the operation on Monday involving Gardie, the Irish Coast Guard, and the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team as a probable murder case involving a missing man.  A man and a woman were arrested in connection with this suspected assault between Saturday and Sunday, but were last night released without charge. Gardie are again appealing to anyone with information to come forward. Any road users who were travelling in the Sleeve League, Killie Beggs area last Saturday or Sunday, and who may have camera footage, are also being asked to make it available. Public access to Sleeve League remains closed off, while the investigations continue. Public health is being put at risk by faulty septic tanks. An EPA report on domestic waste water treatment systems has fined half of septic tanks in Ireland, field inspections last year, with 20% of those posing a risk to human health and the environment. It also says enforcement orders to fix faults by local authorities is inconsistent. In Donegal, 44% of septic tanks field inspections, with 83% of them fixed by the end of last year. Neil Byrne of the EPA says local authorities must make homeowners repair faulty tanks. 350 faulty septic tanks that have gone on result for over two years, some even longer than that. That's really concerned because half of those have significant issues, such as a plate maybe discharged into a raw stream, and really that can't be allowed to continue. Confirmation that progress is being made and proposed works for the community nursing unit in Remelton has been welcomed by the new Vice-Chair of the Regional Health Form West. A strategy has been developed for the works, which involves the replacement of existing single rooms with new en-suite rooms. Councilor Kieran Brogan expects the works to start early next year. I think it's positive that we're going to see some capital investment in the community nursing unit in Remelton. I think it's long overdue and I'm happy with the response. And now, hopefully now in the third quarter of this year, we'll have some reports back in that we can get on with the works that needs to be done and the investment there. And because it's a nursing unit that has provided a huge benefit to the area for many years and I'm delighted now that we're going to see capital investment going on there. Hopefully, we'll get that there in the next number of months. Hopefully, works could start with the early next year then. Finally, for Wath or Wath this morning, with Rean turning quite heavy in parts, Rean will clear though through the morning, brightening up with highest temperatures today of 16 or 17 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning. You're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show. It's four minutes past nine on this Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2023. How are you keeping good to have you on board? I hope you're all doing very well indeed. We have the lines open for you right now for you to comment on the topics we're discussing as the morning wears on or if you want to raise your own issues. You know the story, don't you? 086625,000. That's the WhatsApp and text number 086625,000. Or give us a call on the number 07491 25,000. Now, in both instances, if you call it from outside the Republic and with people listening and watching all over the place, please feel free to get involved in the conversation as well.<PHONE_NUMBER>,000 is that WhatsApp or a text number. And if you want to email its comments at highlandradio.com. Right, okay. Let's start the program as we do every single morning with a look at what's making the newspapers today. We're starting with the locals today, but again, flabbergasted at the extent of coverage in the nationals of the RTE saga. Now, I'm not surprised. I want to say flabbergasted. It's just the actual extent of it, how many pages it covers. But anyway, we'll get to that in a moment, though. I know, I suspect sorry that some of you perhaps maybe are getting a bit tired of that story, but we're not focusing greatly on it anyway. It just happens to be on the front of the papers. Initiones, nine county councillors shared a combined 367 euro in wages and expenses last year, benefiting from the first full year of a pay rise that increased their basic representative payment by almost 10,000. This is the initial independent. When elected in Donegal County Council, following the local elections in May 2019, councillors were entitled to a basic representative payment of just 17,382. However, following a government decision in 2021, the basic annual payment was increased to 27,109, linking a councillor's basic salary to the civil civil service post of assistant staff on our officer. So sorry to conflate stories here, but you're getting all of your nine in a show and county councillors for significantly less than you're getting Joe Duffy. So I mean, you could look at it that way. That's one way to look at it. Okay. For a full year, they're all paid less than one person is being paid. That's not sour grapes, by the way. It's just it's just an interesting couple of stories at the same time. Right. The Donegal Post this morning, the chairman of the Donegal branch of the Irish Hotels Federation has written to local TDs on behalf of 55 Donegal hotels and guesthouses to highlight growing concerns. Paul Diver penned the letter in response to government plans to increase consumer taxes that on hospitality and tourism at a time they claim people's personal finances are already under significant pressure due to the cost of living crisis. Now, I don't can test what Mr. Diver is saying. And I do have an awful lot of respect for local hotels and people in that industry, of course, and also given the fact that they employ lots of people. But there must be something going on with the prices they're charging to some extent to when you see that, you know, over a million people are currently or are on the way to Dublin Airport. Everyone I know seems to be flying out of the country at the moment. Now, presumably they've looked at what's on offer in Ireland in terms of the weather and value for money. And they've decided they can go to Portugal or Spain or the Lanzarote cheaper. But anyway, Mr. Diver states I'm writing on behalf of Donegal hotels and guesthouses representing 50 local businesses to highlight our growing concern about plans in September to increase consumer taxes on Irish hospitality and tourism. So I'll ask the question directly out there. And there's a whole mixture of people listening. There are people in the industry. There's people that work there. There are people that have looked at the price of hotels. Do you believe that the 9% that rate, for example, for hospitality should be retained? What's your view on the hotel industry? Good and bad. Let us know 08 660 25000. The English Times tells us that the assessment of an application for an investigatory foreshore license for a proposed wind farm off the coast of Minnesota has been paused indefinitely. Haven Offshore Array has submitted an application for a five year foreshore investigatory license for a project containing a mixture of static and floating wind turbines in initial sites of more than 1500 square kilometres. With the nearest point to the coast, 20 kilometres from Alan Head, a geophysical survey for the project was carried out last year. Haven Offshore Array said the license will allow the company to refine the site choice and carry out surveys to properly assess the viability of the project. Last month, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government paused all assessments for offshore renewable energy foreshore license assessments that have not already gone to statutory consultation, which includes the license for the Haven Offshore Array project. So that's indefinitely shelved. The Finn Valley voice tells us that Finn Valley Chancellor Martin Harley, the new Cahirlock of Donegal County Council, says he wants to work with the HSE to in some capacity to promote men's health. He wants men to start talking about health issues. Men are not inclined to talk about things until it's too late, he said. I encourage men to go to their GP if they think there is something wrong, either physically or mentally. Sometimes when men go to the GP, it's too late, he said. He was speaking after the election at Monday's afternoon annual general meeting at County House at Lifford. Congratulations to him on his appointment. So on to the nationals, and as I say, you would genuinely struggle to find much news outside of the RTE story. Where do you start with it? RTE bosses, this is the Irish Independent, RTE bosses have failed to take the heat out of the Ryan Tauberty payment scandal, with a statement pointing most of the blame at former Director General D Forbes. Now, in a conversation with Deputy Thomas Pringle last week, a conversation with Pierce Tauberty a couple of days ago, this all before we got the statement from RTE, this detailed statement, it was that, you know, I put it to both that, you know, people are sick in this day and age and whether it's RTE, the HSE or whatever it might be, that there is zero accountability. And what happened yesterday effectively, is that RTE released a nine page statement that effectively said, no one, no one is to blame, except D Forbes, D Forbes, who has now resigned from her position, and is beyond the scope of any inquiry. She can't be compelled to be involved in anything. Now, there's no, there's no criminality suggested here, but in terms of sanction. So we have a situation here where we have a nine page statement that effectively says the one person that knew what was going on, the one person, it wasn't even Ryan's fault, wasn't the executive, the boards, whoever you want to structure it, it was no one else's fault except D Forbes, and that is the one person that just happens now to have retired, resigned. Now, in this country, I was under the impression that you had to, and I could be wrong, but that you had to give notice of your resignation. I think it's a minimum of a week, depending on how many years you've served. Now, it seems that that's minimum didn't apply to Ms Forbes. I'd be very interested to hear what she had to say at the Eructus committees later today and tomorrow, because really, to be honest with you, without her, without her statements and without all the people turning up, they're just going to be talking shops, nothing's going to come off it. But why did she not have to give notice? And if she did have to give notice, who waived that so that she's beyond the scope of the committee?  That thing's ongoing at the moment too, this case is ongoing there, so that's a no-no. So as it stands effectively, no one is going to be held account. Now, unless the political pressure builds and builds and builds, but anyway, who's to say? So their lengthy statement which showed the broadcaster repeatedly caved into pay demands from Tobredee's agent was met with alarm and astonishment in political circles. The credibility of RTS and management claims that only Ms Forbes could have known that publicly declared pay figures for the stall were underestimated, sorry, were understated, is set to be a central line of questioning at an Eructus committee meeting today. So effectively, what they'll say is, I'd love to answer your question, but that's the responsibility of D Forbes. That's effectively now the, how they've insulated themselves from any line of questioning, and anyway, members of the Eructus media committee will question RT executives, were unimpressed last night by the version of events presented amid widespread political disquiet over the contents of RT's statement. One senior minister told the Irish Independent, the broadcaster's latest account raised further questions. D Forbes did it, seems to be the mantra, but I'm not sure that cuts it, they added. And let's just say, there's still a whole load of questions to be answered. And also Mr. Tobredee is still in line for 275,000 payments. It's really quite remarkable and just a couple of things that jump out. And as I say, take the personalities out of it. This is just an organization that we fund. Let's just view it like that because I do understand. Some people would have affections for the likes of Ryan Tobredee and feel this is a witch hunt on him or something or other. But that's not my motivation certainly. But they had this deal with, they had this deal with, with Renault. And the way it was done was it did cost them because they gave a 75,000 euro credit note. But not only that, Ryan Tobredee agreed as part of this deal through his agent to do three functions for them, for Renault. An RTE paid to host those functions in and around 4550,000 euros. That's an extra 4550,000 euro. Renault didn't even have to pay for them. So why was RTE paying to host three Renault events that they had done this deal with Ryan Tobredee to get an extra 75,000? So that bumps it up to 120. And out of this barter account that they used them on it, because it was paid, because they underwritten the 275,000, right? They had to, they had to pay, they paid out of this barter account. But the way that account is set up, it actually cost them an additional 70,000 to pay it out of this account. So it's not just 150, it's 150 plus 45 plus 70. So to pay 150 to Ryan Tobredee cost over 300,000, which is really quite remarkable. But who's at fault? No one, only Dee Forbes, that's what they're saying. That's what the, and I'm sure Ms Forbes is not too happy about it. They're saying it's not no one else left in the organization is to blame. It's only Dee Forbes, who has just left. And as I say, who accepted her resignation without the required notice, because that would leave her still at work and within the scope of the the eructous committee. Again, it just isn't another publicly funded situation that just stinks to high heavens. Right. Okay. The Irish Times. Now, Guardia treating a missing person's case in Donegal as a probable murder investigation following the discovery of a blood splattered car in the Kilbex area. Now a lot of you out there are probably wondering, you know, well, I've heard this, this has happened. Why is that happening? Why is nothing being said? I can't really shed much light on that. Our policy generally speaking here, when I say generally speaking, it's kind of strictly speaking, is to report official information only in these cases, you know, not to speculate, not to presume, not to use sources on matters that are so serious as this. But we have still at this point, and no media organization at this point has been given the information that anyone is missing officially, we haven't been told anyone is missing. We haven't been told officially by Guardia that it's a murder investigation. Or whether it's a missing person's investigation, their only reference they have made officially is an alleged assault. So everything else that you're reading is obviously sourced from somewhere or other. But that is why there's this gap in the information. And then, of course, two people were arrested. And then people probably presumed, well, this means that and that means the other. But those two people now have been released without charge. And I didn't see any reference of a file pending for the DPP. But again, we can't make it up. We can't quote unverified sources. There is no information coming from on guardish. You can't be on what I've just mentioned. But just to read on here, Guardia are treating a missing person's case in Donegal as a probable murder investigation following the discovery of a blood splattered car in the Kilibegs area. Again, that has not been officially confirmed. A man and a woman were released without charge last night following their arrest on Monday in a search involving the Irish Coast Guard, the Donegal Managing Rescue Team, and Guardia is ongoing for a missing man. Again, that's not officially released information. Though it is, it is, I'm not questioning it, it is reliable, but it's just not official. The search which began on Monday is centered on Schlieff League, a tourist spot, which is the setting for Europe's highest sea cliffs. Guardia are trying to contact the missing man's family, but are having difficulty in tracking them down. Guardia are still trying to piece together the events leading up to the man going missing over the weekend. Their investigations are focusing on the car which had been found with blood stains. The car first came to guard attention after being involved in a road traffic collision. Okay, so as I say, as soon as we get official line, official information, we shall bring it to you. Just looking on the inside of that paper as well here, Ireland's most senior public servants can look forward to pay rises after the government decided to set up a special review group to make recommendations on salaries for top civil servants, semi-state bosses, judges and other senior officials. The move follows recommendations made in a report which says the appointment system should be reformed and hiring processes should be completed more quickly. Minister for Public Expenditure, Pascal Donahue, welcomed the report compiled by a panel chaired by Donald de Butler and said he examined each of its 38 recommendations.  Just reading this on the back of our conversation we had yesterday with Luke Ming-Flanagan, who for a long time it's nothing new has been advocating for the legalisation of cannabis, but let's see what our neighbours in Europe are doing. French, let's go to France. Cannabis smokers in France will face on-the-spot fines of up to €2,500 in a bid to tackle drug-related gang violence. Police are being given 5,000 portable card machines to force people in possession of the drug who do not have cash to instantly pay a penalty starting at €150 for a first-time offence. French President Emmanuel Macron said that it was unacceptable that 65% of the 350,000 fines issued for cannabis possession since September 2020 had not been paid as he outlined the new plans to clamp down on the Dodgers. In an interview with Le Provence, a newspaper published in the crime Hit City of Marseille where 23 people have been killed in drug gang violence this year alone, the president said that decriminalising cannabis was not the solution, so they don't believe that decriminalising it, let alone legalising it, is the solution. But the police over there are going around with card machines to instantly deduct fines from people found to be smoking cannabis. Where are we now? Which story am I going to read from here? Yes, a health care worker, this is in the Irish Daily Star, a health care worker who liked and shared a video of an offensive song about murdered Michaela Maccarievi has had a claim that she was unfairly sacked from her job dismissed. An industrial tribunal panel described the streaming of the video in an orange hole last year as a truly disgraceful event and ruled that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust was entitled to dismiss Rhonda Shields from her employment in 2022. There was another person, Andrew McDade, who streamed it also. There was another person that appealed their dismissal and their appeal was rejected. The Mirror this morning tells us that Leal Bradcar has led Getwell soon wishes to Sinn Fein leader who is in hospital recovering from an operation. Mary Lou McDonald said yesterday she's doing well and is looking forward to getting back to work soon. She tweeted personal news. I had surgery on Friday and I'm now recovering well. I expect to be back in action in a number of weeks. A million thanks to all the incredible staff at Rotunda Hospital for your excellence, care and kindness onwards and upwards. She said the Taoiseach was speaking during leaders' questions and there's been quite a lot of goodwill on social media from other politicians of all backgrounds towards Mary Lou McDonald. And finally, Fiat has stopped making grey cars saying they do not embody the joyful Italian way of life but the car makers move could backfire as it's been the most popular collar for the past five years. Fiat Chief Executive Olivier Francois said Italy is joy, optimism, love, passion, life. What has grey got to do with all that? Nothing. The world doesn't need another grey car. I wonder how long it'll take them to reverse that decision. Now it depends what kind of a grey car they're talking about. There's quite a few of those. It's kind of like a matte grey. I wouldn't be a huge fan of it. I'm not sure how those cars will shift on the second hand market but anyway each to their own. I think he'll end up reversing that decision. All the ponds in the world intended there. Okay, that was a run through of some of the stories making the headlines in the front pages today. 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There were some concerns from members of the public, concerns from staff, I think almost particularly. And Councillor Jerry McGonagall has asked a question in relation to this at a recent Health Forum meeting and the question was a simple one. Can I have an update on where the review of the NowDoc services for Donagall is currently at? And Councillor McGonagall has kindly joined us to run through the answer. Good morning, Jerry. Thanks for your time. Good morning, Greg. Good morning. Thanks for being with us. Now it is a wordy answer. You've picked through it. What do you believe the words say? Very helpful. That was my suspicion. I said that yesterday. It's just a holding position. If you remember, they said that these discussions would conclude around the end of February, beginning of March. So I thought it was timely to ask the question for an update. Unfortunately, the chief officer wasn't at the meeting yesterday. So I had a number of questions coming out of his answers. And basically what they're saying is that they're fully committed to supporting their staff who currently work with the NowDoc service. And that they're dealing and engaging with all the stakeholders. And that they're working in partnership with NowDoc and CareDoc to ensure that the public use the GP at our service. And the staff working are provided with the necessary supports to deliver the best care to their service users. And they seem to be saying, and really I suppose we know further on, Jerry, they're saying they're looking at where there might be any gaps in the operating model. And they're looking at how that operating model can be changed to best fill those gaps. So it doesn't really tell us anything as such. So what questions, and you've just put some of them there, but what key questions do you believe, Romain, or what would you like to see some clarity on at this point? Well, they talk about trying to address the challenges that they're currently facing. And I was what I'm looking to establish is what are those challenges in relation to the service itself and just from talking to members of the public. There seems to be sufficient GPs during the week, but at the weekend it's fairly stretched and people are concerned about that. And from the staffing point of view, this relocation to Kearno for the triage and centre from Latter-Kinney, I mean, there's currently 25 nurses employed via the triage in Latter-Kinney and they're concerned about their positions. If it goes to Kearno, what will happen to them? And they have made a submission to the nurses union, made a submission to a national oversight body. But as yet, they're still in the dark and they haven't been, you know, other than being told it's ongoing, but they certainly haven't given any further information. So the other question I asked yesterday was when they said they're talking to all the relevant stakeholders that have they been engaged in with probably the major stakeholders, which are the service users. And again, I asked, was there a facility there that for the general public who use the service to make their feelings known? But once again, there was no one there who could answer that question. So there's a number of starting things and elaborate on what the challenge are, what to hold up to making a decision. Why has it taken so long for the review to be completed? In relation to the number of GPs, will it be sufficient to meet the demand? And then a lot of just talking to the people who use the service, they invariably be referred to the emergency department. And then currently, and just recently, I've been hearing some complaints about the left of time from when they make their initial phone call, give their information to get a call back from the GP to give them a diagnosis. Or as I say, invariably, they refer them to the emergency department. So those are the issues at the moment that I'm meeting and being told about. And I just wanted some clarity around that. But unfortunately, it didn't come yesterday. Yeah, okay. And did they give any timeline, Councillor, in terms of when maybe some of those questions might be answered, I beg your pardon, or when a decision might be made? They said to me that I would be contacted as soon as possible. And they would ensure that the person dealing with it would be in contact with me quite soon. Okay, well, we might leave it there then and come back to an update. I'll get any updates, sir, Greg. I might come back to you. I appreciate it. Great. Hey, thanks for that. Okay, I do indeed. Councillor Jerry Monagall there. Maybe you work within the service and you can give us some further insight as to what's going on, or maybe you've accessed the service, and maybe it's been a positive experience or otherwise. Some comments here. Greg, where is all the self-interest going to stop? We have had scandals within the church garden on Ball Planala, the banks, charities, insurance, HSE. It appears the only one not creaming the crop is the working man on the minimum wage, because even those on benefits are working the double. Then we wonder why this country is on its knees. And other wages in this country are the same in every industry. Look at managers in the HSE and the civil servants, what they are on. It's outrageous. In the charity industry, CEOs in some cases are paid ridiculous money. Just got home from costs, had screenshot boarding pass scanner. Couldn't read it. They had to manually input my name, flight number, etc. to get me through. Quite embarrassing and held people up. So I think really what we're saying then is, is that screenshotting your boarding pass or your access to a concert or whatever it might be is not foolproof. Okay. 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Well as we've been reporting Guardia are treating a suspected assault in South Donegal as a possible murder a series of searches have been carried out around Schlieff League after reports of an incident last weekend and that really is kind of all we have in terms of what the Guardia officially releasing they haven't really gone as far as the report has. I'll read what the Guardia are saying just for absolute clarity. Guardia and Balashana continue to investigate an incident that occurred in the Schlieff League Killebeg's area between Saturday the 24th of June and Sunday the 25th the two people arrested in connection with this investigation on Monday were released without charge last evening public access to Schlieff League remains closed to facilitate this ongoing investigation investigating Guardia continue to appeal to any person who may have information in relation to this incident to contact them now I really fully understand the lack of information being really released by Guardia but as I say the media is speculating beyond that local to the area Deputy Thomas Pringle joins us on the program now a fully conscious Thomas that really you know we don't know a great deal of information but I mean obviously there's going to be a lot of conversation a lot of speculation and concern I suppose in and around the area because people perhaps don't actually officially know what's going on. Well I think there's a fair degree of understanding around the area that you know that the guards can't say anything and it can't be known what's actually happening because I mean in fairness to everybody it has to be properly investigated and that you wouldn't want to do anything that would would cause a problem in some stage in the future if the charges are due to be common to be pressed or whatever you know and I think I think I mean I'm doubling at the moment for the for the doll certain this week but before I left to go doubling I mean the general feeling around the town with the people were just they were shocked and they were concerned but they weren't really wanting to say anything because they didn't want to I mean everybody knows the family involved and something else and for everything it's it's an impact on everybody the families of the people who may be accused of something and the family of the deceased person as well you know so that there's an impact there and everybody's very conscious of that and doesn't want to add to any of the the burden that people have at this time. And also it's an understanding that as part of this investigation there is a searches ongoing focused around the Schlieff League area and that is potentially a crime scene and that's why access is being restricted. Yeah and I mean that obviously is causing difficulties at the moment in terms of the tourist season and something out there it's the biggest attraction probably in the county at this stage but you know that has to be hopefully the investigation can be completed in the next day or two there and see if they can reopen to the public again and but you know that again has to run its course too and I think it's very important that it does that the guards gather up whatever on all information that they can in relation to that and you know so and hopefully that happens sooner rather than later but you know I think that we have to let it run its course at the moment. Okay while I'll have you and it's not in any way to distract from that serious issue that we've been just speaking about obviously every newspaper is full of the stories it relates to RTE we're covering it here I find myself kind of trying to hold back a little bit to some extent because you know people might think the Sarah Grape's going on here but I can assure people this this we're not motivated in that regard I'm certainly not. Hey look really we're never of that in any regard would you? Oh Sarah Grape's not at all not the money I'm on but anyway come on what what what I don't want to declare Greg I think it is it is all declared don't you worry about that for what it's worth and just to reiterate by the way we don't get paid that kind of money I would say one of our salaries would cover most of the salaries here but what's your take away from what's what's going on it was an interesting turn of events yesterday in that we had a nine page statement to effectively throw D Forbes under the boss really and it's just I think it was last week and I mentioned this at the top of the program I think it was last week when we were talking about another scandal within the HSE that you know once again there's no accountability and here just less than a week ago we had another exact example of of what we were talking about but what what is your assessment as this story unfolds? Yeah I think I thought the statement yesterday I read at a site from RTE it really was just throwing D Forbes under the boss and it's not surprising that she's the only one that has resigned in relation to this so they felt that they can say she's totally the blame for it I don't believe that anybody even the senior top manager in an organization does anything in a vacuum and can do something like that without other people being aware of it and know what's happening and the one thing I would say is that I mean there's an awful lot of people and probably 99% of the people who work in RTE are people who are working on an ordinary living wage and working wage and they're being they are being you know and they were told they had to tighten their belts and everybody got there but yet the senior management in RTE were going around and giving one presenter money through the back door and that's a seemingly money through back door alternative arrangements you know and that's that's wrong and I feel for the the ordinary workers in RTE in relation to that. Yeah I think some of them I think the average wage there is 55,000 euro but you have to work for 12 years to get to that point and this at the same time where there's a freeze on wages and regular pay I think a runner on the late lecture or researcher starts off around about 32, 33,000 euro so that that's why we saw hundreds of staff I would say picketing outside various RTE locations yesterday. That's understandable and because it impacts on everybody they can and when when RTE names drive through the border it's not that senior management are going to be looking at the numbers and all everybody who works for the organization the dog committee I think the dog committee on media and that there is meeting today at 12 o'clock to have some some of the management team from RTE again sadly I don't expect that there'll be any significant. What do you think draws the line under this so what has to happen for for things to move forward because of course there's a couple of things going on Ryan Tauberty is due another couple of 75,000s over the next year next two years to 2025 we don't know really what his relationship with staff in RTE might be we're not here to speculate about one individual's future but that's just one part of it but what do you think especially as as RTE constantly has the begging bowl out and I think that's scoopered now what draws the line under this or how do we move forward on this because eventually we are going to have to well I think I think I think what would draw the line under is that RTE have to fess up and they have to admit that they did this they have to admit that there was more people than just D4 who was involved in it like you know and that's a bit just a bit too convenient that um she was the only person to do anything about it and by the way she's she has actually resigned so therefore problem solved nothing to see here I mean RTE if another organization was doing that RTE journalists would be jumping up and down saying this is it's a cover-up and stuff they got there you know and that's so we need to be sure that that doesn't happen I mean RTE has a vital role to play as a public service organization it has a role to play but it has to be clear cut and I think as well too what we have to think about and this will be something for the longer scale is that you know the politicians have forced RTE to become a commercially based organization as well and they depend on commercial funds for their for their viability and that I think has led a lot of this as well too where the the government fund was completely well been caught and caught and caught and they're and they're relying on on uh advertising and stuff like that there was increasing all the time and this and then then this idea then that they had to pay their top presenters way above anything that stopped them being votes like I'd be really I'd be really interested to see what would have happened if when Ryan Topperty's agent says look he's not taking this pay cut we need this extra amount of money and if they said no what would have actually happened but let me just ask you one final question if that's okay when you say that RTE has a vote vital role to play as a public service broadcaster what in given the fact that we take 160 quid at every household to fund that what are they doing what what what are they what's need are they servicing that the likes of news talk and the independent radio stations aren't do you know that that what separates them as being a vital service as you you described them compared to what what independent stations and media outlets are doing just and I'm and that's a genuine question because it's one I can answer it's unassailable like I mean well I think first of all the the risk is that if you have a privately owned uh station that's doing it um that that can follow that can follow the lead of whoever the owner is regardless of whatever station that's Greg I'm not saying that is particular to news talk and you got there but that's that's the rest is involved so a public service broadcaster is supposed to be above that okay but the public service broadcaster is paid for by the government and it's the government then decides if it gets so the government a lot of people listening to this program might think then it's clear that the RTE the government is the RTE's pay master because their coverage is really quite generally favorable to the government so again in that context where is the vital role in democracy that I heard from the Health Minister yesterday and in public service broadcasting if some people believe it actually really is a government mouthpiece yeah and that's that's the problem that's where you have to be very clear and that RTE gets a funding regardless of whether the there is uh the scene that's been favorable to the government or not and that that is a problem and that's a risk that comes up quite a lot you know but aside even from news coverage as well that there is a lot of Irish language coverage and documentary programs and stuff like that that are made and funded by RTE and and what's the best one in the world I don't think the private organizations now maybe if they got the funding they might be able to make them but it's best with the best one in the world they might be commercially viable at private organizations I get you and I listen even in the in the area of sport and I'm speaking as a listener not as a presenter there's two big games this weekend that are pay per view so again if public I would have thought a public service mandate would mean that we get to see our national sport for free because we're paying for it already but we don't we half of the games we're on pay per view it'll be interesting but I don't think it's RTE that's that's making them pay for pay for well D Forbes is the head of GEA GO I'm not sure I'm not sure if she stepped down from that position yet but anyway it wasn't right I thought I thought GEA GO was a GA no no no RTE and RTE and GEA are equal stakeholders in it and D Forbes is RTE's rep on the GEA GO board but anyway listen thanks so much for your time Thomas I'm a little bit there and I appreciate you going with me take care of yourself deputy Thomas Pringle there the nine till noon show with the Lennon Festival Remelton from the 6th to the 10th of July experience the incredible ABBA sensations on Saturday the 8th for ticket information see Lennon Festival Remelton on facebook giveblood.ie know we can count on you our community of blood donors to give blood and to choose to be there for others in their hour of need blood donors from Bali Shannon should attend the clinic in Kaloshta column kill in Bali Shannon on Monday 26th of June and donors from Dunnegol Kili bags and Dunne low should attend the clinic in the Abbey Hotel in 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Greg how's it going I'm doing okay um Dez tell us your story and your own words I'll not lead into it I just want to hear what you have to say I um I'm very private person and I don't like to draw attention to myself so it takes a lot for me to come on to the radio show to discuss this but shows my desperation I've been very unwell for quite some time and I have would probably have ME and it's very it has turned severe and my GP has done as much as he can and he has sent me for a referral to see a specialist who may be able to see in July but I've been out for a very long time as I say before that and my health has declined majorly I never got a diagnosis in the past because it is near to impossible to get any kind of diagnosis or treatment there's not available for ME and I was in the position where I was looking after two elderly parents and my father was very unwell he had Alzheimer's and he had Parkinson's and I was looking after him and my health declined majorly severely and my sister was back from America and she was shocked at the state of me and she immediately brought me down to the doctor and I was down in the waiting room for the doctor and it came out to call me and he came out and he was visibly shocked at the state of me and I was sent up to the hospital and I was kept in for a period of time they don't test and they couldn't find anything and as a nurse one of the nurses in the ward a senior nurse she even said to me are you sure you want to leave and but I had no choice I had to leave but my health was in such decline that I was back in casual then other four times over a period of six months and they can do nothing for me and I was in such desperate bad shape that I never thought the statement would trip off my tongue but I was in St. Connell's for 10 days because I'm my health is deteriorated so dramatically that I need to be in some kind of care or something but there's nothing available for people with ME it's shocking that the lack of care and just for listeners who may not be aware ME it's also called chronic fatigue syndrome and that's correct it's affecting your concentration are you able to to get around or how how is it affecting your everyday life does it has taken my life away from me basically I am so bad that I have to obviously cook for myself I have nobody to depend on and when I get up I start shaking and I'm a crash from any activity at all it's a thing that's relevant to ME is a thing called post exertional malaise which is P E M which means any activity that you do it takes much more out of you than a normal person and on your severe that could mean the smallest activity and you're crashing then and your body is yours like you're gonna go into a kind of shock or whatever it's terrible but basically my time is spent in bed I cannot as I say I get up to feed myself and that makes me worse and then I go back to bed and I'm just staring at the ceiling and I haven't saw me I have to get confusion I get shakes as I say I can't do anything I get vertebrae who have food intolerances I can't deal with this all on your own does more or less I have siblings but they're in England and um ones in America obviously right because as well as the ME it sounds like you've been through you know a very stressful period of time as you say with your parents and and with your own um failing health it's an awful lot for you to deal with there's yes that's why I had developed severe ME because I was doing far too much and I hadn't got time to recover and destroyed my health completely and the reason that I'm on is I want to highlight the lack of care and the lack of availability of anything like I'm left to me on devices here and to be quite honest I don't see much of a future but every day is hell and I'm not joking there's what can we do to try and help I mean what difference say for instance if you got the official diagnosis from a consultant what difference white might that make does that mean that you would start some sort of a there'd be some further supports for you do you know what I mean like would that be a help for an example um at this stage I don't know um what benefit it would be to me it would obviously it would be down in your medical file that you're suffering from this illness and whatnot um but I say I am I am not able to function at all as a normal human being and uh can I make a suggestion Des what I would do if I were your what I would say if I was your brother and I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if it's controversial or not Des but I would get you in the car and I'd drive you to casualty and I wouldn't let you out of that hospital until such time as something was being done some sort of a package would be put in place to support you or or some sort of a treatment plan was put in place that's what I would do I'd put you in the car and I'd take you to casualty because that's where you need to be and and yeah go ahead Des I'm just sorry go ahead Des please Greg that has been done five times I was up on my sister twice and they look at you and they do the tests that they do and they they say that we can't find anything wrong with you and then they stay you can go home that's the problem with ME that they they can't find anything at this stage and you know yeah it's a when you get a diagnosis that that that that's a diagnosis of exclusion if you know what I mean yeah but um I I'm sorry I'm definitely thinking I'll get very confused you're doing it Des can I just say you're doing very very well everything you've said so far has made absolute sense and you're telling your story very well so don't don't worry or be stressed about that but I understand what you're saying about but forgetting your brother to do that I have tried every avenue that I've done I have went up to casualty and they and I was kept in hospital on two occasions and as I say they don't test and they don't write a lot of tests and they they don't show anything and I was that desperate then I went into some carols for 10 days and then they say that they can't do anything that you have to see your GP so you're stuck between two stools and there's nobody that can help or do anything for you you know you're just left to your own devices and you're losing weight and your your your condition is worsening you're losing weight and and sounds to me Des like you're losing hope as well too and that's what I want us to we'll endeavor to try and do what we can to try and move things along what we can do I don't know Des but I mean as you say you're a private person this is the last type of a conversation in public you'd want to have yes well it highlights the the desperation of the situation but um I um I um yeah I just I I I'm confused I that's yeah there's a fray on their width and I'm very unwell and I'm more in a bad one as I say I can't go out and shop for myself I can't do I can't function I can't that's just the reality of the year I mean even at this point home help would be a great advantage to you a professional diagnosis these are two things that I think too might give you a little bit of a lift a lift as well Des you might not feel quite as isolated as you clearly do oh Greg what I feel at this stage what I would need is I would need to be put on to care that's what I feel a reality of the situation that's how bad it is okay well Des leave it with us okay and and I want you to contact us again um if anything changes for you we'll make some inquiries what that will do I'm not quite sure but maybe the right person is listening that they can point us in the right direction but stay as strong as you can Des and stay in touch with us okay and thank you Greg we'll do as much as we can but I want you to know as well that you're not alone you can call us at any stage do you get me thanks Greg all right okay and don't be afraid to fire off a message on Facebook or something if you're uh if you if you need need that okay so I don't want you to feel you're not alone we're here as much as we can be and we'll make some inquiries to see if anything can be moved forward but just to reiterate I know you feel lonely but you're not we're listening to you and we understand the situation and we're backing you on this Des thanks Greg thank you very much stay strong all right thanks Des and we'll be in touch with Des again off air as well as you can hear um a desperate situation for him right okay uh let us get to a couple of comments just as we head now towards the news at 10 o'clock and lots of you texting in as you can imagine to 08 6 60 25 000 we appreciate all the texts as you know tg kaha is independent no scandals coming from there are real national broadcaster rte is just a wing of the government public service broadcasting is clearly propaganda sure we don't need rte anyway it's mostly reruns we certainly don't need it when we have the title noon show on youtube uh she was the dg of rte and would have been the one who's sanctioned and signed it all off indeed but even in small organizations it's it's pretty bizarre that no one else there's a lot of people there no one else said hold on you second what's going on here uh defaults has took one for the team and left with a full hand says a listener hi Greg we're fed up uh hearing from you what you do not earn that sorry we're Greg we're fed up hearing from you that you do not earn that prove it how do i prove it uh i'll prove it to you individually if you just want to i'm just on a normal wage here like uh everyone else why should rte decide not to report on the donal goal rally they're there to report the news not to decide what news to report well there's editorial policies i suppose uh separately coming from the new dual carriageway into the pool star roundabout it used to have two lanes now it's got three so two lanes of a car heading to the same exact point it's going to cause an accident i don't know i think that's helpful i think that sort of separates the traffic it's only for the last hundred meters and you know if you're turning right right lane if you're going straight mid lane if you're turning left left left lane i think the traffic at that point um it's filtering it and maybe keeping people in lane but i take your point Greg why in arland do we need to show the year of the car in the registration surely this shouldn't matter albeit anyone's business i have cousins from america who thinks this is ridiculous i'd ever like that either but even say for instance in northern plates if you're in the know i think you can tell from the letter what year the car is but i would much prefer if the the age of the car wasn't in the number plate personally what do you all think would you like to see the age of the car gone from the number plate 08 6 60 25 000 watts apps and texts to that number okay that's another hour of the 9 till noon show in the bag stay right where you are we'll be back with more after the news and the obituary notices the 9 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want to i mean everybody knows the family involvement something else and for everything it's an impact on everybody the families of the people who may be accused of something and the family of the deceased person as well you know so there's an impact there and everybody's very conscious of that and doesn't want to add to any any of the the board and the people have at this time or te is still in covering mode according to dunigal deputy pierce doherty he says nobody is satisfied with the statement issued by the state broadcaster yesterday which said the former director general d forbes was the only member of the executive board who had all the information to know ryan toberty's earnings this afternoon tds and senators will question or t representatives on the undisclosed payment at an eruptus media committee deputy doherty says the grand Thornton report states half of the executive board had knowledge of a second contract i don't think anybody is satisfied with what has been released yesterday by ortee it it seems that they are still in a in a covering mode it was very clear that they were trying to say this is what we didn't know as opposed to what we did know you know over half of the executive board had knowledge of a second contract with ryan toberty the chief officer for the community health care organization covering dunigals says they are fully committed to supporting staff working at the nidoc service in letter kenny however there has been no update on the future of the service serious concerns were raised earlier this year were plans to relocate to carlo as part of a hybrid model with care dog the hsc says they are continuing to engage with relevant stakeholders counter jerry mcmonigal a member of the regional health form west says clarity is needed there's a number of starting things elaborate on what the challenge are what the hold up to making a decision why is it taking so long for the review to be completed in relation to the number of gps will it be sufficient to meet the demand and then a lot of just talking to the people who use the service they invariably be referred to the emergency department i've been hearing some complaints about the lack of time from when they make their initial phone call to get a call back from the gp new laws are being developed to ensure consumers can still pay with cash the department of finance is looking at ways to maintain access to cash payments national payment strategy is due to be published next year and follows the retail banking review which was carried out last year consumer calmness with the irish independent shenid ryan says it's important to preserve the use of cash in society it's the way lots of people still do business particularly those on a very very tight budget on low incomes and indeed lots of older people who may not have got their heads around smartphones and online banking and all of that thing so i think it is important i think it's a pity that we have to legislate for it to be perfectly honest but increasingly you'll have seen fines popping up in restaurants in bars and card only confirmation that progress is being made on proposed works for the community nursing unit in remelton has been welcomed by the new vice chair of the regional health form west a strategy has been developed for the works which involves the replacement of existing single rooms with new en suite rooms counter kean brogan expects the works to start early next year i think it's positive that we're going to see some capital investment in the community nursing unit in remelton i think it's long overdue and i'm happy with the response i know hopefully in the third quarter of this year we'll have some reports back in that we can't get on with the works that needs to be done and the investment there and because it's a nursing unit that has provided a huge benefits to the area for many years and i'm delighted now that we're going to see capital investment going on there hopefully we'll get 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placed the dunigol hospice care of any family member and the death has taken place of don bradley strigill bonkrana formerly from shondrom drum freeze don germans are opposing at his late residents removal from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 going to st mary's church cock hill for 11 o'clock recreation mass with burial in the adjoining cemetery mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com see the whole picture with ultra wide on iphone 11 join three today and get iphone 11 for just 999 with three bill pay enjoy top-class speeds in ireland's fastest 5g network offer and soon visit and store or a three dot ie three for a better connected life 40 euro per month price plan subject to 24 month minimum term and annual price increase terms and conditions apply based on analysis by utlav speed test intelligence data q3 to q4 2022 cutting through the spin the 90 noon show on highland radio okay good good morning to you very welcome back to the 90 noon show thank you very much for being with us today um now on to some of your comments here rt and d forbes and other groundhog day just like john delaney and the fai back in 2019 all sounds like the angela currents woman a few years ago untouchable that's still an ongoing situation gregg ryan toberty joe duffy and the rest of the top rt earners are each earning more than joe biden the u.s president this is quite remarkable uh about ryan toberty warrant why aren't the revenue commissioners jumping on this side of thought he'd be all over rt and toberty at this stage well there's no question of any uh tax avoidance or anything like that there he's an independent contractor uh and he is a company um which is an advantage uh when you're a high earner and that company it's um incomes and expenditures and tax liabilities are all public information as far as i'm aware so um it's how he received the money not that he in any way um avoided tax or anything there's absolutely zero uh suggestion of that i call us as i hear that politicians are afraid they'll not get all the answers into the rt debacle let remind those concerned politicians that as an irish citizen i have never got answers into any wrongdoing by iroctis members it's a system of circling the wagons and nothing to see here which has prevailed for decades the anger of the irish people over this incident is not really about money or indeed ryan toberty it's more to do with the fact that this is perceived as another stroke pulled by people who live in a different world to those living in tensor hotels who are struggling to repay crippling mortgages or who homes are crumbling before their eyes and our concerned politicians couldn't give a toss about them we uh we've had the t-shock leaking confidential information to an unauthorized source we had tds forgetting how many properties they owned what happened absolutely nothing apologies and lessons will be learned is the only outcome the only outcome of this inquiry will be just the same i just wonder how much more corruption can the irish people take i would say loads i would say the irish people we have a capacity to take loads and loads of these stories and then we move on and and and get over it but some good points there well made thank you very much indeed another here i worked in the civil service if someone came under suspicion for wrongdoing they would not be allowed to resign until after any inquiry i don't understand why miss forbes was allowed to head for the hills probably in a top of the range reno i also wonder why rte had to make personal appearances sorry i also wonder why ryan toberty had to make personal appearances for reno promotions and never wondered why he wasn't getting any pay for these appearances an old man once said to me when you're apologizing you're losing i think ryan toberty's apology was not his wisest decision well there's no i'm sure that he knew that he had a commitment to reno for the 75 000 euro because rte then paid for those events so he must have says well why am i doing this i mean the questions would have been pretty obvious asked an answer do you imagine greg if d forbes wages and pensions were stopped and toberty's wages stopped they would soon talk um and uh hi greg rte were carrying out their dirty laundry clean slate prior to new dg coming in what the d4 bubble didn't expect was the backlash how can a runner in rte expect to get on the property ladder in dublin and watch this now rte shall come after streaming and local radio license fees will we get no uh just by the way just to be really really clear on this we uh get no license fee funding here at all there is some contribution i think to documentaries um you can get some funding for that but there's no uh highland radio and other independent radio stations are supported solely by advertising revenue so there's no license fee money supporting at all just to be clear this could have also gone away for toberty by coming straight out and paying the 340k and the future 70k's back to staffing more need now he shall have to leave remember what some of the bubble had previously been on 900k a year with no competition madness that comes in from asheen and just before we take the bingo numbers here i was on the letter kenny dublin 32 bus route yesterday at 6 15 uh a m i have lost my bag it's a black sports bag and what i'm assuming happened is someone took it by mistake i was left with another sports bag which i left at the oma boss station for anyone looking anyone who took my bag accidentally you might get in touch please as it has personal stuff inside so were you on the letter kenny dublin 32 bus route yesterday morning early on uh did you accidentally pick up a black sports bag its owner very keen to get it back they have left your bag at oma boss station if indeed it is a straight swap there it's time for mcbi bingo 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dez needs to get to the rehab unit in letter kenny to be built up and physio before going out to independent living again any as well if you any advice on the pathway for that please get in touch with us greg that man should contact his public health nurse unfortunately if he's not over 65 there's little available in this country but definitely start with his public health nurse another hi greg has des ever thought of functional medical doctor there's a small few in arland but definitely think it would be a great option for your medical doctors only get a certain distance i had an undiagnosed autoimmune condition that almost destroyed my life and only got better through online advice from functioning uh functional medicine i pray des gets better and gets his life back and indeed if it were me as well i'd also be looking at potentially um uh a condition such as Lyme disease as well uh listening to the show about me i have it since 2009 i spent months in bed had lots of tests was told to have me and no treatment uh i had treatment for the vertigo my family are wonderful with me i can skip conversations and just say what's in my head there is no help for it not even self help i'm lucky with having a very patient husband that's extremely tolerant and the family laugh with me not at me with the silly things i do and say i'm not bad now so i'm very lucky i've been where that man is it takes years to get why i am uh with it now thank you for all of those comments and messages of support for des right dr joe kerry's a historian of course regular guest on the show back on the program this morning good morning joe how are you keeping my gmy greg is locked based at the good morning to use all air and highland radio how are you it's good to have you with us thank you very much indeed right uh you've been opining about the ongoing scandal at arty in another couple of instances as well joe what's your take well you know the real problem is and it's poverty and everything else is what has gone on with airy society you know where is the sense of right and wrong gone it seems to be greed self-interest lies entitlement that has become the norm uh especially for those in power and and the this the scandal and story after story after story and the cycle is going to go on and going to go on and going to go on and where is the consciousness of right and wrong among the ordinary man and woman of airland being represented um i mean if we just look just this week alone so you have ryan tubardy the golden boy of rte playing with our gold the taxpayers gold let's be very clear about this um you look at the head or the second in command of the board plan and that this week has been charged with nine counts of not declaring properly what was going on in his interests and property for example he had a ransom strip and he had other properties that weren't declared he had nail colons the td and lemory patrick's well um whose wife bought land and what he was on the council nothing came of that um you had also he had damien english you had to resign because he didn't declare honestly a planning application for rural housing it seems to be accepted just on the damien english one then always it nile colons one of the two of them sipo then found really he probably didn't need to resign at all well i i don't know what it's it this is the problem where is the accountability for example the the man in the board planner paul heider thinks his name the max we can get his 5000 fine or six months um but look this isn't really about individual issues it's about the overall idea that this country is run by two different um moralities one is that the people in authority and not all i mean we have fortunately we have good tds in our in our county that there are no corruptions against them i mean in fairness you know whether we disagree with them politically one way or the other they seem to be honest and sincere and genuine in their efforts but there seems to be at the center of our um our government and at rte and or institutions a certain level of corruption that's acceptable and there's no accountability and it's cycle after cycle and it's just it's a case you write it out that's what you do you write it out that you in other words like they the thought would be now if we can get to the summer recess of the doll this rte thing goes away uh if we reveal information later on a friday it'll be buried by the time monday comes i feel for the good people working in rte who were out in the numbers yesterday i feel for the good people have on board planala who are all tarnished by uh the actions of certain individuals particularly in the hsc i really feel for the staff the hardworking underpaid staff with the hsc who are seeing scandal after scandal and of course we all are aware of uh the the good people in the hospital uh who feel tarnished by the criticism the guard e the army all good people who are uh who are having reputational damage because the people at the top can do whatever they like and get away with whatever they like it seems and then we as a society you asked why do we tolerate it someone else asked how much more of this will take we will take it in perpetuity until such time as we have someone to stand behind that says enough is enough well i mean it's the way i look at it maybe historically or have we replaced the landlords of yesterday with new kind of authoritarian landlords that the laws are for everybody else but not us and there should be a note taken it's in our constitution our president has to take it where you have to act consciously for the betterment of the well-being of the people there should be a note taken by every public servant and everybody in authoritarian state boards to the people of Ireland and if they are found guilty of any wrongdoing that oath should be casted up to them and there should be consequences it's not good enough anymore to be appointed by nink wink and nod and stuff like that we need those people to take a note to the people and the constitution of Ireland and maybe that's something that can begin to end this cycle of feeling of entitlement i mean again down in cork there another story with cork the board panel that was cork again this week was found out that there are 60 apartments in the students accommodation in cork that have been given over to ipass this is the department of equality in children there's not much equality for the people and the students going to cork this year where they're going to get accommodation who's going to look after them there just seems to be a veneer of truth told but when you hear his press statement now i begin to ask myself is this a lie is this their version of the truth or what are they trying to tell us in other words what are they not telling us um and again this is where independent media is terribly important because you have a better chance of hearing the truth um so look there's a lot of questions do you know how do you know how crazy this world has got joke yesterday um yesterday i don't know the exact i have the details but helen mackinty the minister for justice you're probably aware of this i don't know if you are or not went into court um and uh in front of an unnamed judge we don't know who that judge is got a ruling which means that every single person every citizen in this country that the phone companies have to retain all of their data for a full year so every little bit of activity on your mobile phone is retained access by the government uh in this country i'll get the article up really properly or try and dig it out it's hard to find at the moment but that happened yesterday in any other situation this would just be a huge huge story but such is what's going on like a a government minister went in and got permission from a judge who was nameless to retain all of our data all of for a full 12 months to do with it what we we don't know but i mean anyway i'm not expecting you to comment on that because i might be throwing that on you but crazy stay with helen mackinty she's also proposing a law and i want to be very careful and sensitive how i say this victims alleged alleged victims of sexual abuse or of rape or whatever do not have to undergo cross examination and a new law she proposes now i can understand the necessity for that um but at the same time it it means that somebody being accused of of something has not the right to interrogate or ask the person accusing them of what they're being accused of i know there has to be sensitivity and understanding but i think that's a very dangerous law and and victims can be protected in other ways but she's making a blanket proposal that will become law so somebody will be able to accuse someone of something but won't be cross examined now i can understand the necessity of that in certain cases where it has been horrific in the mental torture and what it might bring up but everybody has a right to to counter what's been said to them that's the system of law in this country and she's now tampering with that as a minister of justice this is the new woke ism that's going on there's no seemingly place anymore for the truth and the question is where are we as a nation as a people the consciousness of ireland are we really saying that it's okay to be corrupt that that's what we come to expect from high places i'm sure that it'll blow over tomorrow and it'll be something else and you know yes but what you see but you see uh uh joey in fairness to the people we the people okay they there is how you just have to accept it because at the end of the day that's probably what people feel because we're dealing with all our everyday crisis our health issues our mortgage issues our defective concrete issues our children's health and well-being issues right we can't take on the system so what we do is we sit we sit in the kitchen we we huff and puff about it then we watch coronation street and i'm not actually criticizing people for doing that that's what i do i'm talking about myself here right so there is no light at the end of the tunnel in the light at the end of the tunnel it looks like a train right so there's no that's why i talked about having someone that you could get behind uh and and what happens is is if you if someone sees genuinely someone who seems like in an opposition to the government they might throw in a few other issues that they're not comfortable aligning themselves with right okay so it would need to be someone that say right we're going to get rid of of corruption we're going to have a root and branch reform of everything but sure how would you get past the top civil servants to do that anyway they have just been okayed for a massive pay rise so you know where do you start that's why people just keep the head down have a wee moan but sure nothing you can do about it and that i think you've hit the nail on the head and i think that's what the people and authority and empower and and government and i don't want pleas to be attacking individual politicians i'm on about the authority that's what they know it's you know it's like a hamster wheel and the poor hamsters spinning around the wheel all the time and what they're doing is making our wheel bigger and bigger and bigger and we're having to put around a bigger wheel but we don't realize that the wheel has been made bigger all the time and we're going to die from exhaustion for example in the last number of last year we've had eight interest increases yet we've put we're proposing to it four hundred and forty one billion of european monies into ukraine you know where's the money coming from for for the ukraine not that i'm saying they shouldn't get it but then they can put up eight interest increases on the ordinary mortgage pair of europe of ireland but the problem but joe listen i'm not i'm not an economist but the problem is is the reason they're increasing mortgage interest rates is because there's quite a lot of people really quite well off in this country they're trying to take money out of the economy so they're not putting interest rates in necessarily to fund what's happening in the ukraine the problem is is they're trying to say right okay we don't want anyone to get any more pay increases we need to tax people more and we need to increase interest rates there's 142 billion euro in household savings in this country there are quite a lot of people well off though there are quite a lot of people under press so instead of trying to maybe even out that money and have a society whereby there's some level of equality you tax an interest rate people out of existence that's what they're trying to do and they make no bones about it they keep the foot on the person because that's how they drive down inflation allegedly well i hear what you're saying and i don't disagree but it's not about so much keeping down inflation it's about keeping people down sufficiently under pressure that they haven't time to look left and right and complain because they're struggling to to to survive be it with concrete tax be it with mortgage be it with increasing household products to buy for shopping etc that they have the masses under so much pressure that they haven't time to keep us looking left or right and then the throne ill epidemic in the middle and top of that and threateners with another epidemic and blame the ukraine for the oil crisis and they have issue after issue coming at us non-stop we need to take a breath we need to stand back and say hold on a minute here we are not to be abused and used like this and the people have to start awakening to what's going on and stop taking it from authority or from the media that this is what the real story is the real story we know and we're not being told the truth and the question i think i i would prefer if your argument was a little bit nuanced because i i agree with what lala what you're saying i think chucking everything in there that you've chucked in i think obviously i think sometimes hey don't waste a good crisis to keep the people down but i i know what you're saying and i i i have my own thoughts on it right so mean you could be sitting anywhere chatting having this conversation you get me i'm not here sort of speaking as a i'm speaking as a person just like you are i think some of it yeah is definitely their fear is a great control definitely is and um there's just no doubt about that that that's being used but that's being used by all sides you know we're being scared into disagreeing with the government because our children are going to be taken off as a abused or something do you know what i mean fear is how people nowadays try and get their point across rather than sort of articulating good points with backed up by decent facts i'm not accusing you of that of course not for a second what i think that's what's the intention and this is where i see is the real problem is people in power are severing the truth they're separating people from their families from their culture from their faith from their history from our roots and that's what they want to do and you know what happens then is like you know the the movies uh the westerns and you have the tumbleweed blown across the screen people are being blown here and there and everywhere because we're not rooted we're not able to say no we're not able to say we're not accepting this because we're being blown from one crisis into another crisis and as i said like the hamster we're so busy in the wheel is being made bigger and bigger and we're having to push this wheel around be with family child care mortgages and we're just getting exhausted but was you not like was your arland not look like uh it looked different but there would be more there would be controls uh but they're just becoming from different places like i'm not putting words in your mouth but you mentioned religious there religion there perhaps you would like to see a stronger role for church and society i don't know if you would or you wouldn't or perhaps you'd like to see you know a role back on some of the um some of the the legislation that's been changed lately that gives certain people more freedom over their own uh their own health uh you know what i mean maybe would you like to see us go to be a little bit more conservative and if so that's just control in a different way uh joe from a different group of individuals no i will i hear what you're saying and no that's not what i mean by that faith is is a moral compass across all religions faith gives you an understanding of what's right and what's wrong and look me and you might disagree about what's right and wrong but at least we're talking about what's right and wrong and gabriel burn once he was on the late late show and he's been interviewed and he was back doing a film in ireland and gay asked him you know you're you're a catholic but you don't practice his yeah but he says i know he says you send your kids to the jesuit school while you're filming here in ireland he says why did you send them to a catholic school and the question was very powerful and he said very simply well he says i'm not practicing catholic but you know what i know if i sent my children to that catholic school they'll be asked the right questions for life in other words that they will go out of school thinking the right way to ask the right questions and i see religion as asking the right questions and it's not necessarily about control it's about challenging every individual this is right or this is wrong and let's discuss it and so this it creates a moral sense of right and wrong we need to have some kind of compass but at the moment there is no compass and whatever is the latest woke and this is what i'm saying like the tumble we've blown across when you say woke what do you mean by woke like what when you say about woke culture what what what are you getting out there joe that it's the rootless root or oot lees the rootless there is no connection not grounded and it blows around from place to place whatever's in today it'll be in something else tomorrow there'll be something else the next day we are bound in our communities we are rooted in our communities we have a sense of place of of what's right and wrong of tradition of family all that comes from our rootedness and communities and we get a sense of who we are and what we're about and our nationhood in our communities in our families and for me i think the woke philosophy is to cut all that cut our history cut our culture cut our faith cut our family and have us blow around with whatever the latest thing is and look there things have to change but look at i mean i i think we're going through a period of almost uh defining ourselves going forward it's a little bit like these uh it's a little bit like these um these these meetings that were being held to discuss our effectively people thought it was discussions over neutrality but what it allowed people to do was people who uh who it gave people actually the majority who want us to be neutral and not to join NATO a voice so in other words it was i don't know some might say counterintuitive counterintuitive or productive also what we're seeing now is the woke culture that you talk of is and the pushback to that is creating a debate and i think somewhere in the middle of wokeness and conservatism if those are the opposites we will find the path for humanity for the next generation or so no you're again i what you're saying resonates with me and i've often thought you know a president or a government a phrase that they should have for their campaign is finding our way again and we talk about history greg we were a great nation once and we still can be that great nation and for me i think you know you talk about religion or you talk about you know what directs us what's our compass it's very simple if you look into the old finna motto which patrick pierce used in which i use myself personally and it was a three phrased i always phrase nyartner lavav plan on our kriyay goes on rig in their jungle strength in our hands honesty in our hearts and cleanliness on our tongues if an as a nation we just adhere to that old philosophy of the warriors of the finna of ancient ireland that we had strength in our hands honesty in our hearts and cleanliness on our tongues that would sure that would direct our nation in a wonderful way and we need to try to find that way again but unfortunately we have lost our way because of certain and i just say certain certain people in authority have a sense that lies entitlement dishonesty you know whatever you want goes no it doesn't do you know somewhere for people to express their discons discontent and maybe i want those people no no well you see the the funny thing is is this and this is just again a personal view is if i believe um that the the the pop outside of people that vote long party lines right they'll just go out and vote for doing that i actually think the strong almost the strongest voice and it's the wrong way to describe it but the most important figure at election time for me is uh the people that don't bother voting at all the 40 or 50 percent because it is they i think that we're talking about here it's not that they've got something on it's not that they don't it's just that they don't see the point that it's it's like they see everyone as the same cheeks as the one bomb what what you know what i mean and i think that is that figure that of a huge proportion of the population that choose not to get involved in the democratic process i think that's a really important cohort of people because i think those are the ones that are just like stuff at what's the point in this country you're you're correct there because you know when the booths call close on election day the existing status quo all they need to know is that the turnout has between somewhere at 40 and late 50 percent and they're happy because they know that there's a chance of surviving but if it goes beyond 60 percent they know there's trouble ahead you are a hundred percent right if the turnout goes beyond 60 percent then there will be a change to the system the status quo and we see that for example in america and i don't want to get into the trump biden the bit but the massive turnout of voters in america that were galvanized by the trump and by the clinton hillary clinton and then later by biden it galvanized people and i think that moment will come in ireland ireland will be galvanized someone will come along well it was in barris johnson in britain and it was donald trump in america that they perhaps gave a voice or a motivation to people that felt left behind or or or what's going on in this country well maybe they're not the best but yes but my point is is that that i think that is why they were so successful i mean it might be a different type of person that maybe is not quite as you know flamboyant or as such a checkered past or whatever it might be but i think it is they that spoke to those people that go you know what he's right he's right about what i'm going through he he's understood he knows it now uh i mean you know barris was able to brain europe for everything it was a simple message keep the immigrants out and as it turns out that never happened and the same happened it worked in america but anyway joe listen come here the last 30 seconds fix it what like if we were a computer it would be great if we could sort of switch it back off and on again you know reset the router we have to find a way to to stop this cycle and we will find a way i think that if people eventually get to a point say look we've had enough of this this is not acceptable i mean when the golden boy of rte is found playing with our gold i mean that's pretty you don't get any higher than that and it's fall from grace in the last few last week it's just it's make it i have to make us think about what is going on and what what we are being told and people need to start questioning from now on what's happening and can i just say one thing in history times um people um when they were wealthy they were buried in the churches the wealthy people could afford and they were buried under the boards of the church's medieval times the poorer people were buried out in the outskirts of the church and far away from the in the graveyard and after a few months people go into the church and they get a smell and they say what's that smell and they say oh that's the stinking rich the smell of the dead bodies coming up through the boards of the church where they've been buried well what we have at the moment is not everybody but we have stinking politicians we have stinking people in authority and people are smelling that stink what a metaphor what a metaphor all right stay there stay there for a quick sec let's bring Liam in Liam i think you have other things on joe i'll let you go right thank you very much for that Liam you crack on go ahead i've just uh i just sent on a text uh yeah we're invited yon to talk about it go ahead yeah yeah simply put anybody that the government consistently says that the the tax on this country is paid the substantial amount of it is paid by the the most the highest earners and ryan toby is a perfect example and i'm not picking on ryan simply put if you're getting paid in excess of 150 000 in this country at the minute you're then in a position where you can actually go and pay someone to minimize or completely negate your tax liability as as as has now come out in uh highland rte uh ryan isn't actually an employee it's a subcontractor it's getting paid through a limited company and does does anybody really believe when the government says that uh the highest the taxes the most taxes paid by the highest earners i'd have to say i cannot thank dr joe enough for coming on and yourself for actually uh happening on this point about the moral compass in this country at the moment uh greg um we have completely lost all sense of um of of where we're going and i'd have to say the country is crying out for someone i would i would love to get dr joe's contact details and and and send them something and and see if there's any way that whether it be a uh a social a social media group or some sort of forum can be set up whereby the ordinary people as they do on your radio station greg and and and ring and and and air their grievances or whatever but just to call out um what has gone on um and and raising their concerns around like can i put something to it can i put liam can i before i'll let you continue point something to you mentioned you know the more money you have the the better you can avoid sort of your liabilities legally okay you can employ someone to do absolutely i'm not saying it's legal no no i get that but also what it reminds me of is that liam if i don't pay my mortgage i probably have about five or six months before my house is taken from me my credit rating is destroyed uh i would continue to have no house but if i if i owe a bank nine million i can pay them 65 grand and and right off right off over eight million it seems like how do you know i think that's i think that's all part of the same thing the more money you have or the more debt you have the biggest chance that you are the less you're liable for anything that's that's absolutely the way it appears to be greg um and we don't seem to have any way we we elect our public rep um i'm extremely passionate about the the mica situation and we elect our public representatives and you can see that we don't appear to be getting proper represent those homeowners um the consistent tells laser on whether it's 10% or you're getting um 100% redress um it's just it's just absolutely shocking you know yeah all right liam listen strong points uh well made i appreciate you getting involved in the in the in the conversation 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thing for more point of view is there's two dunny golgears going down under uh in the form of amber barrett and kiera grant now i didn't doubt for a minute that amber barrett would not be going because how could you leave at home the girl that basically scored the goal to to mchistory for for the republic of arland liddy's first time ever going to world cup and she played well and the recent friendly as well against samby where she scored two goals she hasn't scored in a while but she got two against samby and kiera grant also featured uh that day as well and got a got a bit of game time it doesn't happen too often when both amber and kiera are playing uh together but vera pow has included both girls in their squad which is fantastic for dunny gol and both girls thoroughly deserving of their of their place greg we had a third dunny gol player involved in the squad that hasn't made yeah erin mcgloughlin was actually two more erin mcgloughlin was involved in the squad recently but it was more to give erin sort of experience of being involved in a in a top level group erin's from uh in a shown very very talented football there's no doubt of arland they're going to be going to world cups in years to come erin will be part of the time will come yeah our time will come uh unfortunately romell mcgloughlin things just haven't worked out for for romell over the course of the last number of years she was in america and then she came back over closer to home and she was she moved actually one of the dent dunny's sites looking to try to get a bit of of game time and cement a place in the world cup squad but she wasn't involved in the recent panels and for the friendly so disappointing for romell who's been around the arland setup for for quite a number of years and came back into it and over the last six months or so it hasn't worked out for unfortunately but it's listen it's it's uh it's an environment that you're involved in that is very very competitive so it is and obviously with a number of players now playing top level football across the water in england and elsewhere um it was always going to be it's going to be a big achievement for a player to to be part of this 23 yeah in management terms you have to keep now in the future too there's a conveyor belt and you know some of the players that will be featuring for arland and this competition won't feature in the next and that's where then erin and and other players start coming in to uh start to come on now there's a few surprises sprung um if a if a manion excuse me megan cambell and the anchoring are not included now there was hopes that cambell and and manion would be fit for the world cup manion obviously plays her football with manchester united but she only got a brace off on her knee in monday so the match sharpness wouldn't be there the fitness is not there so they didn't want to take a chance with her and uh a cambell hasn't really been involved since since april time and she's been she's been struggling with with liverpool and and likewise cairnan as well has had an ankle injury and just not fully fit because you really do need to be on your game when you're going when you're going to the world cup but the squad is now out of this disappointment for a number of players which that's a hard pill to swallow not not not not been included but for the other girls um they'll be buzzing at the moment so they will and there's a big media day tomorrow uh we understand it's done in the form of like a super bowl so all the players are there and it's a conveyor belt of of of the media so this is all going to kick off now they've a friendly coming up against france at the talus stadium next week that's going to be a doubling yeah and i'm going to come too far north with it anyway it's a bit of a shame too because you know a lot of people in different areas would want to hear from their local girls but there's no doubt you'll be hearing from the local girls now in the next couple of days we have all i'm about one of four strikers is that a low number of strikers i thought so i want to say that first greg i thought so you thank you but like when you look at what's on the mud field like obviously if i'm not mistaken amber has been playing in a more defensive role for standard league now as i say i don't know the standard league yeah yeah yeah she's had a she's had a just because the germans it's free it is of course yeah but i'm a non-conformist she's had different roles with them so she has but for the republic of ireland she'll obviously be playing she'll be playing up up top and maybe she's starting to find form again for ireland we've seen it with zambia fingers crossed that's that she can do it in the world but if you don't get the mudfielders like it's packed with mudfield i think pain as well can actually use one of the defenders can play in a forward role so even though there's four names they're not going to be short of scoring outlets yeah and can we so in terms of the competition yes when does it start it starts on july 20th when the guards are going to kick off their campaign and they're taking on the the co-host australian there's two other group games to cover some some match with the irish population on australia playing the host nations as i was actually chatting again this morning that's going to australia now towards the end towards the end of august going out for a year um he was on here earlier this morning with the post two was ryan so um doesn't there's so many people from dunagall and from ireland who are in australia so there is and like they're they're still leaving and they're playing loads as as we speak but from an irish point of view yeah especially the irish that are in sydney it's brilliant it's going to be it's going to be class what is our expectations where are we at that's a good question greek um it's a very good question you would like to think when you always looked at the men in world cups like if you were getting out of your group it was seen as as a huge achievement so can ireland get out of their group um it would be a massive achievement if if they can get out of there um and what it would do for women's football in this country like it's excelled over the last couple of years greg and to top it off now going to to a world cup um and if they can put on a performance in the word cup and they and if they can get get out of the group stages it would be it would be it's huge for the group but for the actual game in this country in the way that women's soccer is is development or football kenny harkin heard me calling soccer he says there's only one football game but uh the way it has developed you see now the way england's what they're trying to do with it they're trying to push it on there's a lot more money involved in it so there is uh i watched uh this sounds like an awful thing to say but like i watched the the european championships yeah and i thought it was excellent like watched lots of games and i think the standards i think the standard has come up significantly but a big tournament kicks it on massively like you know it does all right so that's what we'll have for the summer to watch all right slim pickings at the moment you couldn't pay me to watch cricket there's not there's not a lot happening at the at the moment greg so there's not now but we'll get it we'll get a lift from next month to the Irish girls and we've got a local connection which whatever local station wants we've got here man we look at the world cups that the likes of pikey boner and shea given and all these boys were involved and now we've got two dunny girl girls in the first ever ardent squad going to a world cup it's just a pity it's so far away greg that mean you couldn't go well i think if the truth be told if it was in slago we'd struggle to get the clearance you might but i certainly wouldn't all right thanks so very much greg that's usheen kelly our sports editor he and the team of course will bring you all the build up to the world cup and all the local angles and all that kind of stuff so we thank usheen kelly for that right back with that more after this quick break the nine till noon show with the lennon festival remelton from the sixth to the tenth of july featuring the talented jimmy buckley live on sunday the ninth tickets are just 10 euro and pay at the gate i'm going into a zoom meeting did you turn off the xbox yep what about netflix it's all that's tabulate it's turned off too nbi is delivering our high-speed fiber broadband network to over five hundred and sixty thousand premises across ireland so you can stream download watch work and play online all at the same time so now the only thing you have to remember to turn off is the immersion are you trying to heat the whole town find out more at nbi.ie nbi building a limitless ireland supported by the government of ireland buying or moving home can be a strange mixture of excitement and stress so the 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there is no accountability in this country never was no one cares uh another here gregg tobert he says there's a check for everyone in the audience thanks eddie you that'd be nice wouldn't it uh rte debacle is bad but not the most important thing going on in ireland at present time all politicians have at least something to agree on people affected by the current cost of living hospital waiting lists defective blocks farmers and fishermen losing their livelihoods the list goes on and on are we not considered or help ryan topony's taking one for his fina for bodies well let me tell you the way i view it is is that this this is a symptom of all the problems that you talked of as well yes it's not the most important thing yes it's a big deal at the moment but if you think what's going on in the hospitals where's the accountability there where is the sense that you know someone if a job's not done correctly can be held accountable for it the head of the hsc is he likely to get the run if things don't improve no as it relates to the defective concrete blocks crisis uh the people of donagall know fine well that this scheme is not going to uh help as many people as it should but what will happen nothing it won't unless there's a change of government and a new government follows through and commitments farmers and fishermen we know fine rightly what's happening they're being legislated out of business that's how many of them feel i'm not saying that that's how they feel but really they come on the radio when they go in the newspapers and talk about it but what happens nothing it's a decision has been made and you can huff and puff but that's the way it's going to be and i actually think this whole rte controversy forget the name rt forget the name ryan toberti just think of it public service it's public you're paying for it you're obliged pay for it or face major fines you know people are having to say people are upset but what will come of it nothing so they're all the same it's all the the the same so i don't think it is a distraction or at least it shouldn't be allowed to be one the only thing consistent in this country is the fact that money talks says this listener our government over the years only ever react to money a fear that people affected by defective blocks nothing will happen until each and every one of those people stop paying the mortgages again that's that plays right into the hands of the banks in the state because they become defaulters uh they could have their properties taken from them for what they're worth uh and their credit rating would be destroyed any hope they would have is gone but anyway i take your point and i'm not contradicting you uh they go on to say this is unrealistic i know but if the banks aren't getting the money for these derelict homes the government will soon act equally with rte is a group we should all refuse to pay the tv license the only way to affect this government is money and unfortunately uh bad time someone spoke out about this dr kelly spot on keep the people down at all costs another high greg um bad money for ruining this country uh last one before the news tell uh greg he is right um hi greg he is right the light at the end of the tunnel yourselves the likes of joe kelly getting the information out the last couple of years information was stifled nobody was talking or got talking the information has to be put out daily the same way uh the give is doing to rte the government keep pushing the corruption of the government the people will eventually get the courage to make the change people forget they have the power says that listener there cutting through the spin the 9 till noon show on highland radio okay it is 11 o'clock still a busy hour on the way stay right where you are but let's get a news update now and say good morning once again to mckayla clock very good morning as investigations continue today into an incident at sleeve league it's believe gardi are treating it as a possible murder case a major operation involving gardi the irish coast guard and the dunigal mountain rescue team was launched on monday two people were arrested in connection with an alleged assault at sleeve league but have since been released without charge rte is still in covering mode according to dunigal deputy pier stowardy he says nobody is satisfied with the statement issued by the state broadcaster yesterday which said the former director general d forbes was the only member of the executive board he had all the information to know ryan toberti's earnings this afternoon tds and senators will question rte representatives on the undisclosed payments at an eructus media committee the chief officer for the community health care organization covering dunigals says they are fully committed to supporting staff working at the nidoc service in letter kenny however there has been no update on the future of the service serious concerns were raised earlier this year over plans to relocate to carlo as part of a hybrid model with care doc the hsc says they are continuing to engage with relevant stakeholders the d up leader says work is already going on in the background for the next storm and executive however he is denying that means it's just a matter of time before power sharing is restored the party's boycott of the executive has been ongoing since february 2022 169 dunigal women underwent an abortion last year according to department of health statistics there has been a 127 increase in the number of abortions carried out in arland since the abortion referendum 8156 abortions were carried out across the country in 2022 and the locks agency has appealed for vigilance to the potential presence of pacific pink salmon in the foil catchment area in 2017 2019 and 2021 the non-native fish species unexpectedly appeared in unprecedented numbers in multiple river systems in arland those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much for that see the whole picture with ultra wide on iphone 11 join three today and get iphone 11 for just $9.99 with three belt pay enjoy top-class speeds in arlands fastest 5g network offering soon visit and store or a three dot ie three for a better connected life 40 euro per month price plan subject to 24 month minimum term and annual price increase terms and conditions apply based on analysis by uterus speed test intelligence data q3 to q4 2022 okay it's time for our wellness wednesday feature and today we're going to talk about heart failure in arland and living with the chronic disease joining us dr angie brand consultant cardiologist and medical director with the irish heart foundation thanks angie for joining us good morning greg and we'll also speak momentarily to pauline oshae who's living with heart failure for over a decade now pauline good morning to you good morning all right thanks for joining us dr angie i might talk with you if that's okay first when we talk about heart failure i think people think heart failure might be a stroke or a heart attack but obviously it's it's much broader than that so give us a better understanding of what we mean when we talk of heart failure so really what heart failure means and we don't we're trying not to talk so much about failure because that's very scary for people that heart insufficiency so basically what it means is the heart pumping function isn't working as well it can't pump blood around the blood around the body and provide oxygen to all the organs as efficiently as a normal heart would so the heart has been damaged in some way and it can be damaged by lots of different things so if you have a long history of high blood pressure if you've had problems with your arteries blockage in the arteries and heart attacks or other lack of blood supply to the heart diabetics have an increased risk infections can cause a myopoditis causing inflammation in the heart and then some congenital diseases rhythm diseases starved diseases drugs and toxins can all cause problems with the heart so it so lots of things can cause this problem with heart pumping function and when you have um impaired pumping function what this causes for patients is that they get they get very breathless they have profound fatigue that's not very difficult to do normal day-to-day activities they may have swelling in the ankles they may not be able to lie flat at night and wake up breathless and need sleep pops up with pillows so lots of symptoms are associated with this lot of copper pumping of the heart and dr. brown if we get everything right in terms of you know a speedy diagnosis the correct care and the correct aftercare what is the prognosis how manageable is it what kind of a life if i say we got everything right could a person expect to lead so there are obviously lots of different degrees of heart failure from mild to severe so it will depend a little bit on the underlying cause um and how soon that you get it for instance if someone's having a heart attack and they get to hospital very quickly you might reduce the amount of damage that is done so someone could have a very good prognosis but if someone has a congenital defect in one of the things that helps you pump one of the muscles in the heart this is something that is a chronic disease that you have to live with we do have lots of excellent medications now that will improve people's mortality and morbidity so the medicines do certainly help people live longer and feel better improve the quality of life and we have devices that can go into the heart to try and prevent rhythm disturbances but this is a chronic disease it has high mortality rates and the mortality rate if you diagnose with significant heart failure around 36 percent over five years so this is higher than lots of other cancers and things so it really does have a high mortality rate we are getting much better in treating it and managing it but it's a major thing for people to have to live with the effects of heart failure as I'm sure we will hear from Pauline yeah for sure and before I bring Pauline in just a couple of other statistics then in terms of uh age demographics is this uh is it other particular uh groups of people that are more likely to be diagnosed with heart failure or heart inefficiency I think you may have called it yeah so well as I said it lots of different causes of heart failure it becomes more common as you get older but we know from um from some estimates from the HSC that actually was over 32 000 people suffering from heart failure who are less than 65 years of age so I think it's important to remember that it affects all age groups and actually it's very common we estimate it affects about two percent of the Irish population that's nearly a hundred thousand people are living with heart failure in Ireland with about 10 thousand new cases every year so it's actually very common and the prevalence is increasing so the numbers are increasing so we really do need a national registry so we have a better and more accurate idea of how many people are suffering from heart failure so we can plan services properly and provide for these patients yeah it's really quite remarkable that that's absent because how could you uh uh know the full extent of a problem or plan for it if you don't actually have a proper audit of the amount of people that that it affects absolutely yeah and the impact is so profound as we'll hear from yeah well let's do that right now uh doctor thank you very much for that stay where you are Pauline O'Shea you've lived now with this condition for 11 years and I suppose to to some extent I don't know how you know outwardly people would not know that you are living with this chronic condition Pauline yes indeed so yes I am 11 years and I would say to anybody listening to the radio this morning who has a diagnosis of heart failure the term the term itself is terrifying so um I would just say first of all we got a rebranding of that but that aside um years are possible too I know we talk about um a third of people sort of within a five-year period of mortality rate but at the end of the day there are more people surviving therapies have got better and medications have got better and I suppose I'm an example of that um I'm 11 years on and um so I'd like to give anybody listening a little bit of hope on that front and when and I think that's really valuable Pauline so um do you mind me asking what age you were uh when you were diagnosed and what led to that diagnosis how was your health impacted if that's okay yep so um I was 38 and my situation really was I had just had my third baby um and I had an issue called scad it was where an artery in my heart tore but unfortunately um I was misdiagnosed just having a virus so I was sent home um and you know I suppose I was readmitted and and again nobody could spot scad because you need to have a particular um you know cardiac test an angiogram to to to see it um and that wasn't conducted so as a result I ended up having three heart attacks and I ended up have going into cardiac arrest the problem was that all those heart attacks and a cardiac arrest deprived my heart of oxygen so while the artery was eventually repaired through a bypass the oxygen deprivation had left as I was told part of my heart dead um and that was that was really really terrifying because as I say I just had my third baby I was 38 it was a time of life and newness and this diagnosis I had no concept other than the term suggested to me that if my heart was failing um rather than in you know as the term is kind of meant to describe it's just not functioning as well um and so it was absolutely horrendous and I have to say um while I could understand medically what they were telling me it was the implications for the rest of my life that were the devastation um because I thought how am I going to be a mother how am I going to function am I going to function um you know and what do I expect I didn't know at that time I was told in a hospital bed and I okay we seem to have lost that now we're back there now sorry thank you pardon Pauline the line dropped out so you were told in a hospital bed just pick it up from there please if you don't mind oh sorry told in a hospital bed and um I said I looked across the ward and I saw the bathrooms and I remember thinking you know could could be going from this bed over to there be the end you know I I really had no idea what to expect so um I understood medically what had happened but I just could not grasp what it meant for my life and the remaining the years after that that was the biggest struggle for me trying to adapt this condition and understand how I was going to live a life and be a mother and do all those normal things for my stage of life yeah well there's a lot for you to work through there that stuff that you kind of have control over but in terms of supports you know be financ