 Is it a long week here? No, I think it's flu. That's flu, but every two flies were so huge, doesn't it? Isn't it mad? So you had a handy week? I did, aye. Well, it was handy enough, aye. Yeah, it's good, aye. Wish you knew them handy weeks, would you? But this week kind of flew. I don't know, it's just everybody, you're busy. Genuine, I think, when you get older, just every week flies. Is that? You know, it's just... Why is that? Why is it so progressive, marched towards death? I don't want to do miserable. Oh, jeez, you're bringing me down. No, you're bringing me down, bringing me up. Is that it? I don't know. Donalcabin? Nobody laughing in there for Mr. Google. I don't know, just... I don't know what he's laughing at. I don't know what he's laughing at. I want to ask him. I'm a very serious newsreader, gentlemen. I'm sitting here waiting to do my job, but very professional. There really is a quite serious newsreader. There he is, isn't it? We have a good show. Are you performing tomorrow afternoon, Donal? Yes, Aviva Stadium tomorrow night evening, yeah. Huh? Aviva Stadium? It's the Aviva Stadium, yeah. No, no, you're talking about the Euclid Occasional. No, no, no, I won't be there, actually, in the Raddison, because I'll be the Relief for Life Survivors choir is going to the Aviva tomorrow to open up a Relief for Life event, national event. Double bugged. You literally have a status now where you get double bugged. Absolutely, yeah. Between OVs and Stadia. So I have the choice between the Aviva Stadium and the Raddison in Lettuce County, and with all due respect to the Raddison, I'm going to the Aviva. Well, it's more John Bressen you've upset than the Raddison, I think, of the Truth Patrol. I think John will get over it. You think? Oh, no, you'll be prepared. Be prepared. Good luck. Lee, what are you going to do for today? I'm going to the dentist. Oh, well, I need a dentist. Well, you know... Can I get a dentist? How do you get a dentist? I need to go to the dentist. I said to Katie Bressen, I'm going to the dentist. I brought him the toothbrush and toothbrush, right? Hmm. To brush my teeth before I go to the dentist because I've got to get to the dentist. Yeah, but I really need to see a dentist. Why, what's wrong? What do you bother? I need a filler. I'll put it up there and see what's in there. No. Go on ahead. There's teeth in there, but I need a filling. But how do you find a dentist? That's for sure. What do you mean? Well, what do you do? There's loads of dentists. I thought you can't get disposed with a dentist, no. Sure, I don't know. You just need to ring them up. Right. Somebody to get you sorted out. I'll bring in the players tomorrow. I did, you see, the tooth I need filled is, I did go to a dentist about, well, it was actually before lockdown and on the way home, the filling fell out. So I've just... You lost faith. You lost faith in the dentist. No, I... But if you're a dentist now, he's not too happy. I just want to chew on both sides of my mouth. Huh? I just want to chew on both sides of my mouth. But you do a lot of talking too, you see. Good luck. Right. It's two minutes past nine. Well, we found out about concerts, teeth, the whole life. It's two minutes past nine. Let's get a news update. Hi, Donald. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. Radical reform is now the only viable option for the Irish health system. That's the warning from the Irish medical organisation, as it releases its pre-budget submission. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is already under pressure for budget overruns despite continued pressures on services. The IMO's president, Dr John Cannon, says Ireland has less beds in the hospital system now than it did 10 years ago. He says dramatic change is needed. But really, what we're looking to do is just put Ireland on the footing with our OECD colleagues in terms of safe number of doctors, safe number of beds, and to provide safe and compassionate care. Now, that does mean that we do need to make a dramatic change, but it wouldn't be radical and it would basically bring us what we can consider a functioning and safe healthcare service. It's been claimed we're returning to the days of drivers from Donegal filling up their cars in Northern Ireland. South Donegal to the Marianne Harkins are filling stations in the border region now face closure as drivers take their business elsewhere because of the high cost of fuel. The government is being urged to reintroduce measures in the upcoming budget to help motorists deal with the spiralling rise in petrol and diesel. Some four-court operators are reporting a 25% drop in sales since price decreases in last year's budget began to be reversed. W. Harkins says the situation will get worse if the government doesn't act. We know that between now and the end of October, petrol prices will increase by about 7.5 centilitre and diesel by 10 centilitre. That means that the difference from one side of the border to the other will be between 11 and 14 cent per litre. What was to have been the biggest cruise ship ever to visit Kili Beggs will not now arrive this morning as a result of Storm Angus, the 326-metre Norwegian getaway which can carry 3,963 passengers and 1,646 crew with full capacity has been re-routed as a result of the weather. It's hoped tomorrow's planned return of Norwegian star will go ahead as planned. And only go-county council has been told a forum has been established through the local community development committee with a view to coordinating public transport services in the county with the needs of the public, business and education. The issue was raised by Councillor Patrick McGowan who told the meeting that at the present Bosseirin have effectively split the county in half and there's very little joined up thinking. The water base should be used to coordinate services, ensure a supply of reserve drivers and buses and ensure that bigger buses are brought in to meet Donnie Gall's increased demand. A lot of the stuff can be sorted out in paper. Mightn't take the investments and instead of bringing us down single-decker buses that are not suitable, bring us the double-deckers and we need to have a list of reserve drivers. A couple of things to get on and get going. I do welcome response that there are groups within the county now that are doing this LCDC. They're starting to look at this. But it's not something I want pushed into a committee. I never heard the hell of it again. A mix of loud and clear spells this morning but staying dry apart from patches of drizzle. During the afternoon, a band of rain will move eastwards heavy at times with a chance of thunder, breezy and blustery with a fresh and gusty southerly wind in top temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees Celsius. That's Highland Video News. Back with news again at 10 in the meantime. Regular updates on our website, highlandvideo.com. Get laptops from 199 at Curry's. We have laptops for the future boss, all-rounder coder or creator. Like the HP laptop with Intel Core i5, only 549. I save 140 euro on the ASUS VivoBook laptop with Intel Core i5 and 512GB storage, now 959. Shop in-store or online at curry's.ie. The county's number one talk show. The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning to you. Six minutes past nine Thursday, the 28th of September. You're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 till noon show, which Thursday show. And we've the usual mix coming up for you, keeping you across all the big stores of the day. Items of interest to your community and yourself, and we want you involved in that conversation. As you know, if you want to give us a call and let us know what you think, 07491 25,000. If you're in Derry and Strabana or elsewhere, outside the Republic, 003537491 25,000. We really want your WhatsApps and your texts to 0866025,000. Again, from outside the Republic, 00353866025,000. And just to let you know, of course, you can send WhatsApp voice notes to us if you prefer. Just hold down the little speaker and chat away and send it into us. And you can also email comments at highlandradio.com. It's from my chair. It's another busy Thursday morning for newspapers, as you know, well aware at this stage. So let's see what's making the headlines. The Chicano Tribune, ever since the 1850s, the church ledgers in Fannett have been recording and preserved by the parish priest, but no more because that role was closed out on Sunday mornings, grim and unrelenting landscape. Sunday saw the centuries-old legacy being severed in Fannett with the post of parish priest now confined to history. Nobody left to pass on the torch from countless generations past. Those were the generations that defied the redcoats in penal times when big congregations flocked to the mass rocks often in the midnight hour as they battled the forces of imperial oppression. The hand of history from that legacy was silently closed on Sunday on a permanent basis for a community that reaches out to more than 2,000 people. An extensive and beautifully written story on a very important issue from John McAteer on the front and inside of the Chicano Tribune there and John referencing history and just to let you know that we will be talking history. We haven't done it for a while. We should be doing it more regularly, but anyway, we're going to be talking history with Professor Joe, a little or Doctor Joe, a little later on in the programme. So stay tuned for that. I know lots of you love it. The Donegal Democrat, Ronan Wilson, the nine-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run collision in Bundoran on Sunday night will be laid to rest today. The funeral of the young school boy will take place at St. Mary's Church, Dunamore, County Tyrone at 12 noon. As floral tributes and teddy bears poignantly mark the spot in Bundoran where the budding gay footballer was tragically killed, a fundraiser has been set up to support his heartbroken family, and it's just unimaginable that things can change for people. We know it because we've experienced it lots of it, but not like this. I think if you lose a child or you're pre-deceased by your children, obviously it takes on a... We're just not humanly conditioned to deal with it, and it's very, very tough, and we know that all too well, unfortunately. But just to go from having fun in Bundoran a wonderful day out, and then a couple of days later, you're standing in a church at a funeral of the thing that's most important to you. Beggar's belief, so all we can do, all we can do is if it's possible to send love and strength to that family and the young boys' friends on what is just literally unimaginable. And we really, if you pray, pray for them because they need all the prayers that are going. The Dairy People of Donegal News this morning, as the community of Cree Slop prepares to mark the first anniversary of the devastating tragedy in the town, plans are underway to hold a private memorial service at the site of the former filling station, shop and apartment complex. Saturday, October 7th will mark the first anniversary of the Cree Slop explosion, which claimed the lives of 10 people, including two young children. Cree Slop curate Father John Joe Duffy confirmed to the Donegal News this week that the private service will take place at 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 7th. And we on this show are going to also respect that privacy on the day, of course. And in the days leading up to it, we will be having a conversation about that awful, awful tragedy, so recent as well, that changed so many lives and cost so many lives, but changed so many lives forever. But as the anniversary approaches, we are going to be giving the local community the space and the respect that they deserve on this program. The Dairy News this morning, relatives of a dairy teenager shot and killed by a British soldier over 50 years ago, have urged the public prosecution service to think hard about what it was doing to victims' families. The soldier accused of shooting Daniel Hegerty passed away last week, leaving the Hegerty family in legal limbo. Daniel was 15 at the time, who was shot twice in the head as an army patrol in the Cregan area during Operation Motorman. Following the revelation of the death of soldier B, the family said they've now been denied justice. Speaking to the Dairy News on Wednesday, Daniel's sister Margaret said the DBS are part of this and they denied us justice and they can word it whatever way they want in the media. They can wrap it up in a bowl, but they know that they've done it from the day Daniel was murdered. On to the Irish Independent now. These are the nationals, of course, and speculation as to what will be contained or not contained in the budget for 2024, which we announce next year, continues. Business is affected by the refugee crisis and I picked this one out because there's quite a number of areas of Donegal that this will be relevant to, potentially. Business is affected by the refugee crisis, sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, may be in line for a package of supports on the budget 2024 negotiations. Finnegal backbenchers are pushing for assistance for businesses in areas where hotel accommodation is now being used to house refugees or asylum seekers. A spokesperson for Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney described the proposal as an excellent suggestion and said he was listening to his party colleagues. There are significant energy related supports for all businesses under the temporary business energy support scheme, but discussions on budget 24 are advancing and Minister Coveney is listening to his Finnegal colleagues and their excellent suggestions for further business supports. How that would work and how extensive they might be and how you would demonstrate a loss in business sounds to me like a scheme might be announced but it might be hard to access. I spoke to a couple of business owners who found the electricity or the energy scheme too much hassle than it was worth. Now I'm really open to correction and maybe it's been refined since but if they are going to introduce something or measures it has to be easily acceptable or accessible sorry is the word I was looking for there. On to the Irish Times now and they've given a front page dominance to another political poll this is polling a number of people to determine what parties are rocking their world and those that aren't it's got a accuracy of plus or minus 2.8% and it shows that Sinn Fein has extended its lead over its rivals and remains on course to be comfortably the largest party in the next all according to the latest Irish Times Ipsos opinion poll and it is quite interesting and don't jump on me for saying this okay but it is quite interesting that relatively quiet on certain issues I would suggest you know not hearing lots of stuff about lots of different things obviously you know we know pierce the heart he's very vocal in the door and what have you but I mean there's no massive things there no massive issues that I can put a finger on at the moment so in other words in opposition you can sit relatively quietly and your popularity can grow so Sinn Fein on 34% that's plus 3, Fina 4 on 20% minus 1, Fina Gale 18% unchanged the Green Party at 3% there are Dan 1, Labour Party Dan 1 Social Democrats Dan 3 and independent others up 3 so that includes Aintu by the way I don't know why they're grouping Aintu and people before profiting with independence but anyway that's what they're doing that being said Fina Gale add up their totals 41% so the government not that that's necessarily how it works but the government's still 7 points clear of Sinn Fein well with 18 months at Moles to go before the next general election Sinn Fein now leads Fina 4 by 14 points Fina Gale by 16 after today's poll shows the party recovering from a fall off in support scene during the first of the year now again and it's fantastic that she's back in the spotlight and fully recovered this covers a period where Mary Luke McDonald was actually convalescing from a major operation so it just goes to show what influences these not I'm not saying that influenced it but how the whole system works ok the Irish Daily Mail this morning a revolt by Garda Commissioner a revolt by Gardi against Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is set to escalate with members threatening to strike over his plans to revert to the old working roster Gardi say they will withdraw overtime on October 10th the day of the budget which is really quite interesting because you can imagine that that will be the next day we're likely to see quite a big protest outside the door there was one as the door returned from summer recess I would say it's not a coincidence with the conversation that's happening out there that they've chosen budget day when there probably will be a sizable demonstration to withdraw overtime and also they're going to withdraw overtime in Halloween before up to 11,000 members of the force go on an all-out strike on November 10th in a major development last night just a fortnight after a vote of no confidence in the commissioner members of ungodly Shia Khan said they'll ignore the order to return to the road rotors in November and continue in their current timetables even if this results in severe disciplinary action and they have not ruled out a drew flu we're familiar with blue flu but obviously now it's the drew flu and that again makes it even more personal between rank and file and the guarder commissioner the Irish farmers journal a massive 400 euro per head beef price gap has opened up between Ireland and Britain this equates to an 8,000 difference for a farmer killing 20 bollocks at an average carcass weight of 380 kilograms based on the weekly prime cattle kill the price gap means Irish farmers are missing out on 5 million euro per week the 100 euro head gap has widened from 72 euro head in March 2023 the latest board beer figures show that the UK buyers have moved to take full advantage of the liking Irish beef price on to the daily start today Columbia's biggest and most dangerous drugs cartel was behind the 2.2 tonne haul of cocaine valued at 157 that was seized off the west coast by the army and the UK's Arranger Wing investigators believe sources have told the star that Garde suspect the notorious clan to Gulfo owned the seized cocaine which would have been worth as much as 500 million euro on the streets because they cut it don't they and the papers also established that the Kinehan cartel are now being investigated as possible clients in Ireland for a portion of the massive shipment most of now much of their army over here in prison and then there's some confusion as to how this shipment is being described it's the largest ever in terms of weight but it's not the largest ever in terms of value there was one a number of years ago that was lighter in weight but because the price of cocaine has come down which is ridiculous isn't but because the price of cocaine has come down it's not the largest financial seizure but in terms of weight it certainly is a bar worker stole one thousand three hundred and thirty euro from a nightclub and stuffed the cash into her underwear this is the Irish daily mirror Emmanuel of Gifo lifted the cash from Pulse nightclub and tried to hide it in her bra but the nineteen year old student was caught by eagle eyed security staff on CCTV cameras a beefio appeared at letter Kenny district court charged with stealing the third level psychology student was working in the night spot on December 17th last year when she carried out the theft the court hard guard received a call from the venue's owner to say an employee had been stealing from the till CCTV footage CCTV footage showed the lady taking money from the till and placing it into her jacket and it was played to officers Judge Cunningham handed her a two hundred euro fine and allowed her six months to pay the money back in full not the kind of lift you'd be looking for of course right we'll be back with more in the nine till noon show after the break there's our courtesy of Kelly centra mountaintop letter Kenny the twenty twenty two C store national off 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travel for less expressway bringing you the time ask okay 22 minutes past nine independent councillor nicholas cross and joins us on the program now good morning Nicholas good morning Greg talking to us okay right you've made an observation haven't you when visiting the local hospital which you believe do you that it might be contributing to problems yeah I just had a routine check with myself last last Wednesday I think it was at a no patient clinic in letter kennedy hospital for 11 o'clock in the morning so I left with a parked car and we're done at about 10 to 11 time to spend a good time and all that because I expect me to and I was the only patient and that particular outpatients so the guys is okay took a seat there but I said God is normally this quiet it's just no way had nobody in before you this morning so he said as they call them no shows and I said oh my God you know so this was at 11 and it was very frustrating for the for the workers there and it's and it was ironic that this week I got two representations from people looking to get on lists that couldn't even get on the list and I was saying oh my God if you have all the no shows and people waiting to get on you know could there not be a thinking of the maintenance of the mines here if you can't and I'm not saying that people don't turn up just for the second don't turn up there's a thousand one reasons why somebody can't make an appointment at least people are not telling you know something make them up the day before and you can't make an appointment phone up and cancel your appointment there are people ready to go within a few hours that can make letter can hospital make an appointment but there's a couple of things going on here though Nicholas isn't there I mean obviously look there's going to be people that don't show up but a problem we don't really know the extent of is is the organization of the often on the show and our fare who rang up to cancel an appointment but the appointment wasn't canceled or who say they got a letter to say they didn't turn up for an appointment when they never got a letter telling them there was an appointment we still for some reason as far as I'm aware don't have a text system where someone has texted the day before and says will you be able to attend your appointment tomorrow when you text back Y or N you know like until we sort of I get what you're saying and it's inevitable that some people go actually you know what I don't feel too bad I'm not going yeah but the whole system needs to be audited so that we can find out how much of it is people simply not turning up how much of it is people not getting letters and how much is it us not having a system whereby we can sort of validate whether or not someone's going to turn up a simple text message I can I can I can empathize with all the points that you've made and great because I have two or three weeks in advance and sometimes I went back a couple of them just to make sure to check the day and check the time because you think I'll remember that but then you go back and I know people can forget and people might can get appointments and but what I am basically talking about is if you got an appointment to go to letter candy hospital next Tuesday and you can't you know in Monday you can't make it just asking those people to phone and say look I cannot make my appointment next week can you make it available because I asked them what happens so if there's a no show that person is rescheduled so that means that is the next person on the witness rather than being seen and that is added to a witness now the primary care is not running at 100% yet but when that is up and running and I'm trying to find out what capacity we're at when that's up running at 100% but that should if some person is out playing about a football or sprains a wrinkle or suspected broken toe they can go in there and get the next rate that will take the pressure off letter candy hospital as well that's why a primary that is primary care working at its best and that's why it's set up so all these factors together I know there's people just and it was ironic as I said that there's two people contacted me since last Wednesday asking could they see and try to find a different appointment I heard you on yesterday what's the HSE and I'm no way on to defend the HSE or letter candy hospital or anything but I'm just only saying what's cooperation across the board that we might help to reduce the risk yeah listen I mean it's a decent shout isn't it the more we can do the better and I think if the HSE in terms of the organisation met us halfway we could get some way to alleviating alleviating a lot of these gaps you know these appointments that we want people in there don't we Nicholas because as you say there's lots of people that would turn up at the drop of a hat if they were able to but there are people waiting for serious appointments, mine wasn't a serious appointment I just worked as a routine checkup I was going up for but what I'm saying is somebody who's waiting a month or six weeks or whatever the case may be an appointment that is a long long time sitting in the house wondering and wondering and wondering what's going to happen so but I'm saying there's somebody that say oh god I can't make an appointment next week phone them and tell them there's a phone out there you know if you can't make an appointment please phone them I can see if an actual frustration with the workers on there last week and I'd have to say when we were done the service or the treatment is second to none I would have to say in the particular patients I was on the hospital treatment we got a certain there's a guy come on after me he says from there again he says very quiet I was telling him the story just you know so I would love to see these places running at capacity we have the equipment there the staff is there to work around the clock for that matter to get the we're not going to work around the clock to get what we had in my opinion we should be doing actually more hours because it is critical that people waiting at home have to be seen by a doctor or consultant to tell them where they're at because there's nothing worse than sitting at home worrying of what might or might not be happening so the quicker we get people into a patient's or into every county hospital to be seen by consultants the better for everybody yeah and you know you talk about us being a little bit forgetful about appointments and all that type of stuff we never really forget to say turn up for a flight do you know what I mean? no they're handing over we pay for that yeah well I'm not saying that there's bad transport for many links throughout the whole of Donegal to Leverkinny when you get to Leverkinny you may have to get a taxi not everybody has a car I can appreciate that there's a thousand one reasons why you can't make an appointment all I'm saying is anybody that just for someone with a reason that they can't make the appointment they know a day in a turn in advance is contact the Pacific department that they're going to and tell them and then it goes back to the hospital staff to get another person on a reappointment and I think that would help the people at home as well Greg okay well listen thanks very much for your comments a number of people agreeing with you Dolores look I got my appointment on the 19th of September for November I never miss any of my appointments your speaker is right I too have noticed this I recently went to see a cardiologist and it was 12 noon and he said I was the second person he saw that day as others didn't show up he asked when I got my notification and was wondering if the post was the issue and other the issues people are asked if they want kept on a waiting list and they say yes and it's two or three years later by the time they get an appointment by which time they forgot what it was for I'm not sure that's in the area you were going I'm not sure that's a factor there now I could be wrong just anybody that anybody that cannot if you can't make an appointment the day or two or a week in advance you do know you can't make it something can crop up there's a million one just please please tell the relevant department in the hospital that you can't make the department or you can't make that appointment could they reschedule you and use your appointment for somebody else to be treated that's all I'm asking big all right listen thank you very much for your time I do appreciate it Councillor Nicklaus Croson there watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and as HighlandRadio.com on this week's Business Matters I'll be talking to the owner of Kaki Eveen in Goudour Eveen Odee and the executive director of Asia Matters Martin Murray so join me Cure No Donald for Business Matters on Sunday evening after the six o'clock news the Business Matters podcast is also available to download at HighlandRadio.com Business Matters in 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time of year asks a caller typical government mouthpiece is an independent not a government member but blaming the public again for the inadequacy inadequities I can't say the word inadequacies under investigate investment in decades of neglect and health service with the same government on different forms and yet it's the public's fault another amazing you didn't report on the news about a standoff in Ballinare where a foreign man held someone as hostage but sure that's racist talking about that it's nice just in Ballinare tune into Midwest radio I'm sure they'll have plenty on that but also there is and you may have got your information from Twitter the man may have a foreign name but I don't know if he's a foreign he could have lived here for 30 years that's what the judicial process is all about he's in police custody it'll be investigated it is not Twitter or X as it's called here we cannot start talking about active investigations it's literally against the law to get into the specifics of it Connell Shovlin joins us on the program now good morning Connell thanks for your time we're talking about we're talking about proposals for social housing next to the Dolman Center in Kilclooney Port New what's your take on this what's your involvement in this Connell well Yarn Port New Respect Community Co-op was established in 1995 to improve the social and economic needs of the area and we were successful in doing the Dolman Center there and it's a very successful community center and we looked at other things and housing seems to be a big issue because it's a the big holiday home area and young people find it very hard to get on the housing ladder and we looked at the structure of the population and we found that in 93 there was 142 at the school and now there's just over 6 days so younger people obviously would find it impossible to build a house the house is costing maybe 300,000 and you know interest rates are higher and so the structure of the state is that they can borrow money maybe at one or one and a half percent and as Sheamus coffee said over to Miguel the summer school he's sort of distinguished economist there from Cork University based on the media lot he says it's an absolute great investment for the government to build houses because they're going up in value and all the labor and the materials and the money is kept in the local economy and we need we just need young people but we're looking at housing we're trying to get it right and we're looking for all aspects because we only get one chance at this and this project will be here long after I'm gone you know 60 or 70 years a number of generations but to get it right for all age groups and the area has an awful lot to offer like an evening community itself which wasn't designated as an area for housing previously it would be more bigger towns it's just a small area but it has you know the dormitory there is a very good community center and the child play area and you have the church and you have yarn beach five minutes away and you have all the facilities there now they don't get working there with motorized chairs and all that so people can go out in the beaches so you're unable to you know to walk the beach they can stand there and you have you have an awful lot going for it and we think you know that housing now is a big part of it and we're working with the council and we're just taking one step at a time and trying to get it right and you know to get them to we have a site located and so we're working very well actually wasn't there to try to get to get it done you know and this is in terms of housing provision this is sort of back you know back to the future or back to the past this was very successfully employed right across the county in the past and often when we talk about you know what's happening in certain areas it can feel a little bit anecdotal but as you said in 1993 140 children in the local national school now there is just 62 now maybe the reproduction rate has dropped a little between then and now I don't know but it is a very strong indicator as to the future yeah now somebody I mean you know how quick time was in you mentioned if they're earlier on I mean somebody in 14 now in 10 years they're 24 and they might have a family and these you know people can walk them home now but we need young people in the area but we also looking at you know it's a great area for people maybe that would have special needs you know and all integrated housing structure for elderly just getting it right and having something there for everybody have a nice sort of a friendly village concept and that there's something to do all the time that there's an occupation that you can go to yarn beach five minutes away you can go into the dolman center and I think the great thing about the Dolmans and you don't have to go on there looking for any or you don't have to go in there and you can just go in there you know yeah and it's a year friendliness is important a year round population because that is the heart and soul of any community so when we talk of proposals are they advanced in any way or are we at the start of this Connell and pardon my ignorance on this but obviously a lot of conversation has happened so how advanced are these proposals these things take time the biggest mistake any of us can be in is in a massive rush to get things done next week we started this about a year ago negotiating with the council and we have a very good relationship and then we had to see the number of people maybe that will be interested in housing in the area and what would be their needs in the housing of these people and then we had to look at a site and because we want to be near the dolmans and we want to be close to that people can walk there you know that there's that village thing and that we often hear of places I mean and Dublin I've been to Dublin and the community meetings and they said they built all the houses and they had no community facilities you know but so we have that first and it's so the council and we have the site located so now we're working with the council now just and trying to make it to the next stage and we talk to the planning people to get everything you know to bring everybody it's cooperation all the way and working together but we'll take a bit of time but the main thing is that we get it right and there's another element to this as well too it's the older people in the area empty nasters or people struggling to heat a three or four bedroom house that might actually prefer to live in this type of accommodation I'm not saying they're all small houses don't get me wrong but you know where there is a bit of a hub which would then theoretically free up larger houses for younger families you know is that the type of way we need to be thinking about this as well? Yeah you know that's happening anyway and elderly people really reaching that stage myself you know since I was on Highland Radio over 30 years ago time eats you up you know but it's important to have older people and people of special needs and of younger people to have all people started and then in some way or other they all work together and they are all supportive of each other without necessarily putting structures in place you know that you know the way back that had the male concept of people coming to build the haystack in October on the neighbours gather to help people sort of without having regulations in place they just tend to you know to look after each other you know when if you have a place like that one person kind of looks after them and you have young people and you have older people and you have people you still see pockets of that pockets of communities that still just have are just managing to retain that type of community but by the skin of their teeth and it's wonderful when you see it and it is for the future it's probably the only way you know because a lot of the rest of the things you know they haven't worked out that well even though the regard is hugely progressive because we are a community of people and we kind of need each other you know you know one way or other like it's community and one is supporting other and people get a lot of enjoyment out of that and they get happiness out of that rather than just you know base the whole thing on a monetary value but it's just that these young people cannot get a house and it's a great investment for the state and there's no hope people young people feel there's no hope and that's why we're that's why we're because we have ways of gauging our success or securing our future home ownership for right or wrong is one of the ways we measure that here and a lot of younger people younger couples that they can't do that here now whether that's an absolute reality or a perception I presume it's mostly a reality but unless we start reversing things like that we are going to continue to see a depopulation particularly of rural areas Dublin's population is booming because people are being driven towards services and what have you but go ahead Connell yeah and yeah and I see Miss Covey said the McGill summer school this is hugely advantageous for the government because all the money stays in the country and the front of money is invested abroad the builders the materials and then you have an asset that's increasing in value for the state and then you have a home for people and then you have the social fabric improved greatly and because young people can't pay 5% interest and my generation gained on inflation when houses were built maybe for 20,000 they increased the energy that's not going to happen in the future so there's not a hope of young people and we need these young people greatly to have these supports available to them at a localised community level and I think it can be done in a lot of places throughout the country you know to look at it in that context you know it's a medium game and hopefully it's successful because we're very happy with our relationship with the council and they've been very helpful to us in supporting us and getting it going all along but we just must get it right and there's no point in rushing it because if you do something that doesn't work out as well just take your time and just think of everything and look at other projects throughout the country similar towers and all that think of all the different generations and the different needs of the different people whether it's young, older people especially just incorporate all aspects of the needs of society into it I'm a big fan of community involvement the more the community drive things I think the more chance they have a success or actually even happening Colonel, thank you so much for your time Colonel, I'm shoveling there for housing and it's not today or tomorrow but social housing close to the doleman centre there in Kilkenny Port New they're working closely with the council have been for a year but as Colonel said it's a medium to long term game a caller says she was due for treatment in Sligo for MS but it was cancelled due to a COVID outbreak on the ward she's wondering if this is something that is still happening in hospitals generally I think there's been a particular issue in Sligo recently I actually believe there's a mask mandate back at Sligo University Hospital because of because of COVID and I suppose other conditions on wards there good morning Greg, the health service is one billion in overspend, our government have one billion and probably more left from the last budget but instead of plugging that gap they want to spend one billion of our money and they've left it over on housing refugees before health they've got plenty of money but up until now we throw money at problems I think significantly more money has been put into the health service have you seen the results of that and it's your money by the way because your tax is this is your tax do you feel that the money being spent has been spent in a way whereby you're getting a return for that like there's a billion shortfall in the health service would you be confident that if that billion euro shortfall was plugged that you would see a benefit to that honestly now I'm asking you that question honestly I know the point you're making as it relates to housing but it's not like there is not more money there but do you really feel that if another billion was put into the health service that it would improve the health service honest answer is only to 08 6 6 to 25,000 does anyone know if accident and emergency department in letter Kenny is very busy this morning it generally is very busy but if anyone is down there let us know what it's like an interesting thought has moved towards electric vehicles how is the world of rallying going to operate I can't see any great speed or timings happening with one of these cars well electric cars the new Teslas will outperform a Bugatti electric cars of massive acceleration and speed and already there is Formula E I believe it's called where it's like it's like Formula 1 but it's electric cars I don't know how it's going to be a problem in terms of motorsport but purists won't like a change from internal combustion engines I live in County Kerry for a few years it was amazing how positive and happy the people were down there compared to Donagall they would often throw compliments at you saying you look lovely when sometimes you didn't feel so lovely they would often follow you with have a great day or enjoy the rest of your day or night I found this really lovely encouraging and polite being complimentary happy and positive reflecting on these words as the day went on just made my just made my heart smile this is Compliments Day tomorrow National Compliments Day right okay Barry Roach is Southern Correspondent of the Irish Times good morning Barry thanks so much for your time today good morning Greg how are you doing I am doing good this story is absolutely everywhere but I suppose briefly just give us an overview sort of in a context to what's been happening in relation to this drug seizure over the last couple of days well I suppose the story sort of kicks off in terms of media awareness certainly I suppose on Sunday night when a troller called the Castlemore ran aground on a sand bank off Blackwater and Coneybeck sort of sand bank called the Moneyweights and they had to be rescued by the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue 117 from Waterford they were winched off with two chaps on board a six-year-old Britain and 30 year old or 31 year old Eastern European man and when they landed they were winched onto the Irish Navy and shipped the early William Butcher Yates which had been shadowing them because there were suspicions that they were partaking in this drug spulking operation that they were going to rendezvous with a mothership and score so they were arrested on Sunday night into Monday morning and then it turned out this bulk carrier called the MV Matthew which had sailed from South America on the 18th of August and was entering Irish waters over the weekend she lost power going up the Irish Sea and lost power on the arch and drifted back down past Wexford around the corner or into off Waterford and the next thing we discovered was that she was being boarded by Army Rangers who fast-scrooped over the weekend okay unfortunately that line is just completely gone it's not going to return either so I don't know can you take that line back out there Caroline and restore it we'll get back hopefully to Barry Roach after these you need a UK address? save hundreds of euros on custom charges shopping online with Space Hub Dairy we provide a full virtual office address mail box service for all your business and personal use save your business hundreds 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and locations go to our website TALCA.ie or contact the valuation team on 01584 6753 The eagerly anticipated brand new production of the Broadway smash hit musical sister act is on its way join Highland Radio as we make way to this unforgettable show on Friday 23rd of February 2024 your trip includes luxury transfers Ben and breakfast at the four star city north hotel in Dublin your ticket to the show and a shopping trip to Dublin city centre for more information call Highland Radio on 074 91 25,000 or visit HighlandRadio.com No we can go back to Barry Barry sorry about that I don't know what happened about the response of the Irish Times you were describing to us how the authorities became aware of this vessel I think we were off belly cotton when the Army Rangers landed on board the ship and what we've turned since is that not only they take control of the ship but they actually foiled in an attempt by the crew to burn the cocaine they had loaded some of the bales of cocaine which was 2.2 tonnes of it there it was valued by the Guardi at 1.157 million but they had put some of that cocaine into a lifeboat and poured some accelerant possibly diesel over tried to set us to life but the Rangers were quick off the mark when they landed on the ship to control the bridge but also got very extinguished and extinguished the blaze so the cocaine was saved or preserved as evidence the boat is coming to cork into Marina Point down on your cove and she was secured there with an armed support tuners of Guardi forming a perimeter around on Tuesday night and to Wednesday morning and then Guardi from the Guardi National Drugs Organized Crime Bureau began unloading her and they took them about 8 hours to carry off around 90 bales of cocaine of what's suspected cocaine 25 kilo bales as it were that's gone to Dublin samples would be taken to Forensic Science Ireland to establish that confirm it is cocaine but also to establish its purity which ultimately will give some sort of street value into the day for the seizure now this sorry I beg your pardon Barry go ahead well there was some drama on Monday night off Warford when the ship sent out an emergency call to have some crew member evacuated evacuated for a medical emergency it turned out to be the captain it always seems initially it was reported he had some sort of blackout and fell but it seems he may very well have been the victim of a row or an assault he was airlifted by rescue 117 the helicopter from Warford that had already rescued the two chaps off the trawler off Wexford he was brought to Warford University Hospital on Monday night his injuries were in the series he was discharged on Tuesday morning but he was arrested by Guardi apparently he had a bag containing some $50,000 for $60,000 he's in custody in Wexford with the other two men and then last night we heard that Guardi hearing Cork again officers from the Guardi National Drug Organized Crime Bureau they arrested three chaps on board the three officers the chief officer, the first officer and the second officer two of those guys are Ukrainian, one is Iranian one has been taken from all in North Cork the other two are taken to Cove they're all being detained under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act which as I understand it allows Guardi to hold suspects for up to seven days so they all have time with all six suspects now as it were but the three guys who arrested yesterday or last night even though they have some English Guardi feel it would be better that they be assisted with interpreters so that there's no ambiguity about their responses and their question about the drug seizure so they're being questioned today with the aid of interpreters Ukrainian and Iranian speakers so that's where we're at at the moment the ship is still impounded there's a major search carried out then or being carried out by Guardi and Romage teams from the customs office Revenue and Customs who are experienced in searching it's a big ship it's 189 meters about twice the size of rugby pitch it has a carrying capacity of 64,000 tons so they'll be searching the holes but also there's a chance that perhaps something was concealed under the holes in these double barrel buoyancy tanks so they may very well have used cutting equipment down there to see whether there's more cocaine or contraband stored there and Barry Asit stands there's a bit of confusion amongst the public Asit stands, this is the biggest hole of drugs in terms of weight but obviously the price of cocaine must have dropped because we've had similar large holes but not quite as big of greater value Yeah, it's a bit confusing in the sense that I mean we've had a lot of them down here in Cork we've had Lucky Day which was Lucky Day was the ribbon in Dunlop Bay that was for 40 million Mikaela was 290 dances of waves at 500 but those valuations are based on the street value the actual quantities which is probably a more accurate way of ascertaining which is the largest are much smaller in those cases so this is the largest by volume and I presume when they actually do a test on purity that they will be able to continue hearing about the actual volumes of those previous ones were almost 600 Ks in CMIS back in 96 KG, sorry Jemez was 320 KGs Pasadonia that's kind of a slightly different 1.5 tons in Dunlop Bay of cocaine in July 2007 1.9 tons of cocaine on dances of waves in November 2008 and then 1 ton of cocaine in September 2014 on Mikaela so in terms of volume the seizure is the biggest it's 2.2 tons so it's bigger than any of those but it's just that the value that's already put on at the moment is 157 million bush when they do tests and determine the purity and the level of mixing agent you can put into it that would probably mean it has a street value possibly 500 million or so so it would work out to be high in that regard as well but at the moment probably the most accurate measure of comparing them is the actual tonnage and this is the biggest tonnage there's remarkable stuff Barry thank you so much for your time sorry about the interruption Barry wrote there Southern correspondent of the Irish Times and of course whilst we do know that cocaine use is very high in Ireland this was not destined for the Irish market certainly some of it may well have been but would have been found its way to many many countries across Europe and beyond even perhaps who's to say alright okay thank you very much indeed for your company for the first hour we're going to be back with you after we take a break for the news and obituary notices don't go anywhere do you need a little extra help staying in your home at Bluebird care we offer a wide variety of Q mark approved personalised home care services across Donegal and our fully trained and committed staff will always meet your care needs with kindness compassion and dignity to get your personal home care assessment plan visit bluebirdcare.ie or call our care team today on 07491 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Etterkemi call 911-3333 or see Smokes and Grills on Facebook welcome to the Donegal lost and found sounds brought to you by spec savers hearing experts who are helping the community rediscover the sound of his kettle boiling for his morning cup of tea and in other great news Catherine in Milford has rediscovered the sound of popcorn popping just in time to watch her favorite films whatever sounds you've lost spec savers hearing experts could help find them again book a free hearing test today at your local spec savers live on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News good morning it's 10 o'clock Donald Kavanaugh at the news desk radical reform is now the only viable option for the Irish health system that's the warning from the Irish medical organization which has just released its pre-budget submission health minister Stephen Donnelly is already under pressure with budget overruns despite continued pressure on services IMO president Dr John Cannon says Ireland has less beds in the hospital system now than it did 10 years ago he says dramatic change is necessary who has just put Ireland on the list of their OECD colleagues in terms of safe number of doctors safe number of beds and to provide safe and compassionate care that does mean that we do need to make a dramatic change but it wouldn't be it wouldn't be radical it would basically is bringing us of what we can consider it filling stations in the border region face closure as drivers take their business elsewhere because of the high cost of fuel that's according to South Donegal to the Marian Harkin she says the government must to help motorists deal with the spiralling price rises in petrol and diesel some four court operators she said are now reporting a 25% drop in sales since decreases in last year's budget were reversed Deputy Harkin says if the situation doesn't change then more and more drivers will cross the border we know that between now and the end of October petrol prices will increase by about 7.5 centiliter and diesel by about 7 centiliter that means that the difference from one side of the border to the other will be between 11 and 14 cent per litre well last night a Sinn Fein motion calling on the government to reverse its planned increases in petrol and diesel prices as a result of the changes and excise fell when a government amendment was passed instead Donegal County council has been told a forums been established through the local community development committee coordinating public transport services in Donegal with the needs of the public business and education the issue was raised at the council's monthly meeting by councillor Patrick McGowan who told members that at present buzzer and have effectively split the county in half and claimed there is no joined up thinking he said the stone order base should be used to coordinate services, ensure a supply of reserved drivers and buses and ensure that buses with more capacity are brought in to meet the increased demand in Donegal and we need to have a list of reserved drivers a couple of things to get on and get going I do welcome the response that there is groups within the county now on to this LCDC they're starting to look at this but it's not something we want pushed into a committee and never heard tell of it again What was to have been the biggest cruise ship ever to visit, Kili Beggs, has not arrived this morning as a result of storm and it's been the biggest cruise ship ever to visit Kili Beggs but it's not until this morning as a result of storm angus the 326-meter Norwegian getaway which can carry almost 4,000 passengers has been rerouted as a result of the weather it's hoped the planned 2,300 Norwegian star will proceed as planned tomorrow the Justice Minister says the decision to pull overtime hours every Tuesday in October is regrettable the GRA will also effectively strike on 10 November resolution to a dispute over rosters guard the plant withdrawal labor on that date in what's being called the Drew flu. Justice Minister Helen McInty is calling on all sites to get back around the table. Yesterday's decision is regrettable. I think the facts are very clear here. There's nobody and that means the Guard of Commissioner nor the Guard of Associations who believe that either the current roster or the previous and incumbent roster is the right roster moving forward. We all want to negotiate a new roster that is suitable for the needs of the public today and that of course works for members of the Guard of Shia Khan and the only way that that can be found is through negotiation. An estimated 1.2 tonnes of litter was removed from beaches in Donegal during the recent Big Beach Clean. Nationally 7,700 volunteers joined forces. 46 tonnes of litter collected across the country. With more details, here's Michaela Clark. In Donegal 14 groups and 200 volunteers removed an estimated 1.3 tonne of marine litter. Cleanups happened in various locations including in Falkara. In Klamani, Klamani National School joined a clean coast officer for a talk and clean up of Toa Bay. A total of 11 bags of rubbish were collected. The our more clean coast group were joined by two local schools carrying cleanups on two beaches. While volunteers from the Donegal Community Centre came together to clean up their local pier and beach. 20 bags of litter were collected to clean up on a 50 year note. That's it for this video. Thank you for watching. We'll see you in the next video. Stay safe. Stay safe. Stay safe. The funeral mass can be viewed live on KuldaafParis.com All inquiries pleased to Liam Collins funeral directors. The death has occurred of Alan Lata formerly of 190 Hillcrest Kilfenon Derry service of thanksgiving at his parents' home at 3 Emerson Gardens Waterside on Saturday at 12 noon followed by burial in Al Maghavan cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu of desired to the Foyle Hospice care of Mrs. Ruth Hay funeral director. The death has taken place of Noel Wiley, Colleen Letter Kenny. Noel's remains were reposed at his late residence from 2 o'clock this afternoon with house private to family only please. Funeral service of thanksgiving tomorrow afternoon at Trinity Presbyterian Church Main Street Letter Kenny at 2 o'clock followed by interment in Gortley cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu of desired to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member. The death has occurred of Patricia Patsy Gallagher Glenna Mountain Top Letter Kenny. Repoting at her nephew Brian Gallagher's home which is private to family and friends only please. Removal from there this evening going to send Union's Cathedral Letter Kenny for 6 o'clock to repose overnight. Funeral mass tomorrow afternoon 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the family plot at Conwell Cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on the parish webcam. The death has occurred of Sister Eileen Byrne SSL St. Louis Convent Monaghan Town and formerly of Strunorder. Requiem mass this morning in St. McCartons Cathedral Monaghan at 11 o'clock followed by burial in Latinurcan Cemetery. The mass can be viewed online on mcnmedia.tv and the death has taken place of Mary Gillespie Moira Wiley name McFadden Koshclady Bunbeg originally of Glenthorne Don Louie. Her remains will repose at her home today from 11 a.m. till 9 p.m. with Rosary at 8. Funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 in St. Mary's Church Derry Beg with interment afterwards in Maharigalan Cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on Kiran Rorty Funeral Director's Facebook page. House Private Pleas from 9 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow. For more details regarding wakes and funerals, please go to highlandradio.com For unbelievable value head to Aldi this Halloween with great value pumpkins in store now. Children's Halloween costumes only $6.99 in store 1st of October. 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Sure back when Minister finance Brendan, Scowland Howland was chasing down unpaid door ball bills. The rest is history fair play to colonel and that community for being proactive in trying to push the council to build social housing the council has its head in the rectify its own mica affected stock issue or to house council tenants while demolition and repairs take place added to this the council mortgage system is a joke to qualify a person must have been refused for a mortgage twice by a bank then when you apply for a council mortgage they say that their qualifying criteria is more stringent than banks so essentially the person refused by the bank will also be refused by the council for the council mortgage system similar to the mica redress scheme is there in name only but not a real solution I'm not sure of all the details in that but I'll take the listener at the word until someone correct it and of course some people refer to it as the mica scandal or mica houses but we know that is just one element of it and there are series of it's just the the moniker that's been attributed to the scandal but I think people know it's much deeper than that Greg phone call on a Friday evening for an operation on a Tuesday requested for a consultant to contact me as to how what for as I had no notion still waiting for a phone call easy all public bodies need a cost manager now there is no hope for young people my son and his family are in a private rented house and up to now he's paid 80,000 in rent I can't be right oh yes he's paid 80,000 in rent totaling the rent is paid I get you he got a letter to say the rents going up to 250 euro per week in a year they're trying to save for a mortgage or the deposit for a mortgage this is a complete and uttered joke how the hell do you save when paying this rent and they have to pay all this rent themselves yeah I just I don't know how it might if paying rent counted more to your ability to pay a mortgage if it was considered more maybe it would not feel as much like dead money as some people might feel it will I'm not sure if that's realistic or how that might help but do you understand what I'm trying to say there just to mention about the Gaelic football games at the weekend the game between our drawing Guidorin, Glentis and Cucar both nearly on at the same time and also couldn't stay say very neutral it's a pity wasn't made a doubleheader in some venue as this way you can't be in Falkara and Fincher at the same time no clearly you can't and there are a lot of neutrals out there that just want to go and watch a big game so I hear what you're saying and understand exactly where you're coming from good morning don't you think it's a disgrace that there's an inheritance tax the UK are talking about get rid of theirs like a few other countries in Europe ours increases year on year and it's never mentioned we do mention it from time to time often during our conversation with our legal questions thank you to that gentleman for highlighting the issue or care packages it would be great if Highland could speak to the manager of CHO one to explain why they're not actively sorting out the vital service the hospital on any given day of 20 plus delayed discharges waiting on community services a lot of people are granted home care packages but not in place it seems have to wait until someone passes on before the next person in line gets the package started I think that's a conversation that was happening with Donal on Monday or Tuesday just catching up on some comments there now as we head into the break happy 21st birthday to all at Mac Taggart in Balear Remelton from Mary Campbell in Glen Carr and also could you play a special request for Zara Holmes performing Arts Academy cast who take to the stage tonight in the CPI centre in Castle Finn on their opening night of Matilda best of luck to them all from the backstage ladies and best of luck to all of them from us as well it's a fantastic achievement from those that are organised and all the young people and others taking part as well right okay 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now good morning to you Eileen thanks for taking the time to chat to us today good morning Greg thanks for having me on the program morning and this story down in North Cork whilst shocking I imagine it's not surprising to someone in your position I'm sure you're contacted with similar stories yes and like I would know that this case for travel treatment up and down and up and down the country and one in their car is it's positive that this has come to the attention of that minister fully and but again for the children for families for travelers in general you know this is not one bit surprising and I think this is only one example that there's other skills yet to be if you want to to be not found out but to come to the names to be brought to us because there's many travel children in Ireland today that's still coloring down the back of classrooms there's many travel children that's been brought out and I'll put it in one room there's many travel children that don't get homework that and reduce timetables last week there was a report at Lawrence Spiders Apartment 30 seats and four percent of travel children in primary school around a reduced timetables it kept over 12 percent in secondary school and reduced timetables and over 24 percent in special schools and reduced timetables now my reading of the report it's more of a punishment you know like it doesn't matter what community a child is from a child is a child and we do have some children that say have ADHD or behavior issues or problems you know we have to deal with those problems as them as professionals and that's the punish children and especially not the punished children and the marriages of society um and this would be completely unacceptable if it was another minority all children should be treated equally and if they require special attention or special assistance which many children do regardless of their background it's that is how they should be cared for not because of their background or ethnicity it's uh it's hard to believe we're having this conversation in 23 in 2023 is absolutely scandalous that we're having this and again it's disheartening and you know for me Greg you know I go back and forward to the site that I come from the site that I belong in in Dublin and to see that my brother's kids is treated less to see that members of the community that I was born in and I know is one of the best communities like in the world when it comes to love when it comes to family support for each other you know and yet like for our children to be treated less and that genuinely happens from the craze to the grave for members of the Traveller community it's something that that the community is used of and it's not it's not even surprising some of the common say from politicians from ordinary people on the streets both members of the Traveller community it's very tough like and it's not a sad story but in 2023 that surrogation you wouldn't see anywhere else except in a country like Arden that's full of scandals that's the members of the Traveller community still get treated this way and it's not just like adults people who's able to deal with this but it's children we're talking about a primary school children not having that equal equality of opportunities again there's no such thing as equality but equality of opportunities to reach your full potential and I to be fair Minister Foley is probably down my list when it comes to ministers of communication to be able to have dialogue with myself with some of the Traveller organizations and we're two years well four years almost working on their Traveller history and education and bill a cultural bill and thankfully Deputy Pringle brought it through the door for me and I'm a lateral system and we're lucky that I came out because the bill would have been just left go and so now for the last two years it's been in the Education Committee and the Minister has no political will to look at the bill to introduce Traveller history and culture into subjects within secondary schools and it's very very challenging you know it's really challenging to see what's really quite sad too is that you know we're hearing reports that as a result of issues like this that parents are masking the identity of their children or trying to hide their their Traveller background and then I suppose as they mature we also hear stories of adults also doing the same to try and get employment opportunities it's an awful start to a young person's life that they have to sort of deny who they are yeah I was once that young person Greg who in one case used my teacher's address to see could I get a job and that's absolutely appalling to hide your identity cannot even accept yourself because you're you're just looked at as as dirt in a certain extent to to the state and that's all driven by by policies by legislation by our government previous government government today and you know like for me I was 25 years of age when I first kind of said you know I'm not the problem my style was be it not in denial but you know never wanted to speak about me a community because of how we were viewed in society and not having that equality of opportunity you know it's always a topic around the table or you're a good Traveller you're a member of the Traveller community I have a member who's a friend I have a member of your community who's my friend but I like Traveller's but it's similar saying I'm not racist but you know but when we hear the bus that's when like you actually are racist yeah yeah yeah our precious post Traveller community it's really about meeting children who are the rest meeting families for the rest and unfortunately we don't have that in in Ireland today and to see it it's not only that it's sad but those children are denied denied a equality of education in this country I mean you tweeted about this but you switched the replies off why Greg I get so much shite from people and social media and that's just like any ordinary politician I get it because of my background I get it because of the way I speak I'm from a very walking-class area in Ballyfarmish and then I've been living in Donegal for nearly last six years and I'm also a member of the Traveller community so obviously my my dialect is very different than other politicians you know so it's constantly how I dress how I look I've never took drugs in my life and people have often said I was a drug addict or a man met at all and I get this constant on a daily basis and you know if I if you stop the troll stones at every dog the bark suggests you will never reach your destination and this is not about me thankfully I'm educated I know how how the system I know how policy and legislation works and I know what's right and what's wrong and how this fate is treating traitors is wrong and I'm trying to challenge that every single day but again you're not an ordinary politician you're also a member of the Traveller community and you know I've said this before and I will say it again no matter what members of the Traveller community will do no matter what you will go on to be in many cases to many people you are just a member of the Traveller community you are just and that's this is why we need to normalise Traveller education Travellers have an equality of opportunities in school we need to normalise Travellers being in the guards in the army and nurses doctors and being part of society I know many Travellers that are doctors that are nurses that's working in law firms and but unfortunately can't can't be opened about their identity all right sad state of affairs but it's a it's a reality as you've outlined there senator i mean minister just before we go Greg I would love to see minister Foley being able to have an interest just in Traveller children having a proper quality of education in this country and actually we did write in yesterday looking for a meeting with the minister and fortunately we haven't got a reply yet and again I'd love to see her being more proactive we're not asking for much of our children our actions that Traveller children are treated with dignity and respect and after human rights and equality is met in this country Senator Eileen Flynn thank you for your time 08 660 25 000 WhatsApps and texts hi Greg the hotels are going to price themselves out of it in Ireland looking to book a hotel this Saturday coming in Donegal for myself and my wife for one night how much would you say a hotel in Donegal is this Saturday night 269 euro now I know it's Saturday night and it's peak but that's tasty I'm not in a good way either Greg take a few drinks and a bite eating some fuel into the car you'd be into 500 euro for your night out not a hope they say I hope the social housing site doesn't impede the view of the Kilclooney Doleman from any angle as it's a global of global importance okay I'm amused by the inquiries to whether it's busy at ED this morning does that mean if Highland 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national relay for life event performance of a new song the war will take place live in the main stage as part of a set with the Donegal relay for cancer relay for life cancer survivors choir that song will be sung by Amy Meaton good morning to Amy thanks for joining us thanks for helping me good morning and it was written by Rachel a coach good morning to you Rachel thanks for joining us good morning Greg um we'll start with you if that's okay um are you a musical person a performer or a songwriter or was this born from your experience um well a bit of both Greg to be honest um I've been performing my whole life um mainly on the local uh musical circuit but um this song came about because I'm a cancer survivor myself I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and um I was in treatment for about a year and a half and following that I joined the Donegal relay for life survivors choir um your our mutual friend Donal Kavana roped me into the choir and um they're a great bunch but basically um the year that I joined the choir was during the time of COVID so I didn't get to go to a proper live relay event until after COVID so I went to my first live event in 2022 and it inspired me so much that I decided to go home and have a think about writing a song and the the words and lyrics just came very naturally and penned the song and did a demo of it myself playing all the instruments at home and it was a little bit rough around the edges and then Donal very kindly teamed me up with Amy here um with a view to getting the song recorded so that it could be released as a charity single we'll pick up from there Amy when you were contacted yes um talk to me about that well um relay for life is a great event and I've been taking part in it since I was about 13 years old um so I've been a part of it for a long time but Donal contacted me and the choir asked if I would accompany them with a piano for this year this past year is really for life event and I obviously agreed I was more than happy to to help out cancer unfortunately um has touched my family quite a lot um my cousin Shane passed away at the young age of 17 um from cancer so I wanted to help out as much as I could um look then what happened was I was contacted um by Donal I was told about this song um and I had a listen to it and I just thought it was fantastic just the words of it and all of the instruments and there was just great potential there and then I was unbelievably asked to sing the song and I thought this is just brilliant and I offered to record it in my own we home studio um I've never done something this big before in the studio so it was a great opportunity for me and a brilliant challenge as well but it turned out well um the performance is it you on your own or so it's me on main vocals Rachel comes in at a few different points in the song with her own parts and her own lyrics it's also got multiple different musicians playing in the background so the the track has piano I've played the piano on the track it is cello violin mandola timpani um it has flute on it as well it is everything on it and it's just brilliant it also has moya brennan featured on the harp I know it's unbelievable all right isn't it yeah a bad collab we were very fortunate Greg that moya came on board after we had the song recorded um she very kindly offered to add harp track and harmonies to it and that was a huge honor for me personally because I've been a massive fan of planet since the age of 12 um I mean she's iconic so she was very very kind and generous with her time as was Amy Amy spent countless hours in the studio tweaking the track and then moya also got her son and daughter ashing and Paul Jarvis on board to help with mixing so this is kind of a crazy now right because you wrote a song because we're gonna I want to talk a little bit about your experience I think it might be helpful to people out there today because it kind of goes against some of the narratives that's out there in terms of pain and what stuff so we might touch on that if that's what came with you but uh is it a bit surreal now when you wrote this down I presume that you know it was also uh cathartic isn't that what they say for you and all that kind of stuff right but then that it's got to this stage whereby now you're talking about and thankfully uh thanks to moya brennan for providing uh is it surreal to you that it has become what it has and how recognizable is this song now compared to what you you initially envisaged um I suppose it's it's very much recognizable because it has fulfilled my vision of what it could be um with thanks to Amy and moya and her family but um I always had a very clear vision of how I wanted the song to sound and we had a very good team of local musicians who came on board to to help us realize that as well but I suppose um I never thought it would get to this point but at the same time I had always wanted it to be something that I could use as a means to give something back because uh relay for life and the Irish Cancer Society have done so much for me personally the process of writing the song was very cathartic for me and I think you're right um when you say it goes a little bit against the grain in terms of the narrative because I've always been very very honest about how difficult cancer is and I don't like when people put a gloss or a sheen over it and it's all pink ribbons and happy faces of people in the chemo chair with the bald head and I've always said you know cancer is very different to that and I tried through the lyrics of the song to say it's really really tough but there is hope yeah and I think to my approach to when when dealing with either someone close to me or not who has cancer is it's it's very individual to that person and I think an awful lot of their experience is reflected in their personality or their approach um and and we we we really get an interesting insight into yours as well so November 2018 is when you were diagnosed but you were there was some sort of what you you felt were red flags in the years leading up to that um yeah uh intimate and pain which is not necessarily in conversations commonly associated with with uh with with breast cancer so talk to me a little bit about that yeah so for two years prior to my actual diagnosis Greg I had had this pain in my left breast and I had gone to um the local breast clinic and was told it was just cyclical pain and not to be concerned about it to take evening primrose oil and the pain just didn't go away it just got progressively worse and luckily I trusted my gut I listened to the the voice inside me saying there's something sinister going on and I went back to my GP and was referred back up again and I was told again you know pain isn't usually associated with breast cancer it's not a normal symptom of breast cancer but luckily um they did further checks that day and within a couple of hours I was told I had cancer did were you angry I was if I'm honest lost two years of potential treatment there I did but um I was told obviously that the cancer hadn't been there for the the two years but I know myself that it was well you got to be still there isn't it yeah and you're listening to your goss yeah it would be a remarkable coincidence if it weren't um so what what what was your reaction to those words then had you in some way subconsciously prepared yourself for it or did it just hit you like a train it hit me like a train it was like a tsunami of emotions and to be quite honest and frank about it um I did fall apart um I didn't cope with it well at all um I went into a bit of a tailspin and that's I mean that's initially but also that's exacerbated to by your reaction to treatment as well because presumably things moved very quickly from there your treatment experience was particularly nasty it was now I suppose I can I can't compare to anybody else other people have much worse um experiences than I did in some respects but for me um I can only say that my experience was very tough and was exacerbated by the fact that I couldn't really um tolerate a lot of the supporting medications that were given to me so even the very innocuous drugs that they gave you to try and counteract the chemo for example just went for me in a big way and I couldn't handle it very well so yeah very tough so you moved on to to the operation you opted for that for the surgery it had also spread to lymph nodes uh referred back to chemotherapy uh fiddled with the drug combinations a little bit did things improve for you at all at that point um very slightly I mean the first round of chemo that I had I couldn't tolerate at all and I was hospitalised after two cycles both times for a week or two weeks and so when I tried chemo a second time after surgery they changed my drugs and they were still really what I would call intolerable for me but um after one cycle I was ready to give up again I just didn't think I could go through I felt like I was dying but um I managed to get nine doses into me at a reduced dose where they had recommended 12 full strength doses yep now often what we hear with people's uh journey through cancer there's no other way to describe it another word of noise some people now and even those who've gone through the journey as such is and it's a little bit about like mental health is that because we we want positive positivity so someone's diagnosed they go through a difficult period uh they come to terms with it they they you know become really strong they battle through that they come out the other end okay but it's not really like that for you uh because the news itself uh affected you and your mental health very very severely um do you know what I mean and it sounds to me uh that there were times you thought well is this sir is this process really worth the outcome i.e. which is very very difficult so how did you deal with the the anxiety the fear of death I suppose the impact you might have on on other people you being you know depressed like how long were you in that hole for and and what helped you add um basically right throughout my whole treatment um Greg I struggled with my mental health um because the the physical symptoms were so overwhelming and so intolerable I didn't feel like a human being right throughout my my treatment so I suppose right through to the very end I struggled with my mental health until it was over until the physical symptoms had abated a little um I'm still in treatment now but it's not active treatment so while it's very tough it's not as tough as the active treatment but I suppose I reached out for help from every source available um I was very lucky that um the local cancer care west centre were very supportive and helpful as were um the Irish Cancer Society who offered a whole array of supports to me to get me through my treatment and I also looked for help for my mental health as well while going through treatment and received counselling another thing too when people you know they go through the the the the initial treatment and and then they they are told look it's it's uh in remission or whatever the phrase you might be individually uh different people react differently to the fear of it coming back are you more disposed to anxiety of the of the bands back because of of you know the way you are that's how I would be you see yeah I other people might go well you know what if it comes back we'll do I would be living every day going yeah is it now is it now I'm terrified is it going to be tomorrow yeah to be honest I don't think he's talked about enough it's not it's not there is a terrible fear I'm on a forum with a lot of other breast cancer survivors thousands of us are interacting on this forum on social media and the pervasive theme throughout the whole chat of everybody regardless whether we're talking about symptoms or feelings or anything is the fear of recurrence and do you know who they probably can't talk to himself or herself mom and dad the kids they can go to that forum and do it but you have to be so strong and everything's going to be great yeah mommy's better uh and I think a lot of women internalize that and thankfully the space is like the one you're on where perhaps you can just let go and say you know that's it because it is terrifying and I'd be lying if I said I don't wake up every morning wondering is today the day and every little twinge or pain that you get you wonder is this it is it back you know and you're told you're told by the doctors that there is a likelihood that it's a very strong likelihood that it is going to come back and hopefully the medication you're on will prevent it but it may not so it is it's a daily thing and I think the days to where the doctors would say something really positive and send you out the door with a skip at your step have kind of abated because of the litigious nacer of society and all that type of stuff so you only can you put that in writing that I'm perfect for the rest of my life please but unfortunately that's not the lived reality and I'm sure then there's there's waves of that and then you get on with it and carry on with everything else that you're doing as well to Rachel that's it you forget at times but then it's always there looking in the background yeah of course and as I say it doesn't mean there's no hope or no positivity but it's just a reality that I think people don't want to talk about as much as perhaps they should and it's clearly happening in safe spaces like the groups you were involved in Amy just wanted to get a we haven't forgotten you're here one more of a background to Rachel because I know there's people listening and her words will resonate with them as well and I think if you feel understood it it can help people as well that so it just really emphasizes the importance of this the words what was your reading of the song Amy you know as a composer yourself and as a musician of great renowned how would you equate is it the honesty of it is the real real the reality of it well it's honest but it's also it focuses on on the hope as well you know it's really just about the hope and it's winning the war so everything you said just talked about it's about the positivity that you have to have when you're dealing with all of that and it's more like an anthem for really for life and all the hope that it promotes as well it's just it's such when you hear the words and listen to the words about letter Kenny skies is what you wrote at the start because of how you felt here in letter Kenny when you were at that really for life event it's just all Rachel's it's it's her it's her child it's it's it's her it's her making and it's just fantastic I think everybody can relate to it and if you are ever at really for life on the night with the candles yeah it just it's just like a beacon of hope it really is and that song just promotes it so well yeah and you're not a candidate I've had my ignorance I reach I don't know you but it's like I didn't think if I had had this interview before and knew you were involved in really for life and it was important to you it it didn't necessarily sound like a you'd be a candidate for the you know for the sharing and for the leaning into it and the candles and the the park and the you know what I mean I don't hope you don't know I get what you're saying and I suppose because I've been very vocal about how tough my own journey was I'm not really somebody that you would obviously think of would be into the whole gathering together and let's all you know do this for charity but I I really underneath it all I think what I wanted to do was to spread the message that as tough as it is if people come together there's a big picture here and we if we all you know come together in solidarity we can achieve something if everybody's at home in their homes thinking their individual thoughts about oh I'd love to do this I'd love to do that I just went in there and I did it I wrote the song I said I want to donate this to relay for life whatever money it makes and as Amy says you know it is all about hope at the end of the day I mean the song deals with the themes of battle and war and for me the battles signify the individual battles that people face against cancer every day and unfortunately not everybody wins those battles but the bigger picture is the war against cancer yeah I guess you're an old little soldier's supposed to some extent as well and you've got your gut to rely on too which you know now to trust implicitly absolutely not that part of your brain that sort of maybe wants you to not okay um so anyone who's in the Aviva tomorrow night it's going to get the pleasure of hearing it live we're going to hear it off the computer unless there's anything either if you want to add Amy because I kind of no it's fine it's just um this song represents a lot and you know even for me singing it um I was so happy to be asked and I was so happy to be able to give the time that I gave and to make something so beautiful and I hope everyone um can relate to it and I think you're really proud of it too Rachel you're part of everyone yes and we're hoping as well Greg that people will get on board and download it on iTunes because that's how we're going to make money for the Irish Cancer Society and Relay for Life and just a big word of thanks to Amy for all her help with the song as well so it's called The War on iTunes is it under Amy Meath it's under Rachel and myself so just look up the song The War and it's written by Rachel a coach and uh okay brilliant listen Amy thanks as always for calling in Rachel it's been lovely speaking to you thank you Greg and a really positive reaction to to um to to your story too because as I said it has a great impact on others and I think in your whole like your story there's little time like you know the Irish Cancer Society and then your interactions 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asking that this be a time for them the communities involved and for those who responded to privately gather to pray and remember their loved ones radical reform is now the only viable option for the irish health system that's the warning from the irish medical organization which is releasing its pre-budget submission today i am a president dr john canon says ireland has less beds in the hospital system now than it did 10 years ago and dramatic change is needed it's been claimed we're returning to the days of drivers in dunny gall filling up their cars in northern larland south dunny gall to the marion harkin says some filling stations in the border region face closure as drivers take their business elsewhere because of the high cost of fuel she says the government must introduce measures in the upcoming budget to help motorists deal with the spiraling prices last night a shin fein motion calling on the government to reverse the planned abolishing of some deferments on excise duties fell when a government amendment was passed the justice minister says the decision of rank and file gar thee to pull overtime hours every tuesday in october is regrettable the gar the representative association will also effectively strike on the 10th of november if there's no resolution to a dispute over roasters gar thee planned to withdraw labour on that day in what's been called the drew flu and what was to have been the biggest cruise ship ever to visit kili begs didn't arrive this morning as a result of store magnus the 326 meter norwegian getaway which carries almost 4 000 passengers has been rerouted as a result of whether it's hoped the 2300 capacity norwegian star will return as planned tomorrow and we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon thank you very much indeed donald the euro millions mega draw is back and it's pretty big it's actually massive this friday the 29th of september the euro millions jackpot will be a guaranteed 130 million euro it's just too big to miss the national lottery it could be you play responsibly play for fun yes indeed just to remind you that paul is going to be joining us for it's our last in the garden with paul for the season so if you any questions heading into autumn winter as it relates to your garden your potting your indoor plants your winter window boxes whatever it might be any questions is it time to prune something or another i don't know but paul does oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapp syntax or call 07491 25 000 lovely reaction to our conversation with rachel and amy there fantastic interview rachel coach and amy mean that comes in from robert um patricia says rachel thank you for sharing your story wishing all the choir could look tomorrow what a beautiful song and beautiful beautifully sung from the krana crew in bonkrana anthony beautiful song uh bridge says amazing song the war so inspired a survivor uh and john also great interview rachel and amy absolutely beautiful from a survivor says another text here a massive congratulations to rachel and amy what a beautiful uh anthem that comes in from emir greg i'm a cancer survivor and i really love this song i can identify with rachel and how tough cancer treatment is and i think it's uh it's a part of it too that um that we do talk about from time to time here but sometimes i think uh when a different type of story is portrayed it kind of denies people they're they're uh tougher experience if that makes sense it's tough for everyone but you know what i mean uh brilliant amy mean and rachel a coach you're fantastic that comes in from robert uh hi greg an idea why i can't listen to highland through the website listen live function it's just stop working and i listened through irish radio live just wondered uh i have a clue what's going on there um let me see i'm going to open it up here whilst we're live on the radio wouldn't that be funny listening to ourselves there'll be a delay i don't know i have not come across that problem if you tried if you've got a um maybe you've bookmarked the page have you tried maybe refreshing it or deleting cookies or something that's it playing there i believe on highland radio listen live i don't know what the story is leave it with me that's an ad that's running there at the moment i'll see if it continues playing after that because we want you to be able to listen if you can particularly directly from the website um i wanted to change my hospital appointment as i was on well on the letter it states to call the department should you wish to change or cancel an appointment i rang three days in a row and my call would automatically be declined it seemed that someone would pick up and hang up i had the brainstorm to ring the main reception of the hospital and was transferred automatically i was so annoyed by this a tip and warning for those in a similar situation needing to change appointments let's seize it live rang three days in a row and my call would automatically be declined it seemed that's all right well it's listening live is working on the website at the moment so um if it's a bookmark uh maybe resave it it could be that hi greg would you on behalf of the people of boncran i ask our local and national representatives what's happening in relation to the swimming pool in boncran i this has been going on for years now and there's a complete silence on the matter generations have passed through school without swimming lessons uh it is something we've covered here i can't remember the exact up to date situation i believe it's budgeted for um i believe it's budgeted for in uh the council's budget and plans are afoot but i'll double check that and get that information for you how's that uh let me see when was the last story ran on that here in highland uh that will come up for me in a second anyway i'll get back to that um all right last story was in the 19th of february donagall kind of cancelled passed a motion to extend the funding application for the boncran ashore front development to include funding for a new leisure center the ambition application is asking for a figure in the region of 20 million euro councillor jack moore says if this application gets over the line it'll be a game changer for the area so it seems that that leisure center stroke swimming pool is now being coupled with the boncran ashore development what that means uh in terms of uh it progressing i don't know uh back in 2020 november 2020 assurances have been given that funding for boncran a leisure center has been set aside in donagall kind of council's capital budget so that was 2020 um there was a ring fencing story then on that again um in the 30th november uh and then right by the 19th of february this year um it was being coupled with the boncran ashore front development application so i'm not sure if that's a forward step or a backward step uh but that's the up-to-date position if you search boncran boncran a swimming pool on our website you will see it's extensively in coverage there there's dozens of stories on it uh there is no hope for young people i've read that one okay thank you for that i appreciate it i was in a bank using their atm i was shocked to see they had removed the screen above where you enter your pin when asked why this was removed i was told it was due to wheelchair access although i feel as though the machines are way too high anyway so does that make much sense now our whole transactions can be displayed for everyone in the queue to see no privacy i'm extremely upset about that okay i'm not really familiar with how all that might uh how all that might be the situation so there was a screen above the pad and it's gone now right okay um if anyone has any further information or could add any further to that please do 08 6 60 25 000 hi greg it is now past time given the g r a gave the god of commissioner only a one percent vote of confidence and the justice minister has been staunchly defending the commissioner that both the god of commissioner and the justice minister both need to resign due to an overall lack of confidence so as to maintain some public integrity in the justice system will accept the g r a he seems to have got message of good faith and goodwill from many okay we're going to be talking history with dr joe kelly after this short break the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio beef farmers losing out on five million euro a week for more in your farmer's journal his paul mooney gulf between irish and british beef prices widens to 400 euros per head tam's delays hit farm building works what the dawn takeover of caldare chilling means for sheep farmers latest and falling feed and fertilizer prices plus what you need to know about giving a site to your child and fair deal scheme changes all inside this week's irish farmers journal you can't afford to miss it macklehenny's home value event has begun online and in store 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he'll join us very shortly hi gregg a bus company's taking money off young and vulnerable at night from discos not taking them the safe distance to their homes but rather the driver telling them to get off the bus before their stop some having to walk in the dark up to a mile and a half on unlit dangerous country roads you'd hardly walk on during the day due to the danger nevermind at night these young adults with no reflector some i'm sure could be in a vulnerable state with alcohol nevermind the vulnerable state of being on a dangerous road is it going to take a tragedy before this act is stopped this has happened a few times and last night with three girls and two boys the bus driver asked them to get off and walk the girls complained the driver turned around and said sure you'll be all right you've a flat pair of shoes on you only the girl that was on the bus that night said her father was a guard the driver took them up the road surely if something happened to them the driver of this bud would uh this bus would be responsible right okay um it is the nine till noon show here is dr joe kelly there are you there joe i am i am i hear you do you hear me i do hear you but i'm locking up your nose the uh it's like you have your laptop laptop upside down i don't know what you're doing yeah i i i i don't have my normal computer i'm using somebody else's so um unfortunately so that might explain why the if you look down is there a camera lying on the desk what's going on what's going on i don't know what i don't know what way the camera works yeah it's okay yeah it's okay for now come here uh right it's talking history now with dr joe kelly and as you all know we're living in a rapidly changing island and the traditional formation of our society is changing culturally and we'll continue to do so we're told in decades before us as more migrants come to our shores recent years i've seen an expansion of numbers seeking to come here however what is the historical perspective on irish immigration at some stage people have to come here and populate the island in the first place so what do we know of the origin of the people that came here first and begun what we have today as our own irish ethnicity because the the sense is is that it's just been there for eternity but we were formed of course so dr kelly what do we know about the first settlers on this island for scholars so if it's an enigma for scholars obviously it's enigma for us the ordinary people of this country and and so what are the origins of our country is very hard to explain archaeologists and others have have maybe given us more a historical and factual based version of it but in the 11th century irish scribes try to explain the origin of ireland where do we come from who are we what are we and so in the 11th century there was this wonderful book written now it was written in prose and it was written in in poetry as well and it's it's in a number of different manuscripts there's various versions of it but it's it's its source is about the 11th century and it was called lower gaula and the hearing luci translated the book of the taking of ireland or the book of invasions of ireland and it talks about six invasions of ireland prehistoric times and it was an attempt to explain our origin and our cultural identity and where the gale came from where the the irish Celtic peoples came from now it's a pseudo historical book manuscript obviously prehistory is before written history so we don't know who existed before prehistory you know before written history sorry and so a lot of it is guesswork but it would be some way historically correct and so far as maybe ties in with the bronze age and with the for example the dolmens and new grains that kind of period of history so in an attempt to explain the origins of ireland these scribes wrote this book a wonderful book called lower gaula in the hearing the book of the taking of ireland to explain our origin and so that started really with Noah's granddaughter Caesar before the flood and again the idea behind that was to give authenticity to our ethnicity and so far as we were rooted with the bible if you understand so Noah's granddaughter came to ireland before the flood with some people and three men and the three men were to divide the land between them two of them died on landing here and one of them fintan he said well the hell with this i'm not going to be hanging around here with all these women to try to keep them happy so he turned into a salmon and he survived the flood and would later come back corporately to tell the story of what happened so that was the first first invasion so to speak of ireland and she suppose he landed in car that was the book of invasions yeah and uh do we get any mentions in the northwest in these books or in that book oh yeah there's quite a lot very very perceptive uh Greg yeah there's quite a number of references quite a lot actually of references to dunny gall bally shannon grannianalia throughout the book of invasions that dunny gall was so to speak a very important uh location um and still is obviously you know we'd have to say that but uh for example the park parkloneans were the people that came after Caesar according to the manuscript about 312 years after and and their leader was parklonean and uh he didn't he didn't live very long but while he was here himself and his tribe um uh he brought his wife delignate and and they lived in uh the top of the lot air in there in in uh any same or you know the island there in bally shannon you probably know this better than i um there in bally shannon that's just where they set up their their their base in ireland the parkloneans and while the parklonean himself was away on excursions sea exertions his wife delignate she had an affair with this man called uh topa and when parklonean arrived back he discovered not only that he didn't have an affair with his wife but he also drank out of his cup and that was just not acceptable so he killed topa and also killed his wife's dog and this was the first judgment of ireland according to the manuscript whereby the brechen said well hold on a minute here yeah you could be justified in killing the man in anger but you killing your wife's dog was not justifiable so as a punishment uh she was given the island uh there just in bally shannon and she called it after the dog samer was the name of the dog her dog so she called it any samer so that explains the history behind that famous island that's just there in bally shannon so you asked was it connected to johnny gall yes and they didn't live very long the the the fomori the parkloneans died out um and they were then replaced by by a third tribe called the nimidians um they arrived about 30 years after that to ireland and how extensively when we say they arrive here so we have the portolians and then the midians and we'll get into the midians and uh the delightfully named if i'm pronouncing it correctly for a bollocks uh but the um when we talk about their invasion or their arrival how many are we talking how broadly the island do they populate or are they in pockets or do they you know i mean what what happens to the people that are already here for an example we might use the midians an example yeah well it depends how you look at it you know it would be seen that you know for example the parkloneans arrived they started cutting down woodlands and clearing the plains of ireland and they started introducing farm husbandry and artwork culture and things like that and making ireland hospitable for civilization so according to the manuscript there was nothing there before that you understand this is what i'm trying to explain it's very exact and it fits into exact timelines obviously we know uh realistically that that wasn't the case and surprisingly there's a very maybe interesting point you're making you know up until about the late 1600s many people believe this book to be factually correct um um even though there are the obvious gaps which i've just pointed out like a simple question yeah yeah yeah yeah so you mentioned the midians then arrive and again there's was another tribe of people um that try to survive and they were descendants again of noah and no one in the ark again given authenticity to their their culture so to speak that we're connected in with the bible and then then they didn't survive very long because there was a tribe of people that lived on tori all the time called the famori banner later would become their king they were kind of a um a very powerful tribe of people but they weren't really human um and they would subdue people that would come to ireland and there's the story of the famori are always there throughout all these invasions until the second last invasion when the two of the dana kills the leader of the famori and puts an end to them but the midians succumb to the um to the dana and they have to leave they're they're they just can't survive with the the with the sorry with the uh efforts that are being forced on them by the the famori from tori them you know having to pay tribute having to give karn have to give them some of their children to them things like that so they try to rebel against them they don't succeed and so they leave the midians leave ireland three brothers and one of them actually goes to england his name was britain mail uh and they believe that's how england got his name as in britain you know but we're still from the book of invasions here aren't we yes yeah so let me ask you at i mean at what point and we still have more to talk about it but at what point was this not seen as gospel that people saw this as a i don't know was it a tale or uh you know i presume no one accepts it to be true now do they joe uh and at what point did people still start questioning you know someone turned into a stamina was a descendant of noah uh and and and so on and so forth yeah um well look you see you've got to understand and we maybe talk about a little little little little little around but the point is for example the fairy culture i mean i would have known people that would have believed in the fairies and this ties in with the book of invasions so there was see see modern civilization maybe we don't often realize greg that there was no electricity in ireland say 70 years ago and so darkness came in the evenings and there was a boogie man and there was the other world out there um we take for granted that the knowledge we have now but there was a lot of lack of knowledge or ignorance in that sense and so it was easier for them to believe things like this and the fact that they weren't educated they hadn't read they hadn't understood these things but you know what joe to some extent we are probably naive in thinking we are not ignorant that we know everything you know what i mean i wonder in 70 years time will they reflect on on conversations that we're having and call us ignorant and uneducated in the wider scale of learning uh yeah absolutely um i mean the one thing i always say is we know more about what we don't know than what we do know there's so much that we do not know and we're always thinking we can control things and just take for example with the covid you know that we could get a vaccine that we have the human intellect to overcome everything now we're talking about ai and we realize that ai is far more powerful maybe than our own human capacity and our own intellect so look at there's always knowledge and it's always progressing and god knows how they look back at us in a hundred years time saying god what the things that we believed or the things that we understood and what we didn't understand but one has to understand people from within the time they're in and living in and things make sense for them and maybe the the point about the book of Loregaula isn't so much it's historical accuracy which is very pseudo-historical but it's the way that they thought and how they understood themselves and maybe that's a conversation we need to bring into today like a modern version of Loregaula in the air and i don't know the booking the the book of invasions or the taking of out who are we as Irish people what does it mean to be Irish today and what makes me Irish what makes somebody for example an immigrant that comes here and is naturalized like they're Irish now so that whole discussion is something that we need maybe to bring into the modern day the book of invasions yeah about something like the 11th century as such but before we write another let's finish the last one uh i want to talk of the fur bollocks yeah the fur bollocks well bollock in the Irish is belly and like bollock and tea a mouthful of tea bollock now we're not sure why they're called fur bollocks but one may think it's because the belly shape of their their their sails when they were being blown in the wind others argue scholars argue that it's because they had a leather pouch that they would use when they were in slavery to go up carrying clay and and materials like that up a mountain so that this leather pouch was something that they held at their at their belly and therefore they got the name their fur bollocks but the b-o-l-g-s not not the b-o-l-l-o-c-k-s another harvy anglicized word yes and yeah but absolutely and they they came to Ireland um they were enslaved and the Namidians that left they went to Greece and were enslaved there and really turned to Ireland after the Midians about 230 years as the the fur bollocks and they survived for a while um but uh and they developed up the the Ireland into the provinces that we know now you know the five provinces we say uh Quigga and Irish for a province well we only have four today Ulster, Conok, Munster and Lentster but there used to be an old province of Mith so that's the Quigga that's the five but that's no longer in existence so they were the people that had had done that you know okay so one more the question because this this sort of book of invasions versus versus maybe what we know or what is contested is is it's it's blowing my mind here so the the book of invasions did write of five provinces and are they the provinces that we are in now uh so did the fur bollocks create them or is this still uh sort of a version of events so you know is there is there a is there a do we have an actual knowledge that counter uh contradicts the book of invasions yeah very perceptive you see the book of invasions does breach into historical times factually and and so maybe they're looking retrospectively that there was five provinces and they were then retrospectively writing the story from the knowledge they knew then um but there yes there were five provinces I would doubt very much if it was they that created those five province provinces as such but historically at some point it had to happen and at some point they had to emerge and so for just clinical historical exactness it fitted into the storyline so let's put it in here um but it was continuity it was for continuity then so they had to they had to absorb factual not want to say factual because I don't want to I don't want to uh uh upset anyone who might might might believe still but they had to at some that some say well we listen we can't ignore what we know so we're gonna have to tie into this tale yes and that's what they were doing but it made sense and as I said to you earlier on it isn't necessary that it's all factual historically but that the information itself is factual there were five provinces where did they come from and how were they formed so this was their ability they're trying to understand and comprehend and explain you know their understanding of Ireland as they saw it a very different era than to today so the second last tribe to it to Dan and so what period in history are we told this is yeah well really this is just almost at the arrival of christianity not christianity sorry the the Celts to Ireland so the Celts are being pushed up through europe and the two of the dana arrived just before the Celts to Ireland and and there were a tribe of people now whether it was the two of the dana that were here before the Celtic arrival as such and and if you look at for example the word leon or lew dune london or dune lew here it's it's it's the movement of this tribe of the two of the dana lew is the month of august lunas and he was a leader lew and leon comes from lew dune lew's fort and they were pushed up through into england which then became lew dune lew's fort lew dune and then they ended up in dunny gall and it became known as dun lew here which is london back to front lew dun lew dun lew and and so brine dr brine lacy has written quite extensively about this believing that the last of of that tribe of lew now whether there were the two of the dana or not the the tribe of lew uh survived in dunny gall north west dunny gall but they were a very mystical uh kind of more supernatural people according to the lower gaula and and they brought four great gifts to to ireland one of them actually been the leo phila stone of destiny which was later stolen uh and by the the british under colonization and that stone actually is the stone that's under the carnation seat that charles was sitting on when he was crowned recently that belongs to the people of ireland so the two of the dana they did not leave the land necessarily somewhat have it that they are i don't know in hybernation or or what's the story there yeah well the two of the dana were very magical mystical supernatural type of people um and uh when the last tribe the malaysians now the malaysians would have come from spain this is the beginning of kelty garland when they arrived um the the two of the dana tried to prevent them by bringing down a fog they had this great power of bringing down a fog the faith faith feed that was called but the malaysians eventually managed to arrive in ireland and they went to war with the two of the dana but eventually they said look we're not going to be killing each other let's come to an agreement and the deal was that the two of the dana would go to the underworld that they would go underground and thus that's where her old all our fairy culture folklore comes from you know uh willy willy anningham there and ballie shannon up an airy mountain down a rushy range there and go hunting for fairies all that fairy folklore okay tell me back to national school there yeah well there you are oh they is there any is there any suggestion they may return from the underworld to which they were banished or agreed to go yes it's mentioned that they'll come they'll come back to rescue ireland when there comes a darkness in ireland when people are confused when they won't know that ever gene right and wrong they mustn't be on the internet where are they come back to a dana we need you know the time has come yeah well maybe it has um um when you think of the of the modern times uh that we're living in you know maybe we could do with a bit of leadership and guidance but the the book talks about a darkness coming over ireland at some stage and that the two of the dana would come from the underworld up into our normal physical world if you if you ever watch the film into the west it's a fabulous film about two traveler boys but this horse comes cheering the nog and we all know the stories of cheering the nog and things like that but the white horse is a symbol of the other world and the only way you get to the other world is on the white horse so when you see a white horse and Irish stories there's something connecting you to the other world and it's a very very powerful film if you watch that so that's the two of the dana so when we get to the Celts the Malaysians then I mean at what point are we bridging accepted recognized history what you've talked about now the arrival of the Celts and the Malaysians to the dana possibly but the certainly the arrival of the Malaysians now whether it was the Malaysians or not but this is the beginning of accurate historical evidence based but again you've got to understand what's been written in the 11th century that didn't have the archaeological knowledge and carbon dating and all that that we have now but it fits in very very well with the real historical because from then on in the high kings of Ireland continue without break until the beginning of our colonization and the arrival say of Henry II so for to 1170 72 for all over a thousand years that line then becomes very clear and the more we move from this period that's written in the lower Gaula it becomes actually more accurate okay the high kings of Ireland so the the Malaysians come from Spain but they they went and they arrived to see the two of the dana and it was Grania and Alia according to the book of invasions that's in Grania and there and Bert was the one of the headquarters for the two of the dana so again Donegal tied into the story uh the Fulmori tari were tied into the story so the book of invasions refers to Donegal quite a lot so um what was our race or or ethnic ethnicity at that time then well it's really then it's the beginning of the Celts the Gaels and we believe that they they were the ones then that brought the Irish language and it was they that brought you know the Celtic culture talking about the Bronze Age advancements at that time so this is the period then we're talking about and the Malaysians they they had actually again in the book of invasions it goes back to the time of the Tower of Babel and where people were trying to build this temple to the sky thinking that they could reach God and become infinite if they could reach there and then God to confuse them by bringing 72 languages so they couldn't communicate with each other and therefore they weren't able to be to speak and that became known as you know babbling on you're babbling you're making no sense well that goes back to the whole story of the Tower of Babel so this man Farid Fasid who who was living in Eastern Europe Western Asia he sent his son and other scholars to pick the best words from all the languages and he called that language after his grandson Gaelic and it was these Malaysians that brought this Gaelic to Ireland so this is the origins end of our Irish language were we at that point oh very good um era your era has a lot of different meanings and we're not sure where it comes from but you're hit the nail in the head the two of the dana had three lovely ladies wives of the kings era Banba and Fodla so when they met the Malaysians they said would you call Ireland after us so supposedly they called it after era who is the most beautiful of them era given us Eru uh Banba I mean we talked before about Banba's crown there and then they shown it's the top of Ireland Banba is another old Irish name for Ireland and then Fola Fola is another name for Ireland there's a place in England or in Scotland called at at all it's a Fola a new Ireland Irish people went to live in Scotland and they called it New Ireland so Fola Banba and Eru are three names for Ireland so yes the book of invasions refer to the origins of that but how accurate that is so we settled here and maybe we'll start to see the formation of Ireland as we know it but did that journey I mean did that journey conclude there or did people pass through uh if you know what I mean so the original settlers or however you might describe them here did they stay here and that's from from where we came or did they continue their explanation or journey north or where else did they land that is is closely related perhaps to the the origins of of era as you've just outlined well the point is then when the relations came these were the more modern more versatile people having better knowledge of weaponry and tools and farm husbandry so then they spread out throughout the whole of Ireland and thus we explain who we are today that whole you know uh homogeneous idea of us being Irish and that our whole roots and our Irishness goes back to the expansion of this tribe these Malaysians these Celts that came to Ireland you know over over two thousand years ago and into the 11th century that was explaining then who we were and this is what we are and so we became the gale and the foreigner is the ghal like doing the ghal the four to the foreigner Joe wait this conversation again we could do an hour and but I want to I just want to remind ourselves of uh there come a time in our history that the the the famine as it's called uh our population has never recovered since so how big people left desperate they left desperately in what numbers are we talking just to remind ourselves of that because a lot of people perished a lot of people stayed a lot of people left well in this short space of a decade about a million people die eight well million people immediately died roughly and a million people emigrated that's what historians would say so consider that there was eight million people in Ireland so one eighth of our population left one eighth of our population died and that trend continued and has continued so you're given the other side of the story there Greg which is you know the the parameters of of your understanding they're showing that while the book of invasions maybe explains the inward movement of people into our countries you know or into our country when we look at say the famine and if we go back to column killer and say for example column banners and these Irish saints that left on their boats there was over 70 Irish monasteries throughout the whole of Europe set up by Irish monks you can't nearly go into a major European city without having an Irish manuscript but we left in our millions so we can explain an initial one million very sadly a million died the the population didn't naturally shrivel to what was it three and a half million not so long ago or close yeah it was wasn't it I think when I was at school the population was three and a half million so the five million more people passed away but primarily left to this country than remained yes that's remarkable in our recent history isn't it yeah well if you look at America they reckon there's 45 million Irish Americans alone origin sir I mean put that in relation to our present population we were hitting what is it five point seven five point eight at the moment and we're heading for 10 million in Europe here that's maybe the plan if there is a plan so there's a whole discussion about first of all that as the book of invasions talk about the inward movement and then we talked about the famine and say the monks and the outward movement of Irish people which is always continued and now here we are in a period and maybe this decade from the 2020s that say in the last say 15 years there's over a million people non-Irish residents have come to this country to our shores I think it was just checking 14 percent of the population of Ireland which is over 700,000 people have not been born in Ireland not bone in England in that number as well though in Scotland people have returned home yeah yeah oh there's quite a number of that are people that returned home that would maybe have Irish parents or whatever yeah yeah quite a high number of that so one of the biggest one of the biggest fears people have of people coming in to to Ireland now is is cultural change is that something that should be feared uh like I mean a lot of people would like to pause history but then you could reflect on really what what is our culture when we choose not to speak our own language but anyway that's probably another conversation but in a couple of minutes in a couple of minutes what what this is not propaganda by the way it's a general history conversation yeah what we're looking at our history should we be so fearful of the cultural change or the great replacement or some people call it that people believe it's part of a plan I just think it's a lot of people that see a better life themselves will have to flee where they are but anyway everyone has their own views how scared should we be well again I think that we need to have a conversation about how inward movement of people into a country what effect that's having on us both positive and negative and people are always afraid to talk about this because it's maybe talked either as just only negative or it's just talked about as only positive and other countries have undergone mass inward movement of peoples as well and there've been problems and also there have been benefits and so look at that's maybe a conversation for another day but you're right in saying about the culture the word latin and latin for culture called terry you know agriculture to grow on the land called terry means to grow and if if we are you know we talk about inclusion and diversity these are two buzzwords every politician will ever go on your show will throw in climate change diversity and inclusion they're the three buzzwords that they'll always throw into conversation but the question needs to be asked is where is the room for the native Irish culture in inclusion and where is the room in diversity for the native Irish culture whatever that is and then how do we as a nation of people because there are probably people that there are Irish citizens that are naturalized that are of different culture how do we merge those cultures and how do we grow together and how do we get the most out of it that is going to be that is going to be a separate conversation because i have to go at the moment dr joe kelly and as always it just could rumble on and on because as soon as we finish you throw in a doozy that we can't talk about because we don't have the time dr joe kelly we will talk again very shortly thank you so much for your time today we really appreciate it back with gardening 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right now uh we're looking towards spring we talked about this last week so let's reiterate because we're sort of in the final throws now but we can be planning absolutely i have great time to go for bulbs especially you see every shop and every garden centre's full of them at the moment um after a long winter and like it's been a bad enough year so like a long probably dreary winter it's nice to get a bit of spring color and have someone to look forward to so now it's time to get your daffodils tulips alliums that sort of stuff in well weeds in the driveway die off in winter or they're gonna have to be generally weeds the wool die off a bit but they're not completely disappeared but new ones won't germinate over this period so if you get them cleaned up at least you have a good while to actually be free of them so you know your daffodils your tulips snow drops you plant them now they are they'll pop up lovely bit of color welcome you into spring and they're not terribly expensive if you're not talking about no they're not expensive and they're actually very fairly foolproof to get to grow actually so they are once you just throw them in follow the directions in the packet and basically forget about them until they pop up in spring now's the time to start tidying up your beds do a bit of trimming streaming yes generally give everything the growth is finished kind of so really anything you do now should hold for the winter yeah pretty much anything now um generally give everything a wee trim sort of anything's finished flour and give them a trim back and just generally sort of give it a wee tidy it actually makes the hopeless look a lot better that's including roses is it because we often get a lot of calls in when is the time to trim back your roses yeah time to trim back your roses give them once they're finished flour now sort of between sort of October November give them a say cut them back but maybe half and then do the final trim of a st. Patrick's day because the the cut ends that you have generally get a bit battered over the winter eye so if you cut them back to a clean thing the spring you've much better grown obviously anything that's sitting on the ground if you can raise it up a little bit pretty much you give me pot feet there to go on under pots just to keep the drainage moving yeah and if you can find pot feasting shop that just wee bits of board yeah because there's a consistent moisture there isn't it they can actually if they're sitting in a puddle it can actually suck up excess water and again just to remind people you know you're we some people's summer flowers are still hanging on by the skin or their teeth but they might want to switch them out for a bit of colour over winter that can be done now and there are options there aren't they you don't necessarily have to just throw them in the shed and worry about them in the spring no absolutely not there are plenty of options to give you wee bit of colour over the winter period there like your cyclone pansies even heathers can be quite nice at this time of year so in terms of the lawn I mentioned it if you did finally get your last cut or you're planning on doing so does like say things like leaves or other stuff that falls on it do you leave that and it mulches and feeds the lawn or do you need to get rid of that or what's the story and our climate I would tend to get rid of it give maybe over the course of the winter give a couple of rakes just to get the worst of the leaves off it because that sort of increases moisture it's like a blanket too isn't it encourages moss just not sort of our mileage climate damp climate anything we can do from vegetable perspective again really popular like things don't shut down completely just because it's winter so from a vegetable perspective vegetable perspective and now is the perfect time to get in like your onions your garlic even peas beans and members of the cabbage family can all get in now and while you probably won't have them at the set of Christmas if you get them in now you'll have a good start in spring and you have a good early crop all right so uh daffodil bulbs someone asks when now no okay anytime between sort of September and December what about cutting back hydrangeas for the winter time cutting back debate about that um I would tend to cut them back now because it just tidies them up once the flowers sort of spent on them other people would argue leave the old flowers on them to protect the crown of the plant from frost and cut them back in March but to be honest I've never seen frost over the winter didn't do that much damage usually early in the spring so I would tend to give them a trim now uh listener has a wedding in October a lot of the flowers and colour is gone they want something to use up the front door areas people arrive take a look in your local gardens under like I say the cyclimans the pansies all that's available now so you could have sort of instant colour why is my hedge suddenly turning brown uh and should I be concerned could be a multitude of reasons generally if it's turning brown yes you probably should be concerned uh probably take photos bring them to your garden centre because there could be a lot of different plants involved different types of plants so does it matter if it's the top the middle of the bottom uh generally anything turning brown like that I would worry but especially if it's the likes of the landies because if you think of a Christmas tree it's sort of dead long before it starts turning brown I guess you'll hear you I have a Japanese anamones flower it's uh it has a lot of seeds how do I plant to grow as I want to gift it to friends oh that's a Japanese and I can even say an enemy I think it is I'm close enough yeah close enough um Japanese enemy uh from seeds genways not the best idea you're better actually taken from root division you can actually dig the plant up divide the root right okay better success rates a lot of them's hybridized so the actual the seed that comes off the plant may not be exactly the same may may not be exactly the same as a parent plant interesting so it could be a different plant altogether so it may not come out to be a true reflection on what you want to give right when do you cut back forest uh flames forest flames just you can cut them back anytime of the year not early spring because you're going to cut off your nice sort of red foliage but uh now be a good enough time just anytime there's not frost a minute uh is it too late to give the garden another cut uh we're like if I presume it's the last one now if you can get at it right if you can get a little bit of length there don't you to be honest actually you could still hear at it if you get a bit of mileage now you may be given another one about sort of mid-october and what people can't talk about you'll get little patches that probably grow a bit better than other areas I think don't you um I'm looking to source garden really uh garden ready polyanthus crescendo makes any suggestions where I could source them please uh we have polyanthus down there right but they're not that particular variety but we have husky and Alaska variety to be very similar but uh the ones you mentioned there the baby's sort of very vibrant colors um to get them garden ready probably your local garden center should have they might have that exact thing but don't have someone very close how do I get uh how do I get rid of ragweed I've tried spraying you but it keeps coming back that comes in from Morris Maurice yes uh the ragweed it depends there's couple of ragweed sort of a broad term refers to a few things probably the most common thing will be ragwort which is what people right here knows benweed and generally the they're the sort of tall yellow by you see into the grassland uh generally the best idea is to actually physically pull them did the guards not used to have a role in uh policing that like guards would land to people and say get that off your land yeah exactly because they're very noxious to yeah yeah cards would actually call to people and enforce the cutting of yes exactly so and it's very important actually if you do pull them to put them somewhere away because even as they dry out and as they're dead they're still very poisonous to cows and that's what don't put it anywhere near where animals may be uh should we plant cover crops for the winter plant cover crops for the winter yeah yes it's good enough idea if you have vegetable beds that cover crops are just a green manure you plant them this time here they come up over the winter and then you just dig them in as a manure in the springtime and you keep wanting us to rake up our leaves what do we do with them uh leaf mould is actually a very good thing to do um basically just make yourself a if you have a big yard and make yourself an area out of palace and just put pile the leaves in them and it'll very quickly turn to compost lovely stuff um um just finally if you don't mind uh about if someone wants to become a gardener a qualified gardener um isn't the other courses for it or what's the pathway for them there are generally um pretty much if you're from secondary school you can go straight on to degree courses generally it's a Waterford Institute of Technology or the Botanic Gardens and they'll blend it or sort of if you're older and sort of fancy it as a career the likes of the ETB have very good courses um they're one starting next month I think it's the end of next month in Larry Kinney here yeah it's level five okay and so it'll be worth chatting to them because do you want us there's a huge shortage of gardeners qualified gardeners in Ireland and England is that people that work on gardens uh people working gardens but even people that run like say your big stately homes yes that's okay yeah there'll be very good careers that in terms of government jobs and stuff that's right and there's there's the statistics there's some like 70 percent of head gardeners are over 60 well so they're all going to be retired there you go if you like outdoors you like color you like smell you like creation and you can really let you keep creative juices go go why not consider a degree course if you're older at the ETB or after school in the other places that's available interesting we might talk before the winter's out who's to say we might get a three-week yes maybe we'll have to jump up Paul thanks for everything over the spring summer I'm going to forward speaking to you really soon it's only just around the corner but for now Paul McLaughlin gardener at Balak Dirt Garden Center thank you so very much thank you bro the eagerly anticipated brand new production of the Broadway smash hit musical sister act is on its way to the board gash energy theater in Dublin join Highland radio as we make way to this unforgettable show on friday 23 of february 2024 your trip includes 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