Anyway, we'll get all sorted after we get the news headlines now from Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you Greg, it is Wednesday and a man has been killed in a collision on the letter Kenny to Derry Road. It happened last evening between Newton Cunningham and Manor Cunningham. A section of the N13 remains closed and diversions are in place. With more detail, here's Emma Ryan. Gary, you say the collision involves three cars and occurred at approximately 10 to 11 last night. A man in his early 70s was taken from the scene to letter Kenny University Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. A man in his 40s was also taken to letter Kenny Hospital to be treated for injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening. No other injuries have been reported. Gary are appealing to any person who may have witnessed this collision to contact them and are particularly interested in hearing from anyone with dashcam footage. Anyone with information can contact letter Kenny Garda Station at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Garda Confidential Line or any Garda Station. A Donegal TD is accusing the Government of seeking to bulldoze the new defective blocks bill through the door this evening. TDs will debate the bill for two hours between half past five and half past seven. They'll consider as many of the 80 tabled amendments as possible but once those two hours are finished no more amendments will be considered and the debate will conclude. Speaking to Tony Sturley of Radker in the door last night, Deputy Thomas Pringle said that simply isn't good enough. It's casual and half hazard at best. It works at Donegal and Callath and I believe this is more likely the deliberate intent. So despite the pleas given voice in here by the Opposition from homeowners across the country and especially vocal from my own constituency of Donegal to allow more time for scrutiny and debate of the defective block bill, your intent on bulldozing it through the house in two hours following the passage of the defective block legislation when is it envisaged that your defective scheme will be open for applications? Thanks Deputy, the intention is to have the legislation enacted by the end of next week then obviously it has to go to the RS for the President to sign and all things going to plan we anticipate the scheme being open for applications well before the end of the year. Of course Johnson's days as British Prime Minister are limited and if he continues to cling on he'll be forced out. That's the view of the former British Attorney General and Tory MP Dominic Greaves. Mr Johnson's currently fighting for his job after losing both his Chancellor and Health Secretary yesterday. They quit after he apologised for appointing Chris Pinscher as his Deputy Chief Whip saying he'd forgotten about complaints over Pinscher's behaviour. Dominic Greaves says another confidence motion is likely to take place despite current rules saying they'd have to wait 12 months. And I think that in reality there will be another confidence motion they'll change the rule. Or if there isn't another confidence motion the pressure that is going to build on him will be so great that his position will become untenable. It's very difficult, it's very unusual situation because if he'd been any ordinary Prime Minister I think he would already be gone but his character and temperament mean that he will cling on and I think we'll have to be forced out. Metairin says temperatures could hit 23 degrees in parts of the country tomorrow. Most areas will see warm and dry weather over the weekend. The south and east benefiting most from sunny spells tomorrow. Dry in most areas on Friday. Next week we'll see much dry weather with temperatures in the low to mid 20s but Metairin is warning it'll stay somewhat cooler in western and north western areas. And today it'll be cloudier overcasts with light rain or drizzle at times. Some dry periods. Top temperatures 15 or 16 degrees Celsius and breezy with moderate to fresh westerly winds. Strong and coastal areas but easing this evening. It'll be a humid night with temperatures not dropping below 12 degrees Celsius and that's how in video news back with news in full at 10 o'clock. The train calling at platform three is the 1959 service to Cork calling at Charville, Malo and Maria in seat 32A starts chemo next month. We don't always know who's at risk from Covid-19 and other viruses but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask. Get fresh air in, get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell from the HSC for us all. And now it's time for the talk of the North West, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello good morning to you four minutes past nine this Wednesday the 6th of July. How are you keeping? I hope you're very well indeed. It's a bumper to bumper show today. We want you on involved by what's happening in texting from now 08 660 25000 the lines are open for you there to have your say even if you've never texted a radio show before we want to hear your opinions 07 491 25000 is how you give us a call and we have Donna Marie and Emma taking your calls today. Emails to comments at Highland Radio.com. If you want to watch the show see many of our guests as they express their opinions share their news you can go on to our website right now Highland Radio.com or join us on Facebook Highland Radio News and Sport or Highland Radio. Coming up after we have a look through the newspapers will be joined by the Tricolour Tribune's John McAteer. I'm interested to get his views obviously given his analytic mind and knowledge interested to get his views firstly on the vote last night. I would say arguably perhaps one of the most important votes as it affects Donegal people as to whether or not the defective blocks bill will be given up to nine hours perhaps for discussion or limited to do as it turns out it was limited to two the government want to vote in that regard. Three of Donegal's TDs were in attendance Sinn Féin's Pierce Daugherty, part McLaughlin, independent Thomas Pringle they voted for more time to be allowed to discuss that bill. Charlie McConnelogue, John McAteer weren't in the chamber for that vote and quite a lot of people weren't. There was a pairing involved there I think the rural independence that someone mentioned to me they paired with government parties to ensure that that got over the line which I think is quite significant in itself and perhaps it's worthy of a little bit more scrutiny. So John McAteer is coming on to talk about that and also really primarily to discuss what might happen in Donegal if well they are going to the mic action group performing a political party they are going to run candidates or a candidate and who might get in who might succeed who might that candidate be we're going to be teasing all that out with John McAteer over the course of the next while that's going to be interesting. Obviously as you might expect I hope you would expect we got on to and I'll do this before we do the papers actually because this is really I think it's quite important because of the significance of yesterday's conversation in the door for us here in Donegal and 12 other 13 other counties people were interested clearly to understand why Finnegales, John McHugh or minister for Finafall, Charlie McConnelogue was not in the door so we invited them on the program just to ask and unfortunately neither are available to speak with you today. Charlie McConnelogue says he's chairing a meeting so cannot come on the show might be available tomorrow he says he's been working with ministers in attempt to get them to accept some of the amendments putting pressure on and phone calls with heathen minister Dara O'Brien and tonnage Lee Ovaradkar last night and this morning said he's particularly pushing on the downsizing issues was not in the door yesterday he disagrees with the two-hour time slot did not want to vote against the government yesterday as he's still trying to get them to see sense and agree some of the amendments so whilst he wasn't there and the vote's not recorded he says he didn't want to vote against the government yesterday so that's John McHugh's position on the record minister Charlie McConnelogue he said he's not coming on the show he was speaking at a national beef event yesterday which was previously arranged while the Micah debate was on the door again maybe he could have paired his vote I don't know if it was so important he said though he's happy to come on the show after the bill is passed but for now he's focused on getting the work of the bill complete many months of hard work he says have gone into the bill and they need to get the scene finalized and the legislation in place that's his focus today well he has to say he's happy to come on once that work is done so that is the official line from minister Charlie McConnelogue deputy John McHugh as to why a they weren't in the the all to vote on that important issue yesterday and b whilst they're not available to speak to you today right we'll be teasing all that out as to say with John McIntyre let's look at the newspaper and it is a a Micah block story in the front of the Enish Times a Micah campaign is a confirmed plans to form a new political party the group is 28 days to finalize details of the new party including its name the process is already underway with the group confirming they've signed a rock that's papers to begin the formation of a new party the news comes as the Micah action group accused the government of attempting to railroad through it's a 3.65 billion defective blocks remediation scheme without taking the 80 amendments on board that the group says are vital to making the redress package work for everyone right let's go to the Donagall post this morning parade time again thousands of people are expected to descend on Rossnalla this Saturday for the annual orange parade which is returning following the cancellation of the event both last year and the year before due to COVID-19 it's expected that upwards of 40 lodges from Donagall cap and leach from Amunahan as well as visiting orange men from Northern Ireland and further afield will take part in the parade which begins close to St John's parish church at 12 30 p.m on to the national newspapers now we'll start with the Irish and dependent not good news if you're between 45 and 54 because one in five of you are likely to be hit pensions will be punary or peonery higher numbers of people renting rather than owning their homes when they retire are raising the prospect of many more living in poverty as they retire experts have warned the one in five aged 45 to 54 now renting their homes of little prospect of ever owning and are at the front of a rising wave facing a significantly poorer retirement that current pensioners the economic social research institutes studies warns and the research says the state is unlikely to be able to fully carry the cost burden of large numbers of people renting in their retirement the decline in home ownership rates is hitting younger adults in greater numbers but is being felt across all working age adults the study shows while 90 percent of current retirees own their home that drops to 80 percent amongst the current age 45 to 54 and crucially researchers say this gap is unlikely to close substantially and they're not going to be able to turn that around probably maybe we're moving to a a model that you're more likely to see in central Europe where there's a more of a balance between renters and ownership we just have to have if we can't reverse that we just have to have a system in place similar to elsewhere that facilitates that and helps people and avoids people living in poverty rather than simply accepting it because it's what we're doing now it's what we're doing now is determining the future it's not happening by accident it's policy it's decisions it's spending that's what's determining what's going to happen to those people so if they can't fix it now they're going to have to change the system to make it less of a burden for renters once they've retired Boris Johnson unbelievably still in a job this morning he's lost Sajid David or sorry Sajid Javed and Rashiki Sunak two of his most ardent supporters they were wheeled out on every news channel going to say how he's doing a fantastic job and they stand by their man well the former health secretary and chancellor of the Exchequer they've gone they walked out and were quite scathing in their comments on Boris Johnson even the son newspaper which is one of his biggest supporters is starting to wobble a little bit such as the media landscaping Britain but he's sticking to his guns unbelievably with one scandal after another he is has already replaced Sajid Javed and also Rishi Sunak we read on here Boris Johnson's future as British Prime Minister is in the balance after two senior cabinet ministers resigned yesterday saying he was the wrong person to lead the country Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javed resigned within minutes of each other shortly after 6 p.m. last night now both of these people probably have well one of them at least probably has leadership ambitions and he's likely to be out of a job sooner rather than later unless he is completely made of Teflon and one of these guys might be throwing their hats in the ring. To leave ministerial office is a serious matter at any time for men or for me to step down as chancellor while the world is suffering the economic consequences of the pandemic the war in the Ukraine and other serious challenges is a decision that have not taken lightly however the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly completely and seriously Mr Sunak said in a letter to Mr Johnson not covered really much anywhere either but the Secretary of State to Northern Ireland has also resigned it'll be very interesting to see if there is a change of leadership there or indeed a snap election what the implications would be for Northern Ireland the big debate over the protocol and also Brexit as a whole Labour have bottled it a little bit in saying they'd won another referendum on Brexit they're sort of saying they would maintain the status quo but still it I think it would be a very interesting time for us even though it's they're not our politicians but I think the consequences of a government change or a Tory leadership change government change leadership change I mean obviously it's going to have implications for us so we'll be watching there closely in the mail mask wearing could be set to return later this year as tarnished Leo Varadkar said nobody can rule out the possibility of restrictions returning however he ruled out any restrictions being introduced for the current summer wave this is despite calls from health care organisations for public health restrictions to be introduced due to significant overcrowding and staff illnesses in hospitals the latest wave comes as Mr Varadkar warned that a more deadly wave will strike in winter with the combination of the flu returning and warning vaccine immunity causing concern among health officials he was speaking on RTE and said he used Australia's example of the troubles that lie ahead saying generally what happens in Australia in the winter happens here and they're having a very bad flu season at the moment so not many of you want to hear that of course but it'd be remiss of me not to mention it as those are the people that are going to be making those decisions. On to the Irish Daily Star now this is a very difficult story by the way so for any sensitive years just for a minute or two but a woman has received a jail sentence of three months for the manslaughter and neglect of a newborn baby that she put in a bin after giving birth three years of the sentence was suspended for a period of three years by Justice Eugene O'Kelly who said it was a sad and tragic case with the woman's grave actions meaning her baby girl was left to die by the one and only person who knew of her birth when handing down the sentence the judge said the woman now 23 years herself acknowledged she has to live with the consequences of what she's done and what she failed to do for the rest of her life he said her actions went so much against the natural instincts of any parent but that there was a little risk of her reoffending the woman who the court allowed to be named as Caitlyn Corcoran of Castle Blaney in Kentical Kenney and formerly of Carrick Ferris in Waterford City sobbed and was visibly shaking at various points during her sentencing hearing at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court it's just unimaginable the poor we the poor we don't okay the Irish Sun this morning this is good news I suppose you know we have to welcome good news as we get it it's not good news for F1 it doesn't go as far as some might want but the we talk about the burden being eased on families for some families this is going to do that the coalition last night announced three new measures to help parents fend off the cost of living crisis including a 100 euro back to school allowance boost the addition in addition all school transport will be free and hot meals extended to 60 000 extra children as part of a surprise 67 million package so what this means is is that bill that you would have faced of what around four 500 euro per year you won't have to pay this year so you know what is that though like 250 liters of oil or whatever it might be a few bags a few bags of coal 10 bags of coal potentially but be that as you may it's still money that you won't have to spend so I presume that has to be welcomed 100 euro boost to the back to school allowance that's going to help a lot of families out there of course some would say the criteria for being able to get the back to school allowance is too narrow but they do say they may look at that further in the next budget but in the meantime I think a lot of you listening will say right okay I don't have to find that money for school transport if I'm reading this correctly well that's a boost isn't it that's going to make a difference hopefully it does the announcement was made outside government buildings by public expenditure minister Michael McGraw education minister Norma Foley and social protection minister Heather Humphries will give Norma Foley's officer ring actually and see if she's available to discuss that with us later on in the program but as I say on the face of it it seems like good news for some of course as I say for others they might feel the qualifying criteria needs to be widened and more could be done but listen good news for some there at least onto the Irish Daily Mirror soccer legend Paul McGraw's slammed online trolls who abused Ursula Jacob after her punditry at the All Island semi-finals on the Sunday game and RTE hurling analyst was working for the broadcaster at Croke Park after the game she spotted an abusive comment via prominent Facebook page the comment was included in an article that was shared on the mentioned Facebook page which has upwards of 300,000 followers Ursula hit out at the comment on social media saying enough is enough with a screenshot of the message she continued usually and ever entertain and give keyboard warriors an ounce of time or thought but sometimes enough is enough and standing up for yourself is more important than constantly just putting up with nasty tasteless comments from faceless cowards I think it was bench warmers actually that platformed and highlighted negative comments towards her I didn't see the comments I don't know the nature of them but what I do know is people can be critical and we're all critical and we're entitled to be critical especially people who are you know given a platform on the national media it's the personal nature of the commentary you know like people might not like what I say but some people go I hate you or you know you're a scumbag or that kind of stuff when really you know I'll debate or have a discussion with anyone for the most part until it gets down to that nasty nasty stuff there's just no need for it thankfully I I'm nobody compared to Ursula in terms of platform but I just think we can disagree and call people out but we don't necessarily have to be so nasty do we right uh do you want to hear John McIntyre's thoughts on um what may happen what the political landscape might be in Donnie Gaul if Micah action group run candidates well he's going to join us after this break the 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back to the program a caller says menacing mcconnellogue should get to work in getting his pension sorted out he'll be drawing it down after the next election he thinks he already knows that deputy Joe McHugh uh is uh his number is open is not going to contest the next general election but that's a choice of course that uh Joe McHugh would have made himself uh more comments on that if you wish to 08 660 25 000 over the years they've done nothing for Donagall believes this caller can't get another bridge into letter Kenny as usual the TD is not available when we need them to turn up at the vote they're not available they have to step up and shout look at the healy rays they would have been they're shouting for their county but would they do the healy rays achieve uh obviously you know um it's about deliverance isn't it's not about making noise right okay um i return to arland today from vancouver apart from the chaos at baggage where's uh where there's luggage lying everywhere and it took us an hour and 20 minutes to receive ours to then have to go out of terminal one and go through security gain for our connection at terminal two i was shocked after inquiring to be told there's no connection corridor no more between the two buildings i'm embarrassed to say this is our national airport uh thankfully it wasn't raining outside at time at the time imagine what tourists think of this airport yeah indeed but i mean i was speaking to someone recently um who was traveling through the airport in amsterdam and their experience there was absolutely brutal um and we're also seeing thousands upon thousands of flights being cancelled um in other european airports as well but just on Dublin airport because there was a story in the papers that i want to just give a quick mention as we wait for john mcateer to join us around 500 bags a day are being lost at the country's biggest airport it's been claimed angry passengers are waiting several hours for luggage and it's spiraling out of control an expert claimed on rte that 50 bags a day would be lost normally but the figure now tops 500 meaning an increase of 900 percent with today being the first day uh the army going on standby to assist at Dublin airport exhausted workers say they're doing everything they can but claim that luggage mountains build up again as soon as their cleared passengers complain it is a nightmare and means tourists suffer holiday hell in arland due to lost luggage with hotels dealing with daily deliveries of bags uh disrupting golfing holidays and weddings all right okay so it is bad down there let's see if john mcateer can hear me are you there john i'm doing great how are you i'm doing fantastic great to have you uh with us on the program today right okay i just want your reaction we talk about you know what the emergence of mag candidates might actually mean we heard from uh unfortunately either um deputy john mcqueer minister charna mcconnellog are available uh today to speak to us uh but they say they weren't able to attend yesterday's vote in the doll i don't think it's an is it isn't an exaggeration to say that that that vote to sort of the extend extend the time to discuss the defective blocks bill was one of the most important uh doll votes affecting dunagall in quite some time supposing the way it was great but you know at that point it wasn't going to make any difference because that the allocated time for the week has already been well laid out uh it was two hours allocated and that's it that's this afternoon from half five to half seven and after that it it it goes to the doll for a vote next next weekend and then to the president for signing uh i suppose listening to michael dowry on the program several times in recent days it's a long time since their trust in in politics was eroded and i suppose this was the final straw uh the field let down the field that the two dunagall tds represent in the government there haven't stepped up to the mark uh although the counselors or the 37 of them to put out that that challenge to the counselors on sunday evening was uh you back make it or you back your party all 37 counselors eventually wrote on behind them despite a couple of stormy meetings that went on behind the scenes on sunday night and maybe monday night but they got there anyway but in so far as all those meetings in the doll uh going back to the erotus meeting the six hour session uh all of the talking that's been done and all of the motions has been put forward and everything that that the mickey action group presumed was going to be included for discussion in in that pre-legislative uh scrutiny that has all been that that has all been thrown aside there's none of that is included that's why you have 80 red lines in there from the mickey action group probably three or four of them will be heard this evening at most they're going to make no difference whatsoever because the reality is i think everybody realizes now that this bill is going to be carried okay well let me ask you john for in your opinion okay like say some of the uh some of the the the low lights of this scheme um like you know foundations not not not not being included of course maybe some promise of something next year not allowing downsizing though i get i've got a sneaky feeling that's one that might actually find its way into the into the new bill just reading some of the language that's being used and and you know being able to return to the scheme or or being excluded for the scheme some of the obvious stuff that it doesn't make sense that's in there what do you believe the motivation for fast-tracking and railroading this scheme through is when you're committing so much money why not just get it right and reap the reap the positive benefits of that from the electorate i think the reality here is that the bill was going to be railroaded through this week anyway regardless and for some for some reason uh if there was going to be any allowance given if there's going to be any measures given i mean there's a there's another bill coming up this evening from half seven until nine it's a very short one it's a very important one as well make it was never going to get through this adult session had it to go had it to go through in a normal way i think to make a script more than anybody else because of a fair handle on things they realized that a long time ago that this adult session was not going to be long enough to embrace all the aspects and all all all the different stages that this bill would need and they were going to be very very lengthy stages to go through all of those ad issues we don't know what they are now we haven't seen them we probably will see them published but the bill is being railroaded through just as a matter of experience just for the government to to just get it over the line and see what happens there in the autumn and and see do people actually buy into it there's no way that the make actually was going to be recommending that anybody buy into that script because it's going to cost some money it's nowhere near 100% redress it's not even it's not even 90% redress as they read it so you know the thing that they're now worse off than they were last november and when you reach that point your faith and politics and the political system and those who represent that system for the government and this county fall away and like this is where the new party has come out of and because it's a last dead stand we do see that there is no other option and i suppose they also see the realistic potential that they can probably take a seat in the county right okay so for the purpose of the next part of this conversation are we presuming john that that in terms of the layout of the constituency and the the level of representation is most likely to remain the same at the next election i've done a fair bit of analysis on that some of it's published so much to be published a hard to see any changes there the changes are going to be basically in the on on the east coast from louth down to carlo and back up deletion awfully temporary uh there's for the five big constituencies there uh all five seaters uh there could be two new three seat constituencies one on carlo christening and one in uh temporary here in donningall we are within the margins i would imagine that was the population that we have and with that area of south donningall uh and remaining in sliger later was about nine thousand less than nine thousand five hundred volts that's an awful lot as far as we're concerned uh but it will allow a one seat per per thirty one thousand four hundred people so that's pretty well within the margins now from the point of view of two three two three cities in donningall and taking on those nine electoral areas for your total population of one hundred and sixty six thousand plus you're going to be down to a hundred and twenty seven thousand three hundred i don't think that's going to be acceptable because donningall's population unfortunately has recorded one of the lowest growth rates in the last six years yes it's actually it's actually four four and a half percent the constituency population has has grown a little bit more because that area up and around that balesar and bandone area has grown by about eight hundred extra people so that's quite substantial but for the purpose of the of the debate you could simply say we'll just go with the fact that we have five seats and it looks that's the way it's going to stay right okay so the mica action group the political party whatever it might be called i think they might want to move away from the word mica because this is is much broader and it will be much broader than mica going forward defective blocks island or whatever they want to call themselves i don't know um obviously the the they run a candidate then in in a shown who do you think that candidate might be or who would be in the running could you see someone like maybe um say for instance martin mcdure would he's worked very close with the mica action group um you could say that with with charlie mcconnell over there his options to run for finna fall i don't know what his ambitions are that maybe he could run as an independent uh or would it be the likes of uh michael daherty or what do you or do you see someone else emerging might they go for someone who's if he if he were interested uh someone you know with with the profile of paddy differ or what do you think i think it's all to do at this point i know that martin mcdermott is the chair of the mica action group and of the mica committee in lufford he's one of the prominent front people for it he's an elected councillor he's he has a good he has a good draw of a vote uh would he leave finna fall i don't think so but it would be hard it would be hard it's going to be a very big challenge how can you remain in the mica action group when they go political and how can you remain in finna fall and be part of both could he campaign for charlie mcconnellog for example if charlie mcconnellog votes for the government as he's expected to do on this bill at odds with the the the views of of those affected by this scandal that's kind of what's pushing me in that that line of thought now he might reject it out of hand but it probably will but you know politics i mean is the art of getting us to believe that the impossible is possible uh finna fall have been past masters of this for about a hundred years and uh they're not going to stop now uh it's going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons big big time right across what would have been the old donningall northeast constituency this is what finna fall can't afford to lose a vote at all charlie mcconnellog went from topping the poll in 2016 to just scraping in on the surplus votes of councillor john o'Donnell in 2020 he's in a vulnerable position finna finna gale will be in a much more vulnerable position because they don't have a quota they don't have a candidate finna fall regardless they have 12 councillors that's a pretty strong base across the county i would never be right enough finna fall you would do so at your peril because they have a long-standing association with finna gall like it or like it not but the challenge is going to come on two fronts now it's going to come from a mickey candidate michael darty would be probably in the running there a patty diver would be in the running but there are others there as well there's our own there's alien darty there may be there may well be others that we don't know about do they have do they have that appeal to the public do they have that that ability to draw and watch yeah just in relation to that john i'm interested in your views on it because there's already a platform there you know that has been established through the 100 micoreedress and mag facebook pages etc so they know they can motivate great numbers of people as they did in terms of the Dublin protests there's going to be a lot of as you say there's always a core support for finna fall and finna gale but there are going to be those that are goes you know what stuff it's time for something different they might have voted for sinfane but might go now you know mag candidate one sinfane two i'm just wondering if that were a scenario and those maybe you know that 4045 percent that never vote might be motivated to come out and vote for a single issue candidate in inverted commas so talk to me about firstly the the disgruntled finna gale finna fall voter that might have voted for sinfane two will listen let's see what they can do in government sinfane sinfane voters in that initial area and then those that don't ordinarily vote that might come out and vote who does that favor and who does it disadvantage as it relates to the incumbents i think there'll be a big flow through a vote between sinfane and the make a candidate now sinfane will be looking for three seats if you look at the figures from the last time they actually had enough they had more than enough seats or votes for three seats they were up there on just about 45 plus of the vote there are 2 000 short of three first quarters you know that's a huge amount i mean they have 50 50 percent of the voting in the shown finna fall is down on about 27 and a half percent finna finna gales voters declined very dangerously and very substantially in the shown now the target voting in the shown is that finna fall vote if charlie mcconnell's vote there was just over 5 000 the last time that is that is a very vulnerable vote if there's any shake up on that vote should he lose a thousand of that vote which is pretty possible in the circumstances in the white heat of an election campaign what happens there he probably loses a seat at this point it's much too early to call seats for people to lose or to win but you can only assume that finna gales two seats are pretty safe thomas pringle got there against all the odds the last time what's seven percent of the vote uh ironically he got more preferences than he got than he got first you said you said finna gales seats safe you mean shin fain seats are safe that you i think shin fain's two seats are safe i'd be very surprised given the given the constant run of the opinion polls that shin fain doesn't find a third candidate probably in that fan valley's turn our area and that'd probably be a female because you're going to have all these this gender balance type issues as far as the candidates are concerned amongst the parties shin fain probably on the flow that they're on at the moment would have the ability to take three seats now unless the tide turns totally against them and by some miraculous degree of inspiration finna files start kicking their heels and get up over 25 percent i mean on the red sea polls and that's the one which you tend to follow they're down there they're hanging down there in around that 15 percent and given the fact that me martin is the tisha uh they haven't made any real headway on that in fact they've gone backwards in the last two years because they were up at just over 22 percent on the election day and they're down at 15 so like the whole trend of the thing like it's a good time to be going in there with a new party a whole new dynamic and a whole new purpose in life it'll read it'll read uvinate politics and donnie gall that will regenerate interest that was waning because our numbers on election day the turnout which used to be up at 66 and 67 percent has fallen back to close to 62 percent so that hasn't been good i mean only 40 000 people voted in any show in the last time you know a low turnout there low turnouts in larry kenny as well but the whole mecha thing is a very very different action it's the first time that we have seen this kind of a crusade and that's actually what it is you know as you said earlier there any group that can get 30 000 people onto the streets in dublin on a bad friday afternoon in october they have some ability and they have some talent and have some motivation but they have a huge drive behind them as well okay they've built up a massive experience right well let's just maybe the starting point in its speculation of course that that shin fane get three over the line because i i don't mean this in any way disrespectful i just think the way this topic is i think the mic action group and i'm open to correction on this i i think south of letter kenny and west of letter kenny i'm not sure how many votes they might get in in in the county now you know way more about this than i so i suspect the bulk of the votes to vote elect someone's going to have to come from you know letter kenny northwards so who's in and who's out it's difficult because we don't know who the finnegale candidate might be but i presume for definite uh you you say um potter McLaughlin and pierce star she should be safe so focusing then from from north of that does it do finnegale run a candidate in letter kenny uh what would be the consequences of that what about a running mate for for charlie mcconnell because obviously they they could get him from the areas outside of letter kenny and they could get him across the line so just talk me through the the possibilities there and who might gain and who might lose out accepting that maybe shin fane might get three i suppose the the reality there of the territory concern is the muffler letter kenny moff uh any shown area that is the old donnie gall northeast constituency that'll stretch out a bit further to creaseland probably into don fanny where there are maker issues uh you're talking about the sand of donnie gall the northwest donnie gall southwest not much word of maker in that area as of yet i don't think i've heard of many cases very very odd isolated one so you you are talking about that whole area where you have currently you have geoma q you have a you have a polyg McLaughlin a very very very very prominent there mclaughlin's seat is going to be a safest houses but it's not going to be just as clear cut as that because to get elected you're going to have to take votes from outside of that that that boundary line a pat the cope was a huge help if you know for all the last time he got a very very big vote and we're not far do it have been do it have been very difficult as you know and he just as i said he narrowly missed out now i can't see who they're going to get that's going to replace pat the cope that have the voting power that he's had and had the experience uh all all the parties are strapped for for second candidates and and given that a lot of them will be looking to running female candidates depending on on on on on on the gender quotas but we're going to be talking here about any shown muffler in letter kenny and that's that's where the real pressure area is coming that's where make it that is strongest and this is where charlie mcconnell must hold his vote and build on it and this is where he must have a running candidate in the south of the county that's going to help retain that seat i mean they have a quarter there and beyond that a little bit uh finnegeal doesn't have a quota they're a couple percent two and a half percent short of a quota uh they don't have a candidate now it presents down with a bigger bigger problem than feign of all but at the end of the day will those two parties be be sidelined by the electorate on election day the mood on the street out there would suggest that people are very unhappy with both of those parties so could you see three shin fain one mag one independent yeah that seems the logical outcome doesn't it that's possible like also too if i were if i were like i mean finnegan and finnefall need to be building the profiles of whomever is going to run uh at the moment i don't see much of that happening um also there are a couple of names that that you would really you there's a couple of people out there that you could say right they're oven ready persuade them to join the party and run but would you at this time if you had political ambitions run for finnegeal or finnefall knowing the likelihood is they're not going to be in government and you're probably going to get quite a bit of abuse on the door uh i think they might struggle to persuade people to throw the hat into the ring this time knowing really what the probable outcome might be does that make sense makes sense from the point of view of finnefall they have 12 councillors probably all fairly ambitious all with good profiles all with good votes at at council level and that will be tested a year from next may on the wider political stage then i don't know who their candidates might be uh when you have when you have 12 councillors dotted right across the county you're in a strong enough position but are those councillors that that you might want to run interested in doing so and will the poor votes at a general election as opposed to a local election because a local election is less political uh finnegeal has four seats and don't have all three in this constituency barry swiney isn't slag electrum uh so you they're very thin on the ground you have jimmy cavern and letter kenny i don't see jimmy running for election somewhere you know in a general election uh johnny mcginnis martin harley has said he won't be going again uh he said that in the aftermath of jimmy q's announcement that he was retiring so like all in all finnegeal isn't a much more vulnerable situation because they don't have a lead candidate i can't see where there is one the party strategists admit very very quickly that they're in the search to get a candidate and there's nobody obviously there for them and i mean they're they're 14 percent of a vote could come under intense pressure because martin harley got that kind of a vote in the fund valley that got jimmy q over the line you know at the end of the day had that not been the case jimmy q wouldn't have been there so like it's all very very much in a huge big aether of uh uh will the or will the not run candidates they need to be working on it now though uh charlie mcconnell definitely does run though i mean like uh he he's probably reached the pinnacle of his political career now um i don't know what leo fradkar's going to do when he takes over as leader do they reshuffle um you know i don't know what the story is there does charlie mcconnell potentially want to spend you know 10 years on the back benches having been sort of you know all over europe in the forefront of a lot of things i mean but with all that considered i mean charlie mcconnell does run again presuming will run again there's no reason that he shouldn't run again uh and might be wishful thinking to say that he's not going to get elected uh those who are opposed to him uh it's always easier to hold a seat than to win a new seat he's done there for a long time uh finna fall has a track record in he's shown but his voting in he's shown is in a precarious position but also too we have to factor in we also factor in the fact that finna fall and particularly finna gale are very strong uh amongst the farming community as was uh as was laid out in a recent um farmer's journal poll he has been delivering in terms of peers and other initiatives uh and and as i said right at the beginning there is a core there is always a core vote there that might not like uh the way things are but they are finna gale or finna fall to the core and and they might haven't voted for the last couple of elections might say right now is the time that i need to go out and vote and and and you throw all that into the pot and and that's why it's speculation there's no certainty john oh like that's that's very very true but this is this this whole new dimension of a of a candidate from the from the infected blocks brigade uh this this is going to be the biggest thing that has happened in in donningall since since the new really jumped ship from finna fall in 1973 and that caused turmoil for a number of elections but this organization their strength is in their numbers they're dotted all over the northwest they they're very good at meetings at the at the they're also very very good in promoting their ideals and they have struck a core because so many families in so many homes i mean even in my own situation two or three members of my family have have my infected homes and i don't know too many people who don't have so like there's going to be a big big issue there uh i would presume that the if if mica is not resolved and i don't see it being resolved now i'm just looking at thomas sprinkle on the screen there and i heard thomas pleading in the doll uh was yesterday afternoon thomas was was was was a danisher to allow time for for this debate but it's just not happening the government has just closed their eyes to the to the mica crisis in donningall and they're they're steamrolling it right through the through to and outreach the president's desk next week right i i thought you mentioned thomas sprinkle coming into the call can you state will tend as well john can you i've no bother right both of you stay there if you don't mind and i will bring thomas into the conversation after we take this quick break which i must take if you've got great photos sitting on your phone or in the cloud why not visit magies.ie and see the range of creative options available get larger seven by five prints for the same price as a standard six by fours with 100 prints for just 12 euro or select from a great range of photo gifts like mouse and placemats phone covers jigsaws and clocks click and collect or have them delivered see what you can do with your favorite photos online at magies.ie do you suffer from high cholesterol men of all symptoms digestive issues anxiety aches and pains or a lack of energy the highly trained team at the natural way letter can you can provide advice on natural remedies for 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understanding is a report on investigations found that uh there was no wrong doing in that process so we'll bring you more on that when when the report is actually published that's the information i've been given right good morning thomas pringle how are you getting on morning guys going uh not too bad and just again just for the record by the way both minister charlotte mcconnellog and deputy joe mcqueen were invited on to the program today uh both declined uh both were unavailable and both say they were unavailable to to vote yesterday minister mcconnellog said he wouldn't have voted against the government joe mcqueen said he's he's he's campaigning in the background something along those lines so this is not one sided by design it's just uh it's who decides to accept the invitation right so your overview what happened yesterday yeah look i mean i think what happened yesterday was what i expected to happen anyway unfortunately and you know and i think i think at least charlie is honest and what he said that he would vote with the government and joe would have voted with the government too if he was there there was absolutely no way he would have voted against them um and that's that's the reality of the situation and basically it's all of this at this stage is trying to use the parliamentary procedures and system to actually slow down what the government are doing um because you'll see today later on the debate that will be on on the committee stage of the of the make a bill what the government will actually do is i would be shocked and stunned if they accepted any amendments sadly at all and in fact a lot of amendments that we'll put forward will be ruled out of order because as opposition tds we're not allowed to put forward amendments that could have a potential cost instead and so they'll be ruled out of order and we won't even get to debate them all right and uh there will be a vote though at the end of it maybe will there be other votes during the process will it be filibuster in a wee bit or what what's oh yeah there will be votes it's the problem the problem is because there's only two hours of the debate and a vote will a vote takes about 15 minutes to happen so and then so there will be very little opportunity so there was no waffle eight votes maximum anyway yeah exactly and there's politicians there so there's going to be waffles well you'll be there too won't you well i i've got myself with the politics and i'll offer it's not a it's not a lot of matter for the family yeah of course it's not and i think we all have to see wee bit of light in this awful darkness as well from time to time it's not good for democracy this is it i mean this is people watch on and sometimes a lot of this happens and you would know and we don't really pay much attention to it but when it's something so close to us we do it doesn't look good for democracy and how this country operates even if you're even if you don't like the outcome it's the process i'm referencing yeah yeah it's shocking Greg actually actually i um tweeted a tweet this morning there which was the House Council for civil civil liberties shared a graph last week of showing when bills are passed in in Ireland and in this period in July when the doll only sets for two weeks in July the bills there will be i think 19 bills passed this in July this period and for the for the wouldn't have been as many bills passed in from January up to June and that's the reality of the situation and you know you have to wonder you know i didn't even think it was as stark as what they laid out there but when i saw the graph it's shocking and um it shows you that the political system basically just abdicates as a responsibility and hands it over to the bureaucratic system within the part within the departments with that in mind right because you know opposition of promising the sun the moon and the stars and we'll do this and we'll do that and we'll do the other and someone commented yesterday and interested in your view from the inside if there's a change of government and the will is there after the next election can will do you think in your view a a correct and fair scheme be put in place if it can be yes it can because the political system is the system that makes the laws and makes the laws in the parliament so if if the will is there and you know sadly that's a big if but if the will is there it can it can happen and um the only thing i can say in terms of the legal system i mean if i have anything to do with it that will be that will be what will happen because do you trust chin fein to follow through and all the promises they've made as it relates to the defective uh block scandal do i trust any party to deliver with the blocks chin fein well i hope you will i can't say for definite whether they will or not and it's not it's not for me to say um and you know and that's this is the big thing that you know we've seen sadly we've seen too often in ireland political parties will say one thing and run up to election do the exact opposite um now whether every political party will continue to do that i don't know i can't say um but you know and that but that is that is the problem same question to you john do you think uh a chin fein led government will fulfill all the promises they've made as it relates to the uh because they say effectively everything that the the mycatch group and and those it represents and those it doesn't represent that they will pretty much implement everything they want i believe they have to given the promises that they've made but until they get in there and meet up with the permanent government and the officials as you know thomas uh and get your get your uh get your ideas uh accepted by the permanent government that's going to be the biggest part of it because obviously it's the permanent government that that that is overruling the all of the stuff that's been put through there you might i don't know what thomas like you probably have a much better idea of this than me but uh if chin fein doesn't implement those things then they're done for uh whether there's going to be money there to do it what the recession is going to be like if we want to have a recession but inflation is going to be like all of these things will play into it i don't see why a new government can't implement those things as thomas said there's no reason that they can't do it we can make excuses but you know like at the end of the day thomas i'm sure that uh you're reading this much closer than than than we can uh you probably see this legislation being passed substantially with a substantial with a substantial vote yeah john i mean everybody always talks about it the permanent government stuff they got there but that's all we said with by by parties in power to as an excuse for them not being able to do anything the reality of the situation is and we live in a political system that the politics decides what the doll decides what the legislation is and the government decides what legislation is the their so-called permanent government has to go along with it and that's the reality of the situation but they wield incredible power they will do incredible power because we they've been there for they've been there for tens of years so yeah you know and there is there is a lot of things that if maybe if they can resist if they resisted within the department they can slow it it does concern me somewhat thomas that in the department of health now you have specific officials seemingly making decisions outside of the remit of the government without their permission or understanding is that not correct but that's because the political system allows them to do that yeah and that's because the political system abdicates as a responsibility right because what we've seen is that politicians are quite happy to cut ribbons and on do openings but not actually don't want to recover and that's the reality okay this not we can do we can easily do another hour on this it actually pains me to bring it to a hold just in 20 seconds thomas if you don't mind what do you believe a a mic action group candidate does to the the political make-up of this county post next election if the status quo in terms of the boundaries and the numbers are maintained uh i don't know if you would have to see how that develops over time you know i think as well well we would have an impact on finnafall fungal and independent or something in the initial and let it get any area and that's the reality of the thing so it's going to make a difference for for all of us really i suppose but you know whether it will actually achieve what they hope to achieve that's what it means to be seen all right thomas pringle thanks for your time i appreciate it as always independent deputy thomas pringle john macateer listen thanks for so much of your time this morning really appreciate it thank you thank you and the papers out this evening isn't it where we're going to have more of this uh summer slot this evening you're just referring there to the uh to the report tonight on the make-up generation to any soon we were aware of that last night and what you said there is quite true the council officials they've all been exonerated of any wrongdoing all right listen thanks for that that's good news okay uh and that's um kind of exclusive news for you we've brought you for this morning okay we'll be back uh with more after the news at 10 stay right where you are donal kafana is on the way live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's ten o'clock donal kafana at the highland radio news desk a man's been killed in a collision on the letter ganita deri rode it happened last night between newton collingham and manor collingham a section of the n 13 remains closed and diversions are in place with more detail here's emma ryan deri say the collision involves three cars and occurred at approximately 10 to 11 last night a man in his early 70s was taken from the scene to letter kenny university hospital where he was pronounced deceased a man in his 40s was also taken to letter kenny hospital to be treated for injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening no other injuries have been reported gaudi are appealing to any person who may have witnessed this collision to contact them and are particularly interested in hearing from anyone with dashcam footage anyone with information can contact letter kenny garda station at<PHONE_NUMBER> the garda confidential line or any garda station what has he been hearing on the show with greg this morning the government has been accused of seeking to bulldoze the new defective blocks bill through the doll this evening td's are scheduled to debate the bill for two hours and consider as many of the 80 table amendments as possible once those two hours are finished no more amendments will be considered and the debate will conclude the defective blocks bill is just one of a number that the government is trying to get through before the summer recess next week with more details on that here's shawn defoe the defective blocks bill for families impacted by mica and pyrite is one of the bills going through the doll tonight with just two hours for amendment and passing stages another bill to do with the retention of phone data in the wake of the graham wire case is also expected to be passed after just 45 minutes of final stage debate this bill had a much shorter than usual scrutiny process and privately some members of the eructus justice committee fear it could get serious criminals off the hook if holes in the law haven't been adequately found before it's passed other bills tonight include one to make it easier for the department of education to force the school to create special education places and a bill to eliminate pediatric inpatient charges opposition parties say the government is curtailing proper scrutiny and trying to round through new laws before taking summer holidays the tarnish to leo boranke meanwhile has said there would have been more time for legislating if the opposition hadn't spent the year tabling frivolous doll motions the uk bill on the northern island protocol will be debated in the european parliament today me peas will discuss the proposed bill which passed the second reading stage in the house of commons last month if passed it would allow the uk government to unilaterally ignore e u u k arrangements for northern ireland after brexit it could potentially risk a trade war between the two blocks northwest midlands me p christ mcmanus says the debate on the bill is long overdue the parliament needs to come together and one voice during this debate and show that there's unanimity amongst us standing shoulder to shoulder with the wider e u institutions and with commissioner chef kiewicz in regards to their dealings with the british and how they're manhandling the whole issue of the ireish protocol almost one in three parents are getting into debt because of back to school costs the latest survey from the ireish league of credit unions shows parents are spending 1518 euro on secondary school children and 1195 euro on those at primary school it comes as the back to school allowance is set to increase by 100 euro with school transport fees being waived karen kirnan the ceo of one family which represents loan parents doesn't believe the measures go far enough they simply don't have enough money and they're being squeezed in terms of the cost of living increases their electricity bills and trying to get their children minded for the summer maybe try to find a summer camp they can afford that just and as well as food for past the food and the housing minister says he's confident the government can reverse the decline in home ownership rates it follows new e s r i research which finds the number of 25 to 34 year olds who own their own home has more than halved since 2004 falling from 60 percent to just 27 percent in 2019 the study also finds retirees are more likely to live in poverty in years to come as the number of people in that age cohort renting is said to increase minister dara o brian says the government is said to introduce measures tomorrow which will help first time buyers get on the property ladder we have over probably 10 15 years been seeing a decline in home ownership rates and we need to reverse that decline i'm confident we can do that a lot of that is down to supply thankfully this year we've seen the largest amount of housing commencements since uh 2011 tomorrow i'll be announcing the first home shared equity which will be able to bridge the gap for people between the finance they have so the mortgage approval they may have and their savings and the finance that they need by the state taking that equity looking at the weather forecast and met heron saying today that there's likely to be warm temperatures across much of the country tomorrow and friday into the weekend and into next week however they are warning that the coolest temperatures will be in west and northwestern areas for today they say the temperatures will hit 15 to 16 degrees celsius but it will be cloudy or overcast with some light rain or drizzle at times some dry periods as well with the worst of the west weather to be experienced in donnie gall moderate to fresh westerly winds today those winds strong and coastal areas but they will ease this evening and that's how the radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning the obituary notices for this wednesday morning the 6th of july the death has taken place of clear trainer nade divine 256 a les narrow road donna mana formerly of 93 holy hill road glenn mornen her remains are opposing at her home phenol from there tomorrow morning at 20 to 12 for requiem mass in st mary's church a hubrack at 12 noon in 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over the last couple of years why not answer the question will shin fane follow through is that as it relates to the question i put to thomas pringle a former shin fane member he doesn't speak on behalf of shin fane i think i can pretty much uh did use from how he answered the question that he'd be skeptical hopeful but skeptical i'm not affected by mica but i'd vote for any mica rep that would stand another caller says we don't have a government it's only a small number of people making rules uh tell charlie mcconnellog that me and my extended family will not be available for finafall or finnegale when it comes to the next general election um we have been finafall members for as long as i can remember says a caller my father supported them for decades we were disgusted with charlie mcconnellog no matter what they had arranged he should be prioritizing last night it was a major vote sitting td's in the government and they're not representing the finafall people of don egola slapping the face and he should be asked to leave the party if i was finnegale i'd feel the exact same about joe mcqueor that's an unhappy uh finafall vote there greg isn't there an onus on the president to not sign the mica bill into law has such a situation ever occurred before coming in from shore i'm not sure what president is there uh or what his remit might be or what he might do um there are some concerns that over the constitutionality of the new bill maybe it could be referred uh could be referred to have that reviewed uh you know i'm not a political anorak that's why we get people like uh john mccatier and others on to the program because they uh really know their stuff but i didn't see that question whilst people were on hi greg not a hope in hell will i be uh listening uh to the government about wearing a mask this winter never did and never will completely up to you i'm not uh trying to convince you one way or other another call says i don't think that paul garling kill kenny should have got any prison time for what she did we can all sit in judgment but there but for the grace of god go why she hid her pregnancy from her family for fear of repercussions she didn't even confide in her doctor she regrets something she did in a comment of extreme panic and personal trauma time in prison however short will not heal the lifelong pain and regret for what uh happened okay and uh lastly just before we take those bingo numbers for you uh thomas you are a very genuine politician and are honest and tell us the truth we need more independent politicians with the ethics of mr pringle and michael healy rey and kerry we need more politicians the same shin fane don't want to be in government that's why they can make all these promises knowing they wouldn't have to keep them i'm sure shin fane are very keen to get into government it's a difficult time to be taken over though uh with everything that's going on um you know you could say legacy stuff but also uh the fact that 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the downings carry guard uh walkway uh is going to be discussed at next juesday's council meeting if any work gets done at that meeting um hopefully it does uh councillor leon blaine is going to be raising the issue he joins in the program joins us on the program now good morning to you leon good morning greg good to have you on right so tell us what's proposed and where we're at just for those news to the story at leon well the last time we were talking to you over six weeks ago uh i told you that i had um made a i had got a motion passed at the monistimistic meeting that the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme which is known as oris that i had identified that as a funding stream or a funding source for funding the footpath from carry guard to downings and there was a large is a large application that you can make for a 500,000 one which was a what they call a measure three the three different measures in it a measure three and there's one of them got for the county every year and thankfully um since we're talking to you the council has made that application for the footpath to get from carry guard to downings for that 500,000 plus there's measure twos as well for 200,000 and they have and for one of the 200,000 as well so what is proposed between the two towns villages is it a footpath on the side of the road or is it walkway or cycleway adjacent to the road that's a footpath there's a footpath that's at the bone short there was there was problems on getting footpath there you know we went on board from now on and i'll come back again on the application was it the application was incomplete if i'm not mistaken and um i was completed and on board from now on passed it and it's passed for a for a footpath join them join them both down as far as the whether we're known locally as the pavilion there's a footpath from downings people down there a local landowner down there for the footpath out to uh as far as the pavilion and this is going to meet up with it which is a it's a long it's a long stage of footpath and we'll connect the two towns and um you know yourself first like down in the summertime the amount of people who's using that road walking and uh on cycling and at least it'll help to compress things off the road and then make a safer flow is going to use that right so it's good for tourists it's good for locals as well so when do you hope then the work will start on it or when do you when do you hope that the funding will be approved or what's the situation um i have a question and now for the minister just to meet on Tuesday uh to see when to expect that the funding may be announced if the department deems it suitable for that funding and um i'm hoping that it will be announced maybe by the end of summer or very very shortly after but going past experience i've asked them when do they believe that maybe the funding may be announced for that and if a successful project doesn't apply for funding maybe announced i'm hoping they get their apply there for it and i'm hoping that it won't be too long after the end of summer and possibly work for start before the end of the year on this all right so with my hope on the summer 2023 i'll be completely before summer 23 all right okay um and is it just that pathway is there other uh is there other money for general footpaths in cargo and dining's or are we focusing on that and you see it's a long but a footpath and i think a lot of money to do it and there's there's what they call active travellers well and i'm hoping that there's going to be an application for them for active travellers well for the remainder of what they believe it may cost uh for the footpath from the town of carry gargoyle as far as the speed limit of the bridge there on the way down to dining's the first wee bridge that active travel only covers within town limits or on speed limits so that's as far as we can go with that one but i'm hoping that between the three the three uh applications that's been 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coco dot ie dunny gall county council protecting your environment now we welcome on to the program allison hegrity general manager of home instead in dunny gall good morning to you allison good morning great thanks for joining us okay right now talk to us about your nomination and the winner of the home instead 2022 ulster caregiver of the year award okay great so our ulster caregiver of the year for 2022 is mary speany mary is from letterkenny and has worked with us for over four years she herself currently provides care to 15 clients in dunny gall and gives letterkenny ballaby and the surrounding areas mary is also a qualified Alzheimer's care we nominated mary for this award because she's devoted to her clients she gives the best care possible she's great empathy and compassion and it's a kind one hardest person her colleagues at home instead as well as her clients supported her nomination and described her as one of the most reliable and professional caregivers that we have someone who's valuable and trusted with her colleagues and whose compassion and sensitivity to others enables clients to feed free and at ease and reassured all the time all right okay and it was a quality sorry go ahead sorry great yep i was gonna say sorry this is a slight delay on this line allison what i was going to say is that it would be a lot of people very worthy of this award so it takes someone special to to stand out amongst a special group of people yeah um currently we've had 154 caregivers um all over dunny gall and they've been they're absolutely fabulous and they're all right as well and giving care to people and you'll see that can remain living in their own home for as long as possible but mary um we sent out nominations to our clients and to the the caregivers to nominate a caregiver that they think is worthy of this cause and that's why mary got this award can you talk to us i think you have already talked to us a little bit about the role of a carer a community carer or a carer in the community okay so our caregivers provide a range of services to clients to help them continue to live an independent life at home so this may vary from client to client um so it could include companionship meal preparation lighthouse work personal care dementia care more and other services that we do in home instead as they look after physical and sensory um users and disability and we also do private care and you know a lot of range of services yeah and i mean it's obviously a very rewarding job but there's a lot of pressure on the job too isn't there i mean it's a tough job oh yes um especially in these COVID times you know as opposed to what makes a good caregiver in terms of quality and people bring to the job they need to be compassionate trust and reliable and sensitive to the needs of the clients our caregivers probably come from all sorts of backgrounds and all sorts of work you know some of them may have a background in caring for their own family members others would work different in health care settings and we have like students that are doing nursing roles at the moment that have joined home instead because experience all right anything else you want to add before we wrap up allison just as opposed to the other good news is we're actually recruiting for another 50 caregivers all overdone the call so anyone that's interested um if they could contact the office or go on to our website home instead i what qualifications if any does someone require to become a professional carer we actually would train them up we would do their practical practical skills manual handling we do everything for them so the contact office our um hitcher and training team will take them through all right brilliant stuff thank you very much indeed that was allison hegerty gm of home instead in uh don egola caller says all these tds leaving having meetings about houses why don't they come around to people's houses and see how we have to live they'll be going on 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be talking about uh the surprising surprising for some refusal of council housing in boncran and that's coming up a little later as well but what we're going to do is going to take a little break for a breather and take some music we'll be right back these or this is the police okay that is uh the police every breath you take okay now uh a new report shows that soaring fuel prices and government policy are unequally affecting people living in rural arland and those on low incomes the report by grant Thornton has found that increases in fuel prices disproportionately hit people on low incomes and rural dwellers with limited public transport options that's just part of it we've got longer often to go to our shops we were perhaps perhaps more likely to to live in houses that are reliant on oil or solid fuel maybe even older houses there's an awful lot going on here and we're facing into bills of course uh we've back to school and every other thing that's ongoing Cormac McCormack is led a kind of area president of svp is a volunteer with that organization and joins us now good morning Cormac good morning Greg how are you thank you for having me on no it's important to to get us a fuller picture of what's going on as is possible so I mean are you seeing a trend here are you seeing more people requiring help are you seeing those who already who needed help finding themselves slipping further into poverty yes Greg we are and the society of St Vincent de Paul and say svp has expressed significant concern for families already on the brink as prices rise just to put it in context the latest consumer price index from the central statistics office shows that prices rose by nearly 80 percent up to May and that is staggering because that is the largest increase in almost 38 years so so that is that is serious uh svp recorded 78,000 calls for help so far this year and that's 20 percent or one fifth of an increase over this time last year the rising cost of living is pushing more and more families into into poverty no doubt about that and we know of countless examples of people across the country unable to heat their homes and feed and care for their families the cost of living measures provided so far have helped and given people temporary relief but people on low and fixed incomes were already on the brink battling a rising tide of high rents growing bills often juggling health conditions and i presume the reason for that call mark is that for many prior to this uh this inflationary environment we're in at the moment we're out of money by the time they had paid their bills and these are working people as well it's all different types of people by the time they paid their bills they were left with nothing there was no disposable income there there was no money to put away for savings there was no money there for treats and as the cost of living comes up you cannot take money from a pot that's simply not there and that's what drags people in uh into the the the the position where they need to go to the likes of the svp for support yes that's right craig and a lot of people are surviving and they're going along and and everything is going okay and excuse the term one one wheel falls off the wagon and the whole lot has gone pear shaped um yeah it's and there's no doubt about it and data has shown from the likes of the esri or the central bank that there is a disproportionate impact of rising prices on low-income households households no doubt about that and rural i mean we're we're in letter kenny but we're still rural so the cost of the cost of diesel or transport or whatever has a has a larger impact impact and that came to came through in the torrenton report that you quoted there if you don't want me saying it we we feel in some vincent appalled that it's critical that the upcoming budget directs resources towards people on low and fixed incomes otherwise more people will be pulled into poverty and those already struggling to get by will be pushed even further into hardship because we are in uh the middle of july or the sixth of july here now obviously look the weather's not fantastic but it is the summer it is milder it is the time of year where we expect to maybe have to put the heat and oil on as much or buy as much coal what's happening now though is people we're heading towards uh the back to school period where people have to find money for that as i mentioned and then the oil tank they're going to have to look at that they're going to have to look at buying coal and the prices have gone through the roof so as bad as we are now and i don't want to be a doomonger but this is inescapable for a lot of people as bad as it is now we are really facing into a winter of discontent for thousands of donagall families i agree greg i agree i i honestly feel there's there's a tsunami coming towards us and i mean fuel costs have risen for example a bag of coal is nearly 40 euro now and electricity costs have have shown double digit increases there are going to be huge budgeting challenges for family with heating with heating their homes as you say once we move in towards the winter increased food costs and one of the big things for families is that the back to school costs will now begin i mean um from memory i mean a primary school student you're talking about just over 900 euro to two uh is the cost for a family for one primary student school student and it's about 1170 or something like that for a secondary school student so that's going to begin and the winter months will be a challenge there's no doubt about that as you mentioned um whatever the government do has to be targeted uh i mean listen lots lots of people perhaps don't need 200 euro off their next electricity bill for an example but there are lots of people who would benefit greatly from it being 300 those and we have the tools we have the mechanisms we have the information to know who needs the help most we just need do we not the government to properly target where this money goes that is available clearly very good point Greg i mean the the cost the uh the extra allowance that we're all going to get the 200 or whatever it be it's estimated that that is going to cost in the region of 300 million if that 300 million was put into primary and secondary school um primary and secondary school sorry there would be no cost of education that would cover it all so i mean that's worth considering but just on your point as regards uh what the government needs to do and the budget and all that it's grand saying there's going to be five ten whatever 20 increase in um in social welfare but unless that matches at least matches inflation or exceeds it it's not worth this really is no good any increases have to match inflation and as i said it's running at eight percent at the moment but unfortunately it probably won't and with interest rates in increasing uh that actually puts more of a squeeze on so in other words we would struggle to even stand still for many people let alone yes yes and we have a worry as well uh Greg that we say for education that um i mean every child has to be educated and everybody wants their child educated and all that and there is a cost and we would have a worry and credit unions for example would also share that worry of um people going to um other places for money whether it be money lenders or credit cards the amount of people that would use credit cards to pay for their education and then have a massive has them have have a massive bill that has to be so i struggle in that it is well within the government's gift to to alleviate an awful lot of these costs i mean they will say look we announced yesterday that uh school bus fees are being scrapped that will save people 500 euro i'm not sure yet and haven't been able to find out if that's all uh school bosses i.e private bus operators in donny gold does that apply because i mean obviously again we'll be hitting another cohort already hard-pressed uh with a bill that a lot of people don't have to pay i'm not a hundred percent sure on that either Greg i know there's um it's there for a year it's and i presume it's across the board and there's a hundred euro increase in the back to school allowance as well but again it's somehow the threshold for that is very very narrow when there's an awful i think i think uh i think one example i heard that uh if you have one child and the the family income is over 630 odd euro you don't qualify for that now a lot of the people contacting svp would be people earning maybe 700 a week with a child and other responsibilities petrol costs fuel costs they could do with this back to school allowance but currently of course they could they don't qualify for it you know no no it is it is very tight uh Greg you're you're preaching to the converted here yeah i don't wish to be preaching but you know what i know what you're saying no no you're not preaching no you're not preaching um i agree with you i am very much agree with you it is uh i mean what the budget in one house will go a hell of a lot further than the budget in another house there's no doubt about that it depends on the person's circumstances all we can do and try is try and help and uh if you don't mind me just giving a bit of an example or not a bit of an example a bit of a an advertisement if you like of um what if people are around here listening which uh of course they are anybody who needs help please do whether it be rural town whatever please do contact us at s the easiest way is at svp.ie and then we can we will then be passed on to the local area so i would i would ask people not to be afraid to ask for help sometimes that happens Greg that people just don't don't ask we would love to get to the people who don't ask and that is a huge difficulty for us yeah but obviously it costs more to help people now than it ever has so how are svp resourced at the moment is the money there what what kind of help can you offer people if they reach out um yeah we have people people have been very good to us Greg there's no doubt about that um that the people in Donegal have been very very good to us with online donations and one thing if you like we are struggling at the moment for is volunteers i would i would ask people to consider volunteering for svp and it's not an onerous task it's a it's a you know it can be as many hours or as little hours as you want in the week and but that is something that we do need and also as regards help our ink a lot of our income comes from our shops in in Donegal and we have very very successful shops in let it in sorry in Donegal i'm used to let it any um so that's important and we would ask people maybe during the summer to go into the wardrobe and clear out all those clothes that they're not using their brick or rack or whatever and please give them as donations to to our shops because the income we get for that is spent locally and used locally to help our our people in Donegal and that's a really important point that you make you know because not everyone themselves have the money to donate to charities um you know because a lot of people have struggled as we've been talking about here and they might feel like they're okay but they just don't have anything spare you can do a great job and and help greatly buy as you say rooting out the wardrobe which i'm told is actually really very good for your emotional well-being by the way it's apparently it's it's uh it's really quite effective for that but also too as you mentioned in volunteering it's great for a CV if your job haunting or or if you're thinking of switching jobs but it's also often for the most part a cost neutral way that someone can make a very generous donation to their community yes very much so and there's there's look at your your helping people and there's a personal satisfaction in that too and um you know people do say oh i wouldn't be i wouldn't be able for that or whatever i wouldn't worry about that there's a role for for everybody and we do obviously provide uh provide training everybody has to be guard the better than all that but i mean uh we do provide training so we have uh whether it be volunteering to work in our shops or on our visitation conferences or whatever we're always looking for people and it will be wonderful to to get a few more you know right well hopefully the reason the reason being that as as we approach this this winter we're probably going to need more volunteers Greg yeah well hopefully the government do everything they can to help those that need it the most there's an awful lot of wealthy people here that perhaps if they were asked might be prepared to to contribute but a lot of the time they're not asked to contribute by way of contributing more uh in tax and what have you uh also just to reiterate the point to use the words and i don't think they're appropriate but they might make more sense is you know don't be too proud to to uh or ashamed i think was the word also uh cormac used that's uh to contact st vince de paul you can when you're back on your feet you can start contributing to them that's what they're there for they're there to help people in need and i don't think you cormac or anyone else with svp would want people you can help sitting at home worrying and not picking up that phone or not sending in that email to seek that help as i say if they want to pay it back down the line through general their own generosity that's fine but don't be too proud or uh there's no shame in seeking help that's what you said not at all greg um you know we want people contacting us and we want to be able to help them in uh in a most non-judgmental way from our point and we are trained to chat to people and just i think when people make the initial contact and that's done they they feel so much better after that and the rest is hopefully smooth right cormac listen thanks for all your time i appreciate it um and i hope it reaches people uh and they get the message whether they can help or whether they need help either way uh svp is where they need to go thank you very much for that thank you very much greg and if you don't mind me saying um many thanks to highland radio they're always uh a huge support to san vincent apart and we really appreciate that so thank you and it'll continue obviously well into the future thank you very much indeed cormac mccormac there this weekend the northwest donnie gall vintage club will host their vintage show at their new location of killed on fanny with classic and vintage cars tractors other vehicles and agricultural implements craft and artisan displays all welcome there's also a fun fair t-tent and twitter stalls twitter's must call 087 236 924 on sunday there's music with alex and shanae black humiclain and john janes enjoy a great day for all the family this saturday and sunday at killed on fanny this week at super value we have great summer garden 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i can't get to them all so i want to make sure that any questions you have now you know patrick sorry patrick gilday is across all all things hair so it can't it's not just about it's not just about styling and all that kind of stuff it's maybe you have issues with your hair or anything you know the story yourself so if you get your questions into me i promise i will get them answered for you whatsapp protects them into 08 660 25 000 so it's your hair care your hairstyle hair questions 08 660 25 000 or give us a call an 07491 25 000 and look if you want to put your question directly to patrick we can do that for you as well you can have a quick chat with him here with us on air as well so your whatsapp syntax to patrick gilday on your hair questions that's our wellness wednesday this week 08 660 25 000 or if you want to give us a call it's 07491 25 000 a caller says any wonder us carers are struggling we can't get fuel allowance we are told we are respite payment to heat our homes and pay for taxis um 124 euro a week carers allowance for a living in carer um unfortunately this is just not formatted correctly uh but this caller says we should us live in carers get a hundred uh as living carers get a hundred euro a week more they tell us we save the country millions and have us living in poverty then okay thank you that's not the text is full by the way but the text machine has uh jumbled the words together so uh but thank you very much we got the thrust of your point there i'm stopping smoking and a glass of wine once a week we can change and prioritize uh the money uh is safe for heating or food some people would need to help change that comes in from kathleen or who i suppose kathleen we can't presume people aren't either you know i don't think people are in poverty but are having pizzas every night and go into the pub and are on the way back from lanzarote i think you see there's different people in different situations there are those that have as there are those that are well off okay and can absorb any increases their standard life might slip a little bit what they can absorb them they will survive they'll keep the roof over their head then there is a group of people that are are working away or not flat out right and they are running out of money on a thursday or a wednesday when payday is on friday but maybe they can still just get through maybe they're cutting back on a glass of wine or stopping smoking and that gets them to friday for now and then there's another group of people and we have more of them in this county than anywhere else in the country who are already don't have enough money to to to feed and close their children properly to heat their home or to get to work or to get to the hospital for appointments or whatever it might be and i don't think anyone is or very very few people that's the majority of people there's very few people right i've got their hands out and are loaded and doing very well that is something that maybe you might say ah but i know a person that that's exactly the situation one person maybe uh or as well as that uh you know there are those who want to see us fighting amongst ourselves that might be inclined to spread that kind of information uh of course as the way the media are portraying the extra help for these social uh for those on social welfare you'd nearly think they're living it up when they are clearly not they are the most vulnerable in the country say the texture there uh what's the limit a single parent can earn to keep a medical card i don't know the answer to that off the top of my head let us know if you do oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand another caller says we cannot allow donagol county councillors to separate themselves from their tds or their party and lester has this collology is separation needs to stop and i suppose what is it speaking on the one side of your mouth at home and another uh out far away is that kind of also what you're talking to and very finally how does a car manage to do something for 15 minutes of care that's all they're getting sometimes there are a number of things they won't do the kettle would hardly be boiled by the time they have to leave the games that's one other person's view of their experience okay news on the way then your hair care questions answered with patrick gill day it's all uh going on here after 11 looking for the summer sporty look from the best brands like nike adidas and under armor brian macormick sports and pleasure has your summer look nike pro tees and vest tops with matching shorts nike mid-layer quarter zips with women's tights in many different lengths under armor t-shirts with matching bicycle length shorts layered with new woven jackets and quarter zip tops look the part play the part in store or online click and collect on bmcsports.ie beat that cost of brexit with no customs charges do you need a uk address for your limited company or personal use space hub in dairy can provide you 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regulated by the central bank of Ireland for conduct of business rules okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show and delighted to welcome into studio patrick gilday uh hairdressing and hair q and a's how's everything going with the business uh patrick uh good good it's it's been a challenge yeah like a lot of businesses getting up and running again and what do you do me a favorite see that microphone could you rotate the whole thing around it's pointed in the wrong direction uh no the whole just rotate it around actually you know what i'm going to come around do stay away i yep the number of space new patrick states live radio there we go okay good man thank you right okay talk to me about the challenge uh the challenges uh have been with uh getting back up and running we come through the whole covet thing uh all the systems in place around uh making people feel safe and comfortable making staff feeling safe we come out the other end and uh it was exhausting uh it was tiresome for the team it was tiresome for the customers and it was tiresome for ourselves but we come through it like a lot of people when you speak to other people in the small business sector they found it a massive challenge and uh we're very lucky we're very busy uh it's been good it's been a hundred miles an hour i think i'm now 30 coming 34 years in business yeah and i think that i haven't run as fast in the last two years just to get things up and running again get it back it was almost as if we opened a new business again because it was a complete start everything that you had in place had to be tweaked and altered and that's the general consensus around we're in a better place yeah and we're back to doing what we want to do is do hair and enjoy doing it and making people happy but uh no it's been it was very educational yeah like it was one of those things in life that we go through we never think that we would have been if somebody had told us what was going to happen and certainly you had to lift the ball just enrol with it and try your best and in terms of uh how customers have changed if at all because obviously there was two years at and we remember uh you know people were changing the hair or maybe people were going they were going to their natural color and once the color was fading out and they were growing the grays out to whatever it might be uh and then there's this big rush everyone wanted to get that for so now that's calmed down a little bit is there a change have people changed have their priorities changed have their demands changed uh yeah we noticed a few different changes uh which were good uh people uh different elements of uh people choosing different options uh you know we found a massive change to people going gray moving away from color so what happens is there's a natural transition in life of a dare I say an age barometer where you would find that the market would tend to decide at a point of probably around the 60s that age barometer do you know what I'm going to embrace my gray now whereas we found that that's changed now that's happening from 40s and even mid 30s and stuff so that that was an element that changed so then also there was a demand on the industry how can I feel good with gray hair how can I feel relevant how can I not feel uh psychologically older and how can I maintain an edge within that so that that was something that landed on the industry and the creators within that to come up with something and there was plans that come up from different companies around enhancing gray and making it more tonal making it fresh making it fluffy and light so that worked very well the other thing that we found is there was a a visit journey which was every six weeks that visit journey now has been extended there's still you still have your clients that come every six and move to eight and move to 10 people started to take an approach towards hair that I want it to be dressy but I want it to be every day did it as for a lot of people has it it's still important but is it maybe slipped down the priority a little bit not necessarily financial priority either I'm on about just maybe the you know the little priorities we've put in having our life it came more important it became more important this is this was a big thing for us people valued the importance of how their hair made them feel and they valued of how they looked and it was one of the parts that people for covid from that point of view of how a haircut and a hairstyle can make someone feel became very very relevant and all you kept hearing for a number of time and even now there's an importance on and sorry going back to your question is there a bigger demand from the customers there is yeah they want a higher standard they want a better haircut and they want to feel quality when they leave the salon should there be everyday hair or dressing all right okay let's get to some questions then we'll we'll tease out some trends and the things like that there I let my hair go gray by coincidence it's the first question here but it has a lot of green in it so what would be causing that could it be my water supply thanks you thank you Patrick nine times out of 10 it would be the water in your area but that's okay the water is where it is how you comb there as you get a deep cleansing shampoo all it is is a little bit of the lime and the skill grabbing on to the cuticle the hair and depending on the texture of your hair if it's a wee bit stronger it might tend to grab more of the water's a little bit harder in your area what you do is don't wet your hair before you wash it get a deep cleansing shampoo and what you do is put the shampoo into the hair dry massage it through really bring it up it'll be quite difficult to do without the water but bubble fire up within the hair you actually use three times more than what you think you should do and let it sit in the hair for 10 minutes that'll break it down and it'll remove it it might just initially happen in the first go but if you work in that over a period of two weeks you should see it because it's staining really then it's a form of staining so it's about getting rid of that staining and I don't mean that offensive to anyone's hair but that's what we're talking about isn't it it's natural staining yeah just on that as well if you're doing a lot of cooking and you're going gray if you're into cooking and you're lean over the heat and the steam of the pot and stuff you can find it you achieve yellow tones as well at the front and the same thing applies to that there so do in a way do people with uh with with gray hair do they get more of an indication of how their surroundings affect their hair do you know what I mean it's not masked as much by color and I don't just mean in terms of the the green tonage or whatever but generally the the condition of the hair or how what they do in the life can affect the quality of their hair if you take ten people with gray hair eight out of the ten people there will be a coarseness that is with the gray hair which means that when there is a coarseness and the cuticle is less smooth it's open to absorbing everything around it the moisture in the air even if you find that people go abroad on holidays they'll come back and what they'll have is the moisture and the follicles in the air have actually expanded the hair cuticle and sometimes you almost have to cleanse that out you can't see it but you can feel it and that's breaking that down as well but to answer your question it is more noticeable in gray hair the elements around us okay I began using argon hair oil mask um I know it's a cheaper product I want to know though will it possibly do more harm than good it's not necessarily about the price point if you find that the argon oil is something that works the only thing that I would say to you is because it's an oil be careful that you don't overload the hair and it becomes heavy once a week once a fortnight should be more than sufficient for that and remember when you're using an oil it's a very concentrated product so again it goes back to the reverse what I was saying about the shampoo whatever you think you need use half again all right okay any advice on hair thinning at the temples for a lady in menopause again with the menopause what you're finding there is it's a natural body journey that you're on what you do is you stay focused on it with the correct haircuts we keep it very very simple there's a medical direction that you do that ties into that and addresses that from a hairdressing point of view we see a lot of thinning hair around menopause around the temples and around just above the ears what we tend to do is get a haircut that tends to work and disguise it for you and make you feel less self-conscious of it very long fringes don't work because the hair separates and it highlights it and also if you could work on the concept of anything with an overly deep parting a nice soft sweepy fringe is the best way that we find for disguising and softening and blending it in for you I mean cutting hair is incredibly technical yes and but but because you're very technically proficient it means there's an awful lot you can do with a set of scissors that maybe not everyone realizes until they've had that experience there's massive amount of options and it's only when something is highlighted around an issue like there is hundreds of techniques that you will use for different hair textures different textures of hair and to achieve different