 Contination to the cessation of the mobile cath lab services at Letcher-Kinney University Hospital. There has been much backlash as it emerged a number of weeks ago, that as of the end of June the weekly angiogram service will no longer be provided at the hospital. Donna-Marie Doherty has more. SEAL does say a review of the national strategy on cardiology is underway and due to be published imminently. This review, they say, will set out the roadmap for future delivery of cardiac services nationally. In the interim, Galway will continue to support both Letcher-Kinney and Sligo University Hospital sites in the delivery of acute cardiac services. It's been confirmed that a business case has been submitted in relation to interventional radiology suite at Letcher-Kinney University Hospital as a part of the service planning process over the past three years. However, there has been no national allocation of resources with SEAL to continue to advocate for such to fully utilize the facility and commission it for use on a five-day basis. An assessment of the equipment in the hospital is currently underway by an expert panel. An assessment of the equipment in the hospital is currently underway by an expert panel who will make a recommendation with regards to the capacity of the facility to provide angiogram services. The new president of the GRA says getting more Garde in the grind will be high on his agenda in the coming term. Donal-Garde Brandon O'Connor was announced as the organization's new president at their annual conference having previously held the role of vice president. He says the lack of Garde visibility needs to be addressed. We have been particularly hit hard with the lack of basic equipment, which is vehicle. The problem in relation to visible front-line units across the country is the problem and there seems to be a serious lack of Garde presence. So hopefully the government and the commissioner will listen to us and will listen to the community and the public representatives and to get more people into town for more and get more boots on the street. Donal will be told later today that the British government are trying to evade accountability and responsibility for their role in the troubles. It comes as the bid-debate continues over an amnesty bill being proposed by the British government. Dnigol Jeopardy, Padre McLaughlin will also raise the findings of a police ombudsman's report which identified collusive behaviors in the killing of Dnigol County cancer, Eddie Fullerton. Jeopardy McLaughlin believes people must be held to account. The British state are trying to evade responsibility, evade accountability to protect their own military agents including in this case a mass murder and we will fight them, we will resist that and we will get to the truth about the central role of the British state in our conflict. Emergency services are currently at the scene of a crash in Letterkenny this morning. Traffic delays are being experienced in and around the area of the Kiltau Roundabout. No further details are currently known. For weather, Irene and Drizzle are clearing to bride our sunny spells and scatter blustery showers today with highest temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. COVID-19 can still cause serious illness, especially in people at higher risk. We need to keep protecting each other, so stay home if you have symptoms. Wear a mask in healthcare settings, public transport and busy places. Let fresh air in if you're meeting indoors. Keep hands clean and get a COVID-19 vaccine and booster. Let's keep looking out for each other from the HSE for us all. The Ninetown Noon Show with Letterkenny Credit Union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges. Letterkenny Credit Union 9102127. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The Ninetown Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. A very good morning. You welcome along to Wednesday's edition of the Ninetown Noon Show. Four minutes past nine on this the 25th of May. How are you keeping? I hope you are well. OK, the lines are open for you right now to comment on whatever we're talking about today and to raise your own issues, to show your own stories. And you can do so by calling 07491 25,000. Your WhatsApps and texts to 086625,000. Let's see what's making the front pages of the papers today and just absolutely awful news unfolding out of Texas in the United States. Another mass shooting. We'll talk about it a little later on in the front pages, but 19 children between the ages of seven and 10. And I'm conscious that there could be younger years, years in cars if you're traveling to school or have you, but absolutely terrifying and becoming it's never going to be the norm, but becoming so frequent. There are more mass shootings in the United States than there are days in the year. It's just unbelievable. As I say, that's referenced. It broke late last night. It's referenced in some of the nationals. I'll get to those in a moment. But let's start with what's happening locally. The English Times, the 9010 micro redress scheme and its proposed replacement, which is coming before Cabinet on May 31, apparently without pre-legislative scrutiny, are based on guesswork. They cannot and will not address the issue of crumbling homes in and shown and beyond because they are not based on an empirical scientific studies an expert has claimed. The Donegal post tells us that thousands of people are set to come to Donegal in the coming months for what has been described as the Iron Man of Pilgrimages after the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. St. Patrick's Purgatory on Station Island in Loch Durg, New Pettico, is preparing once again to welcome pilgrims back for the three day pilgrimage in recent years before the pandemic. Over 10,000 pilgrims would make their annual pilgrimage or retreat on Loch Durg during the summer months. The prior of Loch Durg, Father Lawrence Flynn, said, this is the year for anyone who's always thought about visiting Loch Durg or who has had the three day pilgrimage on their bucket list to come and see what it's all about. Have you done it? What's it like? Would you do it again? I know, certainly in the South, the county, many people I would know will will have done it. I want to do many from the North and the West and North East of the county. Would they go and take part in that? Let us know. Oh, it's six to 25,000. The Finn Valley voice tells us a property for rent in Donegal is 73 times more likely to be an Airbnb than a long term rental of the over 1,700 properties for rent in the county. Just 23 long term rentals, according to Daft.ie. The remainder are Airbnb, a highly flexible system under which clients rent a property for a few days or weeks under conditions which vary widely from property to property. So many of you out there listening and it's your own business, by the way. And I'm not looking to nose into it. But I mean, clearly, you know, hundreds of people who would have been maybe had a property and they were renting it out have obviously switched to the Airbnb model. It has to be the case. If that's you, why? You don't have to come on the right. He'll be interested to get an insight into it. 08, 660, 25,000 watts apps or texts. Were you a renter? Someone who rents, sorry, a landlord, isn't it? That's the correct term. Were you a landlord, you know, to long term renters? And did you switch to Airbnb? Did it make financial sense? Was it because of less stress or hassle? I don't know the ins and outs of it. Let us know if that's the situation. It would be interesting to get an insight because, you know, I presume we didn't end up with all of these houses just sitting there and then people decided to use them for Airbnb. Onto the nationals now, the Irish Independent. Many pubs are shutting for two days a week after it was estimated a third of staff have left since the game changer. Covid pandemic groups representing pub owners will tell a door committee. They suffered a huge loss of chefs, managers and senior bar staff after two years of closures and restrictions and devastating impacts. Donald O'Keefe, the chief executive of the Licensed Vintners Association, will tell politicians, foreign staff have returned home or left the licensing trade to work in retail, distribution and construction. He said 79 percent of members reported that uncertainty about the pub trades future was the main reason for losing staff. But, you know, and the theme of the messages we get into this program when you're speaking out and about is is that people don't like the hours. They don't like the pay. They don't like the uncertainty of how much work they're going to get in a particular week. These are the examples that are given to us and they've found all the places to work where they feel it's a better work-life balance. They're treated better. Is the industry going to have to, you know, root and branch right across the board? I know some employers in that sector are excellent. Don't get me wrong. But is there going to have to be some sort of a root and branch change to retain and encourage staff to enter that sector? OK, the Irish Times this morning, the UK government will introduce Slater Today long-awaited legislation, which will give the Irish language official recognition and legal protection in the north. Irish language campaigners held the move as historic, but said they would wait to see the detail and remained concerned over how the new laws would be implemented in the absence of a functioning executive in Northern Ireland. The measures are part of a wider cultural package, which will include the appointment of Irish language and also Scots, Ulster, British commissioners and establishment of an office of identity and cultural expression, which is intended to promote cultural pluralism and respect for diversity. OK, so we've been covering on this program over the last couple of weeks, the strike by medical scientists and the impact it was having on health services. Of course, as I said yesterday, many of you would have received a contact from the hospital saying a procedure was cancelled. We also heard that this strike was delaying discharges and also some concerns about the ongoing care of people in the hospital, as blood tests would be vitally important in assessing their condition, whether it was improving otherwise. Well, thankfully, the action for today has been deferred. So we've had two one day protests. Today was to be a second day of action, but that has been deferred. And of course, we don't know what's going to happen next week yet. But reading on in the mail here, in the mail here, medical scientists have suspended a third day of strike action plan for today with union leaders saying meaningful engagement is needed as their members are running on empty. Up to 30,000 hospital appointments were expected to be cancelled as a result of the strikes this week with all routine G sampling services and non-emergency testing in hospitals suspended. But the medical laboratory scientists association told its 2100 members to resume work as normal today after the union and the HSE Department of Health accepted the Labor Court's invitation to engage in talks. So we do hope we do hope that that is resolved there because there's enough facing hospital staff, but also more importantly, hospital patients. We don't need to be adding any more fuel to the fire. Right. The Irish Daily Sun went to print late enough to carry the story of this awful situation in the United States. At least 14 primary school children and one teacher were killed by a teenage gun man at a Texas primary school. It's unfortunately gone up to 19 overnight. The suspect who was named by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who himself, by the way, sent out a tweet, giving out that his stage was only second in terms of new gun ownership. He sent that out there not that long ago, ironically. But the Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He named 18 year old Salvador Ramos. He abandoned his car and entered Rob Elementary in New Val at around noon yesterday. Mr Abbott said Roman entered the school with a handgun and may have had a rifle. It turns out he had two automatic rifles, which he was able to walk in and buy legally on the day of his 18th birthday. He added he shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher. We know it's two adults now and 19 children. The Texas Governor said Ramos was killed by responding officers. It was claimed last night that he shot his grandmother dead before going on a rampage at the school located an hour from the Mexican border. Now I've been looking at the reaction to that as you do. And I don't really care about people's rights to guns or those who don't believe they should have them up. It's not my argument. I don't involve myself in it. But it's politicized. How could something so horrific just become a political conversation where those who are in favor of people's right to bear arms, beat it over the head of those who want more controls? Surely that that should be so shocking that any some middle ground should be found that people have the right to have guns, but you can't have a situation where an 18 year old can just walk in and buy body armor and buy two automatic rifles. There has to be somewhere in between there. As I say, I'm not interested in the the Democrat, Republican, the pro gun lobby, the, you know, pro anti gun lobby, whatever it might be, because I don't know enough about it. And there's no point me involved in myself in it. But there has to be taking the politics and the division in society out of it and looking at those 19 children that have lost their lives before really they probably even started the absolute devastation that those families will have for for the rest of their lives. And for the other children that witness this, the scars that they will carry unbelievable a week just after 10 other people were killed in the store, regardless of what people's views on that subject are in the United States surely at this point they have to say, this is the only country in the world where this happens like it does. And they have to find some common ground to get along and to agree and to stop making it so easy for people to just pick up guns, buy guns and walk in and just do what they do. You know, I was listening to some commentary about it and they were talking about, well, you need police in the schools, and then they want certain material across the windows. So perpetrators can't see who's in there or offer some protection from from gunfire. I mean, children should not be going to school for fear of being shot. In America at the moment, more children are killed by gunshots than car crashes. And by some measure as well. I mean, they have to come up with some some some sort of solution to park the rhetoric park the the sticks with which they beat each other and come up with an agreement that saves people's particularly young people's lives as adults we make decisions. And sometimes we have to live by the consequences of those decisions. But these are innocent young children who just went to school. It was their last day of school and just the absolute devastation that town forever more will be known and probably rightly so as the scene of this awful massacre and they have to come up with some resolution to it. Right, okay, onto the Irish Daily Star. A campaign to warn festival goers of harms of drugs. The harm of drugs has been launched by the HSE the health chiefs are concerned that drugs like ecstasy, MDMA and cocaine have increased in strength and increased the risk of an overdose. Now, of course, lots of young people will not be listening to this program. But lots of young people will be going to these festivals. The absolute majority of them will enjoy themselves. But in the heat of the moment, they might let their guard down and take up the offer because they're away from home and have been locked up for two or three years. They might take the offer of one of these drugs. They're incredibly dangerous, they're higher risk and they can cause real problems. The HSE are urging revelers to remember key points such as mixing drugs increases the risk of unexpected reactions and becoming unwell. The HSE said the new drug harm reduction campaign is aimed at music festival attendees and offers practical harm reduction information as well as advice on how to reduce the risks associated with drugs use because you know with other drugs such as alcohol or whatever you do know what you're taking, even if you take too much of it. The problem is is there's lots of stuff out there that claims to be certain types of drugs but isn't it's much more dangerous than it ordinarily is. Right, the Irish Daily Mirror, I do wonder if this is sort of the direction we are going to be going in in terms of, you know, tech companies laying people off tech stocks have fallen dramatically. Of course, everything played into their advantage during the lockdown, online shopping, you know, the purchase of more electronic goods and what have you, but PayPal has become one of the first companies on a big scale to lay staff off here in Ireland and that's to say it could go either way. We are the European Central Hub for a lot of these companies, these international companies, so that could work in our favour. But anyway, PayPal yesterday revealed it will lay off 307 staff and consultations will start this week with affected workers. It did not comment on claims the job losses 135 in Dublin and 172 in Dundalk County, Lath are being relocated to India. After 131 posts were cut last year, the company has paid off 438 Irish workers in the last 13 months. Now, they still retain over 2,000 staff here, so a significant employer, but we just hope that that's just not another sign of perhaps what might be to come and we hope not. 08 660, 25,000, 08 660, 25,000, that is the WhatsApp and text number or give us a call on 07 4 9125,000. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Sentra, mountaintop Lettercanny. The 9 till noon show with Lettercanny Credit Union. Is your bank leaving town? Lettercanny Credit Union is now offering myCU current account and debit MasterCard, bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account. Joe Galleher, entertainments present Rock and Roll Legends, show Wadi Wadi at Clenery Hotel Lettercanny Thursday 9th of June. Tickets on sale now from hotelreceptionticketmaster.ie and Joe Galleher, entertainments show Wadi Wadi live at Clenery Hotel Lettercanny Thursday 9th of June. The moment you got told the good news Rob you made the panel when the lads added you into the group skipping nights out missing the crack rewatching classics and learning new tricks being driven to the biggest game of your life by your ma'am and then you finally come on in the 51st minute it's the minor moments that last a lifetime the electric iron and GAA minor championships this is major. Is your scooter a little older? Pre love perhaps? What adventures I wondered it did have in the past another family another life bright city lights or a quiet country existence seeing Ireland's best sights we don't really need your car's story with a Skoda service you get a complete vehicle health check genuine Skoda parts and free roadside assistance for 12 months your local Skoda dealer is DMG motors Clare Road, Dunigaltown telephone 07497 21396 or visit dmgmotors.ie buy now and then split your payment over three months interest free with Klarna at Tinney's Toys Letter Kenny now that the evenings are longer there's loads of great ideas for outdoor fun at Tinney's like pedal and battery ride on tractors cars and jeeps also a great range of outdoor toys like swings and slides now in stock shopping made easy with Klarna at Tinney's Toys Leck Road Letter Kenny and at Tinney's Toys.com for express delivery or click and collect okay you're welcome back to the program Marie is a farmer on the right of way and Joe talking about the right way good morning to you Marie good morning right sorry about my convoluted introduction there so you can you explain the situation you're in and the problem you face well first of all I'm not a farmer I am in in in Dunigaltown landowner okay my mistake not at all the problem was for years I had problems with trespassers people breaking down fences and actually one person decided that she was going to rent out my land but anyway she did so I had I decided to sell it basically but when I went to sell it I discovered there was an issue with the right-of-way now my property is landlocked but we had an old ancient right-of-way that goes back to 1857 from the Griffiths evaluation that's how far I can find that our family used it so anyway I had somebody that was going to buy it but there's no stirrup I said there's this new law coming down the road uh and that was like two years ago um that the government had decided that all land landlocked properties had to be the right-of-way had to be registered and I proceeded with getting it getting it registered uh but before that I know the people who who hold the right-of-way they tried to block me and or they put up gates and all sorts of things which they shouldn't have done they put up gates and they give other neighbors the key but not me yeah but they knew what they were doing they were trying to block the access because this new law came in in 2009 and do you think do you think that was this that they just had a problem with you or were they fearful of what might be developed in your land and they were trying to be pre-emptive or and frustrate the sale like what what do you believe their motivation might have been they're not just a block a block to right away because I right away once you anybody's land is going to devalue their land but they don't even live here they live in scotland or somewhere so they their plan was to sell the land on because they have just they had inherited from their parents they let they live abroad as well you know so so uh they just no they probably thought that the right-of-way was going to devalue their land so that's where they decided when this new law came in in 2009 that if there was a 12 use gap between me using it and you know I would lose it if you know what I mean yeah this is this new law that it came in in 2009 apparently came in that's what they they knew about this I didn't because I I I don't I mean I I'm not really I'm not a farmer yeah I mean what is do you know what the criteria for using it is like is it using it once is it regular use or is there criteria for what would be classes you know using this right-of-way over the course of that period of time well it's supposed to be using it on a regular basis I don't know I really don't know the law I'm being totally honest no that's okay I don't know yeah but I I do know that that was their motive but anyway because I these other people were trespassing they had duckies horses all sorts at one stage I went up there I had to jump over the gates I went up over the gates because I couldn't get through the gates to put these other people off on the other side of me you know because they were trying to claim it claim my land because when my father got Alzheimer's they they just permanently put donkeys horses whatever they were probably trying to claim quarters right so a lot of people like myself are was a piece of useless land like that I have down and and and Donegal are tortured with right-of-ways and trespassers and do you know what I mean and then people say oh you land your money people don't have a clue they don't the torture is not worth it so have you been able to sell the land or can you or what's the situation with the right of way well I went to a solicitor and she advised me to to get it registered and I did but you know at a considerable cost because you know you have to get the maps registered by an architect or drawn up by an architect you have to go and then put a piece in the paper for about a month which another considerable amount of money and of course him paying my solicitor like she did her best in this tour she did her best to advise me but in the meantime people who own the land they were selling parcels of land under the same folio number and every time that happened that delayed me another six months because it had to go back and forth to the to the land registry people to say that this piece of land didn't affect the right away twice that happened it was it was just a nightmare. So once you've legally gone through this process are they able to object to your registering of a right of way? No no no I got it was after nearly two years I was fully registered there on the 18th of May but it was a long drawn out process and it was unnecessary stress. But you know this is my story but people for example say you have a family where the father is a registered landowner he's got Alzheimer's or dementia or something like that others are known as in the family and that piece of land that's landlocked isn't used by the family you know for the 12 years there because of that new law apparently if they don't use it for 12 years that means that land's no use to them so the person who that land's attached to they can put their cattle or sheep because you can't cross it and another and another while down the road they can claim it with squatters right as people were that twisted. But if the amount of with the amount of time that we're talking about Maria and by the way I've full sympathy for you but with the amount of time we're talking about and with the procedures have to be gone through this would be pretty rare wouldn't it this type of situation you've had to have gone through? I don't know I don't think it would be that rare you think about all the mountain blocks and pieces of land all around Donegal so there's loads of land that's landlocked and the problem is the government keeps changing the rule and this is the thing I discovered when I had the land registered or the right-of-way registered that I didn't need to do it at all because now yet again the Irish government did another U-turn. So the process you've been through was not required? No because the government changed the law again they did a U-turn on having your land registered. Right okay now at this point though albeit having gone through a long drawn out and expensive process has ever been resolved to your satisfaction other than obviously a lot of the effort you've put in not being necessary as it turns out? Unnecessary cost and expense and stress yeah and you know what it's not even the money it's the stress the stress for anybody that has to go through a process to try to get it right away to prove a right away all sorts of things it's just too stressful and you know when you have what when you know your family has it and you and you have people these people come into that area in the 70s their parents that and they inherited it sometime in the 90s and they just they never bothered about it they had a young fella you know looking after and I'd lay there but they you know played not a nice you know try to put the block my way going up to to this property. Right okay but do you have that you have that resolved now at this stage? I have it resolved but I'm just the only reason I'm making an issue up with it it's just I hope there's other people out there maybe can tell their story but you know I'm sure it's it's it'll be the same for a lot of people unnecessary stress because governments keep the government keeps making the changes these these laws to the right away laws all the time. Okay Marie listen thank you for your time this morning I'm going to stay with this because we've got Ashley Meaton who's an agricultural solicitor on the line with us. Hi Ashley how are you keeping thanks for taking the call. Hi good morning Greg. Maybe you could talk if you don't mind we're not going to talk about specific cases Ashley we'll just talk generally speaking but using Marie's an example. The rules as it relates to right of way those rules changing then changing back again this 12 year this 12 year period where you have to have used this right of way is everything that Marie said exactly how you would say it from a legal perspective. Yes I thought it was a bit of a mess really it's the best way to describe it in that this law came in in 2009 the land and conveying thing law reform act in 2009 and essentially what they wanted it so I thought just as a background the reason why they were trying to bring it in is because they want to develop a system of e-conveying thing so at the moment it's very much paper based if you want to transfer property but they want to get it to a system whereby it's all done online but there's a certain I suppose aspects of land that aren't registered such as right to A so what they want to do is to have these all these rights away registered so that you wouldn't have to rely on these paper based applications so that's kind of the background to it so they decided in 2009 right well you need three years register your right to A by the 30th of November 2012 and obviously there was a lot of law being done by the different farm organizations so because of that then they extended it out to 2021 so of course everyone kind of you know I sat back and kind of said there's loads of time to do this and then there was a frenzy the only way to describe it was around 2019 2020 and where a person had been using the right of way for generations you know without issue then suddenly they had to register these rights away and even within that it was very limited how you could register it essentially you either got the person over who's now the right way to sign a deed acknowledging that they had a right of way and people are naturally it's most important there would be suspicious about that and that you know sometimes they wouldn't agree to do it so what I presume what happened was is where there was sort of an accepted kind of passive situation as soon as a landowner you know found that someone wanted to make this a legal aspect of their property it's going to put some people's backs up for right or wrong they're going to go hold on you what's going on here what else is it risk or you know this is a human emotions you might have absolutely and where I stand in practice so I just deal with farmers I specialize in agriculture I only deal with farmers and landowners so so I would have come across a lot of these cases and where it typically became an issue is that we looked for maybe to register right away for what's called all the purposes and whereas if you get a kickback then if a right away had been used to say traditionally for agricultural purposes well then they would try to limit the right way for agricultural purposes because really it was based on historical use of the right way because then if a person then entered into that they legally accept to that but in the right way was limited to that and also limited would say in terms of maybe you know it was nine foot wide or 12 foot wide and then people were concerned then well you know that's fine now but you modern machinery that might be good actually unfortunately that line is weakening and I also wonder can you change position slightly oh sorry okay can you hear me better now yeah now I mentioned to Marie that her story would be pretty rare in terms of you know not being used for farming a few people inheriting land and so on and so forth but this the establishment of right of ways and the problems that might have caused would have been quite common because I presume a lot of these right of ways weren't legally registered or recognized yeah the warrants and it's also like historically what people would have accepted is what's called a declaration it was like a form declaration from the previous owner and predecessors entitled which said this and I've been accessing my property over this right way for 20 years lost and had to be without force without secrecy and without permission and that was acceptable it was acceptable to the purchasers solicitors but where it became an issue then was that especially with banks so that if a person was borrowing by land the banks were insisting before they'd give the loan that they had to have this right of way registered so even though the law wasn't coming in until 2020 was a reduced coming until 2021 a couple years prior to that banks were insisting that these right of way be registered so what we culminated in it was uh you know September like the right of way had to be registered by the November that it was just it was uproar it's the best way to describe it and it was causing friction and like I totally agree with what Marie was saying in terms of the stress that abroad and in fairness like we would have lobbied we'll say and you know the farm organizations and in fairness minister Humphries did sit up and listen and and the minister productive and they rolled back in it basically so they said that they go back to the old judge made law now saying that again I appreciate Marie's concerns she's going oh my goodness I've done to all this expense all the stress and it was a waste and it was what I just say on that is that there's just been recently the guidance of issues from the law society of Ireland which says that okay if there is a situation where if there's any type of objection around around the right of way which seems to have happened in Marie's case well the best practice would be that you should insist on having the right of way registered because there's no comeback at a later point that if you do buy the land and then the people object to it I start causing hassle well then it's you know you're in precarious so to a shrewd to a shrewd buyer that what the stress that she's been through it will make it a more attractive and perhaps even valuable acquisition than if she hadn't gone through those hoops it is yeah and I said like even so even though the law has changed I think with Marie's situation and the fact that she was getting hassle around exercising her right away I think the the solicitor for the participant would probably still have insisted on having the right of way registered because the people whose land over which the right way existed seem to be objecting to the existence of the right way I think just one other point that's just as important is to to mention as well that Marie concerns about people trying to claim squatters rights and she'd mentioned I think her data that climate the clock stops if the owner of the land doesn't have capacity well then the clock stops in terms of trying to assert adverse possession so physically a person has to be in possession of the land for 12 consecutive years in order to find claim squatters rights but if the person who owns the land is incapacitated well then at time that they've been in possession of the land if he takes into account in meeting that 12 year requirement okay she mentioned about use the use of a right of way over the over 12 years was that the use of the land or the actual use of the right of way and and what what would you know qualify as use would it be you know walking up to check it once a year or would it be you know running machinery across the right way what is that easy to uh is that easy to explain yeah I like it's well it's 20 years is the length of time that you have to use in the right way and they say it's without force without secrecy and without permission so you know it's I thought it's it's regular use but then I even asked you know you don't necessarily have to use like you know you might only use it at certain times a year depending on when you bring in animals and then in terms of history of use would determine the type of right of way you have so historically you would only be walking in and out well then your right of way is limited just walking interesting the other thing is we'll see as regards where it became an issue as I said is that like we would typically people look for what's called a right of way for all purposes but it would normally be limited to what historically had been used so where it can cause an issue is that if a right of way being used for agricultural purposes and then person then looks to build a house on the land well then the people over whose land the right way exists could probably credibly object to the whole minute your right of way was always just for farming it wasn't for residential purposes so we're not allowing this house to go up we're objecting to it so actually this it's in the same space but might be a different issue or under different law don't go like most counties all counties perhaps would have points of interest right that can only be accessed by crossing someone's land and that would have happened for years and years on on end and then you know in recent years you know fences may be put up or bollards might be put up or things to block people from accessing this pathway through the land to say for instance a point of interest or whatever it might be and normally they stay in place they're not argued they aren't returned to sort of pathways for general public use is that a different area of law or what might be going on on there absolutely you hit the nail of the head and so there's a big differentiation between what's called these private rights away and the private rights away typically rise in situations where person A owns land at one point and then there's a field in the middle and then the old land at the other point or maybe from a public road so that they have to cross through somebody else's land to get to their own land you need what's called the dominant in the Serbian tenement so their private rights away and that's what what you're talking about is typically would be public rights away and actually there are very few public rights away that are not public loans so that a lot of the time the people are going in to visit will say historical sites it's actually permissive use by the landowners because the landowner isn't not isn't necessarily objecting now at the same time with the public right away really it should be included in the county development plan as a public right away but again the local authority has this question that if a way had habitually been used for 12 years or that then it can be included as a public right away in the county development plan but they have to serve notice on the landowner in the order to acquire the public right away but a lot of them there are permissive use by the landowners that the landowners agree to people passing in and out and over and with these with certain walkways you know there often can be agreements on as regards you know maybe insurance that if there's people walking to land or whatever that they carry their own insurance that they didn't send by the landowner because predominantly that's what the landowner the farm is concerned about if somebody hurts themselves or whatever going across the land that they can find themselves being caught up in a legal wrangle because of that but just on that point for the Marie scenario say for instance we'll use Marie's example that the farmer over which land she crossed decided to put cattle in there for instance or bulls okay and for Marie to travel from the road to her property had to travel through this land in the event of an animal attack or an injury on the person's land through which the right of way passes is there any liability to the landowner or are they protected yeah there is I suppose there's two points I think in connection with that one is that if she has established the right way that you know arguably those people are interfering with her use the right way so if like there's a phrase you know that somebody does something out of cost isn't it so they do it out of spite and there's no legitimate reason why they will put animals we say on over the right way only to try and make it more difficult for the person to use the right way but then they're interfering with the right way and it's looked at very dimly from a say if it was a judge if it was in a court case etc the second thing I'd say about that is around occupiers are called occupiers liability so what type of liability that a landowner owns to people coming onto their land and it can vary depending on whether somebody is invited in as a visitor or whether they're there with either recreational user or whether they're there as a trespasser so I would say that you know what would a trespasser that's below would say levels that they have a duty not to intentionally injure but even at that we see people generally put up notices on the on the will say on their land you know fine limiter liability on the occupiers liability yes so it was at a very basic level they have a duty not to intentionally injure someone so arguably you know I suppose with a ball they should put up the sign I mean if there is a right way over the land in which the ball is I think well then like they shouldn't really have the ball in there or at least they should have the animal sent in to stop you know the animal and certainly they should have signed up with the ball in the field etc they have to accept the people on notice okay just two short questions if you're paying rent on the land can you still claim squatterist rights now I'm not sure what the motivation for that text is so absolutely not yeah if you're paying rent you're not you know you can't claim spotters right right so what should people be doing now in terms of rights of way I think I still would say get a good few people making inquiries and indeed I only had somebody yesterday who was making inquiries and I kind of said you don't have to register your right way anymore but as we discussed it the person said they were on good terms with the person who owned land so like I thought in that instance I was saying you know what if they're willing to sign off on it well then I think it will be good because you never know the next generation might be agreeable and they might make life a bit more difficult so if it's not registered it you know it's fine to leave the point of view but I suppose then if you know it's not as black and white as it could be if you have your right away registered so that I suppose my advice would be if you're on good terms with the person over whose land the right way exists my advice will be to go and have it registered and that can be done very easily you just get a land registered compliant map marked up by an engineer surveyor for 130 euros you swear you couldn't sorry a solicitor then can draft up a deed again and you know it's not huge expense in it and not all it's just simply registered to the land registry because it's done with the consent of both parties okay and very finally a land purchased four years ago a neighbour had taken a path through the land before that 15 odd years ago and registered this path in his name unknowing unknowingly to the previous owner how is that possible to happen shouldn't happen because if there is an application being made across somebody else's land and they should have been notified like typically if an application was made to register right away under what's called the form 49 procedure the land registry writes out to the land owner putting them a notice and giving them 21 days in which to object to the registration of the rights away okay actually listen thank you um do you if people want to sort of get more information about your services do you are they able to contact you or yeah of course yeah yeah and my number is 061368412 our website is agrislisters.ie agrislisters.ie okay we'll retain that information actually thanks for your time this morning Ashley and me and the agriculture solicitor the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter Kenny credit union 9102127 whoa it's sunglasses season time to get some brilliantly priced designer sunnies so get down to tk max with incredible big brand steals for everyone but sunnies aren't the only thing you can snap up a sheet deal on swimwear sunhands flip flops 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catch killers and child predators as well as ruling out innocent people in investigations miss McEnty's also expected to tell guardy today that national security and public safety must override the right to privacy in certain instances well Liam Herrick is executive director of the irish council for civil civil liberties he joins us now uh Liam thank you for joining us and uh i suppose your initial reaction to these proposals from the justice minister good morning Greg well i think we're concerned about what we're hearing from the minister today um facial recognition technology is widely recognized as one of the most invasive and powerful types of modern surveillance it gives the users or the system um the ability to track people's movements and match your face which is a unique identifier with the database of other persons and the potential misuse of this data to track individuals moving through public spaces to restrict their movement to monitor who they're protesting or meeting with is so powerful that it's led uh authorities such as European Data Protection Board to recommend a ban on its use in public space so that's the background here and i think the minister may want to do this but i think she's going to face a lot of legal obstacles to being able to do this with regard to irish and european law now what's the might say and it's quite a motive and you can understand because hey who wants murderers and child predators roaming the place you know we'll do anything to stop that so i can understand why they they've used those as examples but surely if if you if this is to be effective to identify those people then we're all really effectively being identified all of the time that's the key point uh i mean the minister talks about trying to restrict an absolute right to privacy nobody believes as an absolute right to privacy but there is a constitutional right to privacy and restrictions have to be proportionate and if the minister believes that she can bring forward a scheme which only surveyodes people involved in serious crime we'd love to see it because we're not familiar with any such system that's been introduced anywhere else before i think the european data protection board likens such a system to effectively treating individual human faces as number plates as human license plates because the technology is similar to the technology that's used for automatic number plate recognition that there's a database of faces number plates and cameras then are trained to match what they view or surveil with that database it is something that intrinsically goes to the whole question of individual autonomy and our ability to really walk about our daily lives in an anonymous way that aren't subject to surveillance now just in relation to that you know are we talking cctv's we don't know yet are we talking cctv cameras in letter kelly main street the streets of doblin or could they say right and we had this conversation when they were talking about cctv for for example to catch people who are littering would they say well listen we need as much of this country covered so we're going to have to be able to access whatever cameras are on the network be it a cctv camera at a beach in west on the gall to stop people fly tipping versus a camera you know at the top of o'connell street so in other words they will presumably try and get just as much coverage and access to as many cameras as is possible or would it be limited to cameras that are designed you know for people's security if that makes sense i mean it's supposed to be really don't know but i think as listeners will be familiar there has been a huge expansion in the use of cctv by the guards by local authorities and by private bodies so there's a lot of capacity out there what specifically would be proposed here we don't really know the guards certainly in urban centers already themselves make use of a very widespread uh just distribution of cctv it's important to recognize too that what the guards are doing at the moment is already problematic so the data protection commission has launched a number of investigations into the guards use of cctv as things stand their record in terms of data protection is poor so in that context to give them use of a much more powerful tool which will allow them to track individuals between areas i think is incredibly risky and the trend in europe is against this i mean the european data protection board and data protection supervisor have called for a ban on the use of facial recognition tech in public spaces and by law and first i mean the problem is it's the concern is it's misuse though really isn't it because i presume if you or i were wrongly implement implicated in a crime you know we would be very happy to be vindicated and freed off the back of facial recognition technology showing me to be you know 50 miles away uh at uh at uh at the time of a crime so in other words what it might do to benefit people does is then is there not a um a tipping point there at the advantage versus the disadvantage so the legislation that's already been brought forward the minister the guarded digital recording bill tries to provide a new legal basis for the use of cctv which would allow in instances where a serious crime has been committed or indeed if somebody is accused of a crime that they might be able to go go back through cctv in particular areas with the idea of either incriminating or exculpating somebody um but we're talking here about using artificial intelligence to the technology to monitor in a live form mass crowds so again the theoretical suggestion that it could be used in such a way that was focused and targeted only for serious crime or when a child goes missing or something is very appealing but we're not familiar with any case where this has been put into practice where that's been achieved i mean if you look at the united states in particular where there's been a lot of use of this technology we've had very serious problems not just with the surveillance end of it but also with the biases that are built up in the database that they tend to be very poor at distinguishing people from certain ethnic minorities or indeed women so the discriminatory aspect that has come into is legal actions against this type of technology all over the u.s in canada france italy germany belgium sweden and australia it's a legal quagmire here and uh we're surprised that the minister is bringing this forward but we're certainly strongly opposed yeah and also you can imagine it too as you say you know with mass surveillance say for instance of demonstrations you know could that be used as a subtle or unsuttle tool to discourage you know people taking to the streets rightly so uh you know in the knowledge that maybe they could be identified or that could be used to get you know it creates a uh i think it it almost act it would i find some people might find it limited without their liberty might feel limited absolutely i mean that that's exactly the danger that we're talking about when we talk about a chilling effect on people's right to freedom of assembly freedom of movement freedom of association um you know the data protection board has said that applications like facial recognition technology interfere with fundamental rights and freedoms to such an extent that they call into question the essence of those rights and freedoms you are no longer an autonomous anonymous individual in a public square you know but many of us will opt out and many of us won't uh the likes of and it's an obvious point to make though but the likes of facebook you know people will have got a notification uh that their face appeared in a wedding in gallway you know they just happened to be in the background of a picture that was taken and you know facebook goes to automatically tag in it so the likes of facebook and other social media platforms are actively uh scanning our images saying is this you do you want to tag yourself into this picture is it because there's consent there or there's the option to opt out that that's different um or maybe people aren't aware that that's routinely happening with with with these tech companies i don't know well the the tech companies are are an area where this has already been flagged as a serious legal problem and we've seen facebook deleting the databases that they built off okay you know and apple have had a lot of concerns in this area too i mean the the databases are a particular problem because the the company that is most responsible for creating the databases that allow a system like this to work that allow the camera to match your image against the database uh clear view technology is under threat of legal action in most countries in the world at the moment are you legally are you concerned that the justice minister coming out with you know instantly incredibly emotive uh examples do you think really a government would have should have a responsibility to have a discussion but comment it from a neutral perspective you know to say well these are the pros these are the cons let's see what people think because i know i'm reading this and i'm going well if it stops murderers and if it stops any exploitation of children you know how could i be against that sort of thing should the should a government really not sort of say well here's a couple of arguments have a conversation see what let's see what we as a nation where we want to go rather than sort of go really emotive right from the get go uh i don't know maybe i'm looking for balance but maybe governments don't offer that well i think you make a very good point i mean in so much of the discussion around surveillance whether it's about facial recognition technology or around biometric data around encryption of messages that law enforcement bodies talk about front and center things like child safety and child abduction which are hugely emotive and very important issues to justify measures that will apply to a much wider category of people but however the minister might want to frame this discussion it would be framed for the government in a different way because inevitably and in fairness the minister acknowledges this they're going to have to talk to the data protection commission about this it's very likely european bodies will also take an interest in it and you know the iraq this will have to have an opportunity to consider this they'll need legislation it's very clear they'll need fresh legislation on this so this is this is by no means over i think that there's a long road to go and we would think that the legal obstacles to this are going to be significant. 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cath lab services at letter kenny university hospital there has been much backlash as it emerged a number of weeks ago that as of the end of june the weekly angiogram service will no longer be provided at the hospital silter was responding to a motion put forward yesterday by the chair of the regional health form west at concert jerry mcmonigal donna marie doherty has more silters say a review of the national strategy on cardiology is underway and due to be published imminently this review they say will set out the roadmap for future delivery of cardiac services nationally in the interim gallway we will continue to support both letter kenny and slagal university hospital sites in the delivery of acute cardiac services it's been confirmed that a business case has been submitted in relation to interventional radiology suite at letter kenny university hospital as a part of the service planning process over the past three years however there has been no national allocation of resources with silter continuing to advocate for such to fully utilize the facility and commission it for use on a five-day basis an assessment of the equipment in the hospital is currently underway by an expert panel who will make a recommendation with regards to capacity of the facility to provide angiogram services the doll will be told later today that the british government are trying to evade accountability and responsibility for their role in the troubles it comes as the debate continues over an amnesty bill being proposed by the british government dunningall deputy podrick mcgloughlin will also raise the findings of a police ombudsman's report which identify inclusive behaviors in the killing of dunningall county councillor eddie fulerton today is the 31st anniversary of the murder of councillor fulerton who was shot dead at his home in boncranah deputy mcgloughlin believes people must be held to account the british state are trying to evade responsibility evade accountability to protect their own military agents including in this case a mass murder and we will fight them we will resist that and we will get to the truth about the central role of the british state in our conflict how they directed loyalists how they armed them trained them resourced them and then protected them after they committed murder across the board the new president of the g r a says getting more guardian the ground will be high on his agenda in the coming term dunningall garden brendan o'collar was announced as the organization's new president at their annual conference having previously held the role of vice president he says the lack of guard of visibility needs to be addressed we have been particularly hit hard at dunningall with the lack of basic equipment such as vehicles the problems in relation to visible frontline units across the country is the problem and there seems to be a serious lack of other presence so hopefully the government and the commissioner will listen to us and will listen to the community and the public representatives and to get more people into town for more and get more proof on the street 111 complaints made to the ombudsman last year by public services originated from dunningall the number of complaints made about local authority specifically almost doubled last year with nearly 1,300 received across the country of 45 percent on 2020 overall more than 4,000 complaints were made about public services in 2021 the highest number on record there were over 1,000 complaints about government departments down 12 percent while the health sector saw an increase of 25 percent to almost 800 ombudsman jaredeering says a number of reasons could be behind the spike in complaints last year some organizations were suffering significantly from covid the fact that their people were maybe not working from the office and also some organizations had to divert resources into particular areas but i think it's really important now that all organizations come to 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funerals please go to highland radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the 90 noon show on the highland radio so we put the call out and you welcome to the program by the way and you're very welcome along as well if you're just joining us we put the call out in the first hour of the show to hear from people who were maybe former landlords long-term renters would have been their clients but now have switched to air b&b and just wondering the reasons why because as we read on the front of the finn valley voice there over 70 times more properties are available for rent on air b&b short-term expensive lets they can be you know if you were looking to rent for six months versus you know rental properties for long-term renters well this set call us as greg i'm an air b&b landlady i used to rent out my property for long-term leases they literally sorry the yearly income works out the same with air b&b only being leased for three or four months of the year with an air b&b the tenants care much more for the property and it gets less wear and tear you have to refurbish after every long-term tenant so that's one person's reasoning there greg what writers so much carry or have arms the us mad mentalities beyond funny imagine if we had the right here the world should call the us out for a breach of human rights of not being shot to death it's madness they say i don't know and i chose my words carefully whether or not people want to or feel they have the right to i don't know it's not my argument i don't live there i don't know what why you might feel you have to defend your properties because you feel someone could break it in any stage i don't know but my point is is whatever the view is they have to come up with some sort of a solution greg no measures going to stop a crazy person doing what they want to do if they don't mind dying nor going to jail well measures won't help a great talk though well i would disagree because if an 18 year old wanting to inflict such damage here for example they can't walk into a shop and get an automatic weapon where you can load you know dozens of bullets in at any given time yes they could you know take a vehicle or or a blade or something along those lines or even a shotgun if there was a legally helped shotgun in in the house but they could never realistically wreak such carnage and havoc inside a primary school how could they i can't see anyone could argue otherwise the only way you could do that easily is if you can go into a gun shop buy body armor to protect yourself and buy two automatic rifles that carry many many many rounds of bullets that's the only way you could go in and do what they wanted to do if you were a an angry disgruntled whatever 18 year old you could not do that here and also to you know there's like a table now i was watching cnn this morning before i left home and they were listing a table down of of the most of the most people killed in these shootings and i'm just thinking you know and and they were also talking about how well we haven't found his manifesto yet you know and i'm thinking if if someone 18 years of age they might go well i want to go to the top of that league and i want to create a manifesto you know what's the media talking about 18 year olds manifestos for before they go in and kill children i don't know i think also that environment also um you know leads to a situation where someone who's inclined to do that will want to do it better than everyone else and then we'll think that you know loads of people and cnn and fox and what have you will sit there and read their manifesto nonsense also to with american media and it's getting like that here as well uh i mean as much as i can i try and play it down the middle is that you know fox news have a completely different approach to covering that story to um cnn you know i mean this is almost 27 8 9 year olds murdered in their classroom in what should be a safe place and you've got media outlets taking a stance a different stance on it i mean who would want to consume that crap uh but people obviously do uh right your views on that 0 8 6 60 25 000 0 8 6 60 25 000 or call 0 7 4 9 1 25 000 um every 10 years around 150 000 people die from gone shootings in the usa and nobody in power seems interested in changing the law they call it land of the free i can see why and look at you know when guns are available you are going to have people that will shoot each other on the streets you're going to have rival gangs you're going to have you know bad people doing bad things to other bad people but there's just a space created where young people can go in and buy automatic weapons legally and all the bullets and bulletproof vests and then just go into a school you know i mean that's the difference is there isn't there um good morning i received a text message yesterday as the text pretended i had a parcel in the post to be collected i would need to pay 190 euro before it could be released neither myself or my wife had anything ordered online the message is a scam please make people aware before somebody loses a purse of money thanks yes indeed a timely reminder it's always timely uh you know on purport purport purporting to be from on post an amazon which they're not so many people are ordering online or receiving gifts from abroad or whatever it might be the message reads that you know we have your uh we have this is on post here and it's not on post or this is amazon and it's not them um there's another group as well what's that other is it dhl they'll say that we have your package it's in our central office but you have to give us often it's a small amount like 190 or 250 or 3 euro uh because of brexit if you give us that amount of money we'll send the parcel on to you that does happen sometimes but a lot of the time it's a scam but because people are waiting on packages and it's a relatively low amount of money they give the card details and of course once you give your card details you can't limit it to one euro 90 cent they can literally take everything that's in your account out of it um i can see one problem with face recognition every time any of my family members put a photo of our late father on facebook it automatically tags one of our first cousins who looks like our late father yeah indeed uh call it also raise the point that people could end up being wrongly accused because they've been tagged in a post now i'd imagine and this is not in any way to defend face recognition that it is part of it would be part of evidence gathering that it would support uh other evidence you would imagine that someone you would hope that someone wouldn't be convicted purely based on fake facial recognition in and of itself but a great deal of weight would be put on it no doubt about that a caller says there's something badly wrong in a world where an 18 year old in america can't buy alcohol but they can walk into a store and 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you've an order out for delivery today plus one for more details and it is a scam so literally while the ad was playing that was a while so a little delayed coming back I was someone was attempting to scam me on there right okay now you may know I'll be aware of the conversation that's ongoing as it relates to the cost of hiring a car here in this country it's it's very very expensive at the moment people are trying to book their holidays okay and because of the nature of the country of course and the nature of our public transport if you want to visit and tour and you're flying from abroad you're going to have to rent a car but the costs are through the absolute roof for 10 day hire from Dublin airport at the end of July a small car a situation c1 will set people back around 1500 euro for those looking for more space a Volkswagen Golf estate comes in at over 5700 euro for 10 days for the same period out of Kerry airport a small vw costs 1500 euro the industry says there's a lack of supply of 2022 stock levels now if it were me and I with A and that was the reason there's a ton of quality used cars not a ton but there's plenty of quality used cars available out there could they not buy them up and use them clearly they don't want to Kieran O'Donnell commented on this we've invited him on to the program hi Kieran good morning to you good morning Greg right okay so are you traveling into Ireland traveling within Ireland or what what was the reason you went seeking a quote the reason I went seeking a quote I was I was I live in the UK I was traveling back home to to see my son who lives in Wicklow and I was going to travel on to Danny Walter to see my mom for the weekend this this coming weekend actually okay so tell us what price you were given for car rental well I normally go through go through a website called ebookers because it's a little bit cheaper when you when you rent a lot of cars and the price I was quoted two weeks ago for a for a fee at 500 so a mini car the smallest car you can get was 1946 pounds which was reduced due to my insider discount from 2317 pounds now that's for two days for how long two days that's for for for pretty pretty much from from this this Friday evening until Sunday Sunday evening this coming weekend and your discounted rate was just shy of 2000 pounds but no my discounted rate the original rate was 2317 it was discounted by 16% so I would have ended up paying 1946 pounds for the weekend wow okay and do you buy the the the reasoning here because the car's sitting there do you buy the reasoning that they can't get their hands on vehicles and this is down to a shortage of supply or do you think there's gouging going on here it's probably the truth it's over in the middle really I believe there is a shortage of new cars due to the microchip issue but but yeah I think there's a there's a little bit of a little bit of people replenishing their their accounts due to due to covid losses and the like as well so it's probably a little bit of both and what would that normally have cost you it would normally have cost me about 60 pounds for the weekend so it's quite obviously that that jumps a little bit during the summer but normally the average is like about 60 pounds for the weekend over the year and were you able to find an affordable alternative or is that the only show in town no I didn't I went looking this morning the cheapest I could get this morning was 732 pounds so it's come down a little bit in the last two weeks but yeah it's it's still too much so what I've actually done is my son's come over to me for the weekend means he's just turned 16 so he can get on the boat now and travel over to the hollyhead yeah and you can send him back with a thousand pounds out of your bank account that you saved on car rental absolutely okay but isn't it you know yours is a a situation whereby you know you wanted to come over it's a short enough flight quick visit down south up north and away again but you know there are people that would have booked holidays 10 day holidays seven day holidays wherever from Germany from France you know from the United States then they presume car hire would be relatively you know relatively affordable like there's people going to be cancelling trips here hotels are going to miss out b&b's are going to miss out restaurants bars I mean it's going to have a huge impact it has to have an impact on the on the tourism industry absolutely I was meant to well I went probably about 15 15 20 cars a year in Ireland because I'm over quite regularly to see family and I think I'm just going to normally I'd stay in hotel maybe one of those nights and I'm just going to cut down on the on the trips home well you would have to because everything has to be within our you know within within a within a scope and do you mind the quality of the car like I said say I don't know why do they have to can they only rent new cars I mean I presume there's a there's a decent supply out there of you know two or three year old cars I just wonder why they're not buying them up that would have it's a knock on a pink impact of course in the second hand car market why they're not buying them up and hiring them out absolutely Greg I think sometimes when you fly into Belfast I'm not sure if I like permitted to yeah go ahead and name on here but there's a company locally to Belfast they're called Kings car hire and their cars tend to be they have some newer cars but they tend to have some older stock as well and they can be they can be quite reasonable so maybe it pays to go with maybe smaller smaller providers and local I'm just think there's some tech person somewhere coming up with an Airbnb equivalent for cars yeah I don't know do you want to go harvours on it you can put up the cash I'll I'll provide the brains very good I wish I wish all right Kieran listen it's a shame that you're not getting back it's you know I mean obviously you've come up with a solution but you know like that's just one single journey that would have been good for this for you of course but good for good for the country and that's gone so god knows how many more it's like it's like that for Kieran thanks for your time and hope you can get home soon all right Kieran Kieran O'Donnell there a quote for the weekend Friday to Sunday right 1,946 euro that was a 16% save sorry it's not euros pounds 1,946 pounds from Dublin airport um where did he say he was going in the south of the county um normally I'm good at remembering that stuff uh country sorry he was going I think it was a go away and then he was going to come up and see his mom in Donegal on uh as well normally he would hire that car for about 60 pounds it probably would be 100 pounds sometimes in the summer maybe even 120 pounds uh but now 1,946 pounds and that's with a 16% discount and the car lovely weak car uh if you live in a city or whatever a mini fee 500 so a tiny vehicle uh now that was a couple of weeks ago so we thought right close to the time I'll check again today 732 pounds for Friday to Sunday now if I were in the hotel industry if I were in the uh in the hospitality industry or if I owned a gift shop I'd be kicking up a right stink here because people are going to between the price of the hotels and the price of these cars we're we're ripoff island again aren't we was it when was it we we sort of really had that moniker and lived up to it uh where we couldn't come here it was just a ripoff I mean other than the fantastic you know there's amazing people uh working in tourism and hospitality and I think here particularly in the north west we offer great value but we can't do that if people are priced out of coming here or see the headlines as it relates to Dublin prices and go I'm not going to Ireland I'm going to go to Frankfurt or somewhere else I mean we are we ripoff Ireland oh wait six 60 25 000 WhatsApps or texts or give us a call on 07 4 at 9 1 25 000 right okay we can go straight to our next conversation now and Raymond joins us on the program now and Raymond thanks for taking the call yeah good morning Greg how's the form fine thank you now you um lived for three decades if not more um in the United States uh in fact in Texas but it's a it's a massive state of course uh and I don't think you lived near where this latest mass shooting has happened people try and get the heads around why the right to bear arms is so important why it's so politically divisive divisive you have an insight for us Greg I I don't you know I'm just talking as one individual all right um I don't think the issue is really guns there's an underlying uh feeling behind it if you go back to like the 1960s and 70s you we had the the vietnam war the vietnam war kind of opened a scar you know dealing with social cohesion if you will it's the social cohesion that existed prior to vietnam after a few years of the war you know a lot of young people started questioning like what's going on and there was an awful lot of demonstrations and protests and everything throughout the 1960s and early 70s and then toward the end of the 1970s there was a former military analyst um and he released something called the pentacon papers which the new york times published and it the pentacon papers basically said the u.s. military has been lying to everybody the war is not going well everything we told you effectively you know we didn't tell you the truth yeah I mean but we're well accustomed to that now I think that's really how we live our lives now and people question that and understand that I mean we know there's propaganda in a war yeah no no exactly but there was if you will sort of an innocence that was lost um with vietnam and united states and it it led to sort of the fraying of social cohesion it used to be everybody was sort of on the same page and then after that it was like you know it's sort of like if you will and and this is sort of not a good comparison but like if there is like a marital infidelity how do you go forward after that it's always somewhere in the back of your mind so the kernel to this is uh arming oneself for fear of of you in other words to rise up against the government if need be well there are a lot of people in the united states would look at it quite differently um a lot of people that have guns are afraid the united states government exists to repress people in here and and and that's i'm not being conspiratorial no i get you but listen we've seen examples say for example right um the the capital hill situation a couple of short years ago and others where there was a mass movement of people uh they wanted to do something they wanted to go uh and and make their points be heard to get angry right uh and the police and the the army came in they suppressed the crowd people died uh and it was dispersed you know i mean if this were about you know being able to sort of defend yourself or oppose a government or a decision that would be a perfect example whereby people with with guns might turn up you know there's examples whereby the reason why some would argue you need guns they never use them and they never will it do you get my point oh yes yes no i get your point you know it's just there's a psychology you know it it's like i need one two or three guns to protect my family in here and and you know it it maybe couched in the terms well you know somebody breaks into my house and tries to kill one of my family one of my children one of my wife i have to protect myself yeah and i get that Raymond but the thing i can't understand right is that that everything is so politicized and we are so polarized how can the slaying of these young people not be enough to say right okay uh Raymond say for instance you're 45 years of age got a family you have the right to bear arms you have the right to defend your property you've the right to your home but your 17 year old son should not at the at the turn of 18 don't forget like you can't booze over there till you're 21 can you so you know that you can have that right to bear arms and protect your family but we have to have a system whereby a 17 year old who turns 18 the next day can't walk in and buy automatic weapons even if they were allowed to buy shotguns that in some way might limit what we're seeing here but i can't understand why are people so entrenched in their views that something like this cannot be a catalyst for change Raymond no no look right i fully appreciate and fully understand what you're saying and you're totally correct okay you're totally correct i'm i'm looking at that there there is a total lack if you will inspiration and leadership coming from the very top of the united states government and that's been going on if you will for decades in here and it it's like you know there's people you know they worry about their family taking care of their pocketbook and you're in the office of the presidency of the united states and and like you know i don't want to get into like the current president you know about the former president and you know this kind of goes back where you know i'm i'm the president i take care of my children my grandchildren and nobody's supposed to worry about it you know and but there's no like real true leadership there's no inspiration saying i'm going to go out there and do the best thing and i do not care about the political consequences because the united states is split terribly split in here and it's been you know i mean like i was watching one news channel last night right as the events were unfolding now when i say they were unfolding they were unfolding parents had not yet been told if they're young people had died or not yeah and there was a panel four or five people discussing it and it was so dispassionate you know some of the language used i was like i can't believe they're speaking like this you know there's to say there's parents and brothers and sisters that you're not yet even been told but they were putting out the defense already they were defensive they were setting the stall out to say oh you know what's going to happen now those that don't want us to have guns are going to use this so there's no space for a discussion because even before as i say we knew how many would have died before families were actually informed of the loss of their loved ones the the lines were already being drawn in the debate once again so they were able to talk over video footage of the school nineteen seven eight nine year olds murdered in there and it there was no sympathy for that it was about setting out the stall for what was to come in terms of the broader conversation what would it take i i can't see what if that's not enough to sort of go right let's have a let's change the tact here i don't know what is enough yeah no greg one comment and and i i spent you know 30 years in dallas texas that's far from uvaldi which is close to the mexican border this was a poor very poor area anything around the valley going north of the so-called valley with the mexican border i mean it's not well off it's agricultural i mean poor agricultural not like agricultural in this country all right so like you had a 18 year old young has hispanic mexican descendant and i gather you know the children would have been almost all you know the population of that school were 90 haspanic which is kind of reflective of the general population of the town of around 15 or 16 thousand correct correct what i i'm viewing and and this may be i don't know myopic or i i don't know what the correct term is in here there has to be very serious inspiration and leadership coming from the very top of the u.s government and going down like you know i'm sure you've seen over the last decade with with the introduction of the smartphone you know the police situation and and you know if you're in a minority member and you get killed and the only difference was somebody had their apple iphone out and they filmed it otherwise there would have been nothing and and you know even like sadly in texas years and years ago the texas ranges which were sort of the state police you know they had a very violent reputation for you know killing mexicans in texas you know and there were there were massacres and and you know there has i don't know how you open a conversation there there needs to be inspiration at the top it's not just saying condemn this because you get through to nobody it it's there's a lack of trust like social cohesion is a huge thing and that's been almost like it's been ripped in here and and does that conversation then have to happen externally in that are i wonder are people living in america and i'm not saying for a second that went behind the years but you know uh do they realize that this doesn't happen anywhere else do they realize that you know there's something happening in the united states that does not really happen in any other similar type country whereby children go to school there's drills as to what might happen if someone comes in they're talking about having police in schools they're talking about putting up sort of bulletproof fabric on windows of classrooms like is another is there a lack of awareness that this is really quite uniquely american uh as it relates to you know comparable countries it's been primarily american like i know years ago wasn't there some school incident up in the scandinavian countries i mean people in united states you're basically talk you're you're you're exclusive you're the best everybody else is you know i think that was a case where a person went out to an a summer camp on an island was it not um and you know obviously he didn't have weaponry or if he did you know the point is is those things are rare and you have to go back and can't really name the country because there's not broad access to automatic weapons where you can go into a space and inflict so much damage at the same time as i say if everyone was just allowed to carry shotguns we would not be talking about yes you know 18 year olds whatever it is that would be one step that would mean we wouldn't be probably talking about the level of uh massacre that we're witnessing today that happened because he was able to go into a small space where defensive defenseless people were and open up dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of rounds very very quickly i mean greg like school should be absolute safest place possible there shouldn't even be consideration of what happened in evolving now there's one thing and this may not be related it's called american exceptionalism you know that uh if you're you know everything in america is exceptionally the best in here and you know what tragically could happen in here is you know in 40 hours this story will be almost forgotten about you know there there have been i read about a week ago there have been over 200 mass killings in the month of may in the united states alone it's massive yeah and and that's a mass killing i believe and you may correct me it's like if three people are killed that's considered a mass killing and and like this has been going on year after year it's beyond terrible and there is also the question arrangement of course you know access to guns is one thing but you also have to be you also have to be capable of such a thing or be motivated to do that uh you you know so that has to be part of it as well i mean the guns aren't firing themselves someone is picking them up and feel motivated to do this and lots of people are prepared to take lots of other people's lives out if the opportunity now we can remove the opportunity but what is there is it because maybe it's just the size of the population i don't know but what is it there that that young people particularly seemingly feel that it's okay to do this or there's some justification for doing this you know removing the guns from the conversation that mentality is probably still there guns don't create that mentality no they don't i mean you know that situation was a week ago in buffalo where 10 people were shot in this supermarket and he was an 18 year old too in here but it's like getting back to what i might have said earlier you have to provide an inspiration it's like you know greg you know i'm you know i'm an eight nine ten twelve year old i want to be just like yourself you great you know i mean yeah you're a sterling example you stand out and i want to be like you and and unfortunately and tragically i don't know that that's really exist in here do you think the media over there associate and then putting up a league table effectively that's what it looked like and i don't mean that to be in any way frivolous but it was like a league table and also discussing you know well we don't know if you left a manifesto we're going to look at that and we're trolling through social media posts uh in some way could that be seen as a as a leader board for 18 year olds who are capable of this there's some they used to use this term in the united states called copycat you know and and and i think that's similar to what you're talking about or or somewhere in that ball and you know and um greg it's an incredibly difficult question in here it's it goes to the fundamentals um you know like in the united states if you the one constant through america you know from the 1970s on it's been there there's been one war some years of peace another war more years of peace another war and it's it's there it's been one constant throughout it's like the next war is going to be around the corner somewhere and and like you know like you know the thing in vietnam like i was just a you know a teenage kid growing up in san francisco back then all right um and like you know i didn't know anything about anything you know i you know i basically shielded her you know a safe environment you know i you know i went to catholic schools and and parochial schools as they called them and you know like i wasn't involved but there was just a lot of stuff and then if you look in recent years uh you know you had the two iraq wars you're afghanistan you're syria levin on livia and and supposedly the united states militaries involved in something like 80 conflicts or wars around the world and at the moment and and you know including a proxy war in in ukraine too i mean oh yeah and and and and you know it's like where's the inspiration like where are the great hues of the world to take the leadership you know at the top and and you know it's going to take time and it's going to take serious leadership and you know saying you know that i great hues i'm sacrificing here and people will understand what i'm doing in here because i'm different than everybody else it's interesting you should say that and uh and it's not justified but i appreciate the name check is that you know i wonder then you know if it were like you know love and peace and save the world in the united states could that be then seen internationally as a sign of weakness because you know the tensions at the moment uh with with north korea they discharged another ballistic mess uh missile just as biden left the region uh what's going on with russia at the moment the ongoing uh situation with with the chinese and elsewhere i just wonder if then if there was this sort of harmony broke out in the united states is the concern that i could tarnish their their international image i might be stretching here but everything's interlinked in some form or other i wonder no greg everything is interlinked let me tell you um i left dalas i don't know 10 12 years ago i had one of my neighbors he was um the vice president engineering international um major communications military organization and uh one day i was out walking my you know german shepherd and and he was walking his colleague and um you know i said you know how are you doing what's going on and he said well i just got back from soul and i said oh soul south korea yeah i'm sort of going like what the hell are you doing over there and he said uh 50 kilometers south of the demilitarized zone he and his company of which you know he was in charge of on this side had put in the at that time the very latest communications technology um he said you know back then you he said you were able to communicate instantaneously with any military ship or base anywhere in the world okay and you know i you know later i was going and he also said this military base could hold three military army divisions which is a big base and i was thinking to myself like you know what the hell's going on here you know it's like the united states is not worried about north korea they were preparing for a war with china in here and and it's sort of continued in here like you know they think you know you know kim young young whatever you know he you know he's a very small fish in their world and and it's you know i'm i'm afraid there could be some sort of serious incident with china in here and and because china is the number two global power we're on the brink of something it's either a pullback you know russia's re trying to reestablish itself obviously that the natal trying to prevent that happening um you know the chinese and and north koreans watching on with interest i mean something's gonna happen over the next while and hopefully is that lines are redrawn and uh you know people get back to some sort of a a collaboration for economic or whatever reasons raymond listen it's always a good to have you on thanks for joining us i appreciate your time this morning the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union nine one oh two one two seven the lotto jackpot is an estimated 3.5 million euro the national lottery it could be you sportswear for women at brimelocomic sports and leisure in fresh new colors and styles like 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of plan international ireland uh good morning to you paul thanks for joining us thanks greg it's good to have you with us i wonder are we facing into a global hunger day you know facing into it in a situation whereby presumably we're going to see a dramatic increase in the amount of people that would be classed as you know living in poverty and living in hunger we're looking at the the genuine reality of famines on our horizon because of you know food supply issues emanating out of the ukraine crisis well i suppose greg this has been there before the ukraine and russia crisis now we've had a global hunger crisis for the last literally for the last few years but we can agree it's going to worsen significantly i think it would but but we also have you know we're we're on the back of covet and that had a huge impact in a number of developing countries we have the climate change issue and we have the conflict and you have conflict in quite a number of countries already so those i think the ukraine crisis has absolutely exacerbated it uh for right across a number of different countries because you know six seven months ago people didn't realize that russia and ukraine were supplying about a third of the world's wheat supply so so like famine or hunger is not just about supply it's about access so sometimes like in this country if this thing's not available okay you go and buy something else but if you don't have money you're not in a position to buy anything at all so so i think you've got to kind of look at it in terms of availability but also in terms of access and of course there's also in certain places an inability to grow so well there is that that that that is another option that is either difficult or not there i think that's again exacerbated probably by the the climate crisis which places that would traditionally have been able to predict when rains would come because of climate crisis they're not able to do it and that has a kind of affected kind of crops and that has affected people's ability to grow but it still actually comes back to that issue around access do people have access do they have money under pockets to be able to buy food and is food available on local markets so can you talk to us about the the areas that are worst affected perhaps and and the amount of people that we're talking about here well we're talking we've never seen these sorts of figures before we're talking about 811 million people are struggling to find food so if we take the population the global population of over 7 billion you're talking about one in eight people really struggling to find food and that has kind of been exacerbated in the last number of years but you know the numbers for us are just they're astounding because we've never come across these numbers before you're talking about 45 million on the brink of starvation facing starvation and and these numbers they just roll off our tongues in many ways but if we take the population of Ireland at five million and a figure like 45 that's nine times the population of Ireland in terms of numbers of people facing actual famine situations at the moment so the numbers are massive we have never seen these numbers before is it like what we saw the time of the peak of the pandemic in terms of vaccines you know that there was a hoarding of vaccines we took in far more vaccines and ordered far more vaccines than we needed in this country so we're not we're not innocent at all and we saw that the European bloc it was right everyone look after their own similarly in the United States and elsewhere and then we saw swathes of the world where people arguably could be more vulnerable to the effects of covid no vaccines there at all hardly maybe given us given out you know we'll give over the ones that are just about to run out of date is that kind of what happens in terms of resources and food that really we are part of the problem to a certain extent I think the big worry for us around the Ukraine crisis is the resources that we'll draw from traditional call it what we call traditional donors and these are institutions and governments that give money because of the Ukraine crisis a lot of countries like our own have refugees Ukrainian refugees that need services provided and rightly so but sometimes that money in some countries is now coming out of overseas aid budgets so it's having an impact on the budgets that are available so at a time when there's great greater need actually overseas aid budgets are in decline because in some cases it's the Ukraine crisis but other countries we see in Europe are actually increasing their money for defense so they're looking at what's happening with Russia and they're saying we better both stir up our defense and the other thing that's happening that people probably haven't seen yet is that they're putting money aside for the rebuilding of Ukraine there is a sense that this war inevitably will come to a conclusion and there'll be a huge rebuilding job needed to be done and we're seeing that already in the European Union where money has been put aside for the rebuilding of Ukraine so there's huge demands and if you want to see on money that will be available normally for international aid and food crisis and things like that and all of the crises that we're dealing with the donors are struggling to provide money and organizations like the world food program where we have 60 projects with them across 15 countries dealing with 3.2 million people we're seeing them struggling to actually get access to the resources both in terms of money and now into the future in terms of wheat because they used to do a lot of their purchasing in Ukraine and in Russia I would guess that I could be completely wrong but the money that plan can get together presumably it doesn't spread as far you have to buy food and supplies presumably on the open market so the euro that someone donates today presumably will not have the same impact despite the best will in the world as a euro donated last year that's absolutely true and what we're seeing is food prices increasing across the globe and a lot of what we do Greg which it makes it very easy is actually we put cash into people's hands we give out vouchers and we give out cash and that really kind of empowers people to be able to buy the food that they would want themselves and makes choices about what they want to do but we're seeing things around school meals we're seeing you know food distributions are continuing we're trying to keep kids in school and in places by providing meals in those schools and in many cases that works it helps to you know families are making decisions well we can send the kids to school because they will get a meal there and they might not necessarily get one at home yeah and I'll Brendan of any plan international ambassador I'll bring him in a second just want to ask you one more question I don't know if these people are most likely to speak out or if it's a growing number of people but every time the government announces say for instance you know foreign aid you will see people say well we need to actually keep that money here because we've got problems in this country that we need to fix now you would hear that occasionally now I'm hearing that more and more and more and obviously you know governments and elected people listen to that type of stuff with everything else that you've factored in already I mean are we changing as a as a people globally or is there a minority that's just becoming more vocal or you know like we're like we're just pulling up the drawbridge more now than we ever did I actually think I would agree to a certain extent I think the COVID situation made us look I would say very internally at ourselves and maybe not so much externally and you've referred to the situation there around vaccines and how maybe governments hoard it yeah we've seen that well we've always seen that people say but what about the homelessness in Ireland and it's not that we're saying you ignore that we don't but we actually think there are plenty of organizations and there are plenty of resources going into that what we want to see is a fair share going to the international commitments that Ireland has made like we have a signed commitment that said that we would reach this 0.7% of our gross national income in overseas aid to date we haven't got anywhere near that. Brendan Devaney is a plan international ambassador and in the last minute we have Brendan what are you doing to try and raise awareness which is hugely important as well as funds for full plan international Ireland I know you've done a lot already but this is just your latest endeavor. Yeah listen it's typical and Paul has highlighted the harrowing nature of what's going on in the world Greg but you know we've got to bring in funds and try and help these people as much as you can and I'm delighted to be helping Paul and the rest of the team at plan we're doing a special charity event in Crow Park Abseal and it's kind of a corporate event Greg but we're just trying to boost money into the coffers and give people something to do as much as this tale is tough Greg we still have to give people I suppose a reason and be being incentive to contribute but like that charity night we did Greg where we had an entertainment evening we sponsored 21 kids on the night so I think that's part of it Greg as much as it's tough out there we still have to engage with people so there's a charity event in Friday in Crow Park for Abseal and so people if people go on to plan.ie they can contribute because there's obviously kids now in Ukraine, Poland and Moldova remaining at this place because of the of the war in Ukraine they need they need their help and plan are on the ground they're helping those people if you want plan.ie you can contribute to that cause Greg needs to say it's just a bit of a thing that we're as Tom Parkinson says Brendan de Venny has gone down in Crow Park many times so he shouldn't have any trouble Abseal and Greg that's the only way you'll get into Crock Park with any activity at this stage anyway thanks Brendan good man well done and good luck to that Paul thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it thanks Greg take care of yourself okay right we'll be back with the news after the break the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union is your bank leaving town letter Kenny credit union is now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account show gala her entertainments present rock and roll legends show wadi wadi a clamory hotel letter Kenny 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joining us good morning greg and also joined in studio by paul dorsen from port new good morning to you paul good morning greg how are you thank you very much for joining us i appreciate you coming in to help us discuss this and and raise awareness so paul um you're just 52 now and you are living with ms when did you start considering that there was something going on something that needed more analysis basically i suppose i'll keep the story very short because it's actually in essence very long yeah but my first symptoms were were later explained to me by neurologist to have been when i was actually at school and then i went through quite a happy life so i was maybe 27 20 then they started raring their head again and then obviously through tests things progressed to what they were what where i am now which is confined to a chair but initially i suppose it was termed as remitting relapsing ms which so many people with ms will know about and uh some of us progressed to secondary progressive and and that's what's happening with me at present my my conditions are progressing slowly but and it it was going more slowly and in the last while there's been a speeding up hasn't it just this acceleration the it's very hard to put specifics on it because it uh because it is so individual to individual people so no two people are the same so through your 30s how quickly with things progressing how is it affecting your life well i was still holding a job down at that stage i was a firefighter for most of my life so i was still carrying out my my duties i would say probably from my 40s onward there seemed to be an acceleration uh and in terms of how you live with that when you know you've got a condition you know it's likely to get worse you don't know how it's going to get worse you don't know how it might affect your life going forward is that difficult to deal with or does it become it is what it is that phrase i hate it but you know what i mean it covers so much like how did you deal with it when you were you know not not in the condition you are now did it was ever present was it it's it's all yeah it's always there i i'm the kind of attitude i'm quite strong mentally so i believed i would go through it on my own and it wasn't till as it progressed more and more i realized that organizations such as the ms society are integral for people with ms and the hardest step is the first step if you like to approach the ms society maybe people think oh my whole life is going to be taken over these guys have been going on the phone all the time but they're really not everything is taken very much at your pace so suppose from me speaking my my uh want today more than anything would be to encourage other ms sufferers that haven't yet contacted ms society to to take that step and understand it as a big step but it really really helps to share can you remember full what made you take that step you know you talked about sort of resistance i can do this on my own my situation is different or you know totally totally i would go quite frank with it when i when i left being a firefighter in my last couple of years was as an instructor at a fire college so in your own head you'd reach the pinnacle of your career your knowledge based on that and then to have all that kind of swept from under you i was quite well down to be honest probably bordering i don't know how how broad but i suppose depressed of a sort so i contacted a gentleman who works for the ms society through kathryn he's now retired charlie mcgloughlin had a few chats with him in sessions and it kind of encouraged me more and more to speak open up more and it was fantastic and it really really did help and it's it's true what they say to approach others to discuss your problems a problem shared as a problem halved yeah and you obviously were setting up little barriers for self as to why not contact you know being a private person you know being a strong individual which you are of course but also you know do i have to open up my whole life to these people are they going to know everything about me with these sort of little barriers you were putting in front of yourself to delay the decision if you know what i mean it's always in there certainly you're always thinking about that but very much all i can say from personal experience and and indeed from other people i've spoken to the half ms and i've been in contact with the ms society that it's never like that i mean we have weekly meetings or online weekly uh i'm terrible with technology zoom meetings or webinars or whatever it might be yeah i'm still leaving leaving we've all tried the last couple of years we're all uh getting used to this problem with zoom meetings all the time yeah you pretty much can drop in and out i mean i i think i attended one wasn't it kathryn i was chatting away and then i kind of disappeared from control there's no pressure you are totally in control at your pace and and the advice is given as you request it yeah when we talk about um kathryn awareness do you know like what what what awareness needs to be gotten out there do you think is it awareness for people with ms that the likes of your services are there is it so people have a a better understanding of a condition that could be affecting a neighbor or a friend or a family member well i think it's all of those um greg because you know our figure is in donnie gall and she's you've said earlier that there's 9 000 people living with ms in ireland and we have 350 in our register in donnie gall but i would say that's not even touching the amount of clients that we would have or people that are living with ms in the community and i suppose you know and as paul's story is very have a get to the theme of world ms day this year connections it's about encouraging people to get in and touch with ourselves and there's two sides that i suppose there's a support that we offer as an information and supports of people needed but it's really important about putting them in touch with um peer you know the peer support we have online groups support groups um and that i think that connection and that uh contact with other people going through similar issues that you're having is really underestimated yeah i'm assuming it's at your own level and pace you want people to dip your toe in and see so yeah you know how involved or not you want to be what you mean the the the person um who engages they're always in control yeah well you see ms is obviously it's a lifelong um illness and you know from the time of diagnosis which i feel is really important time for people to maybe make contact because at that time it's about getting the proper information you know mr google obviously is very important but you know getting the proper um medical information and to people to you know to alleviate any fears that they have and to encourage people that you know with proper this fantastic treatments and drug therapies now you know for people um compared to maybe 20 25 years ago there was possibly only one drug therapy available now there's a choice of maybe up to 20 at least so you know that in itself is encouraging for people so it's not an it's not a condition anymore that when you go to the doctor's neurologist and they're diagnosed that there's no hope or people can live a very normal productive life and i suppose it's getting that information at the beginning and then as you said greg dip an out and in as their journey with ms goes along you know we would have people that contact us at the initially we made in here from them now maybe for years because they're getting on with it they're they're you know but the connection there has been made and they that door has been open it's just up to them when they choose to step in and out of it yeah very much so yeah all right um now in terms of of of uh medicines and what have you poll um you're you're currently on medicines what what or are you i don't know unfortunately not know um the situation as it is at the moment there's very very few medications there per se for progressive form of ms i think there's one or two coming through again the future is very positive i actually went for stem cell treatment in india five years ago i was living in glentes and the communities of glentes are dry and port no pretty much enabled that to happen and that certainly slowed it down i mean i wasn't expecting a cure per se but just to just to slow down the progression and certainly through my scans through my neurologist back here in ireland they confirmed that things had calmed down unfortunately last year so since possibly covid i suppose we could blame it on covid everyone blamed something on them that it has accelerated but as i say i'm much more informed as katharine's saying information is that that is key yeah because knowledge dispels fear 100 situation like this and there's an element of it that everyone's experience can be somewhat different katharine oh they may believe that that is the case but presumably at this point with the amount of support and trends and what have you we do know the threads of of how this can affect people in different ways that's important information too important that you hear it from another person and not try and figure out on the internet what's happening to you or what could be next definitely well our experience greg is you know i'm talking to somebody being diagnosed you know and you ask them maybe you know do you know any about ms when the doctor when the neurologist maybe mentioned the word and a lot of people would say that the only thing they knew about ms was maybe a neighbor down the road that was a wheelchair user or somebody you know that had and i mean obviously that as a reality of ms and as paul said for in paul's situation that's the reality but for the majority of people you know um you know there's a lot of people with ms that i have ms myself for the last possibly nearly 30 years and you know i've had periods where i've had relapses and this time last year i was just in hospital but following on from that then i recover and you know i really firmly believe and as in a society we firmly believe in exercise and diet and really healthy lifestyle as much as possible exercise is really a key element and research has been done in this field and as a society we provide physio and it's been online physio throughout covet which has been really surprisingly really it's really taken off and you know people that never would have maybe been involved with themselves are involved now because of covet i wonder um paul it's not really i don't know if it's coincidentally enough but i was like so slice and not so long go with um someone with ms also you wheelchair user and the one thing that became acutely aware to me and they were probably very used to it was that accessibility for people in a chair and it and the signs be there right but but when you open the doors and you see what's behind that doors very quickly you realize that maybe there's a bit of a box ticking exercise going on is that something that's worth highlighting do you feel very much so i couldn't agree more and as for up until recently i my wife and i used to enjoy city breaks through europe and i've got to say we're probably one of the better equipped for people in shares i was very surprised paris an instance that i was kind of gauged at maybe one in four buses in paris from what you know very rough analysis where we'll chair equip wears barcelona was 100 percent all the time uh doubling and that's where we're we're getting there we're getting there certainly there's an improvement and there's a lot of uh well especially like the ms society and other organizations of mega pardon like that they're very proactive in getting it out there so accessibility is definitely it's a huge huge huge importance but we're not at the bottom of the table we're we're we're all there about my personal analysis i think it's well pal it's an opportunity maybe for you to highlight your own achievement recently um the beach and well you had my wife said do not talk about a toilet you've just we actually uh thank you kathryn for that opportunity i don't feel so bad now my wife won't give me such a hard time uh in portland and yarn we'll be the first uh location in county donnie gall uh one of very few in ireland that's actually installed a changing places facility right which obviously entails a hoist privacy screen j adult changing bench and everything and it's from what i've been searching around a little bit as far as i know where the actually only one in europe is actually located at a beach location because they're normally very prominent areas like doubling airport the national museums places like that so where we're having we're hosting an opening day coming up and that was through the help from the county council that's a remarkable achievement because you know even removing the beach element of it uh we're not very well served with those type of facilities like i know people that travel to doblin and they have to plan their trip you know it's not direct it's based on these types of facilities so to be able to achieve that with a recreational element to it as well as a remarkable achievement that's that's it we kind of wanted to kind of optimize the areas potential for uh holidays for people that require that level of accessibility i think that's kind of the project that project's ongoing is counting don't go counting down so they've been very very much behind it and the ms society indeed has made donations to us we've fitted lots of equipment there that we've had lots and lots of personal donations from the community brilliant that's really good i'm really really impressed with that genuinely by the way um a caller wants to know and maybe i don't know if we have the expertise in this room and i don't mean that in any way bad just i don't want to put anyone on the spot is really why i'm saying that what effect does pregnancy have on ms uh can it deteriorate your condition do you know in answer to that one research has shown that um there's no uh there's no reason why somebody can't become pregnant you know and have a family um while living with ms and the doctors would say that during pregnancy normally women are quite well because of the uh reason hormones but there is a slight risk following pregnancy sorry following the birth of the baby maybe within the force maybe six months that there is a there's a risk there's a slight risk of um maybe having a relapse yeah yeah because the the hormonal changes in the body presumably okay all right that makes sense and paul or catherine you know what i thought like recently obviously charlie bird did did did uh was very public as it relates to multi-neuron disease and the one thing i noted about that very afterwards was that you know realize that lots of families have been affected by it and perhaps we didn't know beforehand maybe it's because they kept it private or they didn't think it was a space where it could be discussed in public as a lack of understanding and it was everywhere all over the place families that go and this means something to me because this is happening in our family or this has happened in our family um i'm not conflating the two conditions but like what do we there's a broader public need to know well should we understand better or what can we do different you know what i mean is it in terms of conversation with someone with ms or whatever is there anything that we as a broader society need to be doing better does that make sense yeah it does actually it's a really really good question what i will say you just touched on something about the carers when i say the carers those those say my family members catherine's family members often i feel that with ms or any condition not necessarily ms they possibly may be pushed into the shadows but they're experiencing their own mainly i suppose psychological stress at having a partner or or child or whatever with with a condition of that nature but in general public i find the general public are very very understanding to be perfectly honest again i can only speak on a personal level i can remember one very quick thing of walking out of letter carry uh shopping center in those days i was using a stick and i walked out the shopping center my wife was just in finishing the shopping she normally is buying buying clothes i'm sure and i tripped i tripped lost my balance and fell onto the ground yes and a lot of people did walk around me i don't know if they've thought maybe i was on alcohol or something and i was quite you know vocal and saying excuse me could you help me and it always struck to me it was a big big guy a big big biker that came off his bike walked over picked me up for one hand stood me up it says i understand we are buddy i've been there i've got someone in the family it was just so funny all these people walking by and they didn't really know whether to step inside the the limelight if you like to to take take control of the situation but this big beautiful moment with the biker too yeah all right so great so i don't know if that helps yeah no it does yeah it does actually i think so it's supposed to be open again we're going back to connections and conversations you know if you know that somebody has a ms or you've heard maybe they've been diagnosed it's a difficult i know it can be a difficult one because you know some people don't want to talk bring it up in case the person doesn't want to talk about it but it's supposed to goes back to the same if we can i suppose encourage people um you know to be more open and to feel that they can discuss their their condition um it alleviates it then for the public you know that there's more of a competition i mean as you say greg the whole charlie bird um like i was involved and we did a group of girls we did the climb and medical for that and i just thought it was amazing obviously it wasn't amazing you know because of charlie and what is going through but i think to highlight you know the the difficulties that people are having and to bring again the conversation and people talking about the difficulties that an illness like motor year on or ms can bring to the family because well as paul said we're just normal people yeah i don't know i'm not going to ask this of you unless you want to jump in but do i mean obviously in terms of maybe how your social eyes are interacted with people changes but i wonder to people um with with any condition but ms do your do your social circle change to you know people that maybe visited previously not visited as much or like and could that be born maybe of how do i do with this or how do i talk about it or whatever or or are we moved on from well i'm with them as early now 20 years in october and i definitely would say now in the last maybe 10 years initially that would have been maybe this you know that you would have had a conversation with somebody newly diagnosed through the contact that they're sales and i would have went out to visit them and it would have been around a conversation you know how do i tell my friends do i tell my friends through i tell my family a certain amount of family and the whole maybe stigma around it that definitely has improved or changed over the years and i really feel it's because of you know more highlighting um the media of course highlighting um like a charlie bird situation things like that that there's not the same stigma around it and i definitely think and i know i actually find the opposite now when i would visit um somebody newly diagnosed and the first contact or maybe second contact they've actually told everybody yeah you know they've told the workforce they've told their neighbors they've told their you know so it is yeah well i've moved into port new area within two years and and certainly the local the local bar the guy had come out from anora's bar he built a special ramp because they already had one ramp which was it's it can be so technical it could it could facilitate someone in a normal manual chair but a power chair like this that i'm in now is very very heavy so i couldn't go over the first small step so he'd gone out within a couple hours and built a new ramp so every time they just say to me if you're coming up for a wee drink he says just give us a phone and i'll have the ramp so and the social things the same social circles same all the guys treat me the same i mean it's a lot of positive there isn't there you know what i mean because obviously you know i i'm maybe conditioned sort of see where there might be a problem or where we need to improve but even in that situation it it shows that yeah i just you might not be able to hear connor i'll try my best i just want to bring connor in for a second connor carry his cycling stages of tour de france in june for ms international and ms done a goal to raise awareness he's also has primary progress connor good morning to you thanks for joining us nice to speak to you thank you very much great okay so you've been doing this for ms since 2019 um i mean obviously you you suffer from ms yourself but what have what what do you why do you do it and and what's been the stand out over the last number of years for you in this process uh well basically the main reasons i do it is because i see the benefits of doing it i see the money is it's raised basically the the crowd that's handling the that organizes the right the run that the cycle that i do is a Danish Danish it's a Danish one operation and they've they've raised over 7.5 million kronor since it's uh it's been a message and uh can people follow your progress in june or how do they get more information about what you're doing yeah well pretty much i'm going over in the middle of june and uh there's 400 of us uh it's mostly Danish riders but there's also an international team which comprises of about myself i'm the only person from Ireland and i think there might be one or two people from the uk in it italians and uh americans this year i'm not very sure i missed the zoom call the last day to see exactly who was who was going this year but pretty much i don't know that in 2019 and due to covid i haven't been able to do it any year since i've applied for this year but because of uh my vaccines and et cetera et cetera i wasn't able to do it this is my first year since 19 that i'm able to do it all right well listen can we speak to you closer to the time connor and get more information and we can advise people how they can support you then absolutely yeah that would be brilliant thank you very much craig i'll tell you what uh yeah it's uh 400 kilometers over the mountain stages of this year's third of france in the middle of june okay why the only reason i know why is because i'm able to do it at the moment i know i know this is because i was i was much better able to do it when i am 2019 unfortunately i'm not as able to do it now but come here i can still tell it's all good all right connor it's well done we'll chat again thanks very much for that thank you and it's um people like connor and uh yourself both of you getting the message out there and connor's raising money and you're providing the what the unmentionable according to your wife the toilets and well fine off we've actually got an event herself and kathryn and i were it was a old friend of mine he's mountain donningall mountain rescue we were trying to put a project together to to be the first wheelchair at the top of car and two hole and it was it kind of again just this corner was explaining there because of the covid it went on the back burner but we made sometime revisit that because certainly kathryn's invited herself on the journey up the hill so i'm going to hopefully keep her to that she can push me up the last couple of feet did you find um the pandemic um particularly challenging um paul or or kathryn i don't know what well i suppose now in a personal level it's supposed to work wise we were working from home all through the pandemic and you know what we just got familiar with zoom and uh as teams and all that but i think for our clients um it has been very challenging great because a lot of our clients that were that are in receipt of home support would have you know been very cautious and and worried and a lot of them would have reduced their home support package during the first year anyway um but i mean the community staff you know they facilities the services that are out there from hsc you know the awc center of independent lemon all the different private home uh homecare uh home instead and blueboard care but they've been fantastic i mean their staff have kept our clients safe in their home i'm sure paul would um you know be okay right anything aether if you want to add sorry if you keep you so long no it's been great great really appreciate the opportunity i suppose maybe just to say that um part of world msd this year as you said at the beginning as around connections so part of that msrland have been in partnership with novartis which is the drug company one of the drug companies that provide medications for people with ms and they have an exhibition now this week coming in and the um trinity biomedical uh science institute in dublin and so it's a collection of 12 artworks for from people living with ms um you know contacted with that paul you're not an artist i'm not very artistic but anyway uh 12 people were selected out of the joke in there i can't say that could be like that could be the next project for paul um no thank you but only 12 um really good artworks and um these are been displayed uh from this Thursday until next wednesday the first of june and we actually have a lady from drony gall our name's marian mulhern okay as one of the artists that have provided so vanabease in dublin or round maybe pop in paul it's been uh lovely having you in and fair play to you um and i'm not clearly a modest person but fair play to you on what you're doing in terms of uh that changing facilities i think it's amazing to be locating that where it is uh it's fantastic so paul thank you for coming in and talking to us and of course you uh kathryn peoples it's been lovely having you in as well all right okay that was wellness wednesday that was kathryn peoples ms regional coordinated for the northwest and you also heard from paul dorsen there from port noon we'll be back with more on the program after the break the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie at irish life we've been helping people make smart investments with their nest egg for over 80 years for actual trusted advice search irishlife.ie or contact your financial broker or advisor we know 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safety authority and the irish farmers association and you're very welcome back to the nightly noon show thanks once again to paul and kathryn for calling in and highlighting that issue with us ahead of multiple slosas world ms day effectively so what it's called shortly and shortly coming up on this program we are going to be joined by kieran o'Donnell he's becoming in to give us a run through of the latest business news and also tells us what's coming up on the highland radio business matters podcast okay 08 660 25000 is the whatsapp line 08 660 25000 you can give us a call to on 07 4 9125 000 07 4 9125 000 right um let's see let's take a piece of music here okay that is uh wham and uh freedom there did you enjoy that kieran well you were bopping about the studio there great so i don't you enjoyed more than me so i bopped to the toilets uh that's a happy tune isn't that's a service time it's a happy tune did you look a wee bit like andrew ridgley actually uh the other member of wham yeah it's a some similarity you were saying you look more enjoyed making it from the eyebrows down i couldn't comment all right here we go business matters in association with the faculty of business at at u donnie gall the part-time level eight honors degree in business is delivered through a mix of online and face-to-face lectures email exec ed business at ly it dot ie that's ex ec ed business at ly it dot ie or call 9186206 all righty then it is time for us to preview a highland radios business matters podcast its presenter uh produced at kieran old donnell who's also going to run through some business use for us good morning properly kieran good morning right okay so um let's start with some news good news for donnie gall's school and uh business acumen yeah school word of secondary school in bunkrana is one of 16 schools in irland to be recognized by the aib future sparks program the aib future sparks program is a new skills-based interdisciplinary program for secondary school students aimed at supporting 12 to 18 year olds in the development and learning of key skills so a total of 585 schools across the country registered for the program that focuses on sustainability financial wellness health and well-being and civil literacy all right uh an interesting um and perhaps uh perhaps a potentially beneficial uh initiative from the council as it relates research relates to remote working this summer yeah donnie gall county council and collaboration almost just gave in there as long as i've talked enough that's it you will never give i'm great yeah the council in collaboration with digital hubs across the county is offering the chance to work for free from a digital hub in donnie gall and this until september the 30th through a new working holiday campaign the initiative provides the opportunity to enjoy everything that donnie gall has to offer during the summer months while also availing of a remote working opportunity in a range of locations across the county so after registration remote workers will receive a free day pass to work in a participating hub and a total of 11 hubs in donnie gall are taking part in the initiative yeah be really interesting to see what the uptake on that is and what comes from it it's an interesting one even just to sort of see what demand is very much and i suppose maybe to get a gauge on people's experiences when they can appear what what they like and what they're working on and what's not for sure right okay good news for letter kenny chamber it's uh in line for a big award yes letter kenny chamber of commerce has been shortlisted for the partnership for business category of the national chamber awards this category highlights initiatives where a chamber has successfully worked in partnership with another organization to support and develop business in their area all right uh a big achievement for a young kahl cannon tell us about this yes donnie gall local enterprise officer student enterprise award winner in the senior category for 2022 kahl cannon has placed third overall in the national finance of the student enterprise program last wednesday a ty student at st columbus college in stern order kahl developed the smartphone app sports injury response which provides uh guidance on how to deal with the range of sports injuries until medical assistance can be provided kahl as you remember was a guest on the podcast greg area this month and came up with the idea for the app after sustaining an injury himself while playing football last year yeah so great achievement and he got through to the last last five he made it through the very the very very final shortlist and was third overall which was a great achievement because he saw a problem that needed solution came up with the solution and fair play to him and fair play to you for spot the potential there as well uh these kind of stories sicken me uh to be honest with you i was thinking about it i don't know if that makes me i don't know what category i'd fall into but just just perverse levels of wealth um i don't know people work hard and they're in touch with i suppose but go on anyway okay an extremely rare deal anyway this one i can tell that perfect an extremely rare 1955 mercedes-benz has been auctioned off for 135 million euro making it the world's most expensive care ever sold and it was acquired by a private buyer like and i get it right but that's going to go in and i've seen programs on on this before that's going to go into uh someone's going to have a really big house in a big room with big windows and it's going to sit in there and they're going to go in occasionally and have a look at it beside all the other cars at their own and that's 135 million euro in there doing nothing i don't know anyway yeah well something we associate i don't know what the the terms mean but i don't know what i'm not saying all the money should be taken off them and it should be distributed elsewhere but i don't know someone just being able to i also got the better of me i wanted to go and see what i've looked like it's like if you can remember the very first james bond movie it's like one of those cares that's what it's like okay but much more expensive yeah 135 million euro for a car right okay well someone had the money and they had the desire and they've got it now uh right let's talk about this week's podcast kiran yeah Greg on this week's business matters i'm joined by kiran daherty operations manager and skipper with ania fishing company based in burton port kiran is also chairperson of the kelly begs fisherman's organization he first went to sea at the age of four and joined the family-owned business on a full-time basis while still in his teens in 1992 three years later he got his captain's license ania fishing company was started by his father joseph who bought his first boat in 1970 at the age of 19 and the company currently employs 16 people and this clip kiran recalls when and how he ended up joining the family firm 30 years ago well i would have started in 92 um as an employee of the company with my father and it came about i mean came about because donnie all actually won the all-airland in 1992 um a lot of the crew had gone to doubling for the match and they kind of got lost on their way home so my father was going to fish early the next morning and i was taken out as cover and that was it i'd always a love for fishing all through my teenage years my father and mother was trying to keep me at school rather than i just wanted to go fishing and from from my early childhood everything was fishing fishing so it was uh it was a good job to keep me at school because i needed that education from school for later years but at that time i didn't realize that but um yeah 92 was i was intent to go to college and that week i did when donnie gall won the all-airland just changed the whole thing because i just went fishing then and i've been fishing since it's an interesting story is unique to fishing industry but very relatable i think right across the board kiran yeah i suppose look he he's the third as most generation of the dawley family um his father and his uncle would have started with wooden boats and uh i suppose the one thing that struck me while i was down talking to kiran and his office in burton port behind us on the wall were the four images of the four modern vessels that his father had and every seven to ten years they have to upgrade those distilled vessels and i suppose with with every upgrade there's more expense but it's just keeping up with the technology and reinvesting and that was the the two things that kiran would have pressed upon you know i had a wooden boat uh wooden boat with a wooden cab wooden seats wooden engine wouldn't go and yeah it was common but uh look i suppose can i just say a formal apology by the way i really apologize for that uh yeah and it's an interesting insight and he's seen so many changes not only in the equipment over the years kiran but also the industry itself and and um what it takes to stay in it yeah look there's no doubt about it it's a challenging time at the moment for the fishing industry and uh kiran would have articulated his views and has quite some quite strong views and summary is obviously they're dealing with brexit uh they're dealing with the burden sharing and they're also dealing with the weighing issues at kelly bags and so the only thing that he noted he said look and he wasn't been uh disrespectful but he said ministers come and ministers go and different things but he says the people that are on the industry they remain the same and he said that they are the people that maybe should get maybe more of a voice when it comes to solve problems kiran listen thank you very much indeed the business matters podcast available for you right now in long format of course that's just a clip a sample for you it's available for you right now on our website highlandradio.com you'll see in the playback session on demand section it's also available on Spotify and iTunes and broadcast on the radio kiran yeah after six o'clock news on sunday even and hopefully after donigall come out to us against there yeah what do you think um it's gonna be tricky but i think that's why it's so intriguing yeah we're gonna really see where derry at and we're gonna see where donigall's at and i hope i hope it's a good game and i hope we come out in top yeah all right good stuff but you're not you hold but what are you predicting kiran yeah i'm more confident at the end this week than it would have been last week and it's just i'm just i'm i'm i'm a bit nervous i'm looking too nervous for the games um look i suppose donigall derry has just looked their neighbors across the road and we haven't the visible's been playing them uh it's certainly also the final business for a stage for a long time so most recently it's one each yeah there's a lot of talk to you but there's most 92 and 93 the 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well what i'd say greg first of all is that it's good news for consumers um you know if it does even when it does happen because particularly those who don't have insurance because right now if they don't have a medical card if they're admitted to any public hospital be it for them an adult or a child's they have to pay 80 euro per night and that can be charged for up to 10 nights in any one year so that's up to 800 euro and so you know anybody with a child who has to have an emergency appendixectomy for example they could be in in let's just say a public hospital letter kenny general for two weeks and that's 800 euro so it looks like they will be removing the charge for children later this year um now they have said it's interesting the minister's minister's comments that they're going to look to remove it for all adults next year subject to funding so that basically means it's it's a year away first of all and secondly you know obviously the hsc are going to look to make sure that whatever income they may lose as a result of this initiative that they're going to recruit that elsewhere but also to the political element to this document because obviously it can be flagged now uh but this will be this would be a very positive announcement to drop safe for instance uh during an electric election cycle so there's probably an element of that in there too absolutely absolutely i mean look you know so you know on the face of it it is good news now for those with health insurance you see what happens is a lot of people take out the entry level plans either because they want to cover those public hospital charges or they want if they're getting close to 35 they want to avoid these age loadings that were brought in or if they let's just say they have an existing medical condition that they know won't be covered for five years they join an entry level plan until the five years is open then they upgrade their cover or for example you know people just don't they want to skip the queues that we all know exist in the public system so what i would say to you the people who are probably the most interested and may be prompted to cancel the cover are those the small cohort of people who joined specifically to get those public hospital charges covered and they may now reconsider the value of policies but to be honest with you Greg the the only immediate thing that's going to happen is it looks like later this year it'll be removed for for children so anybody who has very young children and who doesn't believe it may be private health cover for those children well if the public system is going to be free for them now they may be prompted to maybe remove the children from the policy okay so it's fair to say then that it it will impact people positively cost around 30 million a year there will be a positive impact in here but in terms of the the the insurance the health insurance market as a whole it doesn't really change a great deal other than for that cohort you talk of it exactly you've summarized it really well because you see look those entry level plans for the vast majority of people who take out private health insurance it's because they want to be able to access treatment quickly so the public system can't let's just say accommodate them quickly they can go privately and we see that for like look of the 700 000 people are more than around public hospital waitlist roughly 8 to 10 percent of them are young children so the vast majority of people who take out cover it's for that reason it's not to cover these public hospital charges so I think this will only appeal to a very small cohort and also as well Greg the charges are so minimal that I don't think we'll see the insurance companies passing on or having any scope to pass on this because in fact I'd say what the insurance companies suspect is that the HSE or the government will simply apply these charges elsewhere so they might increase the actual private charges in public hospitals so it could mean the health insurers pay out the exact same as they're currently spending but the devil will be in the detail overall it's it's a positive indicator but like everything else we have to wait and see what's in the fine print look forward to speaking to you when we know more derma good you can check out total health cover dot e by the way for all information on health insurance thank you very much chef for being with us today it's great to have you we'll be back with you tomorrow