radio make a draw this Easter you could win a 10,000 euro travel voucher with 5000 euro and spending money in association with Atlantic travel 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honest but it certainly is an interesting question now the caller asks can do I have to let Electric Ireland put a meter on my home so asks the caller my understanding is no my understanding is that there are smart meters being installed around the country but it is as I understand it a matter of your own choice as to whether you elect to have a smart meter installed or not and I know there is a lot of advice online I am not going to give you any advice because I have absolutely no competence to give any advice but I know certainly that there is the provision online to look it up and I know you'll get lots of advice and conflicting advice and some people telling you black is white and some people telling you that red is green no doubt about that but I mean go online read up on it come to it your own informed decision obviously once you get online you try to separate real information from the spoutings of people who don't necessarily know an awful lot and sometimes that can be the hardest thing to do on the internet as we all know but go online read whatever is available take advice from people who know and reach your own decision but my understanding is no you they cannot force a smart meter on you that is my understanding now we are going to discuss the whole issue of health and the trolley crisis because we're going to speak to Donald Morris he's the CEO and founder of Red Zinc and he believes that the technology produced by his company could help solve the current trolley crisis in the health system through the implementation of high-tech virtual awards Donald Morris good morning I must say I am intrigued Hello Donald thanks very much for the chance to come along and have a chat with you how are you today very well indeed thank you you believe the technology that you have in Red Zinc can help tackle this crisis in the health system and there are many many people have pricked up their ears and they're thinking we're going to pay close attention to this yeah absolutely well we're already helping the health service when the pandemic started we were asked by the HSE to to bring in our video platform we have a video platform initially for wearable video for paramedics on the move and the HSE knew about this because we did some work with them on it on the pilot small pilot and showcase and then the pandemic came along very quickly after that we did that pilot and they said well could you do something for the for the pandemic and we made a reconfigured our platform to enable them to run outpatient clinics by video and what that meant was that people didn't have to come into the hospital and they could do some outpatient clinics by video and we set up hundreds of HSE clinicians physiotherapists and speech and language therapists and lots of different outpatient clinics and doctors and occupational therapists and all of these are set up and that just meant then people didn't have to come into the hospital and then if you take that a little bit further if you think about people you know they're in the hospital and hospitals aren't really a nice place to be and new technology is there so as well as video there's lots of developments now with home hospital type sensors so small sensors that you can wear on your finger that can tell you what your oxygen rate is little patches that you can wear on your chest and it'll measure your heart rate and another patch that you can wear underneath your arm measure your temperature blood pressure cuffs all of these things can be linked to the video and the person can stay at home not everybody but some people can get early what's called early supported discharge so there are people in the hospital who could I'm an engineer so I provide the technology they have to do it under the supervision and the guidance of the doctor obviously but there are some people who could go home early and they could be in their own bed at home and they could be monitored then by nurses on video and they could be checked you know their blood pressure like when a nurse is on the ward he or she walks around and they measure you know the heart rate they measure the blood pressure they measure the what's the sp02 that's the amount of oxygen in your blood and temperature and these things so these things can now be done at home and it just happens by the sensors just connect by bluetooth and they go into the cloud platform and the nurse can be remote and see them well I'm wearing on my wrist as we speak a fitbit and it's a fairly standard run-of-the-mill fitbit I think it costs a little more than a hundred euro and that fitbit will monitor my heart rate and it'll monitor my sleep patterns and it'll tell me how much sleep I got last night and how much oxygen saturation and it gives me all sorts of data the question is this is that an indication that's coming from a cheap bit of technology on my wrist or is that verifiable data that will be acceptable in a hospital ward because I would have thought the equipment that they'll be using in a hospital ward has got to be very medically precise it's got to be tested to the nth degree and it's got to give results they can stand over can you stand over results that are given by a fitbit that someone is wearing on their arm I know we wouldn't be using the fitbit for this type of process I could be using medical grade devices which would be more expensive but they would have gone through the FDA and the CE marking and all of the different regulations um you know to make sure that they're you know giving the right the right data so there that's what's that's what's been used now and that's what's coming down the track you have you have it on your arm and that's a consumer grade product and we'd be connecting um professional grade products into our video platform and we'd be looking at lots of different patient pathways that could be supported um you know there's Dunnegal is actually a leader in this it's probably just to tell you that um in Dunnegal they had had a pilot with respiratory sensors and um what they did was patients who had what's called COPD so this is when they're it's difficult for them to breed sometimes and normally a patient of COPD would would come into the hospital and they might spend a few days in the hospital and with these new sensors they were able to monitor patients remotely treat them remotely and um keep them out of the hospital and that was um that was done I think it was last year and Dunnegal is one of the leaders in us so it's only at the pilot level but these things can be scaled up in the UK they're planning to scale up 25 000 virtual beds and that means you don't have to build houses or hospitals rather you don't have to have big capital programs for every every um 10 000 population they're building um 50 virtual beds so in Ireland that would be like you know two and a half thousand virtual beds and and this is going to happen now soon you know that's going to come as you say this is happening whereby the hospital can provide the patient with the correct monitors be it respiratory be it blood pressure be it heartbeat whatever they can set up in the the patient's home the monitoring systems and videos and so on so it's a two-way process can you foresee this becoming a process where someone at home who needs for instance access to an emergency department can do so because we're being told you believe this can help uh tackle the the trolley crisis as it's being called now what the trolley crisis has been called by is huge attendances in emergency departments and people facing long waits as a result is there a way that people can dial into the emergency department online from their own home using a standard web camera and then perhaps get triaged and then be advised at that point whether they need to physically come in or whether they can be dealt with online yeah i mean that's um that's another service we have it's called BlueEye First and um it's designed really if you dial a 999-112 type um type call we can actually acquire the video camera of that call and that could go into then a triage now the the iris system is set up you know the there's an obviously an ambulance dispatched and whatever but we could work with the HSE and make new pathways for that and you could use video triage in a 999 environment and some patients would be wouldn't need to come in if there weren't an emergency that kind of you know blue light type emergency and they could be organised for scheduled care so the thing about emergency departments is people are coming in because it happens at random so you go something happens to you and you go to the emergency department and sometimes you know you you've probably been there yourself you can be waiting in queues and whatever else but there are some not everybody now but there are some portion of the people who do arrive to the emergency department could be going into a scheduled process they could be referred in okay come into the the fracture clinic or come into this clinic next Tuesday at 930 we think you're going to be all right and that type of process can be can be added to the to the service and so yeah that's that's definitely going to come your technology is just enabling all of these new opportunities for for the HSE there's there's a new idea within the national ambulance service if i'm correct on this it's called pat finder in the idea being is that instead of dispatching an ambulance with a view toward getting you on board and getting you into the hospital what they will do is they will dispatch an ambulance vehicle be it a four by four or whatever with two paramedics on board they will come to your home and they will assess you and provides a level of treatment in your home depending obviously on what the information over the phone has been so i mean if you had that coupled with a video link with a consultant or whatever or a senior nurse practitioner within the hospital setting it could again you know and we're always told that the aim of the HSE and the aim of every health system at this point in time needs to be to keep anyone that doesn't need to be in the hospital out of the hospital because the problem is there are too many people going to the hospital for services which in many cases can be provided elsewhere so your system then presumably could link in with something like that pat finder system whereby once the paramedics arrive at the house they can hook into the hospital via by a video link and then you know get advice from that side as well yeah in fact we already did a pilot in sweden and we were invited into sweden to do a pilot with vastras hospital and vastras is a rural area and what they have is they have nurses who are in cars and they do out of our services to frail elderly patients so at the weekend or at night time if there's an issue so it's very similar to pathfinder but what they do is sometimes they would call on a on a doctor in the car so there'll be a nurse in one car and they'd go to this the frail elderly but sometimes that nurse would need oversight support from a GP level or even from the emergency department so the pilot that we did with them in vastras in sweden was that the nurse would wear one of our wearable video cameras and if she or he was treating the frail elderly patients and they needed the doctor they would the doctor would be able to see the environment and it's a very big county vast man land is very big in sweden long distances so the doctor could be you know an hour driving somewhere but you know in two minutes they would see it on video and the point of our wearable video camera is that it's it's hands free so you know if you're using a smartphone you have to hold the smartphone up and point it around but these cameras are are you know that we wear them on the head on a kind of a sports band like a tennis sports band and the camera's connected to that and then the video then your hands are free and wherever you look if you move to the left or look at the patient's leg or or whatever then it's all visible so yeah so these things are all coming we've been working with the European Commission and a lot of the future 5G future internet 5G pilots and all of these things are now available for the Irish Health Service and abroad so are you in discussion with the HSC and with the hospital groups be it self or some of the other groups with a view towards getting your systems into operation here because I mean there is no doubt anything that can help ease the pressure around the hospitals and help ease the pressure in particular on the emergency departments is going to be very welcomed indeed just today we've had the figure that as of this morning there were over 50 people waiting beds at letter Kenney University Hospital 25 of them on trolleys in the emergency department and that's what happened this morning at 8 o'clock less than a kilometer away from where I'm sitting exactly yeah and like we looked at this you look at actually the last time I looked there was about 500 at the peak in Christmas time there was uh there was over 900 and the HSC senior leadership team are obviously want to deal with this and they want to be to be on top of it so yeah we're in discussions with them you know to get this off the ground we're obviously have the the outpatient clinic services working we're looking at now how we can help with virtual wards and home hospital and we're talking to the right people who can who can organize that and then of course with the ambulance service as well we're looking to see how we can help with with Pat Finder so there's a huge number of opportunities every time we talk to a clinician with our technology they come up with a different use case so we've loads and loads of different use cases that have been piloted all over Europe from from from earthquake support and disaster recovery to urban search and rescue to to teaching loads of them yeah so they're all available now to be to be used Dolan Morris CEO and founder of Red Zinc thanks very much indeed for speaking to us this morning it's a really fascinating peace actually and it'll be really good to see systems like this coming into our hospitals because anything that eases that pressure and you know anything that stops people having to wait 15, 16 plus hours in an emergency department can only be a good thing I've no doubt you'll be on this show again in the future Donald but for now thank you very much indeed okay Donald thanks a lot have a good day you too it has been our absolute pleasure this is the 90 noon show on Highland Radio I'm looking at my little window and I see the wonderful face of Colonel Donald sitting out there and as we said because Greg and the team are in Brussels for a special broadcast tomorrow we're pulling Kearn in 24 hours early business matters after this break Do you currently have vacancies that need urgently filled? 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after a four-year break so the old facility closed back in August 2019 after 60 years of racing and an estimated 70 new jobs will be created through this reopening so the grand opening is planned for the stadium this Sunday the second of April Donald so good news for the area as well absolutely I mean I was saying to your fair that I mean it's been for many years it was our family's kind of first choice in terms of going out for a night out you just put 20 quid in one pocket and say right I'm prepared to lose that and you go in and if you want to buy to eat the food in there was as good as most restaurants you'll find in the northwest and a great night out yeah a great alternative absolutely TY students visiting their local credit union and hopefully learning how important the credit union is yeah a focus group of TY students from Abbey Vocational School visited Donegal credit union on Friday as part of the green agenda project so the students enjoyed an informative presentation from Remtech consulting on energy efficiency and on energy usage within the credit union building they were also given a tour of the credit union and had the opportunity to look for potential areas of energy saving within the building and that's important because I mean the credit union is such an important institution and it's always great to acknowledge that the northwest and in particular the late John Hume played a huge role in promoting the credit union getting credit unions up and running and you know there is a great tradition of it here and it has done so much for so many people certainly myself and my family included and I'm sure the families of most people who are listening out there at some point have had interactions with and worked with the credit union it's a phenomenal facility yeah they're really good too they're only reaching out to the local schools even here from our own experience Larry Kenny that's an example down Donegal Town so a school that is very much across community and obviously there's an educational aspect to it as well yep uh Kelly Begg's college among award winners at ATU Donegal in the news again for the right reasons yeah ATU Kelly Begg's scooped awards at the Cork sugarcraft competition held area this month at the Cork International Hotel Sean Bavaird a third year colony our student won a bronze medal at the best in class with his Woodland Forget Me Not submission and Cary McNulty a lecturer at ATU Kelly Begg's got best in his class category and claimed the silver medal with mother as reclaiming submission so Sean and Cary were also successful Donegal at the K-Tex event held in Dublin Woodland Forget Me Not well what's for dessert mom? Woodland Forget Me Not it amazes me the creativity of people that work particularly and I mean I've seen some of the sugarcraft work that gets done and it looks amazing you don't know whether the eaters are put it into an art gallery that's what we're gonna do absolutely still tastes lovely though Donegal the cheapest county in which to buy a house now it's all relative obviously given the way the prices have been rising but still if you want to buy maybe this is the place to be considering buying yeah Donegal is still still the cheapest county in Ireland to buy a three bedroom seven detached house and that's despite having the biggest quarterly price raise of 3.4% latest figures have revealed so according to the Iers of the pendant real estate alliance house price index for March 2023 the average price of a three bed in Donegal was 150,000 the latest survey also showed the properties in Donegal reached the sale agreed stage in an average of four weeks which I thought was quite quick and we spoke earlier about restaurants and good food one of the better known restaurants in Donegal over the decades has been the water's edge in Rathmullan a beautiful spot in which to eat with unparalleled views and it's on the market yeah it's been a taste on the market though as you say the well-known business comprises a 10 bedroom guest house with a lounge bar and a restaurant with a capacity seat around 100 dinners and the sale of that property is being handled by that.ie now time for the podcast and a man whose name gets mentioned regularly on Highland radio because he's been involved in various entertainment events that Highland's also been involved in yeah on this week's business matters Donal I talked to the founder of Joe Geller Entertainment based on Straban Joe Geller Joe took his first steps in the entertainment business as a 14-year-old DJ and his work subsequently took him to Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and Greece. He set up Joe Geller Entertainment in 1983 and has worked with the biggest names in the world of music. He managed to drift through this for 10 years and is currently looking after the 25th anniversary tour of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance that commenced in Dublin last month. In this clip Donal Joe talks about the fickleness of the entertainment industry. It's not easy this is not for the faint hearted but when I was doing soaps stars and doing the dance acts and brilliant one DJs and things occasionally you would get offered all the things that I knew absolutely nothing about. Did I set out to do this? No. Eamon McCann who still do a lot of business with from Wonderland Promotions he was very friendly with a guy called Jim Gellerer. Now Jim owned and run probably 18 or 20 night clubs and I was lucky because I was one of his probably favourite DJs and he put me around all the clubs but when he knew that I was bringing in dance acts he booked them all off and he said to ring him and he goes oh just send me through the dates I'll put them in a club and you look after it and him and McCann and me got together in Belfast and we started booking things and starting having fun and McCann he said to me look I'm touring Paul Brady do you want to do Straban? It's amazing we've done the Melmont Centre in Straban and we had a cancel there was no mistake Paul Brady we went down to Derry to the Rialto and there was probably 300 Straban people on it so that shows you how fickle this business is Fascinating stuff and anyone that has an interest in entertainment will really get some some insights out of that and you know as someone who's been involved in when I was younger I was involved in a youth club and we put a few things on and you know one of the scariest things to do is to organise something and then to say right we're going to organise we've everything organised let's put the tickets on sale and then you sit back and you start watching the tickets not move and it can be a very very scary place Yeah it's very much taken a chance business but look he started a long time don't want to say he started off as a DJ as Wolfgang took him abroad and came back when I was over in his office there up on the wall the discs and the things that have been presented to him from they're just countless big names so look Michael Fratley is the big project for him at the moment that's a major major on their take on and that's a worldwide tour Elton John is the next up on a local basis and he's just finished with Rod Stewart Yeah and we know he was heavily involved in the Chrysler concert there in January that you yourself were involved with them so you would have worked with him on that your self caring so you know exactly how much work he puts in Yeah look Joe has a very good way with him and he's a very good way with Artis and look he's added a long time and as you say putting on an event entertaining the masses as a thing he's doing for a long time and as a thing he's doing extremely well Well you can listen to that full interview on the podcast of Business Matters which is available to download now on highlandradio.com a whole 24 hours early because of tomorrow's European Parliament special and also Ciaran the it'll go out on air on Sunday evening Yeah athletes subscribe to you Stonal on Sunday evening and if someone wants to get in touch with the programme Yeah drop me an email please Stonal Business Matters at highlandradio.com Ciaran and Donald a pleasure as always thank you very much indeed that's our Business Matters slot and you can listen to Joe Gulliver's piece there as we said on our website highlandradio.com and it's available there now before Ciaran came into us we were speaking to Donald from Red Zinc about the use of technology in terms of the health system now Gulliver said technology should only ever be used to guide clinical practice and never to replace face to face assessment it's excellent to have technology at home but my opinion is it should come with the community nurses or doctors to provide face to face care in the community if a patient needs that level of technology they need assessment and support perhaps they don't need admission but they would certainly need care in the community I think we should be focusing more on GP surgeries and community nursing teams to ensure they're equipped, skilled and willing to respond to their patients as there seems to be real issues there particularly and presently for various reasons that ultimately have a knock on effect on our hospitals now I would have to say I can't disagree with much of what you say the idea would be though that in cases where you do this you are monitoring as soon as there's any sign from the monitoring that there is intervention needed you then have nurses and doctors on standby to do that but maybe it's a matter of finding that balance can you please thank the listener who took the time to send in the email about their experience with home helps a lot of this resonates it's similar to what I'm experiencing at the moment at least I know we're not the only people to experience this now I know where I can go to help thank you so much I really appreciate that service and support might be good indeed to have someone on to explain the pros and cons of smart meters for those who can't make up their mind not anyone not everyone can access online info that is fair enough and we are indeed going to reach out to Electric Ireland and see if we can get more information another caller saying I got a letter from Electric Ireland effectively telling me they were coming to fit the smart meter I didn't request it nor was permission asked one final before we go for a break I had an awful experience driving between Lifford and Derry I went to swerve around a pothole ended up in an even bigger pothole absolute nightmare baby fast asleep in the back of the car the hole in the road caused the car to have a blowout thankfully everyone was okay scary stuff indeed and that's it from the nine till noon show for today as we said Greg broadcasting tomorrow live from the European Parliament in Brussels thank you to Anya thank you to Donna Marie for producing thanks to fellow contributors most importantly thanks to 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