 So we're going to hand you over to Gregory, Greg, good morning. She's good, isn't she, Miley Cyrus? She is, very good. We're new singles, very good as well. Ooh, what one's at it? Can't remember. I can't say the name of it, you know, because I'm old. But she's good, isn't she? She is, she's doing business. She's got longevity. She does? She's like her career, she's doing business, isn't she? Yeah, I thought for a long time that Gareth Brooks was her dad. No, all right, Billy. Cos I used to get him and Billy mixed up. All right, yeah. Billy Ray, you could tell my heart. That was a good old tune, wasn't it? He was kind of like a one-head wanderer, wasn't he? I think there was more to it than that. Was there? A few more, was there? You're going to see Bruce Springsteen. 160 euro for a ticket. This is what I was chatting about yesterday. He's playing Boucher Road in that class, isn't he? That's a lot. And there was a fan saying that he was supposed to be, you know, working class man, union man, all this type of stuff, and then he charges 160. But it's not him, for sure. Oh, it is. Is it? Does he need the extra money? Does he need the money? Listen, he's not... You can't absolve him of responsibility for his fans having to pay 160 euro to sit down to watch him in Croke Park. Yeah. But why so much? Because that's the amount now, and it's very hard to book tickets, I don't know. No. I think it's exploitation of the fans, the loyal fans. Yeah. But sure he's playing here every tournament, isn't he? I don't know. He must think we're greeners often, is he? We'll fill Croke Park, so maybe we are green. Yeah, maybe. All right, Leo, take care of yourself, sunshine. All right, nine o'clock, time for a news update. And it's over to Donna Marie Daugherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A Donnie Gull deputy says it's important to understand the process required to see works on the A5 come to petition. Deputy Joe McHugh says the publication of a report from the Planning Appeals Commission is of utmost importance. West Throne, MP Orle of Begley, previously said the project could start within a matter of months, provided the Irish government now follows through on funding commitments. Deputy McHugh responded, saying it's his understanding that this is the case. As far as I'm concerned, no matter what government would be in there, it'll be a very unwise decision not to follow through on this commitment. It's really important to have this network built, both, as I mentioned earlier, in relation to safety and people who have lost their lives in the recent past and before that as well, and also the potential danger for future loss of life in this road, so it's of immediate concern to everybody. And it's important that this project starts moving and goes through the process. A group of Donegal GPs will meet Senior Seal to Management today. The meeting, which will be attended by CEO Tony Canavan and other Seal to figures, will focus on timely care of patients at the Letter Kenny University Hospital Emergency Department, as well as timely access to urgent outpatient appointments across a range of specialties. Dr. Patrick McGinnis welcomes the meeting to highlight concerns and looks forward to hearing how Seal to will level up services for Letter Kenny Hospital and Donegal patients. He says they are continuing to press for an external review of the hospital and its funding and for the minister to visit the hospital and speak to them in person. We really welcome this initial meeting with Senior Management at the Seal to Group and we welcome the opportunity to outline our serious patient safety concerns as GPs. We've got three main asks for Tony Canavan and his team today. For the medical assessment unit at the Letter Kenny to be up and running and protected with GP access, we're asking for timely access to urgent outpatient appointments for patients with serious medical conditions, including those patients with suspected cancers. And we continue to call for an external review of the hospital and of its funding. We look forward to hearing from the management team today about what plans that they've put in place to level up the hospital with the rest of the Seal to Group, making it safer and more equitable for our patients here in Donegal. There are calls for consent classes to be expanded into secondary skills. The topic was raised at an Oroctis Committee meeting yesterday with representatives from the Active Consent Program and the UCC bystander intervention program presenting their findings. They argue that online misinformation is causing young people to develop unhealthy ideas around sex and relationships. Law professor Louise Carly believes it's important students learn about consent before beginning university. I think the argument is hard to defeat. We know that students are coming into us at third level already having experienced significant levels of sexual hostility, harassment and even violence. And it's not just that young people are engaging in sexual and intimate activity, but it's much beyond that. It's the type of behaviour that they are experiencing on a regular basis, which we know from various surveys that have been conducted. Looking out to whether it will be fresh and bright this morning with plenty of sunshine, showers will spread from the west during the morning, becoming frequent during the afternoon and evening. Some of the showers will be heavy with the risk of hail and thunder. A blustery day with maximum afternoon temperatures ranging from eight to 11 degrees in fresh to strong and gusty southwest winds. The next news update is at 10 o'clock. That's all for now. 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If you want to get involved in the conversation, we've got loads lined up and we always have space for what you want to talk about too. Well, what we've lined up is what you want to talk about, but I think you know what I'm trying to say here. 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts that number and just a reminder for you if you want to send your WhatsApp voice notes, use that number to 086625,000. For those of you wanting to call us, Caroline and Shallon, take in your calls this morning, 07491 25,000. And the email address is open to you to contact us as well. Comments at highlandradio.com. And just to invite you if you want to and if it suits you, you can watch the program on our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland. You can access that via the YouTube app on your smart TV or your Firestick or across your mobile devices. And we're also on our Facebook pages, Highland Hub, Highland Radio News and Sport. And we also pop up on X. OK, the papers this morning. We'll start with the Finn Valley voice. There's anger and annoyance throughout the Finn Valley this week to the news that a memorial to the first Royal Ulster Constabulary officer killed in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles has been removed approximately a week after it was first unveiled on October 28th, 1973 at 840 p.m. Detective Constable John Doherty, age 31 was off duty visiting his mother's house in Ballandrade when he was ambushed by IRA gunman and fatally injured his girlfriend who was with him in the car, survived the attack. We spoke to John's brother yesterday who expressed that annoyance and disappointment at the removal of that plaque on the program yesterday. Both Innisfone newspapers this morning, as you can imagine, focus on the tragic events of the weekend. The Innisfone independent sadness as two teens die in fatal crash. Community in shock as Innisfone loses more young lives on its roads and there's extensive coverage, of course, inside the paper today. The Innisfone Times, there has been an outpouring of grief across Innisfone at the deaths of two teenage friends in a road collision near Glenealy in the early hours of Monday. Alana Harkin and Thomas Gallagher, both from Glenealy lost their lives in a single vehicle collision at Terriwee or Terriwee at around 12.38 a.m. A male in his teens who was also in the car received treatment for injuries that are believed to be non-life-threatening. And we heard yesterday that, hopefully, he's making positive inroads in his recovery. On to the Donegal Post this morning, Guardi believed that a fire, which caused extensive damage to a vacant premises in Donegal town, may have been started maliciously. Fire crews battled to bring ablaze under control at the former Picture Mouldings factory on Halloween night. A guard of spokesperson said at 8.45 a.m. On that date, Guardi were alerted to the fact that a derelict factory was on fire at that location. That story is one of the appeals featured within the Community Guard of Information item, which you can listen back to, of course, on our podcast or on the Highland Radio and News and Sport Facebook page or on Guardi Shia Khanna Facebook page there. On to the nationals now, the Irish Times. Beef exports from Ireland to the Chinese market have been suspended after a case of atypical BSc was detected in a cow during recent routine Department of Agricultural tests. The timing, terrible, really, because these atypical cases are quite infrequent, one every three years. There was one back in 2019, which suspended our trade with China and it just about got up and running again. It's worth around 40 million a year and could be built upon. And it just so happened that another case was discovered whilst Miho Martin was actually in China and it's gonna be months before trade resumes once again. The suspension of exports from Irish producers to China has been described as a blow to the agriculture industry as China had been seen as a market for big potential growth. Previously, beef exports to China were halted for two and a half years following a similar case of atypical BSc picked up in May 2020. We have export deals with around about 70 countries. China is the only one that we have this agreement with them whereby if a case of BSc is discovered atypical, these just random cases that pop up that it suspends exports. So hopefully that gets back up and running really soon but overall, in the widest scale of things, it's not a greatly significant part of the beef export market but the sooner it's back up and running, of course, the better the cow. They're very stringent because the cow 10 years old was a fallen animal and wasn't actually obviously going to be exported to China but that was the agreement that was reached with them and therefore, exports are now suspended. The Irish Independent this morning, a Sinn Fein TD is suing a newspaper and a journalist over coverage of his response to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th. The party's Dublin-based South TD Chris Andrews has initiated legal action over reporting of a comment he made the day after the attack and, of course, is perfectly entitled to do so and the courts will decide if it goes that far but it is interesting to see politicians suing the press for coverage. Mr. Andrew is the latest in a string of Sinn Fein figures to take legal action against media organizations. Sinn Fein leader, Mary Lou MacDonald, was nominated for a Bolly of the Year award by a group that campaigns against powerful individuals using defamation laws to silence critics known as SLAPS, SLAPPSS, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Ms. MacDonald's defamation case against RTE, which was related to provisional IRA rape victim, Maria Cahill, has been flagged with the Council of Europe as a potential threat to media freedom by the Index on Censorship. On to the Irish Daily Mail. Static cameras to tackle speed on our roads. Guard and Commissioner Drew Harris wants to introduce static speed cameras across countries at the country's road network to address the soaring number of road deaths. Communities have been devastated by 165 road fatalities so far this year. A figure T. Shuckley of Radcar described as a matter of enormous concern. The guard, although speed of course is not a factor in all of these collisions. The Guard and Commissioner called yesterday for enhanced speed trap infrastructure including the introduction of static cameras and the wider use of average speed cameras. So how would that work? Well, let's say for an example, you would have one camera located at the bottom of McGrory's Bray on the Balabuffet to Donegal Town Road and then you'd have another at Clark Chapel. It would take a picture of your number plate at the bottom of McGrory's Bray and then another at Clark Chapel, as an example. And it would have calculated the minimum that that journey could take at the legal speed limit and if you were on the wrong side of that then instantly you would know you were speeding. You had to have been speeding. It wouldn't account for speeding excessively in the wrong part of the road. It depends how far the cameras are apart. I can't, I don't know. Just with our road network, I think there's only one speed trap camera and that's the Port Tunnel. But I don't know if it's practical. I can understand why people are looking for solutions or things that might help, but you just wonder if it's really going to be practical or if it's just noise. Do you know what I mean when we really should be saying, well, what really, really, really can we do? Just continuing the conversation from Norma Folish is obsessed with mobile phone usage amongst young people. We heard from the I-NMO yesterday that I can't remember the exact word that was used but it wasn't very complimentary to say that really, they're not worried about phones in schools. This is the I-NTO, sorry. They're not worried about phones in schools. They're worried about the fact that there's no teachers in schools. There's 800 vacancies. It's going to be 2000 shortly. And this is again, it sounded like he thought this was something of a distraction. But anyway, what do you think about the government getting involved in Santa? Because Santa, this is a direct appeal to him, I presume, Santa shouldn't bring smartphones to young children. This Christmas, Education Minister Norma Foli has urged, I'm not sure if this is the first time a government minister has spoken directly to Santa but be that as it may. It comes as the government launched a plan to encourage Irish parents not to buy a mobile phone for their children while in primary school. The Department of Education has drawn up new guidelines to help schools set up voluntary agreements between all parents to commit to not buying a smartphone for young kids. And she's obviously had to extend that out to Santy because we don't know what he might do and what's on the list. But anyway, what do you think about that? 08, 660, 25,000. The murder this morning, or it's the slur, in fact, the murderer accused Joseph Puska told the court contemplate, contemptible lies, I beg your pardon. The prosecution has told the jury, adding that Ashley Murphy was an investigator, was an investigator in her own murder as she got the DNA of the person who killed her under her fingernails. So it's just a strange sentence structure. My apologies. Prosecuting barrister Ann Marie Lawler, senior counsel made the comments in her closing speech to the jury in the trial of Mr. Puska, who's 33, of Offaly, who denies the murder of a 23-year-old schoolteacher, Ms. Murphy on January 12, 2020. I think part of his defense was that he came to her aid. But anyway, that's gone to come to a resolution really quite soon. Finally, in the Irish Daily Mirror this morning, almost a quarter of Derry Girl's viewers looked into visiting Ireland with a month of watching the show. Data fan that 23% headed to official holiday and travel guide at arland.com, Tourism Ireland, a cross-border body that promotes both the North and the Republic, sponsored the final series of the Hit Channel 4 show. A draft tourism strategy for the North published by its department for the economy states, screen tourism is growing at a phenomenal rate due to the popularity of Derry Girl's and Game of Thrones. It states, with an average of 2.9 million viewers per episode, TV series Derry Girl's has been an international success connecting to audiences through its humor and storytelling. Does that surprise you? I am going to watch Derry Girl's. I haven't got ran to it yet. Can you see how it has a tourism benefit for the area? 08, 660, 25,000. Right, let us take a break. We'll be back with our first guests on the programme very, very shortly. Stay right where you are. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letterkenny, the 2022 Seastore National Off-Licence of the Year. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. At Screw Fix, you can click and collect over 10,000 trade products in as little as one minute. 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Travel Route 32 from Leta, Kennedy, Dublin when you book online and travel for less. Expressway, bringing you the time, us? The time's 19 minutes past nine. Now, many of you want to keep talking about the traffic in Leta, Kennedy, but interestingly, a lot of the messages start off with an apology as to, you know, want and to talk about it. But look, it's important to use, so don't worry about it. Take the lights off the actual roundabout. No need for them. Put left turn only on the road where it applies, says a listener. A few lights on the roundabout are confusing. One is on the island, coming from the dairy side. The other is when you exit into the dairy road. This is confusing, mostly older people, but the lights are managing the traffic, but the volume's too much. And other of these lights are classic reasons why people should not be given a lifetime driving licence and should be made reset their test once every 10 years. Road design upgrades. And they haven't a clue on how to use them. These lights on junctions are very common in other big towns and cities. Well, there's something interesting in that, because if you do your test in Donegal Town, for an example, you won't even encounter a traffic light or a complicated roundabout. And then you're given your licence and you can go and drive pretty much anywhere you like with no real test as to how you manage with certain junctions and lights set up, so what have you. I'm just using Donegal Town as an example because I know it is a fact. Greg, I hate to keep on about it, but the traffic this morning into Letterkenny, it's a bloody nightmare. He's had a swear word, I don't know, I've said it now. And other says, I can't understand, they spend billions, if you broke down, nobody can come get you. Four lanes of traffic, it's a poo show. Ambulances can't get through, that's a disgrace. Who set that up? Nobody knows to go left or right. It's not right. Innocent people getting scraped or hit. Even bosses don't know where to go. I was in a bus the last day, the light was red, he went through it, nobody knows what to do. The RSA need to set up the rules of the road. There has to be rules, it's silly how they've done it. I noticed actually, someone mentioned Debrae on the cycle lanes or the walkways yesterday. I noticed that's been cleaned up this morning, which is a delightful coincidence. So hopefully if you're on that route, you'll see the benefits of that. Colour-coated lanes is a waste of time because the middle lane doesn't go back far enough and it's not wide enough to go back further. Whoever designed that setup didn't see many roundabouts. Well, I'm sorry about my colour-coated suggestion. I was just panicking. Last one before we go to our first guess. Yep, those Polestar traffic lights are certainly working. Wonders read the issue of road safety by seriously curbing the speed of motorists. Last evening, it took me 25 minutes to travel from Arena 7 to the Polestar roundabout, a distance of around about one kilometre. This works out at 40 minutes to cover a mile or a speed of one and a half miles per hour. I had a good bit of time on my hands to work. That out, Greg, now with authorities could enforce that speed limit countrywide. What joy it would bring to road safety in Donegal. That comes in from Jim M. Thanks, Jim. Keep them coming in to us on all arranged topics, of course. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. And if you subscribe to Facebook, I got a notification yesterday from Instagram, stroke Facebook, onto the guys of Metta, offering me an ad-free experience for 12, 99 a month, 13 euro per month. And then it says your info won't be used for ads, and they're claiming this is about EU laws and privacy and blah, blah, blah, blah. But are any of you going to pay the 13 euro a month? I would imagine it's going to become really difficult to use Facebook as they try and coerce us into paying 13 euro a month. But anyway, what did you think about it? I'm just going to crack on as a free user and just do what I did with Twitter. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I don't need it as such. But what about you out there? What do you think? 13 euro a month for Facebook ads free. Did any of you sign up? Did Michael Letty sign up for ad free Facebook, Michael? No, Greg, I did not. Would you be tempted? I don't intend to either. No, you don't intend to? No, I don't. I mean, like you said there, it's not something we need. I've been pulling away from Twitter, which I really loved and I've always, you know, I've always preferred it. But over the last year or so, it's become less interesting to me and to many of my friends as well. So I'm just using it a lot less. In fact, I did a search last night on Facebook, but it was on Twitter, if you know what I mean. I wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing some issues. And the research results were absolutely rubbish. I mean, they really were. It was just honestly, it was just random ladies, maybe with one or two likes. It was supposed to be the top results on the fact and the Facebook hashtag. It was just nonsense. And it reminded me it's just kind of a useless sort of website. I don't know what Twitter is like to use or X is like to use if you pay for it. But it's, you know, your comments are suppressed if you don't pay and also your experience is altered and he's going to do more and more of that. You know, rather than incentivising by offering features, I think really what they do is try and make the free version difficult to use too. But I mean, $13.99 a month, like if you've got Netflix or you've got, and we talk about this on a Friday, of course, you've got all the various other monthly subscriptions. $13.99 though, is it $12.99 to use Facebook without ads? I don't know. I don't see it. Every fourth post is an ad. Really is what you're looking at there. All right, Michael. You're having problems actually posting to Facebook. What's going on? Facebook and it's the artificial intelligence. It's the fact that Facebook, you don't actually deal with people anymore so much at Facebook. And I'm just looking at their own literature on the matter here and it just says, and I'm quoting, artificial intelligence, AI, technology, is central to our content review process. AI could detect and remove content that goes against our community standards before anyone reports it. So this last few weeks, Facebook has taken a dislike to my TV reviews, which up to now you're the only person I know who's taken a dislike to my TV reviews. Now Facebook has decided to start it. Is Facebook now not really effectively the little doing God's work? What Facebook is doing. And here's the most recent example this week, which I know caught Caroline's eye. I had posted a review on my blog and then double pasted it to Facebook. And it was an obscure, I think, recently obscured 1960s science fiction series called The Time Tunnel. And I had reviewed an episode, a couple of harmless paragraphs and an image. I think it's based around the images. So the post went up on Saturday night and then on a Sunday evening, it's gone and I get this warning, which is the fifth, I think I've received in the last month. Your post goes against our community standards on nudity and sexual activity. And it goes on to say that I can't appeal this decision. But it explains that for various reasons, community standards have been violated. Now it's all very humorous and it's usually easy enough to fix. But for the time that it's taken down, there's like a black mark against your account. So obviously I use my account for a lot of other reasons and some of them are reasonably, you know, reasonable and stuff, yeah. Yeah, so until this, now so far I've been very lucky because I can resolve each of these. Yeah, but it's accusing you of something that really is, you know, completely out of character as well to suggest that you're to a particular platform that you're posting inappropriate material I know it's not the biggest deal in the world, but it is an accusation against you that's completely untrue. Absolutely, and I was curious and I put it up on my own Facebook then, my normal page just to see was anyone else experiencing this because you're gonna have a situation. I've been lucky so far because I have been able to get the post back up because after you report it, I think it goes to a human being. But again, I can't be sure of that because you never hear from people anymore. But it does go back up. I mean, is there a hierarchy of AI where like you've got the initial AI and then the AI is boss? You know, I mean, what's going on? Something like that. You're going from R2D2 to a C3PO to use the start up for experience. But the thing is, yeah, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and eventually it's going to be a problem. I experienced this on all of the social networks at some point or another, social media sites. Like there was, Tomner took down a comic book post of mine some years ago, but would not put it back up. It was just a Marvel comic from the 1980s. Maybe that was copyright, no? No, it's a good question. No, you have a valid point. But no, I'm in a thousands up there and so have other people. It was specifically again on sexual grounds. That is a big trigger for them. And they're obviously objecting to the image. But the image in this case and the images of other shows in the last few weeks, Time Tunnel has happened twice. And it's simply just the logo of the show, which is a sort of a blue background with white text on it. It's just very harmless, but for some reason the AI doesn't like it. And aside from Facebook, this to me raises questions about AI. We, it's a big buzzword at the moment. We're all talking about all the things that AI can potentially do for us in society. But of course, AI, as you well know, makes a lot of mistakes. You know, musk self-driving cars have obviously been involved in an accident or two and stuff like that. So it's interesting to see that when it's used for something as basic as recognizing imagery and text, it can fall short. And I was curious as to how many other people have found their posts or their images have been flagged by Facebook, even though there's nothing even remotely objectionable in them. Yeah, all right, okay. Well, we'll put it out there and see what our listeners say. It is a distraction, but also again, you know, you don't want to dig too deep in it, but they are accusing you of doing something that clearly you're not doing as well. And also I presume a certain amount of strikes against you. It's going to be a problem. But back to the payment stuff, you see, another thing that's going to start happening now is Facebook are going to start suppressing the reach of your posts, which is the next thing, do you know what I mean? So what they'll do is they boost the posts of people that pay, which I think is a bit of a... And it's the only show in town really for a lot of people, you know, it's quite interesting. It's a funny turn of events. But anyway, hopefully you get all your situations sorted. We'll see if anyone... I've never been flagged for anything. I've never been flagged for anything. I've never been... You know how people get their pages cloned? Never been cloned. I'll get on that to see if... Huh? I'll get on that to see if I can get the first chance again. It'll not be hard for me to figure out who did it if it happens now. But no, I've been really quite lucky in that regard. But anyway, listen, Michael, we'll chat to you Friday. Thanks for your time today. Take care of yourself. Bye-bye, anyone else affected by that? Oh, wait, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. We're speaking to Sinead at the end of the show yesterday. Her and her partner are effectively homeless other than the fact that they have a caravan that's located close to the Polestar roundabout. But they can't get the council for whatever reason. We've contacted the council to see if they have anything to say about this to get access to water or sewage, you know, to get rid of waste and what have you. So they're living in this caravan, no proper heat, no water. And they have to go out to other businesses really effectively to just wash themselves and what have you. And it's gonna get minus sub-zero from Friday onwards for at least a short spell. This emailer says, Rie Sinead has been on the housing list for six years. How come we managed to house all the refugees that have come in the past couple of years? These people deserve to be housed. 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It's across most of the media, most print and audio and TV about these new government guidelines that have been approved by Cabinet to encourage parents to not purchase smartphones for primary school children. Deputy Joe McHugh is a former Minister for Education. He's with us now, Joe. Good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. So what, what, give us an understanding as a legislative what this phrasing is. So the cabinet have agreed to encourage parents. So what, what does that really mean in layman's terms? Look, sometimes and most times, communities use their own initiative and unfairness to a group of schools. I think it was six schools initially and white glow. They used their initiative and they said they were going to ban mobile phones outright. Now I know that garnered a lot of media publicity, but when you speak to a lot of the principles in their own country and done it all, a lot of principles and boards of management already have a policy in place that they don't allow mobile phones in the primary school. So what does, to answer your question, what does the legislation do? Look, I don't think, you know, even the memo to cabinet can change much, much, but what it will do it will raise that awareness and that needs to, you know, to debate this issue. This, this, this issue is not just for primary school, it's also for secondary school. And I think it's also invading this needed for many people, including ourselves, our own generation, Greg, is in terms of phone usage. And, you know, when, when we put the phone down at night, is it, is it eight o'clock in the evening? Is it nine o'clock or this call is fade? Is it midnight or one in the morning? And we're, it's, it's a, it's a habit form. I know the London School of Economics did a survey a number of years ago. It maintains that it takes 66 days to form a habit. Most of us are in this habit and I suppose the key thing for us is to enter just good habits, good foreign habits and most of the adult population don't have good foreign habits, but that, I think that's the thinking behind this. I think to also, I think that there's a lot of parents, guardians, caregivers that wanna say no, a lot of schools that wanna say no, but it's difficult because if the majority of the current generation, and I suppose this is almost about the four, five and six year olds now, rather than the nine, 10, 11 year olds now. And I could be misreading this, but it empowers parents change the culture a little bit, you know, softly, softly. Do you know that sort of way? So that maybe for the five, six, seven year olds now who are becoming nine, 10, 11 year olds, that it's easier to say no, that everyone having a phone at school at that age is no longer the norm. So I kind of see the merit in that. And I think that's, that's why I don't really think there's much of a debate here as such because I don't see it as a war on phones or an imminent thing. I just see this as something that's trying to maybe change culturally things in a few years. Yeah, I think you're right. And look, let's, let's, let's be honest. Schools have their own rules. And look, secondary schools, and I'm just thinking in one particular secondary school, close to my own heart for me, all two kids are going like, they're not allowed to school, did the phones in classroom, like they put it into their locker in the morning and they get it at break time if there need be, if there's any messages. So I think it's, it's creating that awareness. Yes, it's culture. But look, the big, the big debate is what, what kids are doing outside of class, outside of school and what time, what time do young teenagers have phones at night time? So, so I'm not a big believer in the, just saying no for the second. No, we need to explain it better. We need to explain why phones at the side of your bed to get and receiving text messages and sending WhatsApp messages at midnight and one in the morning. You're not going to get a good message. Sorry, Joe, I couldn't sleep. I just wanted to say hello. I mean, what's wrong with that? I'm only joking, I'm only joking, of course. You never text after about midnight, you've heard a straight thing. What do you think of the INTO's comments that this really, you know, I mean, they're not worried about schools and phones, phones and schools. Now, when they say they're not worried, I can understand the context in which the comment was made, but what they're saying is, look at, we've got an 800 shortfall in primary school teachers, it's heading towards 2000. With us, there's not enough career progression for those that have emigrated to come back because they're almost starting at zero. We did hear at Leigh of Radcar referencing some about the building of houses and looking at pay. But really that is the real crisis in crisis in teaching at the moment. And we've got SETs being taken away from their important work to plug the gaps. I mean, I get why the phone story is kind of sexy, if you know what I mean, for the media and what have you for politicians. But I do take John's point that really the big issue is here is, you know, and it maybe it's not as big an issue in Donegal Joe, but it is an issue that we need teachers here, you know, because maybe looking at the phones is all the students have to do because there's no teachers to teach them. Well, look, there's a crisis in teaching. And I know getting subteachers is a big, big issue. I know John Boyle has been very, very active on that over the years. And they've come up with new models and new ways of doing it. And some of these new strategies are working. But look, it's a demand supply issue. And it's not a question about teachers going abroad. There's always going to be a percentage of cohort teachers that are going to go abroad for a couple of years. But we do have a massive issue. Demographics are increasing. The demographics for the primary school system. The pressure was on them 10, 15 years ago. Now it's in the secondary school system. And at the same time, with immigration, the numbers are going up in primary school again. So look, it is the issue of the day. This phone issue. No, it's not the top priority issue by any means. Your show has been dedicated this last month to six weeks on health issues. We know the issues. But at the same time, one of the bad habits we all have is our overuse of the mobile phone. And I'm included in that as well. Yeah. And I think it's it's partly it is actually a wider conversation. I think that's a point well made. Listen, Joe, thank you very much for your time today. I do appreciate it. That's Deputy Joe McHugh, the former Minister for Education, just getting his views on that hot topic. Again, it's like I'm sitting here and I'm talking about it on this program. It's not one that exercises me particularly. But it's that doesn't mean we shouldn't be talking about it. I want to say good morning to Audrey, Dolores, Rosemary, Michael, Annie and Kathy apparently it's raining in London this morning. Kathy, I hope you stay in the dry. Thank you very much for all of you messaging us on social media, watching us on our YouTube and Facebook pages. My friend failed his driving test when he was taken to the Polestar roundabout two weeks ago. He'd never been taken there with the traffic lights when on his lessons. He was told he'd done brilliant at all other areas during the test, but went into the wrong lane on the roundabout, which is an instant fail. He must he now must pay for more lessons and wait for another test date very unfair. It is hopefully now he won't have to wait as long for a repeat test. I think you do get fast tracked a little bit. So it's probably not going to be six or seven months. But that's really unfortunate. Mark goes out to them because they're probably, you know, very keen to get on the road. Was the letter kind of yesterday evening lights weren't bad. But people also have to waking up to the move when the light turns green. Can't just blame the lights. They do probably still need tweaking a bit further. Read the speed cameras in Scotland on the approach roads to villages and towns. There are speed limit signs followed by a flashing sign showing your vehicle speed. Then finally cameras on an overhead gantry. And do you know what it works? If you get caught speeding, you only have yourself to blame. There you go. Fair warning. Fair signage. Boom. You can't complain at that, can you? It's not shooting fish in a barrel because there's due warning, isn't it? Static speed cameras at Largie Brack and Clarke. You could do 400 miles per hour because you still wait for 30 minutes to kill Ross, McClay's Corner and Ballet Buffet Main Street. I McGrory's Bray. I think I meant to say if I didn't say McGrory's Bray, I meant that stretch of road there. But of course, it wouldn't work with what you're talking about in between. Greg, the talk is all about road deaths and rightly so, but no talk of the 550 people who died from mistakes in our hospitals last year. We talk about that extensively, and there are two very serious issues. Fixing one won't fix the other. And we talk about all of those issues at different times. I take your point. The Goddard Commissioner would be better employed as on the roadways protecting the citizens of Ireland rather than sitting in on these committees being interrogated by politicians, sad for the loved ones who've gone on before. Right, okay, we're going to go to our next guest, but first we're going to take a very quick break. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. 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Highland Radio Weather Updates brought to you by Grant from condensing oil and HVO biofuel boilers to heat pumps and underfloor heating. You can trust Grant to heat your home. Visit grant.ie. You're very welcome back to the program. It'll be fresh and bright morning with plenty of sunshine showers will spread from the west during the morning becoming frequent during the afternoon and evening. Some of the showers will be heavy with a risk of hail and thunder temperatures eight to 11 degrees. Good morning, Jude Morrow CEO and founder of Neuro Diversity Training. Thank you so much for joining us and a big congratulations, Jude, on winning the best new start at Intra Trade Ireland's Seed Corn and I awards. Good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning, Greg. It's lovely to be here and catching up with you again. Yeah, fantastic. Can you can we begin by talking about neurodiversity? What it is and how it affects people? As I say, everywhere I go and at the risk of something like morphase from the matrix, neurodiversity is everywhere. It is all around us. Neurodiversity is an important component of the human existence. It's as important as biodiversity, geodiversity, gender diversity and it's the idea that some of us out there like me have different minds and that's okay instead of some minds like my autistic mind being viewed as a disordered mind or a broken mind that it's a perfectly acceptable mind and a diverse mind. So that would clear neurodiversity then it's an umbrella term. It is. It is. Neurodiversity captures everybody. So neurotypical would be the majority of the population and neurodivergent would be like me, autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic, etc etc. Okay and talk to me about the neurodiversity training. Both neurodiversity training and what happened was I was a social worker for a long time and I wrote a book about my experiences of growing up as an autistic child in the mainstream school system. It was just a bit of a hobby project but then all of a sudden people were asking me to come in and do training in their schools and their community groups and their organizations and it's grown and scaled all over the world. We've done training for every continent now including the south ball. So it's kind of grown up and up and up over the last three years since we've come into existence because with DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion, neurodiversity is seen as a really, really key component and we are proudly at the spearhead of mega neurodiversity aware places and a normality in society. And it's coming across. Are you trying to change phraseology? Do you see that as really important? We're not just trying to change phraseology and symbols. We're trying to change mindsets and attitudes and this is the example that I can always give. What I find really, really hard in life is tying me shoelaces and tying knots. But what I can do well is I can tie a parachute to myself and go skydiving on my free time. But here's the issue though, Greg, is that people will focus on the Jude Morrow who can't tie his shoes rather than the Jude Morrow that can put a parachute on and jump out of a plane or a helicopter or whatever. That's what we want to change. We want people to take a strengths-based approach and focus on what people are good at rather than what we may be, I suppose, challenged by and comparison to our peers, whether that's our school peers, our colleagues, our friends, neighbors, loved ones, spices, etc. Yeah, and I just wonder if sort of that attitude that we have as humans often goes far beyond neurodiversity that we often, you know, see the negative people before we see the positives? And that's absolutely true and that's rooted in Freudian psychology. I mean whenever we were early humans, we had to keep ourselves safe. We do have an inherent survival instinct. So what we do is we point out things which maybe aren't the norm in order to protect ourselves because if you were to ask me in one question what's the biggest challenge that autistic people face, it's not that we lack social skills, it's not that we have communication difficulties, it's the fact that so many people have unconscious negative bias towards us and that's what we're doing is we're challenging that completely to, I suppose, shape hearts and minds and practicalities from looking at what people perceive to be deficiencies, but rather hone in on our greatest strengths and gifts because that's how people thrive. Right, so talk to us about the training, who it's provided to and, you know, its format and outcomes. Well, at the start we were doing training sessions for schools and workplaces, you know, for the general staff, for the management, HR, leadership in schools, it was doing for teachers and classroom assistants and then parents in the afternoon, but what we thought earlier this year is it really working? You know, the one and don training day, you know, coming in for a day telling some skydiving jokes, you know, and whatever else, is it really working? And we kind of decided earlier this year that it wasn't, so what we did this year is we went in a radical new direction and that we wanted to launch a map that anybody at any stage of their journey, whether it's parents of autistic kids or newly diagnosed adults, could jump and get life, weekly learning classes, Q&A sessions and a full social feed for less than the price of a single and counseling session every year, because the truth is, Greg, families and autistic adults and kids out there feel abandoned. Do you know what I did in preparation for this interview? I wanted to find how many times I had been invited to a public demonstration or to address a rally in the last five years because autistic people and their parents and families feel abandoned. Do you know what the number was? 26. 26 event organisers and rally organisers and protesters had asked me to come and address their rallies and the reason why is because all these people want to come together because they feel abandoned. So what we wanted to do even for parents and families and anybody that wants to learn about the topic is that we have a one-stop shop app now and that's what concept and what idea got us the Seed Corn Award a couple of weeks ago and the grand final for all Ireland is actually tomorrow night. And we wish every success in that. Dude, what's the impact sort of this conversation, your enthusiasm, your approach to this? What impact does it have on people with autism or ADHD? Who all of a sudden feel like they find their place or that there's someone in you who's seeing the positives in them? I can imagine for some it is an amazing experience that it turns everything on their head because we often feel what we feel society thinks of us if you know what I mean. Yeah of course and the impact it has is colossal because for families as I say there's one emotion that governs the entire community whether you're autistic not autistic or even just in trust on this topic and it's loneliness and isolation. People feel left behind so what people can do now is almost on its own social media platform and the end sphere is connect with each other and we're getting connections and getting members and educators and businesses from all over the world to buy into this. And for the first time in a long time people aren't feeling alone because one thing that upsets me not just about you know locally but I suppose internationally is you know people pulling the same lever and expecting a different outcome because whenever I go out and talk about my experiences being autistic you know people say oh I can totally relate to that working through that now but whenever I'm talking about it I went through it in the 90s so I suppose instead of being a sub boxy troll we wanted to make a change and look I know that there are people like there that struggle. Yeah but to some extent Jude and I don't I like to have the conversations out in the front rather than sort of so if I if I don't want to be offensive or anything right but say for instance you had a physical disability and we were speaking now it would be very clear that you know it could be very clear sorry it wouldn't be very clear but it could be so say for instance I could see a wheelchair you that we're sitting in a wheelchair and but like you have to identify that you have autism ADHD do you know what I mean is that part of it in other words that we as humans and you'll know much more about this than I in terms of our developments as humans that unless we can literally see it we we don't seem to get it. Of course invisible disabilities is a real thing and what we want to kind of put at the forefront is coming out so to speak because for a lot of us being autistic is something that we're very proud of now we don't dismiss anybody that has challenges and higher levels of support needs but what we do believe is that every human regardless of ability has inherent value and worth and even whenever people say to me like if I bump into a parent in a supermarket they'll say oh this is my son called John and then they'll whisper they'll say he's autistic yeah and you know I'm sort of like you know one thing you know standing right here you know it's what I talk about but it's that kind of hush tones and attitude that we want to you know remove is that no matter what someone's level of ability is is that being autistic is an integral part of someone's identity and no matter what they'll still be something that they're good at and they'll have special gifts and can bring joy to other people and that's the message we want to share. And there's a few actors have a role in this you can do your bit in terms of of speaking publicly the media can do its bit in terms of platforming that as well because obviously you have now tools like social media to reach people and what have you but also it's very important too that that that you know every outlet that can have a role in in promoting this conversation and awareness and these initiatives do so. Listen congratulations on what you've achieved so far Jude and the best of luck tomorrow night it's already a fabulous achievement is the end of sphere app and it's e-n-d-e-e-s-p-h-e-r-e that is a freely available app like who should or could access it if you know what I mean is it for teachers and businesses that are for everybody? Well primarily it's for parents of kids and for adults just starting on the journey but anyone can join in it's on App Store and Google Play so it's there it's ready to go it's a one-stop shop and it can be accessed immediately. All right again good luck with the awards tomorrow congratulations on all your achievements so far great to see you again Jude take care Jude Morrow their CEO and founder of Neurodiversity Training 08 660 25000 Hi Greg can I jump in here? Of course you can welcome. The T-Shark League of Radcars now saying that basically aren't in this fall yet when concerned Irish citizens said the same thing the politicians were quick to denounce them as far right and fascist. I think sometimes it's how conversations are argued I think we've been having a conversation in Donegal for quite some time that it's about a lot of it's about pressure on services and how you know can you provide the services schools, GPs, acute care what have you to a population that increases so rapidly. I think lots of people have been having that conversation in the right way and then obviously there's some people do in different ways and maybe the bus tickets cost 85 to stand and it's worth every cent. Where's that? I just I read an article I thought it was 135 and I was looking at Croke Park by the way but anyway I'll double check that. If Donegal County Council had money one six that's what I was thinking it's 168 to sit isn't it Caroline and I think it's 135 on the pitch or something or 140 standing how much is it standing 168 standing and what about if you want to sit down on your bum or whatever other part of your body we don't know so you've half the information Caroline that's not research that's not producing okay right but anyway maybe it's different in Belfast because I heard Lee referenced Belfast and I just heard the Croke Park piece but we'll get clarification on that and listen maybe it's a great night out but 160 quid maybe 200 on a hotel room diesel up and down that's why these Highland trips I'm not I'm not saying we're doing one to to Bruce I'm not I don't know what the story is there but that's why they're often such good value because it eliminates a lot of the extra costs will reduces them I cannot believe and I mean this hand on heart that we're already an hour into the show so we'll be back after 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been killed on Irish roads so far this year 10 more than in the whole of last year last week susan gray the chair of the road safety organization park expressed grave concern about the reduction in garthy numbers in donnie gall particularly in the roads policing section and asked for immediate action to address that with deputy commissioner mcmahan acknowledges there are issues with garthy numbers but she is urging people not to jump to conclusions a lag in recruitment competing demands with other other resources everything from community policing all the way to the various specialist units that we have and there is a requirement for all of those units and we have a finite amount of resources i wouldn't like to give the impression that just because the roads policing units have shrunk somewhat in numbers that it is anyway lessened our focus our commitment to road safety at donnie gall doubly says it's important to understand the process required to see works on the a5 come into fruition doubly joe mccue says the publication of a report from the planning appeals commission is of utmost importance west thrown in p order begley suggested the project could start in a matter of months but it's important the irish government now follows through on its funding commitments doubly mccue says it's his understanding that is the case as far as i'm concerned no matter what government would be in there it'll be a very unwise decision not to follow through on this commitment it's really important to have this network built both as i mentioned earlier in the relation to safety and people who have lost their lives in the recent past and before that as well and also the potential danger for future loss of life in this road so it's of immediate uh concern to everybody and it's important this project starts moving and goes through goes through the process a group of donnie gall td excuse me a group of donnie gall gp's will meet with senior self-management today the meeting which 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are the skills that would be most in demand in the years ahead the national skills bulletin for 2023 has been published today it identifies skill gaps and the areas in which people need to be trained and upskilled higher education minister simon harris says it will lead to more investment in apprenticeships and third level options it very clearly identifies science and engineering construction health and social care transport logistics hospitality and ict these are the main kind of headline areas where it believes we need more people the encouraging news and i suppose the purpose of the bulletin is to make sure that your education partners come together and respond to that the encouraging news is we are now seeing a very significant increase in expansion of training places in many of these areas with a forecast and met air and tell us it'll be a fresh and bright morning with plenty of sunshine showers spreading from the west during the morning becoming frequent in the afternoon and 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of birth my name and said there was a security breach so as I was on the phone I got a text with a one-time passcode and they asked me to read it out to them for security reasons and that was their way of putting through the transaction so that's just from a younger listener there thank you very much for helping us to spread the awareness so really be really careful they lost 1400 euro it's people purporting to be from ptsb they had details which might make it convincing your address date of birth name and what have you and the way they did the scam is they said there was a security breach on the account they would send a one-time passcode via text and that's the for security reasons again sounds convincing doesn't it and once that was inserted or whatever happened next they lost 1400 euro so just to be careful of that now it could be from Ulsterbank well probably not Ulsterbank now but any of the banks ptsb a b Bank of Ireland it's not the lending institutions that are the problem it's the scammers so just be careful congratulations first placed poem in the English language category of the 2023 Francis Brown multilingual poetry competition is disguises by Deirdre Hines well done mom can you please play a request and wish a happy 60th birthday to a very special lady called Claire Mooney she's in Burt she is the best friend and sister-in-law in the world that I could wish for looking forward to partying to the wee small hours with her at the weekend love from Adele Steve and Gavin and Laura Russell thank you more than happy to do so sounds good party at the weekend my child was told he could control his Tourettes so I would love if Highland Radio spent a full morning on Neurodiversity because we have two teenagers with ADHD, AESD and Tourettes and absolutely not enough people in community are aware of hidden disabilities well this is what we're here for we'll work on that and see what we can do dedicate a monthly focus to it or something anything that we can do that helps people like you and to raise awareness and make you feel heard and supported I am very keen to do just to let you know regarding Neurodiversity there's a group for people who hear voices that other people can't it's every Tuesday 11 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. at CreatorLink Building Pierce Roadletter Kenny that's behind the Charlie's Cafe and beside Cara House the group offers a safe space to talk about these phenomenon and support and encouragement you won't be pathologising just a friendly safe space people who hear voices psychosis etc are not dangerous or special in any way just want to get along in life without prejudice or discrimination that comes in from Owen more than happy to mention that Owen and we have actually spoken about that before on the program not too long ago although between the jigs and the reels it's hard to keep track of time I find sometimes but it's certainly something another issue that we could we could I definitely had two guests in here talking about that not too long ago congratulations to Jude who you had on before the 10 o'clock news well said and well done that comes in from Mary back to the traffic lights do you want to comment on that that's okay interesting this morning when the light was red at the pole star as I looked around me a lot of the drivers were on their phones it's become such a habit to lift your phone and check it despite it being illegal then when the light goes green they're not ready to take off hence adding to the delay I personally feel the public need to take responsibility for the issue with the lights ask Greg does he think it's okay for children to have mobiles with them five years of age is it okay for them to take them to school I wouldn't have thought so I'm very at pains to comment on what other parents do with their children because often you just don't know the reasons the motivations obviously on the face of it five-year-old taking a phone in school what apps do they have I mean do they have our own phone number I don't know is it a particularly worried parent that has everything else switched on and wants to be able to send the message to see if they're okay I don't know I really don't feel I'm in a position to judge anyone so I don't know on the face of it would that be for me no it wouldn't be for me would I criticize a parent without knowing the reasons why no I wouldn't either Greg here's a joke for you and your listeners about Facebook they barred me because I called my female grandchild a wee darling in a message to her on her 21st birthday they said it was contrary to the community standards LOL Mary Mary you can call me a wee darling anytime you like and I guarantee you won't be banned it's a little annoying I know there's some very serious things going on in the world but let's talk a little bit about little annoyances there's a lot of milk drunk in our house and dependent on the milk there when you take the lid off there's a little plastic ring there's a little plastic ring that remains on the carton I never remembered to take it off I suppose the easiest thing in the world to do would be just to take that little plastic ring off but when every morning about three mornings a week I am making tea and I tip the carton and off comes this little ring straight into the cup and I have to fish it out burn my finger try and find it with a spoon it's a little annoyance doesn't matter it's no big deal I'm not complaining I know there's much worse happening in the world but do you have any other little annoyances like that for me this morning it was that little plastic ring on the milk carton falling into the tea again and I have to go rooting around for it it's a little annoyance no big deal do you have any little annoyances share them with us there must be something on a day-to-day basis that happens and you go it's nothing but it's a pain in the bum 08 660 25000 show you little annoyances with us so give us a call and 07 491 25000 maybe there's a a few light-hearted ones out there to lift our spirits as I say I know it's not important don't give out to me but that plastic ring falling into the cup is my little annoyance what is yours Kevin is a typical of why the lights are not working for him people have little experience of the system of the junction and that's the issue that's Kevin who was on with us yesterday it's not the traffic lights or roundabouts fault it's the people who don't know how to use them say it's a lot of people actually another driver's brake lights cars litter our footpaths driver's speed why is this caller only concerned by e-scooter riders I see more drivers break the laws every day I suppose it's e-scooters in car parks and footpaths that is the issue hi Greg on the school launching how come some schools get it and some don't and some get hot food every day would you not think all the schools should get it just like everybody gets the family allowance or the light bill money I'll dig into that I'm not sure of the criteria is it deaf schools at the moment I'll have to double check that do away with the Polestar roundabout put on traffic lights only that's a bit like a crossroads again there's so many people hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people texting on this issue the traffic in Stranorla this morning was brutal can't get up or down avenue to St Columbus College the main street is totally bot and queued up avenue and queue coming down avenue has nowhere to go can it not go one way somehow it's shocking this morning could someone tell me avenue just so I understand the listeners because that's coming in a couple of times and I just can't think of where avenue is in Ballet Buffet, Stranorla right good luck if you're playing the bingo today we want you to win a couple of hundred euro here's the numbers to do so hopefully it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio it's Wednesday the 8th of November you're playing on the blue sheet the reference number is S3 it's game number 45 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here Nicola as you would know that sometimes it would be easier to get cocaine than it might be a pizza that's a quote that's been used up here a few times so this really is coming at a time of great public awareness of the prevalence of cocaine use most certainly I mean it's where I organised for that MD Matthew to lose a few tons of the coast that just happened just as we were kind of coming up to the publication date yes it's very timely I mean I suppose the book is a culmination of my work over the past 20 or more years really but yes I think public awareness is finally you know coming it's coming to the fore the usage of it the problem with demand the problem with supply and of course they both go hand in hand in terms of tracing you know the arrival of cocaine into this country and in a big way how far back do we have to go well we go back to the early 90s at the late 1980s really and the early 1990s which sounds like a lifetime away and that's really when it starts tumbling in down around West Cork you know off obviously it's been dropped off or sometimes the ships have gone awry with weather and you start to see it and actually at the time the politicians were more concerned about cannabis use see how times change I mean we're probably in our lifetimes maybe going to see that legalised in this country and others and they were more concerned about it but the cocaine was coming they were you know standing up in the doll they were looking for the coast guards to be given better binoculars they were looking for one extra rib to be put out in the sea to patrol the seas for it and nobody had any clue that this literally and it's been called a number of times tsunami was coming of course the Colombians first Escobar and those who followed him were eyeing up Europe as a growth market they had saturated the US with cocaine and they were producing so much of the stuff and of course there's been lots of political problems that have gone on there and in other countries which produced the cocaine so there have all along upped the amount of product Europe has welcomed it with open arms and the fact of the matter is maybe we don't feel this way but Europe and Ireland is quite a rich country and people have a lot of disposable income to spend on socialising and that's really why we're using so much of it and you can and in your book trace it back to the beginnings and the individuals or organisations or gangs that really were at the forefront and that's the one that sounds like a positive but I think you know what I'm saying at the forefront sort of realising the demand and of course it is probably quite complicated to bring it in and distribute it and have all those wheels and cults in place well it is and it isn't because sometimes if you draw a straight shipping line you know from the Caribbean coasts you basically pass Ireland and you'll hit Spain and they're the two places that you know you see up in Donegal recently there was bales of cocaine coming in obviously something went awry out at sea a lot of the times the big container ships are dropping loads with navigational tools on them and in waterproof containers and other vessels are going out to pick it up so the transport of it yes the transport of it is difficult the difficulty is landing it safely and once they land it or get it through the ports really it sort of breaks up at that point it's very difficult to make any difference with the seizures but I think what happened was you had the beginnings of it coming in you had Ireland because it's all it's quite a complex situation and it doesn't just it's not just that we enjoy taking it you had Ireland coming you know with the Celtic Tiger you had a lot of employment and you had pretty much full employment for a long time and I think we're we're back up to that situation now and you also had a guy called Christie Kinahan perfectly placed by the kind of late 1990s went very very ambitious and placed out in Europe along with others who kind of ran out of the country around the time the Criminal Assets Bureau set up and they were becoming big wholesalers and obviously then what happened with Kinahan was his sons and their cohorts came of age and they're very ambitious and he places them in Spain and the rest we all know they just kept growing and growing as an organisation and you know there's still there's still an international effort to dismantle that organisation now I mean we punch above our weight with you know our Kinahan's definitely they were the first really global trans-global trafficking organisation that has been produced from our tiny island Just briefly on that what is the situation as far as you're aware at this point Nicola in terms of getting them before Irish courts there was some word a few weeks ago of you know further meetings in terms of extradition or whatever it might be what is the situation there are they as far as we're aware still in the UAE or in Dubai Yes they're still there and they haven't left there there is that sort of political hand of friendship going out from the Guard of Commissioner and others to the UAE because in the background the fact of the matter is the DPP the Director of Public Prosecutions has files on Christy Kinahan Sr and his sons Daniel and Christopher Jr and they are recommending the Guardi have carried out this vast seven-year investigation and they have given all their their sort of their you know what they have discovered to the DPP they're looking for murdered charges directing of criminal organisation charges etc for them that decision is likely to be made in the new year and at that point we're going to the UAE with a totally different picture up to now you know people are calling for them to be brought back the fact of the matter is if they're brought back today they could walk free they could walk out of Dublin airport and be free because we don't have charges for them we do obviously have charges for one of their cohorts Sean McGovern who remains free in Dubai as well so I think coming into 2024 if we get back those directions and the DPP says yes I want them in the special criminal court then we're going out politically to say these are wanted for you know serious charge and Dubai has given back others you know they've given back a lot of the Dutch and the Italians and everything we've no extradition treaty because we don't really agree with their laws and we couldn't obviously send anyone back there for some of the things they'd put somebody on trial for but they have sort of a you know look they're sheltering a huge amount of organized criminals and there's an awful lot of money launcher going on there but they're trying to put on a face for the international community and look as if they're not doing that so I do believe they will hand them back and and we'll probably see them in court which would be another bloody 10 years of work on this story but anyway and now you have to do the podcast as well as everything else not it's just a fascinating story so someone who is a boxing fan I kind of looked at it as a different way because I could see their involvement and what they were doing and it was just it's just been a remarkable story to to watch unfold just just back to the book Nicola if you don't mind so you know we have the beginnings and where we have now and you've touched on some of the main players and all but how do you tell us the story in terms of you know the the spread of cocaine you know maybe some of the more famous people that that have succumbed to the drugs so talk us a little bit more about that that narrative throughout the book and how we get to current day so I've tried to sort of weave this narrative through through the book to show how basically this underworld that we talk about and the characters within that sort of collide nearly with high society because of cocaine and you have a huge amount of incidents over the years a lot of it centers around city west and the Mansfield properties and territories and of course and a criminal assets bureau case recently found that Daniel Kinahan and Thomas Bomber Cabin and another big cocaine lord currently jailed in the UK delivered 4.5 million in cash to the Mansfield home for it to be laundered through the property business I mean this is an extraordinary story in itself that the richest family in Ireland held it by the patriarch the late Jim Mansfield senior there was always rumors going round about them but nobody ever really could put their finger on it or whatever and of course the economic crash ended up causing them huge problems because they lost everything the receivers both the clean money investments and the dirty ones and you know in a way that's kind of nearly a book in itself but I have tried to sort of weave that and show the sort of the darkness of of the cocaine wars and that growing violence that I mean really in the last couple of years Drahada which is a large town but it could be any town it could be any town in Johnnie Goeller anywhere that that happened in that was a fight over turf and it was older drug lord sending out young groomed radicalized teenagers to fight their their corners in this tit for tat row which culminated in the murder and dismemberment of a 17 year old a horrendous story and you've all those kind of things going on while you have you know high society smiling for the cameras and uh you're mixing with these people that are selling the drugs it's it's quite interesting all of that and I suppose I've also tried to thread through it those warning signs about the demand those reports that were coming out that were pointing to the problems that Ireland in particular currently has I mean we're one of the biggest cocaine users in the on the globe ourselves Australia Spain and the Netherlands seemed to me to be just partying 24 seven with the stuff we're we're doing we're really sort of punching above our weight in all angles with this yeah okay it's going to be a fascinating read and I mean to some extent I think even in Donegal more interest now and you kind of get a background as to how millions of euro of drugs could wash up in a beach you know not specifically that case but how the country has come to the situation where that can happen and it is only the tip of the iceberg exactly and you know in particular counties like Donegal where the fishing industry and the maritime industry is so big and an employer etc like the problem is that because of cocaine corruption and you know threats have filtered into every part of society you have a big shipping giant like Merisk coming out recently saying we have a problem here we don't know how to protect our workers from this and the fishing industry is really at risk there's temptations there for people you know to earn money to do what they believe is okay a high risk job but hopefully they can land something in but there's also I get reports all the time I'm talking to colleagues of mine in Belgium in the Netherlands and other places with problems reports of people working in the fishing industry literally being shown pictures of their children yeah and being told you do this for us or else and what would you do in that and then internally people maybe based from in Donegal who work during the week and other counties as well working during the week in Dublin effectively transporting this stuff back home in inverted commas and it happens all the time we hear about it indeed one sniffer dog we got one sniffer dog last year it was a big news story up here Nicola you know you just when you talk about the fishing industry and what have you one sniffer but we couldn't actually find out if it's based in Donegal or if it's covering Sligo Leetrim and Donegal but anyway we'll get to the bottom of that eventually but that sometimes no but it's just how seriously are we taking it in 2023 do you know what I mean Nicola listen it's going to be a huge success for you I've no doubt whatsoever cocaine cowboys the deadly rise of Arlands drugs lords and it's available in all the usual places right now thanks so much for your time Nicola have a lovely day thank you very much bye bye take care of yourself oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's apps and texts to that number if you want to comment watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at HighlandRadio.com the 90 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 adult safeguarding day takes place this month safeguarding involves keeping ourselves free from harm and protecting our rights this includes all adults planning ahead to reduce the risk of adult abuse go to actions that we can all take to plan ahead are to make an enduring power of attorney designate a health representative and choose who can assist with decisions from safeguarding Ireland supported by the HSE get informed at 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happened to these faithful foot soldiers i don't know another thing annoys me it is complete not a lie is um easy peel bacon and ham it's not easy peel you pollute it you pollute it and i end up then having to hatch it with a knife also is it just me but you pull you open the ham and all the ham's upside down what's the story with that i have to open it turn the ham the right way up and then seal it again that is a random annoyance not a big deal but it annoys the living day another one this is just me now no texting now that people are texting in the little the things that you can microwave the thin plastic sheet on the top of them have you ever tried to get one of them off and you end up with the plastic still around it and you don't know if you can put it in the oven or the microwave whatever another annoyance for our listener toilet seats that don't stay up when you go into the toilet man here speaking obviously ha sit down treat yourself i don't think enough men treat themselves to a sit down one why do you have to stand there's nothing to stop you sit down chill out a bit take the weight off your feet breathe relax but yes i know exactly what you're talking about what annoys me is i can't see any milk table jugs to buy in stores anymore lots of mugs and cups of folks no table manners anymore using large milk containers on their tables oh well now when i'm making the tea i am there standing at the counter beside the kettle but i take your point i'm sure there's a shop out there sells um milk table jugs let us know we can perhaps put a business bit of business your way 08 6 60 25 000 i've got so many things that annoy me in a light-hearted way right now but keep them coming into us please keep your annoyances coming into us 08 6 60 25 000 what little thing do you come across during the day that is an annoyance okay we are joined on the program now by elizabeth barraza who is from Poland good morning elizabeth thank you so much for joining us good morning thank you thank you very much and in this place i will apologize for my english because it's so bad it's much better than my polish elizabeth so we will be okay now you tell me what situation you're facing with your children elizabeth i moved to to ilan two weeks ago and i decided to move here because i'm looking for a better place for my children and i moved to here also to work going up but the situation that i have at this moment is i cannot enroll my children at the school i have four children too small six and seven years old and i already filled out the form and i'm still waiting for the answer because they said me that will be the the school to need verify if they have a place for these small children and also the older children i'm looking for a co-educational school but here in letter county only have half two schools yeah one in one of them is the education in ios and lenguards this is no possibility for my children and the other one i just be there yesterday and same is the have not place for them now obviously with your children not at school and you don't have a car so you can't travel to another school but with your children not being able to get to school first one they lose a year of education but two presumably you can't work yeah but i didn't at the moment i stay with her in home with them because i can do it yeah i can leave my four children alone at home and this is a problem very big big problem to me because the situation is very stressful no because i don't know what else i can do where i can go and i don't know someone who can help me in the situation because i feel loose here in this moment understood your children aged 14 and 15 that would be secondary school and your youngest children aged seven and six no spaces for any of them have you contact with other members of the polish community here elizabeth that might have experience of this yeah we my husband and i just yesterday he was looking for and some information and facebook and i get someone i have already sent emails to the council department in donegal i also write to the citizens information requesting help but at the moment i don't have an answer can i ask the problem can i ask you said you moved to arland for a better life for your children is it better so far what did you leave in poland that makes arland better if i can ask i see i see that can you repeat please one more time yeah why did you leave poland and come to arland working every time yeah my financial indeed my situation financial situation was maybe okay but if i want to buy a house and i want get some more for my children i cannot yeah because we are big family yeah i can work every day every time every day 12 hours and i will may have the same payment i don't know if you understand me i do i do for that we for that reason i moved to ilian because i see the rights of people who are working here yeah okay now we shall elizabeth we shall ask our listeners if they can help if they have any advice about getting your children into school we have your contact details and if we get anything useful we will contact you and let you know okay thank you very much thank you best wishes to you and your family thank you elizabeth thank you take care of yourself okay any as i say any advice input there she's based in letter kenny they don't have a vehicle at this time 08 660 25000 but i don't want to sort of fleet from from something that's really quite serious for people to something that's somewhat light-hearted but i did mention ham being upside down and it's caused quite a bit of controversy a few people messaging in thinking i'm crazy dominic on facebook says how is the ham upside down in the pack well i'm going to make a video and post it on my social media when you open it the ham i get anyway maybe it's the ham i get slanted away from you so the top slices are at the back of the packet i don't want to rip it all open i just want to rip the front of it open and then just take a slice 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with the risk of hail and thunder a blustery day with maximum afternoon temperatures ranging 8 to 11 degrees and fresh to strong and gusty southwest winds okay Caller says hi Greg we've got four children the eldest didn't get a phone until they started second every school this will be the same for all of our children yeah indeed and that's you're right and how did it work for you by the way hi Greg big meeting today GPs and the south the management talking shop letting GPs let off steam a bit wait three months nothing will change well I would hold my fire on that one because the GPs are going in there full of knowledge and also full of determination to see results and the GPs that we're talking of and those that we've spoken to would not be brushed off too easy I take your point and I can understand why we can feel that cynicism but the GPs themselves will call it out I'm absolutely of no doubt about that they'll call it out if they believe that it was just a talking shop and nothing will change so bear with us listen to the show tomorrow morning we're going to have full coverage of that meeting we're going to be speaking to GP representatives maybe even cell to management might make themselves available but it's an issue that we see is incredibly significant and one that we're not going to be brushed off on anyway and I've no doubt the GPs involved because they feel so passionately about it won't be brushed off either or fobbed off you know what I mean but I also get where and I don't mean this in the nicest possible way where your cynicism might come from because so often we talk about stuff and it feels we talk about stuff and it feels like nothing is changing all right so I want to say good morning to John now John thanks for holding how are you keeping John? I'm grand of great good good to hear right now you say you're not far off receiving your pension but you've noticed an issue particularly in relation to the care of your teeth yeah two years ago I did pay for it to get looked on to my teeth which cost me a lot and maybe a hundred but I'm not on a position to pay that now anyways so I looked up and I have a medical medical care that tells you how you can get done and this and that but I'm in the Bonkran area not far out of Bonkran and I've tried I don't know from a vulcan Bonkran that I can't so I rang up nobody wants to see a medical care nobody will take it so I rang up the health and they gave me a number on Bonkran what you won't mention no names they said go to them and they'll do it no no good they won't do it so I got a number then for a a place in Latter-Kenneth what you won't mention names or get nobody on to bother no they said we don't do it and you won't get anybody in Latter-Kenneth to do it but our other branch on Donegal Town which is a blue puppy yep dental yep on Donegal Town so I rang them and they says after a bit of questioning they said don't do it but that's that's grand my policy is that's I would say good 60 to 70 kilometers you know it's a long run from Bonkran to Donegal Town no doubt about that and I'll have to get someday probably to take me up because if I get a teeth felt by no precision to dive home so I'll have to let Bonkran out at least seven o'clock and I was way glad to get it that's half eight tomorrow morning okay good sure I have this why does they put all the stuff on the medical card when nobody will use a medical card as if the dental surgeons bumping the prices up to get you the money out of your pocket or as the government not paying are not paying enough can I say John I think it might be and we'll we'll check with dentists because we've got good contacts to I think it might be down to capacity you know that they simply because even I recently went to the dentist and I did get a cancellation it was for routine stuff it was like the the appointment was four five six away and that was private four five six weeks away and that was private as I say thankfully I did get a cancellation so is it maybe it's not gouging John or about money maybe it's about capacity and they simply can't take on any more because maybe even someone who is paying privately might find it difficult to sign up with some of the dentists that you've contacted or did they say to you we can do you if you pay yeah there's one here I'm not going to say bonk on a break close to me I'm not going to say anywhere that they were giving me an appointment for tomorrow which would be in private I would have to pay right okay I get it they phoned me this morning phoned me this morning says they can take me today so then I says do you take medical care no no no we wouldn't take medical care so I says how much would this be this is well for the other set they're not going to say just this well first of all 45-year-old forte just and if they have to do x-rays you're probably chatting a hundred x-rays for an x-ray and probably go on after that whatever you need to get walked on to your teeth you can see how it's not racking up into hundreds there very quickly can't you okay but they could do it they could end up with tomorrow morning and then they wanted me to go today so so effectively John what we can we can group it all in here and say effectively you can't get your teeth looked at on your medical card north of the gap in your experience no no no I definitely can't right and you know what good as a medical card where that's on it when nobody wants to take the medical card nobody wants you in all right John we'll leave listen we're gonna take a bit deeper well we don't know a thing Greg yes okay go ahead one year on just one one different issue I have been talking with this for years now if I lived in Malham Head next if I was 11 in Malham Head or Horn Head or whatever it should be next year I'll be getting a free bus pass yes but what's good as a free bus pass is useless because the bus doesn't go anymore why do they not get asked you with something for pensioners and I don't mean to jump out of the country on a taxi but when you love so far out to get the taxi to the nearest town so it can get the bus if I lived in Malham Head and I wanted to go to probably be Canada or North Carolina I don't know to get a bus that's going to cost me 12 or 15 euros and when I would come back and get asked the bus it's going to cost me 12 or 15 euros to get back to Malham Head again yeah I get you so what what is this like it's useless so between the free bus pass the free dental care in inverted commas you've paid for it all your life John so it's not free it's just you know you've paid in towards this so the free bus pass is not much use to you and it's not free really if you have to book and ring up or go online and book a ticket because it costs you to do that and also in terms of the dental treatment you're having to spend quite a lot of money or inconvenience someone I'm sure they don't mind doing it for you John traveling all the way traveling all the way to Donegal Town and then back to Bonkraner right two good points John and two points that come up on the program now and again I want to get to the bottom of the medical card stuff and the dental treatment stuff so leave that with us and we'll do a bit of digging around and hopefully come up with some answers just glad for take care hopefully tomorrow morning goes all right for you take care all right they're a great crew down there in Donegal Town I can say that myself hi Greg I read that one hi Greg here the people on again about the traffic in letter Kenny complete disaster the amount of people that I'm chatting to and will not be going to letter Kenny shopping well I hope that's not the case because you know in a lot of the routes like if you're coming from if you're coming from Lifford-Balliverface and all are up the four lanes and into the town I don't think it's too bad I think there's a particular couple of issues that I really wouldn't discourage anyone from from going into letter Kenny to shop because those businesses are really important in terms of you know employment supporting local charities and all that type of stuff so hopefully it doesn't discourage a lot of people from shopping in letter Kenny but that being said I can understand the frustration the problem with the Polestar is the roundabout is too small the same lights set up on the roundabout at the full bridge but being bigger it works fine that was Kevin's point yesterday as well he believes it's too small for all the traffic lights that are on it there's traffic jams on the four lanes at peak times before the lights the only difference now is that they are much longer people blaming other people about roundabout usage is total nonsense have they not been close enough to see how these lights affect HGV movement on the roundabout the bloody things too small for so many lights until we get a new bridge if ever there'll be traffic chaos in letter Kenny I might dig out the reference to progress on that Bonagie link from last week because I need to listen back to it again so I can quote it going forward in terms of when it might be realised look it's I don't I mean until people get used to it there's going to be some driver influence in it but it's not going to cause it's not going to cause a situation where it takes someone an hour to get from arena seven to the bull star roundabout that's not drivers you know come on let's be let's be realistic about it did you ever look closely at the euro notes ask a lesson that asks a listener it doesn't say anything on them about legal tender as it does on other currency just a wee point all right thanks very much for that I get you right okay have to be really brief with this one Dr Caroline Robbins is a past president of the Irish Dental Association Caroline good morning to you thank you so much for your time no problem good morning to you can you give us an insight into our last caller situation doctor and thanks so much by the way for making yourself available at such short notice anything to get her out of the hoovering I hear you day off the house needs to be attacked yes um okay so look I mean obviously it is a countrywide issue we know that and I don't think unfortunately your call is predicament is you know it's it's one facing a lot of patients your researcher just asked me to explain why you know some dentists don't accept medical card so dentists are contracted to you know it's an individual choice to have a contract with a medical card so not all dentists are so if you don't hold a contract with the hsc to provide medical card treatment if a patient is looking to have that treatment done the dentist can't provide it does that make sense because they're not contracted to provide that kind of treatment there's no there's no system for them to get paid for it because they're not signed up to the system no they're not they're not signed up to it and then if their dentist maybe in the past had been providing medical card treatment and has result then unfortunately they're no longer in a position they can still look after them but unfortunately they don't have the facility to offer it under the medical card system either and then obviously patients are finding it difficult to find a dentist who is still currently accepting medical card patients because those that probably are still are absolutely swamped and really don't have the facility to take on on more because the system is broken it's you know we're talking about a 1994 contract we're in 2023 mm-hmm and the the government will come on and wax lyrical about oh we're up seas and we've done this and the other thing but it doesn't address that we physically don't have enough hands to provide the treatment and it's possibly Caroline and if I'm reading you correctly that some dentists will make a commercial decision and say that if we do medical card work that will displace private work and we might be less profitable or it might lower our income is that a reality of why they might make a decision not to sign up to the scheme in part I mean it is we run a business I own a practice I run a business I know that if I was facing into and I mean I still I do still see medical card I've seen my existing patients but I know that if I was facing into a day of purely medical card I would be worried about the fact that I would not be covering my overheads for the day okay so there is a business aspect to it it's not a nice side it's a side of dentistry I hate because I really want to be looking after my patient regardless of whether they're medical card pairs I are private they're still my patients and they all deserve to come through my door and be offered the same level of service the medical card takes that away thank you so much and we've talked about this in the past and the system is almost designed it seems to extract rather than repair or care and we've had that whole not from the dentist perspective but the way the system is set up so listen Caroline thank you so much for reminding us of the situation and I wish I had a little bit more time but for now I'll let you back to your vacuum cleaning it has to be done too okay Dr Caroline Robbins past president of the Irish Shed Dental Association thank you so much for your time today with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's Greg Hughes on the 9 to noon show on Highland radio okie doke it's 11 o'clock let's get a news update and it's good morning once again to Donna Marie Doherty thanks Greg good morning a Donnie Goldeapity says it's important to understand the process required to see works in the A5 come into fruition Deputy Joe McHugh says the publication of a report from the Planning Appeals Commission is of utmost importance West Terrone MP Orla Begley previously said the project could start within a matter of months provided the Irish Government now follows through on funding commitments Deputy McHugh responded saying it's his understanding that this is the case there were 9,030 people on the live register in Donnie Gall at the end of last month down 4% on the figure for October 2022 the numbers rose in three of the county's social welfare offices and fell in the other six a Castle Finn councillor has condemned the theft of a memorial stone off duty or you see officers grave the stone was unveiled last week to mark the 50th anniversary of Detective Constable John Doherty councillor Gary Doherty says these actions do not represent the community or the village a bill which would span the selling of vaping products to children is to go before the doll this evening experts have warned of the urgent need for legislation around vapes setting long-term health risks particularly on those under the age of 18 the agriculture minister says he's liaising with Chinese authorities to ensure our beef exports restart as soon as possible shipments were suspended yesterday after a case of atypical BSE which occurs sporadically was discovered in a cow it doesn't relate to feed contamination which was the cause of a major mad cow disease outbreak in the late 90s minister charlie mcconnellog says the suspension is a result of strict Chinese protocol and doesn't affect exports to any other countries and finally there are calls for consent classes to be expanded into secondary schools the topic was raised at an aractus committee meeting yesterday with representatives from the act of kizem program and the UCC bystander intervention program presenting their findings they argue that online misinformation is causing young people to develop unhealthy ideas around sex and relationships those are the latest headlines we back again with the next news update at 12 o'clock until then good afternoon well that went well didn't it it did i thought it was very well it is 11 o'clock it is 11 o'clock upside down hams causing a bit of a controversy here are you familiar with the issue no i know you weren't listening obviously because you're flat out in the newsroom what were you saying there upside down ham do you know when you peel it back and the top slice of ham it's sort of they're stacked sort of falling backwards and the top slices at the back no you're not familiar with that no right neither there's a lot of people but apparently a listener is they say a hundred percent the ham I buy in Aldi's upside down it is a thing I guess if if it's you're like why is a package this way what's what's called it very much done on them I don't feel I've got your support there but I do appreciate you listening to me take care of yourself all right we'll be back with much more including more of your simple annoyances in life after we take a break stay right where you are the 9 till noon show with 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compromises imagine broadband is connecting homes and businesses in your community right now for better service and faster broadband faster switch to imagine.ie imagine faster broadband faster subject to location and availability now we were speaking earlier to a Polish lady she's moved here with her husband and four children for a better life they're currently based in letterkenny but there's no spaces for their children they've got two children at national school age two at secondary school age no means of transport at the moment and a little bit desperate because they can't work because they have to care for the children or the mother can't work because she has to care for the children obviously homeschooling is not an option because she's working on her own English and the concern is that the children might lose out on a year's education but the great thing about this show is that we often get instant replies or help or knowledge on this issue Sarah Martin is principal of Brown Now National School in Remelton good morning to you Sarah thank you so much for your time today good morning Greg how are you I am doing good Sarah so what is the situation in terms of potential capacity at your school capacity in our school is 51 and we would with three class teachers and we have a SEND teacher part-time and an EAL teacher for English students part-time so we had Ukrainians last year and we still have only one this year because some of them have returned home so we would have capacity and facilities to take in new children if we could help out okay and how many Ukrainian children had at home out of interest we have only one no we had five I have five okay so and in terms of connectivity between Lettrakenni and Remelton it's not very far away are the buses Sarah or is there anything could be worked on in that regard do you think no there's secondary school buses that come from Lettrakenni through Remelton to Mulford for the secondary school and then we have our own bus for the Ukrainian children that goes through Remelton so if they could get to Remelton there'd be a bus there my only query is can primary school children could they go on with their siblings on the secondary school bus and if that could work for them if we could help them out we'd love to have them yeah so theoretically then could work with the secondary school the re-buses and connections then what about the older children obviously Brian now is a lovely national school Sarah yeah do you have any insight into what might happen with the older children or what could be done in that situation and my experience people who've moved in the two feeder schools I think the lady wants to mix secondary school I think Loretto's numbers are full but I think if she wants to mix secondary school she would have two options she would have Mulroy in Mulford and there's a bus that goes from Remelton as well or from Lettrakenni or the second option would be the Royal Empire in Riffle and a bus also goes from Remelton and feeds through for Lettrakenni would be going past Lytland there so there'd be two options and my hope would be that all four children if it's possible with bus there and that they could all go in the one bus and then you know obviously when coming through Remelton they would swap and come out to us or I'll go on to secondary school or vice versa brilliant Sarah listen thank you very much that's information we can work with thank you so much by the way how's everyone at Brown now we're all good we're all good settled back you know what we have a lovely bunch we're very lucky yeah yeah we have the longest term under under your belt now I think it's just a wee short run to Christmas now that is seven weeks and you know what we're already feeling the balls and excitement I'm afraid to mention it on the radio but I am you see I'm feeling really Christmassy this year because this is a better year than last year because other things were coming on I think we're coming out of Covid and the school plays and the concerts are back there's definitely a buzz in the air again oh Sarah keeps updated with any excitement at Brown now God bless you thank you so much no problem at all thank you right Sarah Martin there who has capacity and believes there is a way of working it thank you so much Sarah and a big hello to all the students at Brown now back to some of your annoyances um I'm not going to mention the ham again actually someone says no uh what did they say um hi yeah uh first air fryers now upside down ham greg needs a holiday I'm starting to feel like I need more than a holiday but okay listen thanks for that noise eaters at the dinner table gets to me yeah I get where you're coming from poor quality tin milk jugs in caps that spill more than they pour drivers that are slow yet speed up when there's nothing coming on a straight hindering your passing ability yes I know that one towny drivers on country roads that don't know the width of their car and sit there with an attitude drivers that don't notice lights flashing at them to let them across the road I could go on forever doc thanks very much for that doc how the hell do you know when ham is upside down and surely both sides at the same I'm going to explain that with pictures and imagery and power points and what have you in the not too distant future keep your random annoyances coming into us we have in studio with us now Chloe McGee who's been appointed as badminton Ireland's first woman in sport national development manager congratulations to you Chloe thank you you can have to move forward a little bit for me if that's okay I mean you're the perfect fit for this job what does it entail what's involved well I've been working actually for the last two years in development with Bambton Ireland so this job is just a follow on from that but it's bringing more women in sport into it so where I was doing development in Ulster I'm now kind of doing development all around nationally and then it's just continued on the good work we're already doing and making more opportunities for the women in our game more men play badminton than then women do they I mean is the amount of women playing badminton pretty small in this country it's not small it's actually getting better and Bambton is one of the sports that does it very very well we do a lot we're quite equal when it comes to women and men but yeah there is definitely more men playing badminton than women and there's certain parts of the sport that we could do better for women for example high performance coaching so small things like that that we want to try and get more women into the game and try and give them as many opportunities to do it as possible I've always saw you Chloe's kind of the Katie Taylor of badminton if you don't I mean blazing your trail for a long time now how long of a career I played full-time for almost 15 years it's remarkable isn't it because your name was always on the sports view and other members of your family achieving achieving great things so where would you be be based for this new job and what do you see sort of with a new job and a new role I suppose there's a bedding in time because it hasn't really been done before though you bring a wealth of experience so where would you be based and what do you hope to achieve early on well I'm going to be based in Donegal so I have to be in Dublin once a week but I will be based here and I think for me home has always been Donegal but yeah for like I just want to make an impact and try and show that there is loads of opportunities out there for women in sport and it could be not just playing you know there's officiating there's coaching there's even volunteering in your club and those things are all very important roles but it's just showing people that there is opportunities no matter where you come from whether it's Donegal whether it's Dublin that we can get you into badminton in terms of sport like badminton for an example and it's probably the same with many other sports how much of it is down to sort of an inherent born skill and then how much of it is down to graft and practice and the right level of training and the right level of fitness is it easy to break that down Chloe I think it's the same with any sport you'll always have kids that are extremely talented and they come through but it's the hard work they do the distance to the levels that they get to but every sport can be played and enjoyed and I think badminton is a sport for everyone no matter what age you are where you are in life it's a sport that can bring a lot of you know opportunities and it's an indoor sport so in Ireland of course we have terrible weather all the time so it's you can play can be played all year round and I think that's the beauty of the sport that no matter who you are what you are what age you are you can play badminton yeah for sure and I think athletics has done it really well although always trying to improve the talent is there the natural talent that I talked of it's such as identifying it whilst everybody gets to play their part and enjoy at whatever level they're able to meet but you know between the more people you get in through the doors and get to see in action the better we have of finding the future McGee's you know to blaze a trail in badminton yeah definitely that's why clubs are so important you know I've only realized since I retired from badminton how important it is sports clubs for people to go and attend to be a part of and like for example this year we have Olympic year and the small sports like badminton Olympic year is huge and we have Rachel Dara from Ruffo and Josh is also trying to get there for Paris 2024 so these are the small talents that come through small clubs and are now on the the world stage do you still play badminton for fun I do I play in my local club and for badminton club so some of the young ones are getting very close to me now and it's a scary feeling you could come out of retirement it's such a different feeling to play for fun and enjoyment and obviously just to keep myself fit but I love it and I think I now love the sport more than when I actually played full-time and you talk about opportunities and and you know and all of this is not just talking about the elite at any sport it's about participation and involvement not just even playing but reffing or whatever it might be as you say but I mean it's amazing the the life that badminton gave you the experiences it's gave you I mean it's it's remarkable do you have to pinch yourself looking back on some of those experiences sometimes yeah definitely I mean if I would have thought that my whole career was going to be playing badminton and then to be able to work in a sport that I love I don't think I ever would have imagined that happening and even to leave at 17 to go and play full-time badminton I never thought that that was what my life was going to be so to be here now all these years later and see what badminton has given to me is it is incredible yeah and you love it so much you want other people to play the sport and to see how inclusive it is and how it's open to people of all different abilities yeah and like that's the difference between I've come from obviously high performance and competing on the world stage to now be in development where it is about getting people playing sport participation seeing people enjoy the sport and it's actually really refreshing and really nice to see this other side that sport can give people so so much especially at a young age and it's important that we do try to give everybody and this is also off the back of your role as Ulster activation officer well what is the what was that role and what is that role so that was like developing clubs getting badminton into schools trying to get more volunteers into the sport it's just developing a badminton from a grassroots level and trying to boost people in clubs and just to get things working a bit better within the Ulster region and now the job is just the whole it's a national job so what do we need to be doing better I know we've kind of touched on that a little bit in different ways through this conversation but is it establishing more clubs or are there enough clubs is it sort of getting to younger people particularly I suppose and selling to them as an option where do we need to be going do you think well I think badminton actually it's a sport that's growing and growing so much you know it's developing over the years it's come a long way since when I started playing badminton over 15 years ago it has developed so so much and we're doing really really good things I think it's all the things that other sports have problems with it's like keeping teenagers in the game getting more people to help in their clubs it's all this grassroots level and clubs are so important to the development of the sport if we don't have it here then we won't get as you said the talent in the future to get to even the high performance if that's what you're looking at yeah that's for sure because it's it's tough there's an awful lot of for sporty people but this is a different type of sport as well so maybe you know football, G.E.A, rugby it's not a fit for them try this too because it is all too competitive and is it it doesn't seem of it obviously I presume you can spend a fortune on on a racket if you wish to right but it in terms of you know sports that are it's not that expensive to be involved in is it you know obviously you have to have your local club hopefully with the with the the facilities and all that but in terms of participation it's not the most expensive no it's definitely not and all clubs no matter where they are will be able to give you a racket if you want to come and try the sports not like you have to go and buy all these things first to try it so all clubs welcome new members and they have the equipment there and it is it's something you can play socially as well which is you know go down rent a court and they are a leisure tent or wherever it may be and you can play for fun yeah indeed well listen we wish you all the success going forward there's a lot there is it does it seem overwhelming or do you do you see the path because of your I'm just I think I'm very passionate about badminton so it's easy it comes easy isn't it yeah and the role I think is a really exciting role it gives me the opportunity to do what I want and to develop badminton and you know try to get into that real development part of it so I'm really looking forward to the challenge and I hope in 12 months I can leave a difference in the sport and this is a huge this is the next stage in your life of course having retired from competitive badminton this is actually really quite good for you I'd imagine because you know you've put an awful lot in for much of your life into a sport that you certainly could never walk walk away from so it must be lovely to retain an important role within it and then maybe bring through the future stars yeah definitely and I think I've got so much experience in the sport it's nice to be able to give it back to badminton Ireland and then I'm giving it back to the guys that give me so many opportunities so I like to be able to even come back to a foe it's been really hard warming for me to be able to walk into my local club for the last two years and try to develop that as well and that's the that's where we have to remember where you came from as well brilliant of course exactly exactly anything you want to add Chloe or is there any information that people can go to look at if they're interested and get involved in a local club or anything like that yeah exactly I think like badmintonarland.com there's our website's fantastic they have all the information there and of course if anybody is looking to play badminton or any clubs or any women's sport initiatives you know feel free to contact me at Chloe McGee badmintonarland.com and we want to help people and especially in North West we want to give badminton as going as well as possible yeah indeed and of course you use us as well Chloe if there's anything coming up in the future you know Caroline and my contact details get in touch with us and anything we can do to support you in your work locally we're more than happy to do so but again listen congratulations badmintonarland's first women in sport and national development manager it's a fantastic position and honor Chloe and we're very proud of you as well thank you so much for joining us thank you the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on highland radio the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account do you need a uk address save hundreds of euros on custom charges shopping online with space hub 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achieved yes of course an Olympian and has done so much for the sport already and it's a great appointment and who better than Chloe to bring maybe the sport to new heights and get more people involved and I don't think we lack indoor halls around the country there's plenty of places that can be used for badminton and as she mentioned you know given the climate it's an all year round sport and you just need two people and away you go happy days indeed right let's get on to business news before we get on to the podcast itself and we'll start with a bit of good news yes indeed the consultants appointed by the regeneration unit of Donegal County Council for the letter Kenny 2040 plan well they've won a major award in London the Paul Hogarth company were presented with the prestigious landscape Institute Award at a ceremony in London on Friday and along with representatives of the company and members of the council and Councillor Kevin Bradley Mayor of letter Kenny and Milford Municipal District were present to collect the award which recognized the value of taking what they're calling a plan led approach to the future of letter Kenny so what is letter Kenny 2040 well essentially it's a blueprint or a plan to imagine future possibilities for the town centre to make it more attractive a more vibrant place for people to live work invest and visit and there's actually a very good website letter Kenny 2040.ie and they've done a great video on that as well and before you ask Greg traffic is certainly mentioned in the 2040 plan but it's all about it's mentioned an awful lot on this program but it's not fixing it I love plans but I'll let you see plans in action especially plans that might even begin whilst I'm alive still Chris but hopefully letter Kenny 2040 is one that we will see progress so okay letter Kenny Chamber Business Awards that's this Friday isn't it Greg? Yes a big event in the Clenery Hotel from seven o'clock always great enthusiasm for the awards and it's you know it's one of the biggest business events in the Northwest many different categories businesses of all sizes being represented from the the sole traders to the multinationals and knew this year as the work place of the year award in recognition of the work going on in companies to reward and retain staff and the young business person of the year award to acknowledge the many young people who have set up businesses and who are in business in the county looking forward to it are you in attendance Chris? I have a prior commitment okay unfortunately not this year I shall be there suited and booted yeah indeed right okay there's a big event energy event coming up here in the region isn't there that's right the now they're saying it's it's the biggest energy event of its kind in the region it's been jointly hosted by letter Kenny Chamber and London Dairy Chamber of Commerce taking place on Thursday November the 16th at the Everglades Hotel in Derry and this event will address the challenges that businesses face in terms of rising energy costs and then opportunities for investment growth innovation job creation all sorts of things within the framework of a sustainable energy sector and the keynote address will be by Claire Neenan the managing director of SSE Aertricity and there'll be short talks and panel discussions so if that's an area area you're interested in November the 17th at the Everglades Hotel in Derry consider your card marked separately to that though I note that oil prices are at a three month low now because of a less global demand for oil so we can all look forward to our petrol diesel and home heating oil not changing in price at all and the company's experiencing more profits all right on to Killy Bags it's hosting a big event yeah big week for Killy Bags it's hosting the Laurentiq Forum at the ATU campus in Killy Bags it started yesterday on today and tomorrow people from Canada France the United States and Norway it's in its 15th year and essentially what it is it's looking at how to nurture and develop sustainable coastal communities in Ireland Canada Iceland and Norway so you have policymakers communities businesses all sharing their experiences coastal communities and this forum was first established as a way to mark the sinking of the famous transatlantic ocean liner the Laurentiq which went down off the northwest coast of Ireland in Loxwilly back in 2017 and over 350 perished that day and 121 survives it's a big conference and as I say it's in its 15th year and great for Killy Bags to be hosting it the Canon from the Laurentiq it is the Laurentiq because I mentioned this before and then I went and checked and now I'm done myself the Canon from the Laurentiq is on the Peer and Downing I believe it is that is the Canon from the Laurentiq okay great stuff right okay early doors on a application for housing in the Glentis area yeah it's good to see that there's been quite a few planning applications of late for housing developments we all know that there's a need for new houses in the county and there's a pre-validation planning application essentially it's the first step in the planning process well it's been large with Donegal County Council in relation to proposals to build 22 houses at Gorton and Mocla in Glentis and the applicant is TOPM Developments Limited so it'll take a little bit of time with the planning process but there well there could be some new houses on the way down in Glentis righty oh okay let's talk about this week's podcast which is available for you to listen to or download on our website HighlandRadio.com who's your guest this week Chris? Yes my guest this week is Karen Murphy of Karen Murphy Speech, Drama and Communications in Letter Kenny and she's been telling me about her career her light bulb moment for going out on her own and how she now has a business that she loves and is a very happy with and as you know Greg Speech, Drama and Communication Skills be it for a child or an adult well it can really give you a lot of confidence and be a major asset in your personal development and indeed your career path and Karen has been speaking to me about her audience In terms of who the audience is I'll give you a snapshot so I work with Montessori or preschool the ECC program so I work with three crashes once a week every week for 30 weeks of the year that in itself is huge business you know and then I'll move on then into primary schools so I'll go out to primary schools and deliver programs maybe a six week program to an entire primary school and then I go to secondary schools now the secondary schools tend to be more in and a day and out in a day that type of thing I don't you know sometimes I've worked with TY students and I've worked with them say over a six week period but I just found that a short snappy was better with them maybe in two mornings in an a Tuesday morning present in and a following Tuesday morning a follow-up and that's usually enough for the TY's because they're so busy anyway with all that they're doing and then there's adults as well and that was I mean that hugely came to the forefront during COVID I put an advert out there to work with because I realised that the amount of people hated speaking to camera Chris is huge and so I put together a program and I was in and dated in on dated with just I couldn't handle the amount of business that was coming in during that time good stuff and you can get the enthusiasm in Karen's voice Chris which of course is very useful for her line of work absolutely Greg communications look if you're if you're a good communicator or what an advantage that is yeah the full interview with Karen Murphy is available now to download on HighlandRadio.com or wherever you get your podcast of providing its Spotify or iTunes and it's broadcast too on Sunday Chris yes on Sunday after the six o'clock news and if you'd like to get in touch with the program you can drop me an email at businessmattersathighlandradio.com Chris Ashmore thank you very much indeed I look forward already to chatting to you on the program next Wednesday have a great day thank you Greg back with more after these in financial services starting in January contact the exec ed coordinator on nine one eight six two oh six or email donaldorhaniganatiu.ie to watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com the nine till 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 Mary here from the cosmetic department 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smart brought to you by Media Literacy Ireland supported by your local radio station okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show we've been talking a little bit too just for a little bit of light and shade about your annoyances actually before we get to it you can buy milk jugs I'm told in McElhenney's in Ballet Buffet for that listener who couldn't find a decent milk jug plasters this is other people's minor annoyances plasters that don't stick stay on I've tried so many but they are all the same I cut my finger last week put a plaster on and it was one of the paper cuts you know how sore they are nothing worse than a paper cut um I ended up having to just take it off and and deal with it to be honest with you Hi Greg yes ham is upside down 99% of the time so annoying another maybe this ham was for Australia perhaps another bug bear of mine is those bottles of hands washed with a pump dispensed so trying to get the pump to work for the first time is an absolute nightmare for me is there a secret method to getting that pump to work it rotates freely in every direction but refuses to depress then eventually for no apparent reason it works why is this I feel like you're speaking on my behalf no way does Greg need a holiday he's just back from a week off you need to chill out Greg if it's only upside down ham you have to worry about well god love the rest of us and it was said right at the very beginning that yes there's an awful lot of more important things but sometimes it's these little annoyances that are a bit of fun to talk about it's not the ham that's upside down the opening tab is on the wrong side that's it exactly yep that would fix the problem as well but the easiest way for me is to rotate it okay anyway right on to much more serious matters now we're joined on the program by Mary good morning Mary thanks for joining us good morning Greg how are you keeping Mary are you okay I am annoyed at the way my situation has turned out I came on to an ocean home about four weeks ago and I came on an emergency you know I am on the wheelchair and I have to be fully hoisted I love with my daughter who works full-time I had two carriers three times per day now my care plan my care package was unfairly cooked my daughter my daughter works full-time so you had a care you had a care plan are initially in place with the Irish wheelchair association the HSC has taken it over and you're saying there's no care plan for you in the north of the county yeah I was told that there was a shortage of carriers and the only shown area none on one camera now you are only 65 you do require additional care but you are in a nursing home and you want to be at home I want to be at home with my family and that's where I want to be I appreciate the nursing home and question very much for taking them they're very very kind to me and I would like to thank them very much yeah and unfortunately you do suffer from rheumatoid arthritis which is the reason why you need the assistance that's right Greg yeah I don't want to be look for any personal information Mary but are you close enough to home that at least until such time as you can get home that people can visit you well I'm actually you know about I'm letter Kenny at the moment oh so you're quite some distance away I'm quite some distance away yeah okay and you're kind of desperate I don't think that's the wrong word is it Mary you're desperate to get home I would really want to be home but I would also need the I would also want this full support of my carers my care packages and just to be clear did you have that before Mary and now you've lost it I had that before I had it for about two years okay and now I've lost it and you're in a nursing home that you don't really feel you need to be in as you say fair play to them and the care that you're receiving but you're a young 65 you've another 30 odd years in you I think you said in your notes to Caroline you want to be at home now and with your family as well and in the comfort of your own strandings that's what I that's where I want to be okay have you had any information from the HSC as to when you might get a care plan so that you can move home or you're being told that I mean I presume you know Christmases around the corner for an example yeah no I've had no information you know I will be from the from the HSC I've had no information as to when I will get home you know I'm as far as I can say that I will be here for the meantime but I have no no idea when I will get home and I presume it's upsetting for you as well others yes others yeah okay we got on to the HSC and it says it can't comment on individual cases but often not often but we hope in this this is one of the cases that now that we've flagged your experience Marion now that they know that we're speaking to you hopefully there'll be some work in the background to try and help the situation it can often be the case and we hope that it is the case this time Marion that you can get home to your family yeah I would love to get home to my family yeah because that's where you know I just want to be and you'll come on better as well you know in terms of how you feel about yourself and all Marion too you know I mean if you're in your own environment you'll feel better maybe not physically but certainly emotionally and mentally Mary I think it'll be good for you to get back to your the loving arms of your family your daughter yes yes because they you know they they all want me home you know my son and my daughter you know oh my god my son doesn't know what's me but like you know they that's where they want me to be like yeah it's difficult on them too isn't it yeah okay well you've been four weeks there now as you say you're not complaining about the care but you need a care plan so you can get back to your own home you had one before the IWA seemed to to have that in place the HSC has taken over and now they're simply saying we've got no care plan for the part of the county that you live in and Mary we've made our inquiries we will chase them upon it okay and we hope that maybe it is lights a fire under someone and they can get this sorted for you I'll call okay Mary I'll call we'll stay in touch with you all right in case we hear of anything further okay thanks very much best wishes Mary it's no no it's been lovely speaking to you and I hope your situation gets sorted soon thank you very much indeed that is Mary there hi Greg in relation to the news bulletin on children vaping my child who's 10 came home from school this week on the school bus to tell me two children a 10 year old and a 12 year old had a vape and we're using it on the bus the bus company dealt with it at the time but it shouldn't be up to them in my opinion an absolute disgrace the damage this is doing to their lungs where does the child this age get access to these maybe they were lying around the house I hope there's no shop would sell them to a 10 or 12 year old but it's not illegal to do so maybe an older child we need to do everything we can to keep these products out of children's that age is hands and fair play by the way for the for the relationship with your child that they were able to come home and and tell you that morning Greg dentists are like doctors now if you have money you get an appointment if not they want they don't want to know thank you well we heard from a dentist there the if they were to have a day of dental work medical card dental work they would be concerned that they couldn't cover their overhead so some make a commercial decision not to accept such patients hi Greg do any of your listeners know if there is a vet in our draw I was told there is but cannot seem to find them online and can't get a number for them appreciate any help thank you Anna Anna I presume this is for a domestic animal isn't it domesticated animal any vets in the our draw area let us know we can pass that information on to Anna right okay more of your annoyances all right okay we'll go to our next guest now though Brendan Golden who is the chair of the Irish Pharmacy Association livestock committee hi Brendan good morning to you how are you good morning to your listeners I'm doing good it's very frustrating isn't it after working so hard to establish trade with China and then the case I think it was in 2019 of this a typical BSE things starting to move again and lo and behold it seems like once every three years we get another case and we have this unique relationship with China that instantly stems the flow of beef from Ireland to China it is frustrating it is this was really disappointing when the news broke yesterday and I just hope that the situation can be resolved quickly and that we don't have to wait for nearly three years again to get back in there and yes there was a market that had huge potential for us back in 2019 I think we we would have put in around 40 million worth of beef into China and in 2020 when when the actual case was reported and we got locked out of there in 2020 we would have predicted that it could have grown to maybe 60 million so we we had to wait then until January this year and I know a lot of work and effort went in by by government and departments and even the Taoiseach but have spoken to the Chinese authorities to get us back in there or be a work putting in a big effort over the last the last number of months as well seems as we were back in there and it was potentially looking good so it's a huge disappointment and it is kind of the problem is how good our testing is isn't it in that this was I think it was a 10 year old animal a fallen animal it wasn't destined for the Chinese market but it still was picked up and and and now now farming families are going to take take the hit on it so you know what I mean we're kind of almost being punished for the robustness of our testing system well yes indeed and I suppose the the health certificate that we have with China is very very strict and that's the good thing that it doesn't affect any of our other markets but this one we have with China demands that any any detail that's relevant to them that's reported and then the department is obliged to report something like this to them and they have they have done that but our our systematic surveillance systems are very very good and any all fallen animals that go into NACRIs are tested and monitored as to reason and to protect to protect the food chain and everything those you know our our systems are very very good and there's absolutely zero risk and that that's something I think we should be very very proud of and it is it is it's hard people have said to me sure why would you need to say anything about this but that's the that's the agreement we have and that's the that's what our origin green and label is built on our traceability and our systems and we have to protect that and we're always hugely conscious of this but it and it's it's usually disappointing but I think it could happen at a lot a lot worse times and because of the the higher costs of living and that that we're all dealing with at the moment and we've been hearing about the higher costs of living in China as well it was probably holding us back a little bit this year but because we weren't putting in the huge big volumes this year it's actually having we'll have less of a negative impact on a start term and the key thing at the moment is that you know for for beef farmers here in Ireland that the the industry and the factories return a higher margin to us because there's been there over the the last number of months that we've been trailing the prime export benchmark price by over 30 cents a kilo and like that's that's unacceptable to us and with the cost we're incurring at the moment we need the market to drive on the numbers in our key markets are tightening and expected to tighten and we're hoping with the Christmas trade and there at the moment that it will it will help us and and the the returns we get back and move on because we need them to Brendan finally the the t-shock talking about to me or Martin talking about sorry you know a number of months hopefully before trade can resume Minister Charlie McConnelogue unable to say whether it'll be you know the first quarter of next year or when it might be is a little bit frustrating that we don't have a bit of a firmer timeline as to when exports can resume to China it is it is but to be fair to the t-shock and to be to be fair to Minister McConnelogue and indeed Minister Hayden and I'm sure they will they will make the case and they will highlight the fact that the Chinese have experience of this before and it shouldn't take them as long to deal with it this time but at the same time it is down to the Chinese authorities and the Chinese government and there's only so much influence we can we can bring to bear there but we certainly hope that that it's resolved quickly and that we are back in the matter of months because really no if it's three years again it's it's not it's it's a sort of a last call or of course we still have 69 69 markets unaffected and hopefully any deal done with South Korea we can avoid this type of a measure within an agreement yes and that is what that was a bit of good news this week and it was disappointing then to get the bad news coming on the back of that all right listen Brendan thanks for your time I know you're a busy man this morning so we appreciate it Brendan Golden the chair of the Irish Farmers Association Livestock Committee back with the weather your loan transferred directly to your current account yeah yeah i'll be up to bed in a bit just one more level two more left what's the harm weight gain happens for many reasons in your 20s but a good night's sleep is one of the four habits that can help learn more at gov.ie forward slash healthy weight and initiative of the government of Ireland hi Tommy Bow here get in store 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Hi Greg very annoying when people insist on driving out in front of me and then continue to go at 10 miles per hour I also hate receiving cards after the occasion like birthdays etc keep up the good work I understand about the ham too okay thank you do you know what it's not an annoyance but do you ever have someone who's really kind enough to let you cross the road or to let you out of the vehicle but they wave you on with a stern face and sort of like an aggressive arrow with their finger I think it's such a nice thing to do just a little wave and a smile would continue the good will. Hi Greg what annoys me big time is a person with a beautiful smile white teeth all dog all doll dope etc and then swear words come out of their mouth sorry to say it's more annoying when it's a female for some reason so what annoys them is people swearing I'm not sure it's connected to how you look but yes if that's what annoys you that's what annoys you Greg I wasn't going to bother texting in but I feel you need validation yes the hammer I buy is always upside down in the packet I used to think I was nuts and tried opening the other end that didn't have the opening pull part but no still upside down and also peeling reseal does not peel and it does not reseal no the amount of times I reach in for a a wrap and it's like a frisbee anyone having problems with milk bottle rings easy solution get a cat they won't stop nacking you until you throw it to the mind prefer them to a myriad of expensive toys interesting okay that's good I'm not sure I'm going to get a cat I find the relationships with cats can be a bit transactional you know they treat you nice if you pet them and feed them but anyway the ham is upside down when you open it you just put a knife under the ham and turn it around simple I bog my hand in and rotate it but you're very clean that you're doing it with a knife okay very good no I don't actually be careful a little annoyance the amount of Christmas decorations up on the 1st of November these people are ruining Christmas in my opinion by the time Christmas comes around I'm glad it's over it's a shame and I think because I'm getting older I'm chilling out a little bit in that regard and now at this point without everything that's going on I just want people to be happy and if it's putting up a Christmas tree or some lights or whatever and it makes them happy that's great there's so much going on it doesn't matter and in a conversation with Lee to last year was it around about how the Halloween or Christmas he was talking about they put up the I think it was the Halloween decorations really early because it made the people in the house happy and you know what who would I be to say you shouldn't do that if it makes people happy right okay in regard to the scam story the exact same thing happened to me 1400 euro was taken from my account two months ago they had all my details like the caller I got refunded I don't know who or what was hacked but they somehow had all my details the bank did refund me so a number of listeners have been in touch in regards to similar stories of being scammed out of money due to fraudulent links as I mentioned one listener lost 1400 unfortunately was able to get the money back have you had similar experiences did you get your money back give us a call and 07491 25 000 I had a random I would check my bank I had a random purchase and someone in Singapore bought something off well what's the website that you buy the dresses and stuff sheen sheen yeah it was 94 euro random and I got it refunded too but I had to cancel the card and everything which is an absolute pain because then my broadband payment was bounced because I forgot to change the card anyway these are minor problems 08 660 25 000 if you're listening to the podcast of the overnight you can get involved in the conversation we're back with you live tomorrow morning from 9 a.m but for me Greg Hughes and Caroline Orr who researched and produced and uh Shannon working on the show with us as well have a wonderful wednesday and stay tuned for John Bresson he's coming up around the northwest after 12