 The microphones are broke? No, it's not. Well, I told you just use the other one. The headphones aren't working right. Oh, you're in the morning, growing and complaining to me today. It feels like it's going to be one of those days. I was all happy to see you came in. At least I'm going now. Come here, I'll tell you, in all fairness, you're working now. Do you want these or the headphones? Well, did you switch the headphones around? Get you away. Do you want these? I'll give you these when I go. Are they yours? No. Are they working both ears? Yes. Yeah, no, they're these, they're the... You want to give somebody else the broken ones? You're guests and you have the ones that's working. Yes, don't worry, it's fine. Anyway, everything's fine. I was going to say to you, you were very quick to come back to me yesterday when I says, Daddy, I says, I'm getting all these calls from people saying, hello, this is the way it goes, right? They go, hello. Yes. And they were expecting me to say, oh, hello, thanks for calling me back. And they're going, hello. And I'm going, hello. And it says, I got a missed call. They say, I got a missed call from this number. And I'm saying, I says, no, this has happened quite a bit. I haven't called. I don't know what's happening. So the scammers, right, the scammers clone the numbers so randomly so that if they're trying to scam someone, they can just pick any Irish number, whatever it begins with, right? People are more likely to ring. I suspect your number has been cloned. It's ringing people for scams, right? But you're getting the return calls. Yeah, they call me back saying, I got a missed call from you. This has not been called yet. And it's all over the place. I'm chatting to people down there calling, hey, what's the crack? What's the way down there? Your number was definitely cloned. Yeah, so how do, what do I do about that? You just, it'll pass. There's nothing you can do about it. Right. Because it's not actually your number, it's just a skin over the top of the scan number, right? It's a bit annoying. It's very annoying. It's very annoying indeed. But that's how they do it. So, but there's no way around it, Lee, I'm afraid you're still... No, that's all right. But as long as they can't go into anything else. No, it's just randomly picked your number. Right. Because I had about 10 calls. Do you know how many greatest crack ever? I was going to say no on you. You've probably made 10 new friends. Hi, yeah, there's a couple now. There's not really. Just a bit of banter, but I know straight away, you know, I can, so I can say now my phone's cloned. So sorry. But you're in no, it doesn't affect you whether it's being convenient. I'm sure it's happening to other people too. It has definitely, I've spoken to them. All right, okay. I see you're good. You came back, you were on the money, Danny. Do you want these headphones now? I think these are all right now. All right, keep shaking your head. I can up. All right, Lee. Thank you very much indeed. So beware if Lee calls you and you get a missed call. Right, okay. 9th Loon Show, let's get a news update now from Donnery Doherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Simon Harris is expected to become Ireland's youngest ever tee shot later today. He's likely to be the only nominee in the doll this morning taking over from party colleague, Leo Veradker. In terms of his backing in the Dunneagall constituency, Minister Charlie McConnelog and Deputy Joe McHugh will support his nomination while deputies Pierce Doherty, Podrick McLaughlin and Thomas Pringle will not. Sligo, Leitrim and South Dunneagall is split with deputies Frank Fane and Mark McSharry set to vote yes, while independent deputy Marion Hargan will join deputy Martin Kenney in the no lobby. Gardie and Dunneagall are appealing to the public to end the game over let that's taking place on our roads. They say following speed and drug detections in recent days, it's clear the safety of other road users is not being considered by many. With more, here's Tara Duggan. On Friday night, the Buncrana Roads policing unit detected a car traveling at 131 kilometers an hour in a 100 kilometer speed zone. The driver was stopped and arrested on suspicion of drink driving. They must now pay a 160 euro fine. They've received three penalty points and will face a possible court appearance. Meanwhile, just last night, the same Gardie unit then caught a driver traveling at 134 kilometers an hour in a speed zone of 100 kilometers. Gardie from Letter Kenny Garthastation were also in action last night as they arrested a driver on suspicion of drug driving after they tested positive for cocaine. Further tests are now awaited. Gardie say the risk-taking must stop and that it will also be too late to change your ways when a tragedy occurs. PSNI are appealing to identify two men who were driving a white van and assisted on the scene of a fatal collision in Oma on Tuesday, the 5th of March. The crash involved a Scania lorry and a white BMW 320 on the Kerr Road Barra, between quarter past and 20 past seven in the evening. The men in the white van are believed to have been traveling to Donegal after working in the Dunganan area. PSNI believe they may have information which can assist investigations. The Donegal branch of the Irish Hotels Federation has a new chair. Ashley and Arnold, general manager of Arnold Hotel in Dunfany has been elected to the position replacing Paul Diver from Ross Nala. She previously worked as a chartered accountant and has acted as a consultant for clients and the local enterprise office in Donegal as well as a number of other private businesses. Looking now to weather. Today we'll bring a good deal of dry weather with some sunny spells of sunshine and a few showers. Breezy with a moderate to fresh north-western wind which will ease later highest temperatures of eight to 11 degrees. That's all for now. Back again at 10 o'clock. If you're not with UNO Energy, chances are you're paying more than you need to for your electricity. As Ireland's newest energy provider, we offer Ireland's cheapest electricity rate, saving our customers up to 500 euro per year. So if you want to pay less for energy, simply pay a visit to UNOEnergy.ie and sign up for big savings with smaller bills. With UNO Energy, you just know. UNO Energy fixed discount rate, EAB 1415 euro. For teasing season rates at UNOEnergy.ie Suppliers pricing may change. And now it's time for the talk of the north-west, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It is five minutes or approaching five minutes past nine on this Tuesday, the 9th of April, 2024. How are you all keeping out there? I hope you're very well. I hope your Tuesday's going well for you so far. Right, we're here to keep you company over the next three hours. Loads of different features coming up on the show. We'll keep you across all the big news stories of the day, of course. Coming up after 10, community guard information, where you hear the latest appeals and information from UNO Energy, if you can't offer us that, and so much more besides. So stick with us throughout the course of this morning. And we want to hear what you have to say. We were really busy on the lines yesterday. Greatly appreciated. WhatsApps and texts to 086625,000. 086625,000. And you can send your WhatsApp voice notes to that number two. Don't be shy. 086625,000. If you want to give us a call, it's 07491 25,000. And from outside the Republic, you add 00353 and drop the first O. And off you go there. Emails to comments at highlandradio.com. Every paper has pictures of either Leo Veradkar or Simon Harris. The picture on the front of the Irish Times is Leo Veradkar waving to the people who were stood outside the Irish and looked on. And in the background, Michael D. Higgins watches on from the doorstep. So he gave his final salute, resigning. He handed in his resignation to President Michael D. Higgins at Irish Nookduron yesterday evening. Well, Simon Harris now has a job to do. He is to get elected as T-Shock, which is a fate to comply. And then he has to, of course, set up his new government. Saying that he had no regrets about leaving, obviously, of Veradkar, resigned as T-Shock last night, clearing the way for new finnigale leader Simon Harris to succeed him today as Ireland's 16th and 37 youngest T-Shock. The dolls expected to vote for Mr. Harris' nomination this morning, after which he will go to Irish Nookduron to be appointed to the role by President Michael D. Higgins. Mr. Harris will then return to government buildings as T-Shock, where he will begin to inform colleagues of his cabinet choices. A new cabinet will be announced to the doll at about 5 p.m. It is expected. Though all ministers are deemed to have resigned when the T-Shock resigns, Finaful and Green ministers will be reappointed by Minister Harris onto the agreement between the parties. However, Mr. Harris has choices to make about the finnigale ministers with TDs loyal to him, eyeing promotions. He would hope it's about experience as much as loyalty. But anyway, with Mr. Veradkar's departure and the announcement by Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney that he would not seek reappointment to his post, Mr. Harris has at least two cabinet vacancies to fill. There's been intense speculation in FinaGale last night over potential promotions and demotions at the cabinet gathered in Farm Lee for a farewell dinner for Mr. Veradkar. Sources were divided about the future of Minister for Justice Helen McIntee, who has lobbied strongly to keep her job. What do you think, should Helen McIntee keep her job? There are certain areas that people believe that she's fallen down on. There are other areas where, I think particularly in violence towards women, domestic violence and others, that progress may not have been made under someone else's stewardship. But what do you think of her performance as Minister for Justice? Should she keep her job? I suspect she will. Several FinaGale TDs who spoke to the Irish Times last night said they expected the two key promotions would be Peter Berg to the Department of Enterprise and Hildegard Nocton to Mr. Harris's former role as Minister for Higher and Further Education, but others suggested that Limerick TD, Patrick O'Donovan, would be promoted. I'm sure you'll know at this stage and we'll find out later. The Pope's comments, most recent comments are being carried extensively in the papers, including the Irish Independent. The Vatican has declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave threats to human dignity, putting them on a par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God's plan for human life. The Vatican's Doctrine Office issued infinite dignity, a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years. After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved on March 25th by Pope Francis who ordained its publication. Now, I mean, gender-affirming surgery is a very divisive issue. And this is my ignorance, and it's not something I've thought greatly on. Surrogacy, I didn't realize that would be sort of chalked in there with some of the other concerns that the Popes have, the Pope has. I mean, do you agree that surrogacy is violating God's plan for human life? Well, I've thought it's about given life, is it not? But as I say, I haven't really thought it through, but obviously the Pope keen to make his views known on this. And it's most eagerly anticipated section, the Vatican repeated its rejection of gender theory or the idea that one's gender can be changed. It said God created man and woman as biologically different separate beings and said they must not tinker with that plan or try to make God one's God or make oneself God. It follows that any sex change intervention as a rule risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the movement at the moment of conception. So speaking out really quite clearly on transgender surgery and also, as I say, surrogacy. Any views on that? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. I don't think we saw much of the eclipse yesterday, did we? But it was a sight for some sore eyes as millions did see the eclipse. A rare total solar eclipse yesterday turned day into night, which happens at nighttime often anyway, but anyway, turned day into night for millions across Mexico, the US and Canada. Lucky viewers watched as the moon blocked the sun leaving only the outer atmosphere visible. In some areas, totality, where the moon fully covers the sun, lasted for as long as four minutes, 28 seconds. In Ireland, dozens of spectators gathered on the Sky Road in Candy Galway to witness the eclipse shortly after 8 p.m. Clouds parted to reveal the rare event. Didn't see anything where I was. I don't know if you did where you were. It was just pretty cloudy and I didn't even really notice it getting dark or what have you, but anyway, the thing I found quite interesting and somewhat worrying too, is that very shortly after the eclipse in the United States, there's Google Analytics, so you can actually check what people are Googling and you can check the patterns in what they're Googling. And since the solar eclipse and the hours after it, there was a massive spike across the world in internet search results for, why do my eyes hurt and my eyes hurt? They peaked far and above where they've ever been since Google was invented. So despite people being warned not to look up, people obviously did and then found themselves with sore eyes. Okay. Now on to the Irish Daily Star Sinn Fein, which already has by far the biggest online presence of all political parties, spent more on social media ads than all others combined so far this year. The latest report from Moly Communications analysed the social media ad spend of political parties and found Sinn Fein has more social media reach than all other parties combined. Now, I'm not sure if they can determine if that's paid or not. But anyway, the latest report shows Sinn Fein, led by Marilyn McDonald, is spending more than double on social media ads at 44,000 euro, while Finnegale spends 8,450, Fina 4 spent 7,000, Labour spent 2,450. But I don't recall seeing a Sinn Fein ad. I definitely see a lot of Finnegale ads. Not so much Fina 4, but the most ads I would see are Finnegale ads, but they seem to spend much less than Sinn Fein. I mean, there's an organic sort of presence online as well that you don't have to pay for. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a date has been set for his ground invasion of Ra'fa. This is the Irish Daily Mirror. Global alarm has been raised by the prospect of an offensive, including from Israeli's top ally, the US, which has demanded to see a credible plan to protect civilians. Currently, 1.4 million Palestinians are there. 6,000 of them children. Israel has insisted it has a plan to protect the civilians. It is purchasing 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation. An Israeli official said speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. In a statement yesterday, Mr. Netanyahu said the Ra'fa operation is essential for a victory. It will happen. He's a date he added without elaborating and he had to say that because under pressure and for one reason or another, he did pull significant numbers of troops out of southern Gaza. He was compelled, it seems, by the US to open up aid routes and presumably he was getting a bit of pressure for looking weak and that's why he's reiterated what will be nothing short of an absolute disaster to go into Ra'fa. And finally, the Irish sheds on this morning. The jury in the Stardust inquests resumed yesterday following a question regarding a 49th victim of the tragedy. 48 people died in the tragic nightclub blaze in our tamed Dublin on Valentine's Day in 1981. But yesterday on the fourth day of deliberations by the jury, the coroner addressed a query about one victim who had been in the early stages of pregnancy. Dr. Myra Colin Hain advised that jurors can only make their determination in relation to the 48 people who lost their lives in the incident. These fresh inquests into the deaths began last April and just gives you a sense of the difficult task facing those jurors. Okay, that was a run through. The newspaper is 0860 25,000 is our WhatsApp and text number. We'll be back with more after these. The fireplaces doves and electric fires for over 30 years. And now you can experience the elegance of luxurious worktop from Harkins. Their experience craftsmen can fabricate marble, quarts or granite worktops to your specification. So if you're planning a new kitchen or bathroom or upgrading your existing walk, Harkin Fireplaces can provide a quote for your quartz, marble or granite worktop. 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Thanks for having us on. Now, it's good to have you on the program and we're gonna talk about a very serious matter. So what I might do beforehand is ask you just about the process that's been happening over the last wee while. Leof Radkar has gone since I last spoke to you. Simon Harris is in. How do you think that leaves you party? I think it leaves us very strong. You know, the current t-shirt, well, technically, he resigned as of yesterday with President Higgins. But, you know, as he shared and everybody listening to you had heard him on the news and since to sharing, he was ready to hand over the reins. And Minister Simon Harris stepped up and we had a very busy two weeks, a very successful Arthesh in University of Golly on Saturday where Minister Harris laid out his plan and highlighted a number of key priorities. And we'll see what the next couple of hours look like in terms of his appointment for ministers and minister of states. Do you have any? I do not have inside information. Sorry to ask. I think we all know. It certainly is not me. I think we all know anyway. Do you have any concerns as to where the party might go as it scrambles to sort of become more relevant to, you know, Ireland over the next few months? I'm thinking to particular areas such as immigration. Yeah, I think our relevance is... Well, listen, I don't think that's to be questioned, but I know many of your listeners will question that on as councillors and myself as an MEP will be knocking on doors and have been knocking on doors up until the elections on June 7th and beyond. Minister Harris is very much stressed that he's hoping to push out this government until the last possible time. So given everybody time, given him time specifically to work on key issues, I know we're just in listening to news today and in the last couple of days, obviously law and order, the support and the process of our migration system. And listen, as a pro-European, we, you know, I believe we must adhere to our international protection standards. But I understand the frustrations also people are showing in communities. And just this week, actually this evening, I'll fly to Brussels to the parliament because we vote on the EU migration pack, which will be a firm and fair process working with all member states, which is what needs to happen. So that people, they're not applications, there are people fleeing various countries that need the supports that they do, but we need to make sure that we have that communication style in place for our communities to understand what's going on too. So I take that fully on board, but from his side, you're going to hear, have you had the word energy, the word re-energized in sense of the Ardash? If anything to go by, we will be, we have been hit the ground running and we'll be putting ourselves local and MEPs to the people on June 7th and hopefully long after that, the general. Indeed. Now, obviously you're contesting the European elections. So there is concern that female MEPs, particularly but not exclusively, I don't think, may have to heed a warning of the threat of explicit deep fake images being used against them in future elections. And just for those who may not be aware, this could be a video, this could be an image, this could be a video, technology is advanced to the point where the lines of what's real and what isn't real have been completely blurred and that it's very possible now and very doable and not just by tech experts, but anyone that you could take my face and place it on somebody else's body and it can be moving and speaking and you would have to dig a bit deep to try and ascertain if it's actually real or not. And it is a real concern, Maria. What has been talked about in relation to this? It is, this was an issue, a serious issue and really delighted you're giving us time to discuss it because an organisation called EU Disinfo Lab, which is an organisation that works with research, economics, political representatives, media outlets right across the EU and is constantly updating certain threats that are impacting voter participation. And one that was flagged to me was the rise and the threat of deep fakes. And to your point, it is not just images, it's also audio, it's video and sadly we're seeing a rise. Now, for those listening might remember, Pope Francis, I think it was March of last year came out with this, it was a deep fake image that did the rounds, actually went viral of him wearing this white puffer jacket looking very sleek and fit. And it took a couple of hours for people to stress out the fact that this was a deep fake. You have that as quite humorous and maybe brought up history cred a little bit. And then on the other serious point though, you have a reported audio file that was created using deep fake technology, a President Joe Biden that went out to voters and he's a very iconic voice. So no doubt if I was a voter receiving this, I think, oh, I just received an audio file and a voice message from the president encouraging me to vote. However, there was a number of disinfo and misinformation points within that audio file. So you have extremes where I fear for this and I guess this is my flag to those listening, it is sadly you will potentially see a number of deep fake files, videos, images over the course of many elections. But as we have local and Europeans upcoming, it has been flagged to me by this organization, EU Disinfo, that female candidates and to your point actually at the start, males too could be subject to this and that could be an image of me or video of me going out in fake contact but looks very real and conducting either sexual or misconduct forms. And that discredits me in my work. Of course the problem too with this is because it could be a WhatsApp image or it could be framed as if it was some sort of and not WhatsApp image like a voice note or something as you mentioned or it could be framed as an image that was sent to someone and then it was leaked. The issue, the problem is though that when this happens and it's inevitable, it's keeping the lid on it. And we've seen in the past where people of, I mean, your colleague for an example, Luke Ming Flanagan, had the hacking of his Twitter account, right? Not everyone knows that he was hacked still to this day. Do you know what I mean? That's sort of an example I'm trying to give here. So in other words, the more you explain, oh, that's not me, that's AI generated. It, oh, she would say that, wouldn't you? Or he would say that. And that's the problem in this day and age is that once it happens, there is always a damage to it beyond obviously the terrible violation, the personal violation. And it's really hard to know how to sort of get around that. Yeah, and sadly, to your point, once it's out there, if it's five minutes or five hours, the timeframe often is irrelevant because very difficult to renege or roll back on when something is fake. And then as you shared and rightly so, you're trying to get out to as many people to say this isn't true and people have to be left to their own devices to believe it or not. It's a sad state of humanity actually in one side, but I think that might be a longer and greater debate, Greg. But from this side, as an EU legislator, we have the Digital Service Act, we have the recent AI Act. They have pieces of legislation that will hold those that are caught accountable, but we're looking at sadly, a little bit too long in the tooth to make that happen. I know meta have been challenged and have agreed to put a tagline on their Instagram and Facebook post saying made by AI or generated by AI, which helps us, you and I as users, to understand what's real and what's not. But I can only stress to those, and I think this is why this conversation is so relevant, is to continue to stay informed. This is a public awareness piece. Verify sources, challenge the fact that perhaps before you spread or share, that you just make sure and check the credibility of such, and then report any suspected deep fakes. And I think we have to be really conscious of other reports that tell me constantly in my work in the European Parliament that on average three to four images on the go are constantly fake. So you can imagine me and you open up a phone and the amount of time I don't know about you. Like I sometimes live on my phone, I'm seeing a lot of content. So how much of that is fake and how much that is real. I've said it to you before as an Irish MEP, we also have due diligence, the fact that we house a number of social media platform companies in this country that service the EU, so we have to do our part. Meta Google will work with governments. I think the problem is is X really, in particularly in that even to the point now, whereby they're in full on dispute with Brazil over censorship and what have you. I don't believe in censorship and maybe they're taking stand and that's fine. But the point is, is then they can be slow to act in other jurisdictions as well. Stuff gets removed quite quickly from the other platforms, but X seemingly, it's just a bit of a lore unto itself. It is, it is. And I have no counter-arguments. I wholeheartedly agree with you. However, we have to move and work on some shape or form, particularly with all platforms, but if X and the main man himself is not moving on stuff, that doesn't mean we need to renege or be slow on the likes of Meta and other platforms not working with that tagline of made with the eye and ultimately pulling content down fast enough. I spoke to someone who's a data analyst with Meta a couple of weeks ago, actually with YouTube specifically, I should say, a couple of weeks ago and I was trying to just understand the workflow. She goes, we are online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, pulling content down. The speed of which it's going up, inciting violence and fear. She goes, I work in that area that is constantly pulling down at the time she was working on the Moscow demonstrations and protests. And the violence that incurred from that. So there are people working in this field. It's just either we don't have enough of it, we don't have a fair or judicial system to pull this content down fast enough. Or those, dare I say, I really believe if you're using social media platform, we should treat it like we treat Airbnb and Revolute, for example, that you have to have an identification linked to your account that's kept safe and is protected, but that you're held accountable should you participate in anything that is illegal and creating insight for your own harm. All right, listen, thanks very much for that. Take care of yourself. Maria Walsh, Finnegal, MAP, also contestant, of course, the upcoming EU elections, but the AI imagery now is so detailed, what it can create from scratch, let alone switch one person's face to another person's body is going to be a real difficulty. And yes, at the moment, it's for people in the public eye, but how long is it before this technology is easily accessible and it could be used around schools and stuff. So it is something we all need to keep an eye on, even if you're not doing, some people might go, well, politicians, what do you expect, blah, blah, blah, blah, but when it affects our children as well too, and it will, whereby it could appear that your daughter or your son did something that they didn't do, we can imagine the negative impact it might have on their well-being. A caller says, Helen McIntee must stay. Her reform work on the unfit for purpose family courts and zero tolerance of all abuse by anyone, including parental alienation, has been world leading. And that's the point I was trying to make, that of course, some people might have some issues with some of the stuff she does, but then do you wanna throw the baby out with the bath water or maybe you do. Would you ask anyone who can vote for Jason McAul tonight, please, thank you. Jason's a lovely local lad and is a great entertainer. I think that's on Tiki Kahar, is it's not a program I've ever watched if I'm completely honest with you. Right, let's take a quick break. We still have loads of comments from yesterday too, by the way, to catch up on. So if you did message the show yesterday, your message certainly hasn't been ignored and hopefully we'll get to it as we mix it with today's comments over the course of the next two and a half hours. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com. The 9 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, 9102127. I'm making a move. Looking for real choice? Leave diesel behind and make the move to Toyota Hybrid Electric, Akeli's Toyota Letter Kenny and Mancharlas. World-leading hybrid electric technology, lower emissions driving, with the widest choice of hybrid electric models from Ireland's best-selling car brand. 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I don't think I would be trusting cheap glasses from a red top to protect my eyes, to be honest with you. But I do remember the time that you're talking of. Ministerial picks what has experienced your abilities got to do with it. Remember Mr. Radcast selected on the basis of social media activity, which is of course Simon Harris primary, possibly only skill. Another caller says, I know the name of a senior guarder that deals in drugs. Okay, well, you should get onto the guards and tell them that. Kind of that one slipped out. I should have checked that one before I read it out. But anyway, Termin Bingo is raising funds for Relay for Life this Friday and the scammers are targeting it by messaging people telling them that what a prize, how low can these people go? Indeed, I saw some of those screenshots that were shared with me and they go as low as a snake's belly it would seem. 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. Darren on Facebook, Greg, how about getting someone from the so-called far right on? Because you've nothing but far left agitators on just because Maria is a woman, whatever that is these days doesn't give her a pass. I mean, Darren listens to people from all political backgrounds on the show, left leaning, right leaning. I don't do far left, far right stuff, to be honest with you. But there are definitely people that come on this program that would have, would be very far apart from Maria Walsh in her points of view as well. All views are aired for the most part on this show providing they don't, you know, not illegal or what have you. Gareth on Facebook, Greg, can you ask Maria why her party is ignoring DCB home owners, defective block home owners? I will. We're getting close to the European elections now and there are other people in the race as well. And those issues will all be discussed as part of conversations we'll be having with people, by the way, to get people's stance on certain issues. The round table debates, as they might say. Right, Andy Hawkins, a car enthusiast and member of Donegal based Car Club 074. Good morning to you, I love it 074. Hi, Andy, how are you getting on? Morning, how are you? Good, good, good. We were talking yesterday, we were listening from a parent and there was no real anti, there was no anti car modding sentiment on the show yesterday from our listeners. But we did have a couple of parents whose young people in their lives were modding their car, struggling to get, struggling to get car insurance. Is that an issue that you find amongst members of the 074 Car Club, Andy, that, you know, well, tell us, actually, before we do, talk to me a little bit about car modification, that scene, and I suppose the difference between it and so-called boy girl racers. Yeah, well, like, for us, it's not really, like, it's 24-7. I mean, I know for myself, like, if I didn't have, if I didn't have cars, it's what I grew up with. So I don't really know anything else. I'm not really into any sort of, like, EAA or rugby or football or nothing like that. So it's kind of the main hobby that I have got going on in my life between it and motorbikes. I don't think, I don't think I have any other interest outside of that. So, like, we kind of, I don't really want to jump on anybody's back about it. But, like, when it comes to, I suppose we look at it, like, from the side that we're kind of more customisers than what you would call the term boy racers. I wouldn't be a massive fan of that term anyway, but we're more customisers is what I would call it. Yeah, and just for the general public, would you say, you know, maybe some of the cars you might see in shows like Fast and Furious, that kind of stuff, you know, kitted out road cars? Yeah, well, I'm standing here looking at my own car. We've just returned from a show with our club in Luxburton there at the weekend called Dub Shed. They've opened up a section now for Japanese cars, because that's what our club kind of mainly deals with. And, like, that's what we do. We design these cars ourselves and we build them. And even in my own, looking at my own car here, like, the kit that's on my car is actually handmade from scratch, like it's not just, you know, bought parts and glued onto a car on the way I go. Like, this is something that I designed from scratch. And between me and other people in the club, we've actually made this stuff ourselves. And the cars look absolutely unbelievable. There's absolutely no doubt about that. And also, too, I've noted, and I think I've read out a couple of announcements about it. Cars and coffee is an event that you've run. Yeah. Yeah, we've actually, like, kind of over the last couple of years, we've kind of built ourselves a fairly good name, kind of throughout the country, for, like, the quality of our cars, specifically. And, like, these, like, a couple of our cars are actually show-on cars at the minute. And so we thought, like, we would like to kind of get under the realm of running the show up this kind of neck of the woods, because it doesn't really be... If you want to go to a big show, we've to go the whole way the likes of Belfast, the likes of Mandelo and Killed Air and stuff. So we thought we'd run a show. And Snuggler have been very kind of welcoming to, you know, us kind of running shows. So we thought we would try and set up our first show. And actually two of the boys in our club have actually just moved out of their houses and they're melting, because they're being set to be demolished with Mika. So, and my own parents' house is the same. So we decided, like, I mean, there isn't a bigger problem in Donegal at the minute. So why not, like, try our... Like, use our influence from our side of things and try and raise as much money as we can. So we're going to run that show now on the 5th of May. Brilliant, it's exciting. And that's going to be out... Where's that? Can I be located? Um, Snuggler. Okay, please. Going in Donegal down there, Kelly. Plenty of space there. Yeah, we're actually... Well, just from speaking from what's the owner's of Snuggler, we have, kind of, to start off, space for 90 cars. Mm-hmm. Wow, okay. And it'll draw a huge crowd. Yeah, well, that's, like, well, whether it depends on what we all know up here, kind of a big thing. But, yeah, like, I've been in person, probably a couple of them there before. The crowds, like, there's something more than a thing and, like, there's not much else to be doing on a Sunday morning, so why not come out and have an over in some cars? So, basically, we're trying to get cars that, you know, you wouldn't really ever, ever really see on the roads. So, trying to get some kind of high-end stuff and some really, like, one-off, kind of bulk cars, just for... I know when I was a kid, I'd like to go to car shows and see things that, like, you just do not see or you would see on posters on your wall. Now, yesterday, someone, you know, comments perhaps grouped car enthusiasts with boy racers. And I think someone said yesterday that all modified cars should be banned at right. Now, I mean, obviously, that's gonna be tough for you guys to hear, because he's put so much time, love and money into the vehicles. You know, you want your boy racers in inverted commas. And that's why I thought it important to chat to you as well and to give all sides to this. It must be frustrating, is it, when you hear comments like that? You know, it really is, because I feel like we're completely misunderstood. As I said, like, I, if I didn't have cars and motorbikes and stuff, like... And in a way, it's kind of like, you know, we have a bad day, we come home, we go to the garage, we start working on cars. Just, you know, it's kind of like a therapy for us in a kind of weird way. It's just something to think about and take our head the way. And then just to be, like, I know there's people out there on the road who are doing like crazy, stupid things. To be honest, I see, like, driving to work in Lyric, anybody, I see people in completely normal road cars doing stupid things as well, like putting on makeup or taking phone calls or, you know, but for us to be lumped into a category that everybody has a real hatred for, just kind of doesn't really seem to be fair, because, I mean, we, this is everything we do. And we put a lot of money, a lot of thought, you know, and a lot of effort into it. And just to be kind of, just like, I did actually hear when I was driving home from work on the repeatier, she'll ask me to tell me, this is everything, could they ban, well, like, what are the other stuff that people like, who would just ban everything, because it might be, like, annoying to somebody. Yeah, and as you say too, as you say too, you know, if you were to dig down into it and the cause of collisions and what have you, you know, would people like you, who love your cars as much as you do, be feature highly in those figures? Probably not, I would suggest, at all, at all. Andy, this whole conversation started though from a mother whose son probably is like you, or like you used to be, loves the car, not interested in, you know, spending the waste and the money on drink or whatever, puts it all into the car, went to the car, went to insurance companies because it's modified, you know, can't get insurance. Is that a problem for your members, your colleagues? Actually just, it's funny you say that because one of the boys is just after purchasing a car and it's a really, it's a small car, it's not, it's like a 660cc engine, so it's not a, it's like a half of a liter engine. It came in from Japan, it's a kind of quirky, really small car and just like, they don't even, the insurance companies don't even try to find out anything about it, they wouldn't even risk assess that individual car, they just go, oh, Japanese, nope. So he's actually stuck now with a car that he, I think he's 27 years old and he's stuck now with a car that he might just have to have an ornament in the garden because nobody will even consider them. Yeah, or tow it to car parks or shows on a trailer. It's completely useless to him as a road vehicle. That's it, like, and you know, we don't exactly have fortunes of money and all the money we do, how we do invest into the cars and to be told then that you're not even allowed to take it out, as you know, there's just a funny attitude because like for us to be such a motorsport driven country and then people like us come to build these cars and want to take them out and show them off, then we're, you know, they don't, nobody wants to see us and we get all lumped on with us really bad name. Yeah, Caller says, can I just say off the bat of car modifying, I drive a modified Lexus IS 200 and I must say the attitude towards young people enjoying their cars is crazy. People look down their nose at us, which I suppose is what maybe you might feel some listeners were doing yesterday, looking down their nose at car enthusiasts. Let's just call it as it is, must have felt like that. Yeah, 100% because like even fair there at Raleigh weekend like we would come in and as a group, we all kind of meet up on a certain area just in the middle of the town. But once we get our cars parked and kind of on display for one to the better term, we don't, we don't move. Like it's not us that's on the traffic, wrecking the place and doing burnouts and stuff. Like so that's just from our side of our club. We're just there to display for people to walk around to see, you know, and then to be able to get to the Monday and I always enjoy the Monday, last Monday, Highlander after it, just to hear everybody complaining. Well, no. You know, we're all tired with one Monday. In fairness Andy, in the last couple of years, hopefully you were listening and realised that it was a more balanced conversation because, you know, when I've said it on this programme, like I'm tired of the, you know, not putting facilities on for people to be able to enjoy their cars and then complaining if they're driving around, you know, shutting everything off so they have no access. You know, I've been calling for years that, you know, that part of it should be embraced and people should have spaces to enjoy and not be seen as a blight. But I take your point, but I have tried very hard in the last couple of years post-rally to try and not do the usual, you know? Yeah, well, I don't understand that. I do hear like, see the likes of the yards that are getting opened up now, the likes of the fairies and out at the car centre. I mean, that's great because that gets the boys off the road. They can go on there and hash about all their nights and they're happy and, you know, that kind of takes it out of them. Like, more availability. And even with like, you know, the politicians want to listen, like, try and find somewhere that this can happen. I mean, where's the nearest racetrack? You have to go way to the far end of the north and go way down the hill there. What are you driving? We don't really have any. That's all that is up here. What are you driving? What car are you looking at there? That's a 1999 Subaru Impreza. What colour? That's a kind of custom, that's like an orange, like a copper orange colour. Lovely, that's the one we... That's one on the... All right, that's on the 074 Facebook page, isn't it? It's a lovely, lovely-looking car. Yep, thank you very much. Yep, that's my own car. You must have arms on you, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, polishing that thing. People can go on to Facebook. People can go on to Facebook, check out 074, 0 word, 7 number, 4 word, and see the work that they're doing and get more information on the cars and coffee event that's coming up. And listen, thanks for coming on and sort of, I suppose, striking a balance, which is what we look for here in the show. Take care, Andy, happy travels, safe travels. All right, thank you. Andy Harkin, car enthusiast and member of the Donegal-based Car Club 047. Greg with the tow bar. OK, I wish I'd never mentioned me tow bar now. It was so long ago as well. Seriously, UK caters for these people, we seem to tarnish them all. The UK have loads of meat spots. Check these out, Ace Cafe London, Caffeine and Machine Workshire, Jacks Hill Cafe, Northampton, the old Cannes Cafe West Yorkshire that comes in from my old friend Oshine, who's of the view that Caroline does everything. Well, Oshine, you were right. OK, so yeah, maybe we do need to change our attitude because I was driving, as I've mentioned in the show yesterday, down to Dublin. I think there must have been a rallying event in... Where did I see it? Well, I can't remember. But a place was packed with cars and families that had parked on the main road to... On the main road to go and see, obviously, stages of the rally on the back roads. I mean, it's huge in this country, yet we have this massive rally culture and then we have this sort of attitude towards people who drive modified vehicles. It doesn't actually make an awful lot of sense. Right, OK, we are going to be speaking to Penny after this short break. I've been surfing all morning at FlemmingLTD.com to find out about Flemming doors, Flemming steel and Flemming coatings and their full range of products. So come surfing with me at FlemmingLTD.com. Flemming, 91, 48, 234. All-wheel drive system. The Salterra solution to safety on the road is Subaru Safety Sense, a standard. The Salterra solution is to give you the power with a starting price of only 44,995 euro. Test drive the all-electric Subaru Salterra and read full T's and C's at Subaru.ie. Gareth here from TFS and Lederkenne. We are now taking bookings for the busy spring-summer period. If you are a business or homeowner anywhere in the North West, let us take care of your painting, power washing and landscaping. Also, facility management, cleaning and utility needs. Call us today on 9-1-776-0 or email accounts at tfsireland.ie. So today we'll bring a good deal of dry weather with some sunny spells, some spells of sunshine, a few showers breezy with moderate to fresh north-westerly wind, which will ease later ice temperatures of 8-11 degrees. There is actually more to that tow bar story that I didn't reveal yesterday if I'm actually honest with you in that I put the tow bar... I didn't put the tow bar in my car. I put the tow bar in Ashleen's car because I didn't want to be towing in my car, but I know that's the truth. Right, OK, Penny, good morning to you. Hello, Greg, how are you? I'm good. Now, you've a story of insurance and dealing with an insurance company. What was the situation? I do, Greg. Well, my car is in need of some repair, so my father offered to lend me his car for a week or so until it's repaired, you know. I have two young children and I'm just staying at home with my youngest, our hairdresser. So we rang this insurance company and they were going through the questions and 13 years for license, no claims, and 32 years old. That was grand, everything was perfect and asked what was my occupation. And the father replied, at the home, at home with the man, it was her young child. Oh, and they just cut him completely down and said, no, sorry, we can't ensure. And the father was, you know, why was that? And they said, I need to be in full-time employment. Wow, OK. So it's just a bit bewildering, you know, to come back, it takes more. It takes a lot to kind of shock him, you know, when he shocked me. I'm still ringing back the insurance today and querying him more on it. I'm actually on, I am actually insured. I have a policy, what's the same company? As well as he's on. It's just kind of shocking, you know. Why would you be refusing insurance because you're at home with your young child? Yeah, Ken, does your, sorry to Penny, this is not the point that you're making, but if you're a policy holder and his car is insured, are you not covered to drive his car anyway? I don't think it has, it's open-driven. I think that was a problem. I don't think it has to be open-driven. I think your insurance covers you to drive any car that is actually insured. That was my understanding, Penny. I don't want to mislead anyone. Yeah. But double check your policy, especially given your age. I think it doesn't apply if you're under 25, but I would have thought that your policy covers you to drive his car anyway. Yeah. It doesn't have to be over. That's the benefit of your insurance, if you know what I mean. But double check that. I know that's not why you're wrong, but just double check that. You're being disadvantaged because, effectively, you could say you're on maternity leave. You're choosing to stay at home to care for your child. That in and of itself has been unfair that you're being discriminated for making that choice. Because if you were at work and decided not to, then there wouldn't be a problem. That's clearly one of those, Greg. I mean, my father would just like to have everything above board. I know maybe I am insured with my own policy, but my father's just right. He would like to have me on his name policy. I'm a name driver on my mother's policy. He's an i-dotter and a T-crosser by the sons of things. He wants to make sure everything is right. He wants to make sure everything is right. And he's right, too, in a way, you know. But I think that you're with the same company as well. It kind of, it's a bit of a slap in the face as well, isn't it? It is, you know. And they didn't open to 10 o'clock with a particular company. So I do tend to ring them up this morning and find out some more information as to why they're refused. I mean, everything was going grand. You know, terms of fall licence, no claims, et cetera. And just when he said that was my occupation at the moment, that's almost my daughter. No, they can't insure me. I would have thought, too, that you're not commuting to and from work, that you would actually be more attractive, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Yeah, you would have, you know... You're not travelling too far, you know. It's only really to take my young son, who just lives down... or school is quite close by, you know. It's just a bit of... just to take children back and forth, you know. 13 years full licence, no claims. You've said your age, you're old enough to know what I mean. So there's absolutely no reason. The only reason is because you are home, which is crazy. Let us know how that conversation goes after you spend two and a half hours waiting for someone to answer the phone. Yeah, that's right. Listen to the automated voice and stuff. I'll get through. Exactly, and double check if... I would have thought that your insurance, as I said, I'm not giving advice because I can't do that, but I would have thought that you're, as a policy holder, you're covered to drive an insured car. But double check that anyway, Penny. Yeah, I'll double check. Greg, yeah, I will, but as I say, I just like to have everything right, you know, on house days. But I'll get on that, Greg, and I'll let you know. Good stuff. Sure, I'll text you in. OK, love to everyone. Thanks very much, Penny. Take care of yourself. Appreciate that. There have been a lot of people killed on Irish roads, say, as a texter. If we closed every road where people died, there would be no roads during the war with the amount of people bombed and killed in the likes of London. They rebuilt. Now in Gaza, they will rebuild. People die in areas all the time. You just can't... You can't just shut them off. I know where you're coming from and what that's in relation to, but I mean, we have to think of other people's feelings as well and make sure that what we do is the right thing. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but that's just what we have to try and ensure. We were talking to, yes, about people not being good with taking compliments. They call us as Irish people, in general, get embarrassed when they get a compliment. I keep telling young people to be more like the Americans and lap it up and just say thank you. All right, let's not go too far that direction, either. If your daughter... 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You're very welcome back to the C-99 till noon show now yesterday on the programme we were chatting to Maria rush about how maybe we're not good at taking compliments you know and that we should be better at that. You can check out her blog for more info on that. Hi Greg just listening to you and Maria I feel so much better now it takes me back to when one day I was visiting my parents grave and suddenly this woman harassed and bullied me about where apart my car every other day since they died. As Maria said, it's their problem, not yours. I'll remember that from now on. Thanks, Lily. I'm sorry you went through that, Lily. Maria Rush is a wonderful person who tries to take the best out of every person. She needs a... excuse me. She's a wonderful, talented lady. As regards compliments, it isn't only a woman thing. Very rarely would a man give another man a compliment. More than likely they'd get the Mickey taken from them. And it wasn't based on... I mean, obviously Maria's going to give examples from a female perspective, but no. There's issues in taking compliments where you're a man or a woman. Hi, Gregory. Compliments. At work one day somebody made a comment about a photo of me. It went along the lines of how well I looked in the photo compared to reality. It has totally ruined my self-confidence. I can't look at myself in the mirror anymore and stay well clear when photos are being taken. I think people not only need to give compliments, but need to be very careful about what they say to people as it can have a very detrimental effect on a person. But I would say to you if you can, is to try and put that behind you. And it might have just been a passing throwaway comment. And it might not have really meant exactly what you believe it to have meant. I don't know I'm stretching here and reaching here. But the fact that it's impacted on you and that person has completely forgotten about it, he or she doesn't even know they said it. And do you really care of their opinion that it would make you change how you think about yourself? Because one person made a comment that you probably don't care about that person and what they say. You know, so try and park it and you know, try not to view yourself in that way. It shouldn't have that impact on you. I mean, unfortunately it does. These things do affect us. But if you can try and move past it a little bit, because as I say, you probably don't really care what that person thinks, do you? In my opinion of all my years driving on the road, the people that are most dangerous are the ones that take silly chances just to get two cars ahead or make a point like three seconds of time. These are the ones that cause the collisions. Greg lovely to hear that young man talking about modified cars. I am 71 and just wish I could have one of those Lexus or imprezas indeed. Would you go with the sort of blue with the gold rims? Sunday, the 6th of August was a nightmare in Bondoren with show cars. The whole road was blocked. They were held up in traffic for an hour. They took up a whole car park. It was a nice day. You couldn't hear yourself with the noise of nothing against car enthusiasts. But Bondoren on a busy summer's day is not the place for a car show. Everyone wants to be out enjoying the sun and the cars were bringing everything to a standstill. There's lots of things bringing the country to a standstill too, though isn't there, you know, parades, festivals, all that type of stuff happens all the time in the summer. A lot of people having a conversation or having their views as it relates to the future of the site of the Chrysler tragedy. A caller says if it's viable, I think the shop site could swap with the building suppliers across the main road is maybe a possible solution. The business across the road is a very successful, well kitted out business. I just can't see how that's not not an option. If your daughter took her last breath in this spot, you think two and a half years passing would make it any better. I'm surprised at you. I'm not sure if that's a reference to something that I I'm not sure that's a reference to something that I said or not. But I suspect if I said that it was in the form of a question under no circumstances should a shop be rebuilt on the site of an explosion and ice grounds, seats, maybe play equipment for the children. Hi, Greg. On the Chrysler incident, my heart goes out to all the families and often think of them. But if the shop does go ahead, what about having the names of the people on the shop floor as Rembrandt's place this on the spot that they passed? And I think that's typical of people sort of trying to come up with solutions to a very difficult situation. I think that might just be completely unpalatable to those who lost people. But I respect your opinion and understand exactly where you're coming from in trying to maybe come up with a solution. Mary T Sweeney was on to the show she's an election candidate. Of course, we have a crisis of suicides in Donegal with devastating families left behind. Many victims die to the lack of mental health services. I would suggest why not spend money on mental health support workers? Yeah, indeed. And people often and one have to be careful with our language here. People often sort of would say we talk an awful lot about road safety, but you don't take into account or don't talk enough about people's dying because of their mental health, which we do on this program an awful lot actually to the point where sometimes you get a message saying you're not talking about this again. I can't talk about it enough. I think it's really important. The issue is really as a society how we discuss suicide, how we count suicides. We know the we know that the there's work ongoing to try and better account for the amount of suicides that's happening because until such times you actually have an official proper figure that we all know reflects the reality. You know, how can you talk about it? How can you address the issues or make strategies or policies or whatever. So we really need to figure out exactly how many people are dying by suicide, but also to it's a very difficult subject because often there's someone that is has been affected by that very recently or in the past and it's still very painful for them. In quest sometimes it's probably is a suicide, but it's not referenced as one. It's very, very complicated and we always try and do the right thing on this program. We'd never sort of shy away from talking about it, but it's making sure that we do so in a way that is constructive and helpful, but doesn't actually compound a problem. But I think a lot of people would agree with Mary T's comments on that. I'm open to any suggestions in how we talk about it, discuss it, whatever it might be, as long as it helps people. Okay, we're going to take a break and coming up afterwards, we're joined in studio by Garda Granja Daharti with the latest in appeals and information from ungodly Shia Khanna. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. It's time for Vision Ireland Bingo on Highland Radio. It's Tuesday the 9th of April. You're playing on the brown sheet. The reference number is S12. It's game number 15. The numbers are 88, 6, 74, 19, 12, 42, 43, 84, 16, and finally 29. Phone your claim tonight. 104833 before 8 tonight. 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Grania, good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Good morning Greg. Right, quite a bit to get through so we'll get straight into the appeals and Garda continued to investigate a case of assault and endangerment in Burt. Yes, so Gardian Boncran are investigating this incident of alleged assault and endangerment. This occurred at Green and Avallac near Burt. On the evening of Sunday the 31st of March and around 10 p.m. So following this incident a female in her thirties was conveyed to letter Kenny University Hospital for treatment for non-life threatening injuries. A man in his thirties was arrested by Gardian a short time later. He was detained at a Garda station under section four of the criminal justice act 1984. He was later charged in connection with this incident. We're appealing to anybody who may have witnessed this incident to come forward especially those who are present and around that area of Green and Avallac on Sunday evening. Who may have observed a red Kia Sportage in the area in particular. Additionally, any road users as usual we always appeal for the dash cam footage. Anybody that was in that area with a dash cam were asking them to make that footage available to us. Anybody with relevant information is asked to contact Gardian Boncran on 9320540 or as always the schools for all of our appeals the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111. The next appeal is in relation to a very recent road traffic collision. Yes, so Garda, you're currently at the scene of this collision. It occurred this morning. It involved two vehicles at Omgall Mallon Head in around 650am. It's believed to have occurred. The driver of both vehicles have been taken to hospital to receive medical treatment for their injuries. We're appealing to anybody who may have witnessed the collision firstly to come forward to chat to us. If anybody was in that area between in around 6 30am and 7 7am this morning with the dash cam again we're asking them to make that footage available to us. Gardian Boncran it could be contacted on 9320540. Diversions are in place at the minute at the Omgall Junction. That's near the primary school there and the roads expected to remain shut for a number of hours. So we're asking people please just to use an alternative route if possible. Okay and if you have any information while it's fresh in your head certainly please get in contact with the Garda. Criminal alleged criminal damage or criminal damage to a business in Letter Kenny now. Yes this happened at a business premises in the Pierce Road in Letter Kenny shortly before 9 30 p.m. on Friday the 5th of April. So CCTV has been viewed further CCTV has been canvassed in relation to the incident. Emil approached the business in question and kicked the front window causing it to smash. So we're appealing to road users who were in that area there to be a busy road there the Pierce Road so we're hoping somebody may have passed may have seen what happened or may have dash cam footage of this man on foot in the area between 9 15 p.m. and 9 45 p.m. If anybody was in that area with the dash cam we're asking them to give us that footage and if anybody again is any relevant information we're asking them to contact Garda in Letter Kenny on 9 167 100. Okay um criminal damage now in Moffill. Yes this happened at Carrownaff Moville between 3 p.m. on Sunday the 31st of March and 9 a.m. on Tuesday the 2nd of April. A jeep was parked up at a business premises in that area between those times and damage was caused to it. So the front windscreen was cracked and the driver's side window was smashed. Nothing was stolen from the jeep as entry wasn't gained to it. If anybody observed any sort of suspicious activity in that area or again if they can offer any information that would assist with our investigation we're asking them to contact Garda in Bunkrana on 9 3 2 0 5 4 0. Okay and the theft of a van now? Yeah so this van was stolen and recovered. So this white Pugio partner van it has a partial registration number of NX 6 2. It was stolen from Rose Mount Terrace in Letter Kenny between April 1st and April 2nd. This van was parked at Rose Mount Terrace on Monday April 1st at 12 30 p.m. When the owner returned the following morning or the following day to collect it he realized then it had been stolen. The van was located at Kirkstown Letter Kenny at 10 30 a.m. and Tuesday the 2nd of April so it had been completely destroyed by fire. Repeating to anybody who may have observed this van being driven in or around Letter Kenny or at any location between April 1st and 2nd to make contact with us on 9 1 6 7 100 in Letter Kenny. Again if anybody can assist with information they can contact us in Letter Kenny or again the Guard of Confidential Line on 1800 6 6 6 1 1 1. Now the theft of an e-scooter in Letter Kenny too. Yeah this the e-scooter this happened on Tuesday the 2nd of April at about 8 p.m. This happened on the long lane in Letter Kenny so the owner of this e-scooter was approached by two males who took they just took the e-scooter from them and they took off and fought in the direction of the hospital. One of these males he was approximately five foot five or five foot six in height and wore a black puffer jacket. The other was taller slightly taller and wore a gray hoodie with the hood up. This scooter has a black frame it has red brake lines and the word e-scooter and red writing on the foot stand. So we're appealing to anybody who may have travelled in that area who had a dash cam to make the footage available to us in around 8 p.m. on Tuesday the 2nd of April. If anybody seen these two males of that description in the area on foot or if they witnessed the incident we asked them to contact us in Letter Kenny on 9 1 6 7 100. Should anybody be approached and asked would they like to buy this e-scooter maybe some of the shops or on a private capacity or if anybody has any information in relation to the current location of this scooter would ask them also to get in touch with us. Yeah and you could argue like why would you just do this once if you're capable of doing it at all. A decent description too they would stand out five foot six a black puffer jacket five foot five five foot six. The other guy taller wore a gray hoodie with the hood up so maybe you've seen them at the time or beforehand or since right. Now we're talking about traffic collision and appeal in relation to it so that happened at Gortley Road didn't it? It did this one happened a few weeks back on the 6th of March and I think we were quite hopeful maybe that somebody may have come forward between then and now but unfortunately that isn't the case so this traffic collision happened on the Gortley Road in Letter Kenny on Wednesday the 6th of March shortly before 4 p.m. A white van with a partial registration of 10 DL that had a trailer attached it caused damage to a fence that a property it was doing a turn on the road and I believe that the trailer then connected with the fence causing the damage. There was a funeral in the area at the time and there was quite a bit of funeral related traffic so we're hopeful someone may have seen this van or may have captured it on dash cam footage. We're appealing to anybody who was in that area in a van similar to this with the trailer attached to come and speak to us if they believe that they may have caused the damage and you know they may not have realized at the time that the damage was caused so we just want to give them this opportunity also to come forward to us Gardie may be contacting letter Kenny on 9167-100 in relation to that incident. And it is not the same incident but not unrelated to a couple of questions we had over the last couple of weeks of property owners having their fence damaged and by the time you know they realize the damage is done the car has been told and left. Now if you damage someone's property you are obliged well I mean you I mean you're leaving the scene of a collision there aren't you? Of course yeah and the obligation would be on the driver off that vehicle to remain at the scene to alert Gardie but unfortunately in real life this is often not the case and these collisions often happen during the night and as you said by the time the homeowner gets up in the morning the damage has been caused there's no vehicle in sight it has been removed or towed away during the night so I think there is there is a question from last week there in relation to that. Right we'll get to that after we continue our appeals my apologies on that. Ah you're welcome. Now this is a bit of advice a bit of a heads up in one particular era of the county but this this I'm presumed this advice or these cases could happen anywhere at all so this is in relation to begging is it? It is yeah so we have received recent reports it was actually approached by the community based garden in the Ballet Buffet area and she asked me just to highlight this we have had reports that people are being approached in car park areas shopping retail car park areas within the Twin Towns Ballet Buffet mainly people have been approaching them mainly females have been approaching them offering to sell in perfume begging for money for fuel or for various other items so we're just asking people to contact Guardi immediately if they are approaching this manner because it seems to be the elderly really and you know that are being approached and sometimes people can feel very intimidated and feel under obligation to hand their money over They're almost paying to get out of the situation They are of course yeah and they're afraid and they hand over their money out of fear I suppose mostly you know and we we don't want that to be the case so we ask people please if you're near a shop if you're in a car park of a shopping area just you know just make your way straight to the shop where you can go to a staff member and ask for help alert Guardi if you're approached in this way also we're asking people don't buy goods in this manner on the streets we're asking people you know if they wish to be charitable and they wish to hand over their money to for charitable reasons go to a registered charity and maybe give a donation there rather than hand their money over to a stranger okay and it's not wasting guard of time contact the guard certainly if you see that they can act upon that and our next topic is off the back of a contact from a resident obviously in the county what happened here yeah we spoke about bogus collars recently so I don't want to be too repetitive and go on and on about bogus collars but we did receive a very recent report a man had his elderly father actually lives on the outskirts of letter Kenny and his father was out in the garden doing a bit of work he was approached by a man who purported to be a workman he had a work fan with him with details of a roofing company and contact numbers in an email address on the side of the van and this man said that he had just completed work at a neighbouring house but when this elderly gentleman asked him well which neighbour you know which neighbour he was unable to tell him he was unable then to point out exactly or to tell him which house he had been at but he was quite persistent this collar and he was insisting really that this gentleman would allow him to carry out work on his roof or on his driveway the man the elderly man his son thankfully arrived on scene and once he arrived on scene this man took off immediately who you know just in an instant once he seen that somebody else had shown up now the son did carry out a few inquiries he took photos off the work van as it left and it's believed it's believed that this company doesn't exist you know he's checked out the email address the company name and the contact numbers and can find no trace of them online or no company associated with them so we just want to reissue just a sharp piece of advice to people really this advice we're issuing to family members maybe if you have an elderly family member or a more vulnerable family member living alone just to remind them about bogus collars they can be persistent you know and they can sometimes they won't take no for an answer and if you're there on your own it's a very difficult situation to be in so we're asking people to look out for anybody who calls to your door look this time of year onwards the weather's picking up the evenings are getting brighter these people will start to show up they do every year they offer power washing painting they may be selling goods and they do prefer to target the more vulnerable and the elderly people who live alone we advise people not to engage with such collars if you're indoors don't open your door to anybody unless you're confident that they're known to you or you have a genuine reason to be there use a chain lock for added security or as we mentioned before the doorbell camera if some of your family could set that up for you that'll be an added piece of security for you and contact already immediately if a caller such as this calls to your home you know you're inside and they're not taking over an answer they're remaining on your doorstep or you feel intimidated by them contact us give us a description a good as good a description as you can you know if you can look out a window take a note registration number of their vehicle even an accent their height what they were wearing you know these are all useful pieces of information the problems happens though when you agree at any level at all for some type of work to be carried out at your property be it roof we know the scam there I've just been up on the roof half of your roof is gone or the driveway and they don't put down the right type of product or what have you so don't agree to have any type of work carried out most certainly not don't agree to have any type of work carried out and we had this recently with these tarmac you know these tarmac layers they were calling door to door and unfortunately people did lose money they agreed to get the work done probably under duress also you know feeling intimidated by them genuine tradesmen or builders well I've certainly never had one called to my door often you know these people genuine workmen or tradesmen builders plumbers electricians whatever the case is they advertise online they advertise in newspapers they don't have the need to call door to door and they tell you and they tell you when you do get through to them I'll be there in about six months yeah exactly yeah yeah well there's they're in such demand they are in demand now obviously it's not six months but the point you're making is is that we all know how busy the people working in these types of industries are at the moment and they're not going around knocking on doors looking for work exactly and as you said if you ring yourself to get a tap fixed or to get anything fixed a small job especially around your house you know it's it is very difficult to get them because they are a chocolate block they're flat to the mat so they don't have time to be calling door to door so just look if you have if you have any sort of call or call to your home take as many details as you can jot them down let us know and please do look out for elderly or vulnerable family members and neighbours look out for them you know the way things were years ago I suppose it was more of that people kind of checking in on their neighbours and you don't say it as much you don't say it as much now and it's sad that that seems to be dwindling and it would be great to have it revived you know it would be and because it would be better for us as a people as well as anything else but also too I don't think unless you've seen it happen and unfortunately I've seen it happen close to home how persistent and almost sort of aggressive and that they can get and people fall for it or people go right okay okay okay because it's just shock and awe you see and that's how the that's how they get some people to fall victim to this kind of stuff right I suppose it's not an appeal it's an instant and an instant update so to speak in relation to a a burglary earlier today yeah so I just came in this morning so I just thought I'd stick this in and make people aware that a burglary occurred in the early hours of this morning April 9th had occurred at a business premises at Kelly last in letter Kenny now thankfully we're not issuing any appeals in relation to it Gardie did arrest a man at the scene and he was charged to appear in court later this morning okay now what's the story on the 60 kilometer speed zone from the Port Bridge people are coming behind me and beeping and acting like I'm going to slow people use it as an overtaking lane this is the four lanes in letter Kenny effectively isn't it it is there is a 60 kilometer speed limit in place between the dry arch roundabout and the pole star roundabout 60 kilometer only speed limit and you do see it I see it myself in the evenings you do you see people are tending to use the outer lane you know they're using it as an overtaking lane speed checks are conducted on those lanes I don't know if people are aware of that or not as with any other road speed checks are conducted so if anybody is found to be speeding on that stretch of road or any stretch of road they will receive a fixed charge penalty notice 160 euro fine and three penalty points and just my advice to anybody your caller that rang in with this question or anybody that's having issues with speed on that stretch of road or any road if anybody observes any sort of driving that they believe that they feel that it's a dangerous manner of driving or like that of somebody's driving bumper to bumper with them and beeping and then overtaking them at speed we would ask them to please take note of the registration number off the car in question and notify a guardie immediately and we can investigate further from there because my attitude is and I hope it's right because I'm saying it to a guard is that if I'm coming in towards letter Kenny right I'm going to head out past the Mount Aragile I will go straight into the right hand lane to stay in lane because otherwise I'm trying to cut from the left into the right as we approach where the traffic might be backing up a little bit so if I'm going right or straight ahead I'm in that right hand lane sitting at about five kilometers under the speed a bit just to be extra safe you know yourself and you know that's it is not the right lanes not an overtaking lane it's best to be in that lane isn't it early on exactly and as you say that's what I do too if I'm coming in to work I automatically go into lane which route I intend and to stay on and I remain up but you do see cars sometimes and they go on to one lane they zigzag they go over back over back because the cars in front they aren't going fast enough and they're in and out so if anybody does observe driving like that they perceive it to be dangerous we do encourage them to contact us and make a report and just generally not nothing to do with you or the guards 50 felt a bit slow 60s all right you know what I mean it's for that road I think 50 just felt a little bit um can you park on a footpath ask the listener no you cannot park on a footpath so parking on footpaths is highly inconsiderate number one but it is also illegal to park on a footpath it's illegal to park in any way which interferes with traffic flow or obstructs or endangers other road users to include pedestrians so you cannot park in a footpath either partly or wholly so illegal parking results in blocked footpaths look you're forcing vulnerable road users such as wheelchair users mammies or daddies with buggies the visually impaired um children and other pedestrians they don't have adequate room to walk safely on the footpath if you're blocked if you're parked wholly or partly on it so if you do park in a manner such as this you are liable to receive a fixed charge penalty notice and the penalty for that offence is 80 euro fine we see it all too often though oh yeah it's unfortunate but it is not legal right okay just to recap then on the fence question what happens if you own a property and have a fence around it our fence has been knocked down constantly this is a great cost for people to repair it'll cost 1200 euro for concrete posts who's left to pay for it the cars were actually pulled out but they never say who they are they don't come and tell you that you they've knocked your fence now we kind of touched on this earlier but just to be absolutely clear what should happen in this situation you did and unfortunately this is a very common occurrence we see this quite often and some houses unfortunately get hit more often than others depending on where their house is located and their fence is located but should this happen regardless of whether the car is gone from the scene or not please do report the matter to Gardie because I think more often than not and especially if it's happened a few times people then tend to think look what's the point or what there's always a point reported to us we can check we can appeal for dashcam footage we can check neighbouring businesses for CCTV so there is always a point please do report this matter to us look regardless of whether you reported or not if the car is gone and if the driver can't be located then unfortunately yes the homeowner would be liable to pay for the damage to themselves or to go through their home insurance so my advice is if this is happening to you regularly my advice would be to invest in a camera to cover that area cover that area the fenced area outside your home at least then you've added security that should it happen you will at least get the registration for up you have evidence of course okay makes sense okay and some of these batteries sorry some of these cameras too have batteries that last a very very long time and only record when they see movement and stuff so there's ways around it even if it's quite quite removed from the property Garda Granada Hardy as always thank you so very very much share that was community guard information for this Tuesday the 9th of April it'll be replayed on ours and the Garda Sheer Khaners Facebook page a little later on and of course you can listen back to playback on our website as well and back live for you after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie celebrate exceptional businesses and Donny Gall nominate your 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talking about her new book a suit case full of stories good morning Avril good morning Greg congratulations I think it's a great achievement to you know from concept to production to to go through with all that so it's a long old journey isn't it yeah but a bit daunting because you know the book is self-published so you know it's a huge investment not only of time but also of money and then you get a bit of imposter syndrome halfway through where you think am I doing the right thing is this going to be worth all the work and all the money and then but I mean it's it's something that I've always wanted to do I've written I've written publications before but never in my own name so this is kind of the first book that you know has my own name on it and that in itself has been very satisfying and it's visually there's a lot of visual elements to this is that an extra complication when you're self-publishing yeah I would imagine you know this text would be easier to reproduce yeah why did you want to have before we talk about the book and all that why did you want so much so many pictures and graphics accompanying the words well I'm an extremely visual person myself I think people engage with text and books and publications if you know there's a lot of visual content I also wanted the content to be very real I wanted it to feature early childhood services not just using stock images all the time you know ensuring that I was able to bring that piece of reality to the publication where I was showing practice out in early childhood settings so I put a call out two services that are using the Mosaic digital app and asked them would they provide stories for the book and would they provide visual content and thankfully quite a few did and and you'll see them featured throughout the book so who's the book for okay so the book is principally for early childhood educators those working with young children and early childhood settings it's also for students who are studying early childhood care and education and we've had a huge response from lecturers in colleges who are teaching on degree programs it it's principally about a teaching and learning technique in early education called documentation for learning which is about seeing children as individuals and taking them from where their strengths are and their interests are and building their learning on that but I suppose that's the kind of that's the kind of education side of it but the strong message that I wanted to run through the book I that's that's the reason for the suitcase full of stories analogy it's it kind of links a wee bit to what you were talking about self-image and self-esteem and things yesterday on the show because it's it's all about that invisible suitcase that we all carry with us now as adults which we started to carry as children and that's what we look at in early education we look at not some it's not so much saying okay you're going to start to learn at this stage of course you do but it's really about putting the foundations in place to enable children to be secure enough to have the security to actually learn and we use the word foundations but in this case this case it's it's literal isn't it because this is the beginning of the development of a child and and you can follow it right through to adulthood 22 years of age in college but it all starts off there and and and we know you have to have the right foundations to build on to give everyone the best chance of maximising their potential yeah well i mean this arguably Greg this this is the most most important stage of education i mean i've been at this a long long time do you think people get that like you get it no no no i mean our government obviously doesn't get it because you know for over 30 years now people like me have been saying the exact same thing and although we have we have progressed somewhat from where we were we are nowhere near investing enough in early childhood care and education there's a huge staffing crisis there's a funding crisis and this is all impacting on children and this is one of the reasons that the book is kind of so refreshing it's to kind of in many ways bring the narrative back to children where it should be because now increasingly every time we hear something about child care services on the news or in the media it's about it's about strikes it's about walkouts it's about you know protest days all which are needed to draw attention to the crisis in the sector but it means we're not talking about how we're doing it we're not talking about children you know and we're not talking about this very crucial stage where we are responsible in early education for ensuring the children have that security to learn because if that's not instilled in early education you will have problems later on talk to me about the security to learn what do you mean by that okay well what I mean by security to learn is that there's you don't teach someone how to read you first of all have to teach children about books are exciting books are something that's enjoyable and then reading will come you will have nurtured that interest things like positive dispositions for very young children things like resilience self-esteem independence all those positive dispositions are part of our job and early education to instill in children some to some of the to some extent I can say this is a parent right so no one can jump on me to some extent though then that's kind of probably unpacking a little bit of the work of the parents and guardians then because we might send them into early education money coddled or maybe not encouraging reading as much as we can in the way that you talk of or do you know what I mean but it's about time and interest principally Greg you know if a child if you this analogy that I use of the invisible suitcase so you imagine this child is carrying this invisible suitcase every time you make time for that child every time you speak to them and ask them about their day every time you positively reinforce something that they've done not about saying oh correct that or maybe you could put the eyes there or the nose there you know that's amazing tell me why you did it that way that's all positive messaging that is going into that suitcase and that will stay with that child for life now the as I was driving up the road this morning you had a caller that was commenting about taking something very personally the issue there is with that person's own inbuilt sense of self-esteem and resilience and another person which is which is fragile because one person's comment a non entity probably in this person's life it's sad that they were so vulnerable in themselves that this person was able to have that impact on them and I couldn't articulate what I wanted to after that but that person forgot they said that 10 seconds later of course they did of course they did but the thing is like when we talk about education my own experience of education was a very poor one I was a child with very very low self-esteem I was naturally very quiet and very shy that's addressed in the book you know I was very honest about it and I wasn't seen I was never seen by an educator the whole way through my own educational process because I wasn't out there I wasn't able to speak up I wasn't able to do all those things so therefore that had a massive impact on my own personal self-esteem I mean I am the biggest I have the biggest sense of imposter syndrome ever yes you know and we'll carry that with me but if you had an educator then in your younger years and they recognize that and sort of brought you to one side or brought you to the front or employed some of the techniques that you have in this book you're saying you'd be a different person now or likely be isn't that scary it's fascinating and scary and yeah or at the same time but it's true Greg it's so what you are as an adult now you can trace it back to not being seen in the education setting yes because the message in that I have in my suitcase is that I wasn't able enough I wasn't clever enough I wasn't all these things and actual fact I was you know I didn't go back to education until I was an adult and an actual fact until I had three children because I I kind of thought you know well I need if I'm going to now start to send to them you know I need you know you need to work hard in school you know I didn't have that background so I educated myself as an adult and I lent very firmly towards this early education because I recognised from my own experience not so much early education wasn't a big thing in those days but I mean I mean teaching through criticism teaching through well when I say teaching you know teaching through shaming a child tough love or whatever people might have framed it at the time that was not teaching you know that was not teaching you know and I couldn't wait to get out of school do you know and those who are you know when I don't know what the percentage of the population are those who are very clever and everything comes easy to them probably don't experience this so maybe they do don't get me wrong I'm not I'm not trying to create some sort of a hierarchy here but I'm just you know those that maybe need the little bit of help it's funny you should say that because I don't view intelligence as being clever but unfortunately the education system does it does it does but I'm not talking about my views I'm talking about how the education system judges people because if you have somebody with a lovely personality really good social skills somebody that people can connect with and identify to that's much more important but we don't that's not a leaving certain subject unfortunately or but then you couple you have to marry that with what skills do you need for life what skills do you need to be successful in life and it's not algebra it's not you know it's it's all these soft skills so in terms of of early educators do you think they get that and do they have to buy into the way you think do you think or do they mostly think like that but this book not only sort of talks about but actually demonstrates how they can better do their job they do think like that in terms of the educators that I know and they want to do it but the pressures are such within the system at the moment that it's stopping their ability to focus completely on children and the way that we need to be and there's an awful lot of rhetoric out there about what we need to be doing but in actual fact you know when you're looking at staff teams that are paid very low wages when we have a recruitment crisis and everybody's studying to degree level and then heading off to Dubai organ into primary skills we can't keep our talent within the sector yeah and also to I think for those of us who maybe don't realise the importance of these people as a general population that perhaps we should that they have some of the the biggest impact on our children's lives throughout their life albeit at the other stage of the life and it's something even from your own perspective here on the show Greg that I think that you know that focus on early education would be really really welcome you know in terms of you know talking about some of the concerns from that perspective not like what funding is available or what you know really from that perspective of how can we put often the early education those that represent the the the educators that's what they come to us with as well so can't bat that away and say let's talk yeah yeah I take your point but yeah have a different space whereby okay so it's not the only conversation in time so for example just a shout out to an event that I'm participating in tomorrow in the clanry between two and four o'clock tomorrow in the clanry hotel cyber risk ITIS sorry ITIS secure technology are running a seminar especially for early early childhood practitioners and managers which is looking at digital risk managing digital risk with an early childhood settings so I'm speaking from the child's rights perspective in terms of child privacy and the propensity to post children's images on social media so that's going to be my contribution to the day another really interesting topic that a lot of countries are now starting to grapple with and something that would make a really interesting conversation yeah I'd actually be interested in that conversation with you so we might sort that out actually because it's not about making people feel guilty or that they've done wrong but sometimes we don't realize exactly yeah so just very finally the book is targeted at those in education early education but it's very accessible for people who aren't to understand their children and maybe employ some of this activity at home or what have you so as I say it's not overly I mean it's obviously it's detailed right but it's presented in such a way that I don't think you have to be an early educator absolutely to sort of pick some positive stuff up from it it's very practically written and particularly the and that was purposeful and particularly the first chapter chapter is all about children's emotional intelligence so that applies to parents to educators to anyone across the board in terms of putting those very fundamental foundations in place okay it is called a suitcase full of stories and it's from Avril Macmonagall and she's the founder and CEO of Mosaic Digital Solutions for Early Education and author as I say of this book it is available on Amazon for those in early education but I think as I say anyone with children or an interest in their children would get a better understanding of how we can speak to them and bring them on and what have you or even you know take it to you know those who look careful for your children and say this is interesting actually if you've seen this right it's on Amazon you could just search it and away you go yeah yeah that's 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fertility and menopause our female health benefit is available on all hospital plans like our first cover plan from just 41 euro 92 cent per month join today search Irish Life Female Health terms and conditions apply Irish Life Health DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland we're joined on the program now by Railtan Nilanan who is talking to us about a horrendous experience that she went through recently or that's how I would see it anyway Railtan good morning to you Hi how are you good morning okay right what happened to you whilst traveling from Dublin Airport to Donegal Airport well I had a mastectomy I've come for 15 years ago and a mastectomy and since then I've been wearing what I affectionately call my bean mic it's a perforated and I've never had any problems anywhere going through security at any gate and I've been to Amsterdam Glasgow London you know good few places and then just coming up to St Patrick's Day I was going up to Cardahorch for a special night for Lillith Lyra who's he's just retired as a professor down in Galway and I was coming through the gate and I was stopped because what happens now is they have these new big body scanners and you stand in front of them you put your hands out and it flashes up a big orange triangle and it goes danger, danger well Robinson there's something here we need to investigate with me most times and I've been as I said I've been to Glasgow I've been through Zistro you you get a quick path down and that's it thank you very much Ben and way on but at this particular stage she the security officer stood in front of me and went what is this this is showing up I went yeah that's my breast prosthesis and she went I have to see it and I looked at her because we're starting this was Patty's weekend come on the whole world this mother was there you know um so I stood there and to be honest I think I mentioned um on somewhere else I was like a rabbit on the head like sort of you are and I said I just so I repeated it is a breast prosthesis and she went I have to see it so I ended up trying to put my hand down the front of my top and in and do you know what you get special breath put these things in so that I won't don't move all over the world and fall out in the middle of Tesco um I had to hulk around to try and get it out because it's awkward and halfway through getting that out I think that's when she suddenly realized this might not be the best idea this is okay that's grand where you go so I walked through and again still going what just happened and I was actually sitting into the plane to be honest before it really hit to me what had happened and you know yourself now I have to say here there was a bit in um one of the national newspapers and I was crying on the airplane yes I was but you know how short that airplane is you're no sooner up than you're down that is not the point and I am not here to be a victim I'm here to say really to be honest be ready be ready to tell them okay give me privacy okay well and let's go let's do it you know it's our experience and of course it's up to you to frame it whichever way you like but I think there are people listening that will feed you you were a victim I mean this dependent on how each individual I mean this is really offensive and hurtful and dehumanizing it's so many different things yeah dependent on how the person feels it obviously but to have to to be I don't know how did it make you feel having and the public the public nature of it as well and just the I don't know how did it make you feel it's the public nature of it actually it was it was the nature of sort of um asking me basically to start hooking around in my underwear in the middle of the airport with with all these people running around and I'm not a victim but I was victimized yeah and it I think she started realizing how how humiliating it was sort of as she started to see the the processes start to come out you know and that's but I mean the irony is as well there were about three or four guys on the gate with her and none of them intervened to say you know sorry um maybe this could be handled another way or you know and I must admit on the way back through Carrick Finn there's only as you know yourself properly there's one gate there's one body scanner um and it's this new body scanner so I said to the guy standing on the other side before I went through I tell you what this is going to be and this is what it is and he couldn't have been nicer oh oh jeepers oh absolutely not a bother which is exactly what they were like in Glasgow as well and he treated you like a person you weren't treated like a person yeah yeah that was just no I was treated like I was treated like like to be honest like um I was already in the prison system for being a drug mule between Dublin and Donegal in terms of I mean even if the was it said to you at any point look I understand this might be sensitive we do have a an area that I can take you to where you can show me so at least it would be you and one under one other individual rather than this that's what should have happened yes but would it should have could no that's what should have happened but um I'd just like to say I mean I did actually write in I wrote in a complaint on the day and I got a holding reply of oh where terribly sorry this happened and they did say where terribly sorry this happened we'll investigate so I waited and then they came back with what we are we'd like to repeat where terribly sorry this happened but and when you see the but but um just like to repeat that for security reasons blah blah blah blah but I have since written back to them and this is where I sort of decided to sort of move it up a notch and bring it out into the public sphere they did not say this is explicitly and in clear language what should happen when you go through one of these body scanners step one step two step three and I think that's what needs to be done in the same way as when in the same way as when we're traveling you get something coming up on your screen when you're checking in or whenever to say scissors this you know sharp objects aerosols whatever there should be some kind of in case of prosthesis please note a bc and the if I want to see that happen yeah and I think you're right too because there has to be a better way because if that person who insisted at least for a time being for you to remove your prosthesis it then would have had to have gone in a train through the scanner because she couldn't have made a visual assessment on that so if there is no proper policy or no information presumably that would you would have to place that into a tray go through a scanner and retrieve it otherwise there'd be no point in her seeing it because she couldn't fully determine actually what it was and also too I think what's so important about you speaking out is that this is almost designed that you don't speak out about it because not everyone would be comfortable doing so and there could be 500 individuals that have gone through this separately and not said anything about it because it's so horrendous to them and they don't want to speak publicly go ahead and there are and there are yeah and there are several people because while I was waiting for the plan I actually put into a forum for breast cancer survival okay I said look this is just happened to me has this happened to anyone else and I did hear not exactly the same thing but similar things where they were were women were made to feel uncomfortable and singled out and that to be honest that's not on I mean I think I've already said in some other places I'm 15 years down the line I yeah I I I never think about it at this stage it's an intrinsic part of my life and I get just get on with the rest of my life but to have this brought up like that if I was six months out of surgery you know and a lot more of a shrink and violet than I am I think they would you know I I don't know I my heart goes out to women who are just still trying to get come to terms with the whole thing and as well as I probably still in treatment there's probably taken probably still taking hormone inhibitors and you know and they might might be in radiotherapy you never know you know yourself so there are people who are a lot nearer to the original treatment period than me and this would be happening to them and look at that flight those flights that the cancer flights obviously where people from don't all get access to cancer services in Dublin so there is that built in traffic can I just wonder or are we going to hear other cases of people feeling embarrassed or humiliated I don't know I can't think of an example but you know maybe stoma bags or whatever it might be that people are having to demonstrate publicly there one thing I don't know exactly what might trigger these scanners but I'm sure there are other examples and we can't treat people subhuman they have to be treated with respect and dignity and unfortunately we hear too many stories like this where they're not and often it is bosses airlines things like that and Ralphton thank you very much for speaking out with us as well because I think it's really important that everyone hears this and especially our airports here it's because there has to be a policy and you should have at the very least if they insist on doing so they should the first thing should be we have a private space for you or something along those lines at the very least just just a note just a note about the character and I've I've used character and quite a lot in the last few years and I've never experienced anything except pleasure and joy and on that note thank you very much Ralphton I really do appreciate you speaking to us if you have any similar experiences or anything along those lines that you feel we should highlight please let us know you know the contact details don't you oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's apps and texts the caller says I normally don't say this but I hope she puts in one heck of a claim and if she hasn't if she hasn't done it to do so if she doesn't want to keep it donated to charity what happened there is a bloody disgrace they say for people like that with prosthesis etc they should have a medical cert that the scanner might go off like a pacemaker airport staff do have to be careful and they would lose their jobs if she was carrying drugs but listen it is possible there has been a case where someone has smuggled something in a prosthesis I mean so but there has to be a process or something that that that something can't be exploited but people can't be made feel like that as well right okay we are going to take a short break and then we're going to be talking about a special presentation at century cinemas letter candy it's on the issue of endometriosis which it's great it's being spoken about far more now than it would have been in the past we're going to be joined 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network's punk i cool clore elina and you yes be networks when you watch her the seal fbd doesn't stand for frightening lab dentists ferociously beating drums all feline business directors fbd stands for support we support business owners in ireland with tailor-made services from personally assigned advisors visit your local branch to talk to your fbd insurance team fbd insurance support it's what we do underwritten by fbd insurance plc fbd insurance group limited trading is fbd insurance is regulated by the central bank of ireland now on the 29th of april at 7 30 p.m in century cinemas letter kenny a powerful documentary on endometriosis called below the belt will be screened and afterwards there will be a discussion which aims to provide women of all ages in donneville the knowledge and awareness necessary to navigate a diagnosis of endometriosis and even maybe we can talk about how you go about uh getting that diagnosis can be a challenge in and of itself kathleen king's awareness advocate for endometriosis and joins us on the program now good morning kathleen thanks for your time today good morning great thanks for having us on and we're also joined by Cheryl jane rock who's executive producer of the documentary good morning to you Cheryl jane thanks for joining us good morning i'll just make a quick correction i'm not executive producer i'm just promoting the film thanks though can i call you executive promoter at least and least will be half right uh no uh it's a very valuable role as well my apologies it's just what's written in front of me Cheryl um kathleen how did this come about uh in terms of were you approached um to sort of help with the source material or did you seek out someone who might be interested in making a making a documentary on this important topic yes so the director of the documentary is a lady called Shannon Cohen um who also lived with endometriosis and she has a filmmaker and a law background and she first produced a documentary in 2016 called end of what um which had its irish premiere in letterkenny and we had a fantastic response to that and you know as you know the community in ireland like worldwide we helped crowdfund that that allowed then below the belt to be launched a couple of years back and we held an irish premiere back in 2022 but it's such a powerful documentary and while we're hoping to get this to broadcast it really is so important that people see it so um Cheryl and myself have decided to bring this to don't go ahead of that so that people can take the education from it people can take the impact from us and you know all of the education that comes with that and i would work very closely with Shannon in terms of you know awareness and different advocacy events worldwide but it's such a powerful story it needs to be told and it is told through four people is that correct it is yeah for for at least four stories within that film and we see the progression um and the impact that it has on these individuals right through from not being believed given inappropriate treatments and diagnosis and also like the financial side of it having to travel for surgery um all things that we see reflected here in the irish community i've spoken to too many women that have struggled to get the diagnosis uh as you've just outlined yourself to the point where it's all in their head or it's this or it's that um and the the common theme is eventually they just you know have to self advocate they do their own research and they say this is what i have now you you know you have to do what you have to do yeah it is it's terrible and and you know i suppose 25 years on for my diagnosis we're still seeing the same fight i'm still seeing people being faced with the same challenges that i faced and the average rate of diagnosis in Ireland is nine years and but i've recently spoken to women who was first diagnosed in her 50s and that's not uncommon you know i will come across women like that quite frequently i think first of all we don't believe women we don't believe that their symptoms are quite severe but equally we find that women don't necessarily know that something's wrong because we've been led to believe that maybe you know paying around the time of periods maybe painful sex painful bowel movements pain empty in your bladder we don't necessarily know that these things are abnormal so we have a huge gap in education and again not just in our limber world why it's that we need to address well Cheryl jane we are making some progress in that more people now than i think you know i don't know how to timeline it five or ten years ago understand or have some knowledge of endometriosis and how it can affect people and i'm not talking about those that that have it i'm on about just general society they also talks to unfortunately another issue that comes up in this show time and time again problems with the health system with health care that continually seem to disproportionately affect women yeah there is so much more work to do really i mean i can only speak i mean i'm not a medical professional or an academic i can only speak from personal experience and as a patient i was misdiagnosed even last year so it took me maybe till late of last year to get diagnosed fully so the experience of that alone is quite frustrating and the understanding of endometriosis in our own still is that it's a woman's disease and it's not it's systemic it has a systemic fallout and it's been fine in every organ in the body so to address that there's research that's just necessary are things catching up though in terms of our understanding of it you know outdated opinions and what have you is the the the broader public conversation hopefully addressing some of those historical issues well historically it's i mean the name itself endometriosis it's very misleading it means endo means within mitra uterus and osis disease and actually it doesn't have anything to do with the uterus itself so that's very confusing for the medical community and the society as well but we are catching up in terms of having conversations about it there's a lot of younger people who booked into the film which i'm very excited to have them as an audience they're more comfortable talking about their bodies but yeah we're getting there but there's just so much work that needs to be done i mean i'm somebody now who's been diagnosed late and that's not a nice not a comfortable experience no and there are consequences for that as well i think it's almost half of infertility cases are due to endometriosis so it's i was going to say it's not just the and thank god i corrected myself but you know some of the things we you know about the frustration of diagnosis the pain that not being believed the late diagnosis of really quite serious ramifications life changing ramifications for people absolutely and a lot of that's a very personal story as well and i think what's a really important message for women is to listen to other women as well because it's kind of like what kathleen was saying that we don't know when we're told like we're telling each other oh i have that that's normal then we're kind of normalizing what's essential pathology so it's very important that women are having conversations with each other believing each other and promoting women's health as well what needs to change though going forward kathleen because you know documentaries like this are incredibly important and we can talk about awareness all day and we can talk about how we hope things might change but fundamentally and i suppose it's in the health system and maybe it starts at the gp practice what or what needs to change is an understanding of what age this can affect people is it making sure that people are correctly signed posted to either identify or rule out endometriosis because i don't want to spend the next 10 20 15 years talking about how we're talking about it how are we going to sort it out yeah it comes from a multifaceted approach really the best way to change this and we're starting off with education in schools and i launched a pilot program in dunigol called misha which is going to help educate the younger generation to recognize the symptoms the second problem that then is healthcare professional and public education and it's very important to think that when you go to gp with symptoms as vague as maybe fatigue and pain on urination or you know pain around the time of menstruation it can be very difficult for gp to recognize those symptoms so we need to train the gps and healthcare professionals to look for the red flags so look for things like painful sex look for things pain where the person is unable to attend something that's important as a family wedding or an exam or something like that there are things that you can help to differentiate and then third of all we look at the government's plan where they have put in endometriosis framework last year now unfortunately there was not enough patient consultation in this and the regional and super regional centers that have been set up unfortunately have left out the west and northwest area so there's a lot of work to do in that and we still don't have the expertise in Ireland you know to be able to provide multidisciplinary care excision surgeon and to cope with the amount of women we're talking about 200,000 women in this country living with endometriosis in all its shapes and forms so we've a lot to do yeah it's estimated one in nine women are affected there's going to be a level of under reporting here and a lag I suppose in counting people given the decades it can take or the decades sorry almost it can take for a full diagnosis we can presume is it that it's a greater figure than one in nine yeah if you look at some populations and particularly those present through with infertility it can be as low as as one in five like I think we need a non-invasive diagnostic method to be able to diagnose endometriosis quicker and I'm delighted to say there are some research going on on that including some Irish research which is going to contribute to reducing the delay from nine years hopefully down to three months and we're a few years off that device going to market but again too that would be a revolutionary change and get people that diagnosis and treatment earlier and Cheryl Jane this isn't just about endometriosis is it I mean this is you know I think every woman affected or not and when I say every woman I mean every one actually because we you know it affects it affects all of us one way or other that this is about actually more broadly to a conversation about health care for all women I believe that definitely yeah I think you know we can all say is you know health care it's not you can't say women are more important than men of course not but biologically we have timeframe that's just science and I think it's important that we do prioritize women's health care and essentially it's you know we're there to reproduce hopefully yeah okay so the the showing of this documentary is on Monday the 29th of April it's at 7 30 p.m it's in Century Cinema Letter Kenny how do people go about sort of getting their tickets and talk to me a little bit then about the the post-show conversation Cheryl Jane so you can we have a link on Ticket Tailor I'll have to admit the tickets are flying out that shows the appetite for the conversation itself so they can contact me on Instagram as well Cheryl Rock but Ticket Tailor should leave them directly to the link and in terms of the post-show discussion we just want to start the curiosity of women with women and also to start you know to encourage self-advocacy it was the first thing someone told me whenever I was diagnosed they said you know you need to self-advocate and I was like what does that mean what is that and you feel like you're being pushy that you feel like you know you're asking but too much you feel like a hypochondriac but then whenever the you know the facts show you realize then and you kind of have to look back at maybe 20 years of being misdiagnosed and that's a difficult experience yeah um Kathleen a call says her daughter has been referred for hysterectomy they think she is endometriosis she's passing out with pain is there any other test you can get done for a diagnosis not a horrendous situation to be in yeah it is it's a bad situation unfortunately laparoscopy is the only way to diagnose endometriosis but I would advise that caller to seek a second opinion a hysterectomy is not a treatment for endometriosis it doesn't remove the disease and the disease by its very nature is outside of the uterus and usually on the pelvic organs so again try and seek somebody who's experience with endometriosis and you know maybe speak to somebody within the community as well it could help signpost can I just correct myself here I just have read hysterectomy so often I went through it's a histo hystereoscopy a big pardon hystereoscopy yeah hystereoscopy yeah hystereoscopy cannot diagnose endometriosis a hystereoscopy hystereoscopy looks inside the uterus itself it looks at the endometrial lining which again is different all right okay sorry about that it's also important to state that very often hysterectomy is you know the go-to for so it was a Freudian slip but it was not a million miles out either sadly yeah with endometriosis do you have rapid weight loss typically I wish if if somebody's experience in symptoms such as nausea or bowel discomfort it may mean that they have you know they're not eating as well or eating less but typically the disease is not associated with either weight loss or weight gain but normally the symptoms around that so maybe the bowel symptoms or the you know the eating patterns from living with pain can affect that okay listen both of you thank you very much indeed I really do appreciate you come on unless there's anything either if you feel we need to add just whilst we're in this space or are you happy enough yeah no thank you very much for helping us promote this and again if people have questions they can reach out to either myself or Cheryl on Instagram's the easiest place to find us okay thank you very much indeed Kathleen King awareness advocate for endometriosis it's good having you on the show and also Cheryl Jane Rock who is a promoter for this event which is on the 29th of April at 7 30 p.m. in the Century Cinema Letter Kenny it's a float for below the belt a powerful documentary on endometriosis thanks so much um it's been a pleasure having you on the show thank you all right take care of yourself bye bye Cheryl Jane Rock there 08 660 25 000 these are whatsapp and text number if you want any further comments on that um obviously I mean maybe I I'm out of touch here but a lot's been happening yesterday and today politically for me it just I don't really maybe I should give it more importance 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parent violence as it often is termed as well rather than calling it the secret side it's often more so the unspoken side of domestic violence or domestic abuse because i think most people when they think of domestic violence or domestic abuse think of it very much in a partner to partner setting um but obviously domestic violence or domestic abuse is any sort of abuse or violence that takes place in the domestic settings so child to parent violence or adolescent to parent violence very much falls within that category so um over the last four years we've seen about a 500 increase in first of all in the demand for the supports that we have for child to parent violence uh last year we took about six thousand we took 6147 calls last year to parent line which made 2023 a records year for parent line in the first place but one in three of those calls uh referred to elements of child to parent violence now i will say great i think you know because of the word violence a lot of people that when they think of child when they think of any sort of domestic violence or when they think of child to parent violence might think you know that it's some kind of 15 year old young fella kind of throwing his mother up against the fridge door every night of the week and it can be but it's not always so we would have calls from parents who can have very significant injuries and um are very traumatized and they may have bruising or a broken bone or whatever but it isn't just physical violence as i say it can be but it isn't just physical violence it's also verbal abuse emotional abuse damage to property um coercive behaviors controlling behaviors so there's a number of um elements to child to parent violence i think the only the thing that needs to be remembered is that the crux of it is that it is any violence that leaves the parent afraid or in fear of their child in their own home and that is essentially what child to parent violence is and just you know again not to keep over talking but you know really i think what what the the worst part of child to parent violence in every part of it is bad is that it definitely is a stigma um for the parent and a sense of shame and a sense of silence because it's very difficult for a parent to acknowledge that this sort of behavior is going on in their own home and with their own child because you know this is their beautiful child and they never expected you know these behaviors to be subtly directed at them it's difficult to acknowledge but more and more people are and when you see such a rapid increase 500 increase in demand over such a short period of time you have to ask the question are we seeing more of this is it because more people are living at home now uh or living at home for longer is it that people are becoming more aware that parent line can offer support in this regard and it's the you know maybe the path of least resistance for them in terms before going to the Guardian or whatever I mean what is your analysis of of why we've seen such a rapid increase in a relatively short period of time well i think you've touched on actually a number of the elements i think it's a combination of things so i think certainly and you know parents are probably more willing to talk about it because we've pushed the envelope not just parent line but other organizations and in terms of trying to open the door to a discussion on this and to try and de-stigmatize it and to you know to get parents to open up a bit about it so we've certainly raised the profile um of parent line and the awareness of child to parent violence um but you know i mean look you can't put everything at the door covert um but i think certainly you know the first year that we experienced the spike in calls in relation to child to parent violence and um spike in demand for for the program that we have to support that was during the first covert year in 2020 um and we saw the the demand go out the door at that stage that would have been because i suppose you know families became kind of hot pots you know everyone was living or working from home or go to school from home and you know that it certainly was quite incendiary in a lot of environments that there is another thing which is also that you know the housing crisis i suppose has also kind of driven a bit of this because when we talk about child to parent violence it's children primarily aged from 12 or 13 or that they can be a bit younger uh right through to adult children you know because adult children are they're still your child and now there are so many adult children who because of the housing crisis and because of financial restrictions are living in the family home and it caused a huge difficulty for parents and actually 17 percent of our calls last year more from parents in relation to their adult children so it's a very significant issue as well as i say you know it's you know it has been caused by a number of factors but it was primarily that you know the housing crisis and the difficulty of getting accommodation and being able to afford accommodation so i think it's all that but i think also maybe parents are a bit more willing to look for support yeah and so i'm not saying that it wasn't always there because i you know i i mean it may have increased but i think maybe it's an increased awareness but also aileen what's happening too when we talk about child to parent abuse is that there are people listening to the show today that maybe think it's normal maybe just put up and shut up and they're actually saying actually i'm a victim of this so you know the awareness i think actually sort of makes people realize that's you know that's the life of the living which they shouldn't what are the like if you someone contacts parent line or some other group that offers support in this area um i don't want any trouble for them you know i just want a resolution to this i don't want the guards involved or whatever it might be in every case is different are there interventions or things that you can suggest that that can try and address the issues before it is escalated or elevated first of all 100 and second of all i suppose what we will always say is you know the sooner you you ask for help you know the better you will feel and it's okay it's okay to ask for help because you know this isn't a behavior that you need to accept in your own home so we have a very specific program called the non-violent resistance program now we're not the ordinary organization that has this program a number of other organizations cams would have it and uh to sort of have it and burn out there are a number of agencies and organizations would have it i suppose where parent line comes into its own is that we are one of the few if not the only organization that um has such an amount of non-violence resistance trained practitioners because it's a very specific training program that our volunteers have to do in order to do the program uh we now have 33 volunteers who are trained in this specific program and also because the added bonus is that we do it over the phone with parents so it takes out the logistical difficulties of coming to meet somebody it also adds to the confidentiality of parents who are looking for the service because again you know they're not always willing to to meet somebody face to face or in a group setting um or whatever so in in short first of all i would say that if anyone is is dealing with this issue in their own house the best thing to do would be to go and look at the parent line website we've got a huge amount of information on the parent line website on child to parent violence and on the non-violent resistance program and there's testimonials on the website in relation to parents who have been through the program and they speak about their experience prior to do the program and a lot of them were in very drastic circumstances and they were very distressed and a lot of them didn't believe the program would work for them but you know they also then describe how they went through the program and how it worked from the back end for them essentially you know you know it's an eight to ten week program so i'm not going to be able to explain it in three minutes but essentially it's a it's a non- blaming intervention program but what it essentially tells Greg is it sets about changing the reaction of the parent to the behaviors that are being exhibited or displayed against them because i think most children know exactly what buttons to press and exactly what reaction they're going to get when they press a particular button and often it's like throwing oil onto a fire but if you change the parent's reaction or change the parent engages with that behavior that in turn brings about a behavioral change in the child no obviously it's not as simplistic as that and unfortunately for many parents they would love us to be able to post some magic bean or to wave our magic wand to resolve what's going on it doesn't work like that but for parents who do this program with us as i said a one-to-one basis over the phone is a fantastic program as long as they commit to doing what's being suggested to them on the program i mean you know it changes family dynamics and family outcomes right going forward brilliant stuff okay Aileen thank you so much for your time Aileen Hickey CEO of ParentLine and the website address Aileen is parentline.ie is it okay thank you very much indeed i'll double check that we just got cut off there just at the very last okay again if that's an issue that affects you or you want to share your story and it's very difficult very sensitive i i did have quite a long back and forward communication on this issue with someone on social media gone back sometime and thankfully the situation was resolved but the person in question an terrible desperate situation and there was a violent element to their situation as well um but um my last communication 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which i presume that's what they're calling us would it not suit the inch on td better to help his micro-stricken constituents rather than spend his time helping his party colleague in a forlorn attempt to gain a seat in brussels charity begins at home charlie remember that at the local elections count well it would be the uh dull elections but i take your point people driving carelessly on roads have got away for far too long they'll always get money for fines there's people going to jail for less crimes authorities need to wake up mary the one thing uh i mean there is a catastrophic loss of life on our roads north and south by the way what i don't understand is the approach to it i'm not you know too much policing and all that kind of stuff and extra laws uh you know people have their reservations on that but why do we target driving safety like for a weekend at a time i mean that is the biggest suggestion that the resources are crap that there could be so you get one weekend where the speed vans are at the guards are at the check and tax insurance the check and tires and it's all done in a a big weekend surely that should be the case all of the time because what happens is is yeah all right it's not this weekend i'll just drive how i like i don't but that's how some people might think so i think the fact that they have to do these throw the resources at it and you still don't see many about if the truth be told the odd speed fun in here and there i've never been stopped once on a one of these high awareness weekends but it points to the fact that for the rest of the year obviously there's a serious gap if that is what a targeted uh a target approach to road safety is i watched up front with katey cannon last night an rg regarding integration when we go on holidays we have to show our passport to get on the plane yet hundreds of people in dublin or land in dublin with no documentation the question is if 200 people are scanned onto a plane say in spain and 198 to scan through immigration in dublin why can't the two people that have lost their passports on route not be picked out well you see i think the problem is is or the situation is is some people might not see it as a problem is that once they get off the plane uh once they get off the plane they can claim um can they not claim uh asylum at that point and then international laws kicking uh i was on a flight quite some time ago and they were checking passports as you come off the plane you know that you know the tunnel the the tunnel that goes between the plane and the now if that were to refuse entry before people actually physically got off the plane i'm not really quite sure coming up and ours to protect it is a tuesday so ours to protect is on during john show time's running out to get yourself registered for the climate action hero challenge donna marie darty speaks to handzomer ceo of the global action plan island so tune in at 12 30 uh today on around the north west to learn more 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