I'll spin, you know. Right, no, it's just interesting because it's kind of in the news. Oh, see, I missed that trick, then. Well, we have, in this country, censorship laws that date back to 1919, 1929, I think it is, right? Yeah. And there was, like, 1,200 books were banned. Any mention of sex or anything like that there was banned. But the very last book that was banned was Madonna's book. Was it an autobiography or what? No, it was like a picture book. But that was the last book that was banned, I think, in 1989. And that made the news today? How come I didn't pick up on that? Because it's not in the newspapers, it's in my head. All right. Yeah, Madonna's book's not mentioned, but just by coincidence it is the last book that was banned. Come here, can I tell you something? Which I noticed about you today. Go on. There's a nice smell about you today. There always is, I always smell pleasant. No, no, there's a fragrance off of you today. Yes, odour. The odourant? No, no, no, nice smell. No, like, the aftershave or something, did you put something on? Every day I smell good. No, you never smelled like that before? Well, I changed it, so I have changed it. What did you change to then? What, is it the odourant or is it the odourant? No, it's aftershave. Oh, you put aftershave on to come to work? I do every day. You do not, it's the first time I've smelt it. You're all about noses, having been able to smell millions of different smells. But does a trillion year noses can smell a trillion smells? I smelt that when you soon as you came out, thought, oh, yeah, there you go. Thanks very much.   Thanks, who's your guest in the studio today, then? Who is that, Madonna? I don't know. Don't have anything to say. It's just because the aftershave thought must be something. Don't you start any rumours? All right, all right, let's keep it up to you. All right, it's a minute past nine. Time for news update. It's over to Donna Reed-Arty. Thanks, Greg, good morning. It's hoped additional funding will be made available to alleviate ongoing flooding in the Trenta area of Ladder, Kenny. Some improvement works have already been carried out in the area, and Dunningall County Council has confirmed an application for funding to extend the works is to be submitted for climate adaption funding. Councillor Ciaran Brogan says in the interim it's vital that signage is erected to warn road users of times of flooding. We've had a lot of funding spent there now, and as we speak, it's an advanced stage of completing that works. There's still areas that we need to apply for more funding. I've got confirmation that we are applying again. In the short term, I want just to get signs to be erected in the area, because a lot of residents are very concerned about the risks they take when they're making the journey to and from their homes. It's been a big issue in that area, and I'm glad it's moving along now, and I want to commend our own council team for the work they're doing, and indeed the landowners. Our take-home pay is going to be affected by an increase in PRSI. The amount we pay is set to rise from next October. It will mean the average workers' pay will reduce by 46 euro every year. Business correspondent Joe Linham says one of the rationales for the decision is to keep the pension age as it is. This is to pay for us having made a decision, or the government having made a decision not to raise the pension age beyond 66. You have to pay for all these extra pensions. So it means employers and employees will have to pay more money. Their take-home pay will go down, and the gross cost of employing someone will go up for employers. Bundorn is seeing a number of developments, including a 200,000 euro revamp of its playground. Councillor Michael McMadden says a 25-year-old play park has served locals and visitors alike. The development of 42 housing units and a 350,000 outdoor dener has also been welcomed. Councillor McMadden says some works have already commenced. Do you know I'm very pleased that we're getting our first share? And the housing, as I said earlier on, is very, very important, and this is the state of the art housing with 42 houses. We've got a number of people on the housing list, both in the Bundorn and the Balich and in the local area. We also have really just started the outdoor dener in the west end of the town to the tune of a little over 350,000. It was held up a little while there by the department, but we're ready to go on that. The age limit to buy cigarettes could rise from 18 to 21. A public consultation on the issue is set to get underway this week. A number of countries have stepped up their efforts to curb cigarette use among teenagers. Professor Deirdre Murray, Director of the National Cancer Registry, says raising the age limit would reduce access to the product. There are a number of evidence-based interventions that you can use to reduce the risk at any age, and that is if you reduce their access, increase the price, and well-designed mass media campaigns. And for that, I mean things like advice on packets about how to quit and where to go when to quit. So this would fit into the first one, in my view, which is reducing access. Looking out to weather, cloudy damp and blustery day with patchy, late rain and drizzle, highs of 11 to 13 degrees and fresh to strong, westerly winds. That's all for now from Highland Radio News. The next news updates at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. This Christmas at SuperValue, we have great offers to help you share the magic. 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Or you can send a voice note to that WhatsApp number two. If you want to give us a call, it's Caroline taking your calls with Shannon on<PHONE_NUMBER> and emails to us from wherever you are, comments at highlandradio.com. And you can also contact us across our social media, as many of you do. So we do appreciate all that contact as well. Right, let's look at what's making the pages of the newspapers today. We'll start with the locals, The Innish Times this morning. Management at Bancrana Community Hospital failed to take appropriate action after two instances where intruders entered the building and inspection by the state's health watchdog has found. The health service executive run facility on McGinn Avenue, which provides care to up to 30 residents was found to be non-compliant with two care and welfare of residents in designated centres for older people regulations following an unannounced inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority. That was in August of this year. The report from the inspection found that some actions were required to ensure that the provider's management systems were effective in ensuring the quality and safety of the care and services provided for the residents. The Donegal Post's front page focus today is on meaningful support being needed for restaurants, cafs and pubs in towns where a significant portion of tourism accommodation is unavailable to visitors. We're really up against it, said Maread Anderson, who along with her husband Gary owns Anderson's Boathouse restaurant in Kili Beggs. Maread and Gary both stress that their issue is absolutely not with the Ukrainian community. It's with how the situation is being handled and the associated lack of communication on the part of the government. If you're going to have your business reduced, of course, it's going to have a big impact, said Maread. Her comments follow the shocked news that cafs, restaurants and pubs were being excluded from the government's 10 million Euro support fund. The funds supposed to help businesses in areas where large numbers of rooms in local hotels and BNBs are being used for humanitarian purposes, but it excludes cafs, restaurants and pubs, which is quite surprising. So where else does it go? On to the Finn Valley voice this morning. The countdown on for Christmas Light Switch On on in the towns, on in Twin Towns, I beg your pardon. The countdown is on for the Twin Towns Christmas Light Switch On this Sunday, the 26th of November from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., McElhenny's car park. And just to throw out the invitation to you once again, by the way, that we'll be doing a roundup of Christmas Light Switch Ons or anything festive that you're doing in your community. It doesn't matter how large your town is or if it's just a village or just a single tree, it doesn't matter. If you want a bit of publicity, get in touch with us now. We'll be doing a roundup to make sure that everyone gets fair publicity. 086 6025,000 WhatsApp and texts in the details or preferably give us a call on 07491 25,000. We might even get to have a chat to you. So if lights are going on in your area or it doesn't have to be this weekend or whenever it's happening, we're going to be doing a roundup. So get in touch with us. If you've got something going on that you want to share more broadly to the community. The Independent tells us that the health services financial crisis will be even worse this time next year than it is now. The head of HSC warned Health Minister Stephen Donnelly less than 24 hours before last month's budget. Mr. Donnelly was also warned in an email from HSC Chief Executive Bernard Glouster on October 9th that any cost controls to reduce the health deficit would create significant and punitive risks to the public. The email was sent after Mr. McGlouster had been told that the HSC would be given less than half the extra funding it asked for in Rastford to run the health service next year. Now Stephen Donnelly is going to be joining us on the show on Friday as he's up here turning the sod on the New Community Hospital in Lethercanny, meeting two with medical representatives over concerns they've raised. A very simple question is why are the government purse strings so tight when it comes to health? What is the logic or what is the argument being made or the justification, especially when the warning is, is that this is going to have negative impact out on the public? So we'll be putting that question to him. But the letter goes on to say, or the email, the position likely to face the HSC coming towards 2025 will be likely worse than today for 2024 when the 2025 doubtless increment costs will be added. Mr. Glouster wrote to Mr. Donnelly, his secretary general Robert Watt and HSC chair Kieran Daphane on the afternoon of October 9th. And of course, there are always increasing costs in health or any area of public spending. So you have to obviously increase the funds to cover that and then increase the funds further to improve services. We talk an awful lot about texts. You know, these texts that you received, we talked about it yesterday and we keep mentioning it and rightly so because new ones come out all the time and you could be forgiven for thinking that this is all happening in some far-flung part of the world or nothing is being done to try and tackle it. So an interesting story on the front of the Irish Times, I'm not saying these people are responsible, but it's in the same area, okay? An Irish teenager is regarded as the main suspect in an investigation by Waterford Guardi into a significant fraud gang involved in cyber-enabled frauds. Guardi have arrested nine suspects and seized over a million euro of cryptocurrency. The largest ever sum of the currency seized from an organized gang involved in this kind of alleged smishing fraud, which is carried out via SMS and WhatsApp messaging claiming to be from post offices, delivery companies or financial institutions. So they have arrested a number of people in Waterford and a million euro in cryptocurrency. The vast majority of money stolen from Irish people in frauds based around bogus text messages is usually moved abroad to the foreign criminals running the scams. However, one unusual feature of the group now under investigation is that it is allegedly Irish led. It's understood that a key individual of interest is a young Irish man who had never come to the attention of the guard before now. However, despite this, despite his youth, he is now a main suspect in an investigation by Waterford Guardi that has spread as far as South Africa and Dubai or Dubai. So over a million euro potentially of your money is seized in cryptocurrency there. On to the Irish Daily Mail now, and I'm not just talking about this to pee off those of you that are listening to me sitting in traffic today, but Transport Minister Aiman Ryan has said the nation must prioritize bypasses as the cabinet approved funding of 150 million euro to fast track the Adair bypass ahead of the Ryder cop in 2027. Adair bypasses one element of the Limerick-to-Foins project, which is a 33 kilometer road connecting Limerick to the port of Foins. Speaking yesterday, Mr Ryan and Green Party leaders said that Adair will see huge benefits once the road is finished. Now fair play to the people of Adair and those now able to go around it. But the fact that it's being fast tracked ahead of the Ryder cop in 2027, I suggested on social media yesterday, if there were any golf clubs that could apply for a Ryder cop in and around Lether Kenny, you'd have to be successful, but maybe that's the way to get the Bonnegie Link road, the Link Bridge progressed because it's being fast tracked in Adair for the Ryder cop and we're sitting here for generations and maybe generations to come in one of the biggest towns in the Northwest, if not the biggest town and the calls for a Bonnegie Link are still going on answer. Work is ongoing, but when? It's been ongoing for so long. But anyway, there was a tragic story came out of Britain yesterday. Four bodies have been found in the search for a group of teenagers who disappeared on a camping trip in Wales. Sixth form college pals, Jeven Hurst, Harvey Owen, Will Henderson and Hugo Morris went missing on Sunday morning and were last seen in a silver Ford Fiesta. This sparked a huge search. Then yesterday, some section of road was sealed off and an investigation started and then very shortly after Northwest Police, Northwest Police confirmed four bodies had been recovered from the car which appeared to have left the road in a tragic accident. Superintendent Lill Alwyn of Northwest Police said, at present this appears to have been a tragic accident and our thoughts are with the family and friends of the four young men at this very difficult time and it's all for what the families are going through but also in the intermental such time because the remains were discovered and the unanswered questions that they'll have that will remain unanswered in terms of how long did it take people to pass away and stuff, it's terribly, terribly sad. As is the ongoing situation in the Middle East, the Irish Sun reports that the Irish government is doing all it can to make sure Emily Hand is among the first hostages released by Hamas, Lee of Radkar has promised. The release of dozens of Israeli hostages was closer than ever last night about 50 women and children including nine-year-old Irish Israeli Emily were on the verge of being freed from tunnels in Gaza where they've been kept for more than six weeks. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, I hope there will be good news soon. US President Joe Biden also said a deal was very, very close and that deal has been struck now. The only thing remaining is as to when there will be a pause in the fighting to allow that exchange of people over the next four days to be staged or staggered over the next four days whilst fighting is supposed to stop. And finally, in the Irish mirror, a bit of a faux pas from number 10, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office was forced into a social media U-turn yesterday after appearing to use the tricolor in a post celebrating the culture of Northern Ireland. Businesses from Northern Ireland were in 10 Downing Street on Monday for a reception with the PM and his staff for an event celebrating the best of the region. The post was published on the social media app Instagram with photos of attendees at the event. A spokesperson for the PM's office admitted the post was made in error and then quickly deleted. So it says businesses from across Northern Ireland arrived to showcase some of the best produce the country has to offer and then there is the little tricolor flag. All right, that's a run through the papers this morning and if you can catch your ear there, 08 660 25000, the WhatsApp and text number for you. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letter Kenny, the 2022 C-Store National Off-Licence of the Year. Christmas party nights at the Silver Tassee, drinks reception, four-course festive meal, live music by the Loogs, Gemini and more prior to your elbow. 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The time is 9.19, a text just says. Minister Donnelly is going to come to Donegal on Friday and in advance of his visit, ED is being cleared out and a true picture will not be shown. Well, we've got statistics for every single day and we'll be able to see a trend of Fridays. And if it's quite the same, we'll be able to see a trend of Fridays. And if it's quite obvious that this Friday is different from other Fridays, well, then we'll know and we'll talk about that as well. Right, we've been talking about people parking in disabled parking bays and we've also been discussing this week people parking in the parent and toddler parking bays. And I believe that must have triggered Margaret to contact us. Margaret, you recently got a parking ticket in Letec. By the way, Margaret, Good morning, Greg, how are you? I'm doing okay, Margaret. You don't believe you were in the wrong? Well, I was, you know, I always parked on that particular bay, but the change is on the electric day. Oh. And that's not that I parked every day of the week or every week, but any time I've been in Letec County at Muscally Place, I parked down there. Yes. And they more or less told me, well, you should have known better and you should have parked it. Shouldn't have parked there. And did you get to speak to the person issue in the ticket at the time or did you make an appeal after the fact, Margaret? I did just speaking to the person and he says, you take it up with him. And I read to him and they read back and he says, no, he said that you were on the wrong parking in that disability. So that, that should be because I never seen two electric bays together. There was only one. I would say, Margaret, you are a very unfortunate and in a small group of people who would be entitled to disabled parking accidentally parked in an electric vehicle bay and ended up getting a 80 year old fine even though you are a badge holder. Yeah. It's very hard to think of. And was there no reasoning with the person? Did you not say, well, look, I have a disability or I'm at least have the right to a disabled badge. I've made a mistake. This used to be a disabled parking bay. You know, you're not there to try and upset any electric car drivers and there was no negotiation with them at all. To the north, I wasn't ticketing or anything. I just said, I didn't know. Yeah. As far as I was concerned, that was a disabled bay. And you took it up with the council then, did you? Like what, did you write to them or told them about it? No, I was back to the dress. I went back on the dress. Yes. With the fine I got. And you explained the situation, obviously, Margaret. What did they say back to you then? Yeah. You know, this is the... that was the man, the person that's done it. He did the ticket, had the right because you were parking illegally in an electric bay and more or less, I should have known better. Yeah, but it was a genuine mistake. I know it was a genuine mistake but they wouldn't hear tell of it. And I suppose you could contest it further but the way it's set up, the fine would double then eventually at some point, wouldn't it? Or go up at least? I know but much half of you used to go through trying to get your point across if you were genuinely making a mistake in them. Yeah. Saying, oh well, you shouldn't have done it. But anyway, you believe it to be very unfair on you, Margaret. Yeah, definitely, yeah. OK, well we'll see if any other listeners have had similar experiences. Margaret, thank you very much for your time. That's Margaret, who is a badge holder. She's entitled to park in disabled parking bays. But one of the bays that used to be a disabled parking bay is now an electric vehicle charger. She says they look quite similar on first glance. The painting was faded. It was in there in good faith but ended up getting an 80 Euro ticket and appealed it and was told you were parking illegally. You have no recourse really as such from their perspective. What do you think of that? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. I believe that's a parking space. Dan Scali placing that. Kenny, if you're familiar with it, has anything similar happened to you? What do you think should happen in that situation with Margaret? OK, I want to give you an early shout-out to the 50 Euro fuel voucher. Thanks to our friends at Kelly's Centre at the Mountaintop and Letter Kelly. Just to remind you, they're getting ready for Santa season and are celebrating their community this Christmas. They'll be working with little angels and raising funds for the festive season. They'll have a number of giveaways in store and on social media, they'll be golden tickets in store with discounts and a grand prize and you may see them out and about with a very special guest. Today again, one lucky listener will win a 50 Euro fuel voucher to fuel up at their local Circle K. What colour is emerald? It's a very simple question. Text your answer, your name and where you're from to 08, 6, 60, 25,000. What's upper text? What colour is emerald? I have the answer in front of me. I keep almost reading it out. Text your answer, your name and where you're from to 08, 6, 60, 25,000 and you could win a 50 Euro fuel voucher to fuel up at your local Circle K and thanks to our friends at Kelly's Centre at the mountaintop in Letter Kenny. Now, we are joined on the programme by Orla Karmadi, age-friendly Ireland. Good morning to you Orla, thanks for your time. Good morning, lovely to be talking to you. It's good to chat to you and you're encouraging businesses to work to become more age-friendly and it's an easy argument to make you would argue, I'm sure, Orla, if businesses take on board your advice. Well, it's just a good customer service really, I suppose, is the way you might look at it. Age-friendly Ireland came out of the world's health organisation and it was a move to make every town and village and community, any place at all, a great place in which to grow old. So there's an age-friendly programme manager now attached to every local authority area and you know they work on the libraries and the health service and many, many kind of supports. So I'm the age-friendly business consultant and I'm tasked with encouraging businesses to come on board the programme and to become age-friendly. And the reason for this is to just demonstrate to the older consumer that they're valued, that they're going to be welcome, that there's a few little changes and supports put in place in the business to make sure that the older consumer has a comfortable experience when they shop or when they support a particular service. And we keep it very simple, we always say businesses should introduce three only, three low-cost or no-cost changes to demonstrate age- friendliness and then they can come on board the programme. So we've got businesses all over the country now involved. I've concentrated mainly on the big multi-branch businesses so I'm talking about Vodafone and Bank of Ireland and Accent Insurance, FBD, the Money Advice Bureau, the Citizens' Information Opses, lots of businesses like that. Well, let's just pick one of those for an example even maybe perhaps all of you don't want to Vodafone, they don't take cash. A lot of people would say that's not very age-friendly. No, that's very true and an older person might be able to cope with that indeed, you're so right but what they have done is in many of the Vodafone branches for example they've set aside special times on Saturday mornings or Friday mornings nice and early because older people usually get out and about more early than people who are at work for example and they've allocated extra time so each of the customer service agents now knows that if an older person comes in they're not rushed they're not rushing on to the next customer they're somewhere to sit down and they will explain things very thoroughly to them so that's one of the changes they brought in and Vodafone. So just in relation to something like that or is that what older people want to because they get up early to have a particular time in the morning with chairs is that what inclusivity feels like? Well it's one of the things but I suppose the key thing is that there's no generic approach to this because not older people are the same. You have the younger older age category which is age 55 to 75 approximately and then the older old category which is 75 to 95 and that's a huge breath of difference and everybody is going to have different needs and requirements in that I suppose one of the pieces of work we did was we can encourage advertisers to be more diverse in the way they approach people using different products because sometimes advertisers act like you stop using all the wide range of products and services when you get older at a certain age all your interest is in buying our plus in cemeteries and our lifts for your home. Hearing aids and glasses if you think of the only advertising really that's targeting older people is funerals, cremation eyesight, teeth and hearing and yet the older population are huge spenders and probably huge in-store spenders all the talk of around Black Friday month as it is now really effectively is younger people shopping online the mainstay of a lot of these businesses is the older generation shopping in person shoppers they like to shop they have time to shop they love the social interaction of us they like getting out and about and you know they are the people who are bringing the football back into the mainstream not necessarily as you say the younger people who do it online but if you think logically about the older people and the way they consume and we estimate that older people consume spending right across the western world and that percentage rises higher in areas like food and clothing and hotel and restaurants but if you think about it my own mom is 93 and thankfully she is hardy and living alone her mother died in her mid 60s so I often think of how many tubes of toothpaste does my mother consume in the next 30 years she has been blessed with on this planet how many trips did she go on how many restaurants did she eat in how many restaurants did she buy and like that is really extraordinary and that longevity we are seeing is thanks to better healthcare better transport, better housing even our awareness that we know to stay fitter and healthier and to eat better and take exercise and we are seeing that in longevity the longevity we are seeing in the world at the moment is just extraordinary we have never seen this on the planet before it is but when you do look around I mean obviously some businesses everything is just as quick as you can that race at the checkout in your local supermarket for an example we do have examples in other countries whereby there are particular aisles that things move a little bit slower which I think should be more broadly available but also you know more and more technology self-checkouts all of this kind of stuff it seems really we are going in the other direction as to where you want us to be going Orla Not necessarily I don't see them really exclusive because I do know younger people want convenience and they want to self-checkout and they want all of that but I think the idea is where a supermarket exactly as you mentioned in the Netherlands they started out the whole slow checkout idea an idea where you can take your time and have to chat and have time for those pleasantries which are very important so I think it's a dual approach to this and I'd love to see the supermarket groups here yes pushing in all the self-service on one side of the checkout keeping the traditional checkouts and that older people can know you know what I can take my time here I'm not going to be annoying the person behind me one of the things that we hear and we've an older person's counsel in every local authority area in the country and we really listen to what they say it's that whole thing of not about us without us we never assume we know what older people want we ask them and the older person's counsel are the eyes and ears on the ground that they really feedback from great information to them they always say things like one of the things they dread most about aging is that you would be considered irrelevant or that somebody behind a cash desk or other reception somewhere might roll their eyes or look impatient because you're a bit slower taking your credit card out of your wallet because you've forgotten you're reading glasses and you can't make out the form and it's those little body language things that really impact on an older person and so I'm always saying when I deliver the training course that we ask the businesses to come on I always say manage the face guys manage the face don't give it away you know and make that eye contact smile have the few words I think during Covid we became really aware of that that when an older person did go out say and start shopping or doing whatever they had to do that might have been the only conversation they had that week if they live alone I think a lot of businesses were very respectful and very mindful of that and I think they'd give them the time OK great stuff Orla thanks for your time this morning I really do appreciate it take care of yourself for all our car money they're age friendly are and talking about reading things I don't know understand why they have to have the cooking instructions for stuff that you buy in shops so small it's tiny I wish they'd increase the size of it and my eyes aren't bad I don't need glasses just see I'll probably do but anyway I'm struggling on they have the writing so small and also start including some cooking instructions for air fryers as well I don't know why they don't I go to that shop right OK speaking of shopping there was a post on our social medias Don stores shops the shop and shop and save vouchers expiring it's off the back of a number of listeners who've got in touch to say that Don stores shop and save vouchers have shortened their validity date many people are unable to spend them in the time frame and we asked as this happened to you and has it affected your shopping habits some of your comments here yes it did and as a result over a short period of time I lost 35 Euro worth of vouchers I didn't even realise until a very nice checkout assistant explained to me when I went to use them and they'd expired that's a 35 Euro increase in someone shopping bill there another same happened to me I was ranging a raging another same as that 35 Euro wiped out another yes it happened to me 50 Euro lost in vouchers despite all their ads they never mentioned they reduced the amount of days the vouchers were valid for another yes it happened to me and I don't go as often to Don's anymore I always done a big shop every fortnight and now it doesn't work for me anymore there's a great group called Don stores voucher swap will give away to ask for vouchers as people are always stuck now with less days to use their vouchers or if you can't use to give it away which seems quite nice 10 Euro voucher valid for 10 days and 5 for 7 days just check my app and still the same bit of confusion for another customer there another yes vouchers only last for 10 days now always shop every 2 weeks so they are no good to me it's kind of clever isn't it the vouchers are still there but you shorten it to 10 days when people have a 2 week shopping probably have it and they're they would know people shopping habits yes they must want you running in there every day say another another yes I've lost vouchers too as a result of the short time frame in them disappointing yeah I found that myself not enough time to spend them another yes I shopped every 2 weeks so changed where I shopped they did it every year at this time it goes back to normal in January says another there's an online group just swap and share it's easy and another here super value gives you 7 days it should be longer for people that live on their own I do my shopping every fortnight so I'm losing add and on it goes a few people saying they're shopping elsewhere but a few people saying that it's only around this time a year that they tend to shorten that window and it returns to the 14 days in January any further insight into that let us know 08 6 60 25000 08 6 60 25000 anyone in the beaches by the buffet had their coal stolen asks a listener we think ours has been interesting to see if anyone else feels the same so coal has disappeared about the amount whereby they believe it has but want a bit of validation so do you live in the beaches area of ballet buffet have you had your coal stolen get in touch with us because that listener wants to know hi Greg myself and my partner recently became parents to a little boy but he came a lot earlier than he was meant to come he came when he was 28 weeks we're from Donegal but we've had to go to Dublin as that was the hospital that could have our baby that early don't get me wrong the staff in the hospital are lovely and they care for all the premature babies very well each and every day we wouldn't change the fact we're down here but when the baby was born we had to travel up and down on a daily basis to see our baby in Dublin I went to a local counsellor from some help with accommodation as there is a waiting list for the accommodation the local counsellor went to a local TD and he was to speak to the minister for health and they done nothing for the house with a phone number which I already rang when I went to the counsellor I told him that money was very short and didn't have much as we're a young couple and will the government why the government won't help if you ask for it we are financially broke I have to keep the place we have in Donegal so money is to be put away for that and then have to keep ourselves going when down in Dublin I thought that when you went to your local counsellors they might help I had the Arphenigale and are in power but I was brushed under the carpet and have had to sort everything out did you go to I'm not taking away from your point I understand and listen I hope everything is going well for you and you as a family all get home really short really soon but with the department of the welfare not be able to help out in that regard I wonder you know I don't know how it is now but back in the day there was a name that I'm blank today for some reason but I wonder would there be any support from welfare in that regard that might be able to help you through I can't remember the exact name of it but look we'll look into that as well. Hi Greg I highlighted and challenged the senior manager of a government agency over the cover-up of criminal fraud and since I've done this I've been facing direct and indirect reprisal give us more details that should not be the case what if it's management we were talking about bullying yesterday and the importance of businesses making sure there's no bullying going on in the workplace but this caller asks what if it's the management that does the bullying and the supervisors are all stuck up management's backside and related nobody to report them to or you will be forced out well there's always I mean do they have a HR company I understand exactly where you're coming from and I know constructive dismissal and all that type of stuff if you can move though why be unhappy if you can at all move you should we waited three and a half weeks for a bed and a chair for a cancer patient to come by the time it all came the patient was back in the hospital I was told not to touch it because if I damaged it I would be held responsible now I'm told that there's no staff for two to three weeks to put it in my garage or deliver it back to the stores itself this is disgraceful yet patients are sitting waiting on this equipment to help their loved ones yeah indeed I've heard of that stuff before medical equipment Greg I've been waiting over 16 years for Gardi to take a statement in regards to sexual abuse and any statements I've made as a child have disappeared to notes regarding sexual abuse while in foster care have gone missing even the guard and social worker that took them don't know where they went I'm just wondering is there anyone else in the same position why would you have to wait 16 years for Gardi to take a statement I mean if you say that you were the victim of a crime you should literally should you not be able to walk to the police station today and say I was the victim of a crime 16 years ago and I wish to make a statement I wouldn't be sitting around waiting for them to call maybe I'm being naive there and there's different there's different rules for historic cases but if you are the victim of a crime you shouldn't have to wait for your statement to be taken watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at highlandradio.com Hello again Some years ago I was the victim of a serious crime the person serving a life sentence for that crime now has an opportunity to apply for parole but I also have an opportunity to have my voice heard by the parole board victims of a serious crime your voice counts in the parole process find out more and register at gov.ie forward slash parole board or call 01 474 8 7 7 0 Uno dos tres ahain adoa 3 1 2 3 the orona, the ateka and the terraco 3 great suvs from seyat and when you order now you can enjoy 3 years free tire insurance and 3 years roadside assistance plus 3 flexible payment options to purchase your new seyat visit seyat.ie to discover even more of our fantastic offers great things coming threes at dmg motors dunigull town and while I have three seconds allow me to say that yes terms and conditions apply do you need a uk address save hundreds of euros on custom charges shopping online with space hub dairy we provide a full virtual address mail box service for all your business and personal use save hundreds possibly thousands on custom charges with space hub dairy call 8 7 1 8 7 8 0 7 7 or online space hub dairy dot com for more details early black friday savings have started at mckelhanney's ballet buffet discover on missable offers this week with major savings on women's men's kids clothing and footwear plus amazing jewellery beauty and home offers can't make it in store get black friday offers online at mckelhanney's.com with free delivery when you spend it for your business. And the around the northwest team this thursday at the central hotel dunigull town from 12 to 2 30 p.m. ahead of the dl dc business showcase event taking place on friday 24th of november that's john brasland this thursday live from the central hotel dunigull town. Here's a sneak preview of your future. You might soon possibly own something with a lot of money and this might be a little bit of a long run in the future. Okay gary anderson is the co-owner of killi beg's seafood shack and anderson's bolt house restaurant and joins us on the program night good morning gary good morning. How are you I'm doing okay right what is the impact on our response to the war in ukraine had on killi begs and your business I suppose where we'd have been depending on daytrippers, visitors coming and staying in the town. As it would traditionally be quieter at this time of the year, it's really dropped off at cliff edge this year. Because there's very, very little accommodation available in the town. Kilvedeg's a very industrial town. There's an awful lot of our existing accommodation now taking up with people that are actually working on projects within the fishing industry, boat-building industry, and even the town regeneration. So it's even very little for what we would consider to be our customer base out of visitors to come and stay. And it's really quite frustrating, isn't it? Because Kilvedeg's stock is really quite high at the moment, you know, with the cruise ships coming in, the development that's taking place, you know, it's general broad representation. Now is the time you would be hoping in your business to be sort of capitalising on that high stock, but it's not the case at all. No, well, that's true. I mean, Kilvedeg's have been moving, you know, in a very positive way towards tourism.  And that's really just ground to our hauls. I mean, this summer didn't perform the way other summers have done with, you know, seeing big reductions in our numbers. And that's just due to the fact that people can still visit sleep league, but they can't stay locally. And that's really hampering the nighttime economy in Kilvedeg's. And it leaves you in a difficult position in that, you know, you're on the record saying that you understand what we have to do here. You're not speaking out in any way to try and, you know, make the Ukrainian community feel uncomfortable, but you also do have to speak out to protect your business interests as well. And, you know, fair play for speaking out and striking that balance in the conversation because it's a tough one.  Yeah, and our staff, I mean, they're getting reduced hours now in a way that we wouldn't have foreseen in the past. And it's, you know, that impacts everybody. Everybody's got rent to pay, a mortgage to pay, and they depend on us to provide them with the work in order to do that. And you feel that you're not fulfilling your commitment to your staff as well. But I mean, don't you all really need an increase in population? We need this Ukrainian influx of people to come and stay and live and become part of our communities. But what's not healthy is the fact that our hotels are taken up and there's no light at the end of the tunnel. There's no sign of this easing.  And that's just taking jobs out. It's taking money out of the economy. It's affecting our suppliers. Well, not the suppliers so much because they're still supplying the hotels and with the food.  So just to give us an idea, Gary, you've been given an example of someone visiting the area. I think it was Karak they were going to and they had an overnight stay, but struggled to get accommodation. Yeah, they were traveling for a funeral. The closest they could stay was Bunduren. That was during the summer months. We've got the regeneration going on in Kelly Beggs. There's people that are working on that that are actually having to stay in Balbuffet at the moment in order to commute now to Kelly Beggs to do their part of the project. And it just doesn't seem normal that we're giving up such a large percentage of what we have as a community. What we need is a community to continue to grow. And there's no, you know, there's no plan to change this sort of, you know, there's no developments going on to build housing for the Ukrainians that have come here. It just seems that they live in hotels now and there's no future for them either. If that's what the best our government are going to provide them with. And the difficulty is you're not going to get many in the hotel industry that are part of these schemes speaking out either because they effectively have 100% capacity, 365 days of the year. So, you know, in reality, from a business perspective, they're all right. We don't seem to have any alternative plans. So you're looking at, well, what's 2024 looking like? What's 2025 looking at? There's no plan, no solution, no nothing. So you believe COVID type support should be brought into support businesses like yours? I mean, that 10 million Euro announcement, a 10 million Euro support fund announced by the government. I mean, that's spread very thinly as is, but it doesn't apply to businesses like yours. You're looking for a more coordinated response. If I could get the perfect scenario, it would be something that helps subsidise wages at the moment to keep your employees in a comfortable lifestyle. You know, the country seems to be able to find money for everything else, but we need to keep people working on a night when you're doing maybe 10 customers. It's just not viable to have five or six staff working. So it's impacting everybody's livelihoods, but we need to find a way of supporting the staff and hospitality that have been put in very short time as a result of the downturn in the tourism economy. I presume too we need to sort of have a proper conversation about this. I mean, obviously the hotel solution is good for the government. It helps in what they're doing. It's good for the hotel industry. Those that are involved in it, they're not saying anything. So who's going to drive change here? Do you know what I mean? I think there needs to be a conversation whereby all parties get a say and say, well, what is the long or what is the short, medium and long term plans here? Because this is unsustainable. We supported businesses during COVID so jobs would be there once COVID was over. That's what we were being told. What are we doing now to short businesses so that jobs and businesses will be there if and when, if and when the whole telecom rotation returns to tourism? Yeah. I mean, we have to look at that. We're affecting future markets when people can't come and stay. And Donegal was never a bright spot for tourism. The Wild Atlantic Way has been massively positive in bringing people to Donegal. But if you can't come and stay here, which I think about 55% of our hotel accommodation is occupied at the moment, you know, it makes growth look very bleak for the future, because every customer that you get to the county brings another customer in the future. And people, Tom and Jane, on a video, they go to Bondor and not Donegal Town. It's already been a struggle sometimes to try and get them to come on overnight or stay in killi bags and then on further up the west. If you affect, it's like the sea almost, if you take a species out of it, it affects the general sort of culture of the water, if you know what I mean. And these changes, it's going to change things that will be very hard to get back to the way it were, I think, if we if we don't start addressing it now, the ecosystem will change beyond repair. Well, you take an average hotel. I mean, in 2023, they'll have bookings out for 2024 into the summer season. You know, they've got a book of business built up already. But when they're not actively seeking a book of business, when and if this situation changes, it's going to put them under an awful lot of financial pressure to actually ride out the storm until such a point as to build up a regular repeat clientele again. You know, you're effectively telling the people that we're coming to you that we don't want you anymore. And you do that for two or three years. They'll they're habit will change. I see it with customers that used to come and stay in one of our hotels. And I've seen them in the restaurant once this year, but they've now moved to a different town because they just can't continue to repeat coming in from Northern Ireland. They can't continue to come down as regular as what they used to. It doesn't work for them anymore. And also to an as I say, Gary, you've done it very eloquently in speaking out that we are somewhat hamstrung, although not on this program, but you can be somewhat hamstrung in that you feel that if you speak out, your words could be twisted to be anti something or other when it's clear that that's not the case, Gary. And you've emphasized that a number of times. But there are others that probably going, Yeah, I agree. But I don't want to speak out because I don't want to be labeled anti this, that or the other. But that we need to be able to have open conversations that don't hurt people because, you know, these are jobs, livelihoods, regions that that that could change beyond recognition in years to come. Yeah, I am not anti anything. Donegal suffered from depopulation boom, but last number of censuses over and over again, we have this issue of young people not being able to find housing and the type of jobs that they're actually training for up here in Donegal don't exist on a large scale and they're immigrating. So we need to replace that last generation that happens every single year. Unfortunately, with with a new generation and be that, you know, Ukrainians that we've brought in, we need them living here in Donegal, working in Donegal, becoming part of the fabric of society. But at the moment, they're just in limbo, you know, it's, it's not a healthy situation. And there's no, I mean, if there was a big development and you've seen the council were putting in, be it trailer parks or whatever type of temporary semi permanent accommodation, we would know that there was an end in sight. But right now, there's no end in sight. Okay. There's no way you can plan for the future in hospitality as it stands right now. And we can't forget too that we've been conditioned for hospitality and tourism to be one of our one of our key sources of income in this country and employment or in this county. Sorry, do you know what I mean? It's been set up like that. So right. Okay, Gary, listen, thanks for your time. I appreciate your comments. And you're coming on and making them with us. Take care. Gary Anderson there. I'll be back with the weather after these. The 9 to 9 show with the Silver Tassie Hotel, the perfect venue for a Christmas get together, serving festive lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and drinks throughout December. Follow Silver Tassie Hotel on Facebook and Instagram. At the Central Statistics Office, we're trusted to gather all sorts of information. So we count exports, imports, airports and seaports. We count schools, pools and how many are tools? We count emissions, permissions and social conditions. 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We've had a lot of funding spent there now and as we speak it's an advanced stage of completing networks. There's still areas that we need to apply for more funding. I've got confirmation that we are applying again in the short term I want just to get signs to be erected in the area because a lot of residents are very concerned about the risk they take when they're making the journey to and from their homes. It's been a big issue in that area and I'm glad it's moving along now and I want to commend our own council team for the work they're doing and indeed the landowners. Our take home pay is going to be affected by an increase in PRSI. The amount we pay is set to rise from next October. It'll mean the average workers pay will reduce by 46 euro every year. Business correspondent Jo Linham says one of the rationales for the decision is to keep the pension age as it is. 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And if something's not right, you can quickly return it with a collection from your door or drop at your local post office. Online shopping made easy with Unpust. Unpust for your world. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. You're welcome back to the program. We were talking in the first hour about many things, including gift vouchers. Hi Greg, with regards to gift vouchers and gift cards, I was recently caught out with the car and gift card. It's like a one for all. After a year, there is a 250 deducted per month lost over 25 euro was not told this at the time of purchase. There are general rules now governing, governing gift cards, not specific to anyone, particular type of card, but it's then it's up to people themselves, what they, the people that are providing them, you know what rules they apply, but you can't have an expiry date on them now for an example, like you used to be. The 25 five off vouchers only last a week in Don's 25, 25 off five vouchers, is that right? 25 five off is what it is. Yeah, I've been gifted and I've bought the car and gift vouchers because I thought they were a good idea. There's no info to say that there is a service charge deducted if they're not spent. The third of the 28th is the expiry. It doesn't say about the deduction, but in the sleeve of the card, not everyone keeps the sleeve. 250 a month was lost, so I soon spent it. This is happening, not just in car and Donner, but across the country. 250 per month is steep. It wouldn't be too bad if they told you that it would be deducted, but they don't. It's on the sleeve, but I take your point. On the Don stores vouchers, realistically, are we really saving anything shopping in Don's? I used to use the vouchers, but sometimes when I go in, I'm just buying stuff to make up the amount for the voucher. Tesco, Alty, little need to shop around. Well, you see, I suppose it depends on the nature of your shopping. There's lots of people that do a weekly shop, you know, and if there's a number of people in the house, they go above the amount to get the voucher back and then can use that in the next shop. And it does feel like a real saving. I mean, we heard earlier on from people who had a 35-year-old voucher and it was lost. I mean, that's a big chunk of your shopping down the drain, isn't it? So I can understand why people see it as value, but yeah, shop around. If there was an election coming up, the TDs would be tripping over one another to help that lady with her costs. That's the lady down in Dublin with the premature baby. My question is this, how many more years are we supposed to have those or these people staying in Ireland? I walked the main street the other day and you would not think you were in Ireland. Now, I'm not sure what these people you refer to is, to be honest with you. I'm not sure there's a timeframe when they're staying here either. Certainly Ukrainian people can come and live and stay here for as long as they like. If you're talking about international protection residents, well, they're assessed and either sent home or they're allowed to stay and once they're allowed to stay, they're here forever. If they so wish, if that's what they want. Greg, parking your car is a responsible job. When you pull in for petrol, you be careful not to put diesel in simple. No ifs or buts. If you don't understand the signs, you should not be allowed to drive. This is how people get killed. Not very sympathetic to our earlier caller Margaret. I'd write to the minister in the doll to get that money back. This is the 80 year old. I'll just for those of you that tune in for the second hour and miss the first for whatever reason. We spoke to a lady who parked her car in what once was, she believes, a disabled parking bay down in letter Kenny. It's now been changed to a electric car charger. She parked in there was given the ticket appealed and said, look, it's your fault. She says there was no signage there. It was a genuine mistake. I would write to the ministers in the doll to get that money back. My sister is a parking card and it's so hard to get a place. We've just got another bill for that privilege. That warden had no cop on. They think they are the sheriff, says Kathleen. I would check at a garter station to see if the space is registered as disabled parking or if it was changed. All spaces registered with guards, the parking crowd of no sympathy. That's an interesting point to see if it's formally been changed to a electric car parking space. With the lady parking in the wrong spot, it was a genuine mistake. Baller buffet has a few disabled parking spaces. There's one outside a chemist. There is no drop curb as someone who works with people in wheelchairs. You have to take people out onto the road to get out because there's no dropped curb. I'm sure Baller Buffet is not the only place that has this issue indeed. We were speaking to about another area close to Baller Buffet where there was a crossing with no drop curb. I wonder was that ever resolved? What I cannot stand, says this listener, is able to body people who perhaps have a family member with a disability using the space when the disabled person isn't even on board. That's not what the sticker is for. I see people doing this all the time. How disrespectful. Yeah, it is. But also, you have to be really clear, though, who has the badge and who doesn't because not all disabled and also not all disabilities are as visible as you might think. So it is quite possible that someone may appear to be able-bodied or how everyone might want to describe that, but they actually do officially have a disability and do officially have one of these cards for parking. So as I say, we can't jump to conclusions either. Vehicles jumping temporary traffic lights below the petrol station at Balyar on the Kilmer Crennan Road had to sit at the green light while six vehicles plowed on. It's an accident, waiting to happen, Greg. Indeed. Especially in the mornings, people tend to disregard those traffic lights, don't they? They wouldn't if there was a patrol car sitting there, though. Greg, I've never heard of a parking appeal being successful. They have a blank refusal policy. You're better off not paying the fine and going to court. At least a judge will listen and show common sense, but it is a lot of hassle and there is risk there as well. Had a couple in on customs charges, which I suppose is not surprising, given that it's Christmas time. This listener ordered two calendars from the UK. Post and package, 26 euro, 88 cents. Then comes an Irish customs charge of four euro and two cent plus a post office fee of $3.50. Now the total cost is $34.40. 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silver tassie hotel.ie for a brochure for your private show around right so everywhere you look it's black friday this that and the other and black friday isn't always as it seems as i mentioned earlier in the week i had three items in my amazon basket that i couldn't saw slowly went back in to consider checking out as you do the items had increased in price right really quite significantly so i left them in there and lo and behold yesterday back down in price as well as a black friday sale with 38 percent off so as i say be careful not everything is always as it seems there's one way you can get around black friday and that's to think green friday clara heron is editor of the Irish country magazine good morning to you clara good morning greg how are you i am doing good great to have you on the program yeah you're encouraging people aren't you we all should really to think about shopping local as well because as i've outlined myself and i've seen it with my own experience everything isn't always as it seems yeah well that's definitely something to be very mindful of with the kind of these massive discounts that we're seeing for black friday that not all all is always what it seems but yeah another way you can kind of i suppose embrace the the shopping season is to to look out for green friday deals so i think you know we all know now this kind of big american tradition that's come to our shores of black friday which is all about you know buy buy buy big discount you know there's there's a huge amount of pressure i think that comes with it every year to kind of you know be ready for these deals to land and to hit and i suppose green friday is the anthesis of that it's very much about you know actually considering your purchases do i actually need this you know and i suppose there's there's three main things to it and it actually it originated outside of ireland but in ireland we've actually we've really adapted it i think and there seems to be really growing support for it each year this year in particular we've seen a massive amount of sport for it from our readers certainly but it's really for all i suppose the fact that it's green friday we can immediately say the number one element to it is to support local support irish right yeah and and and and we can back that up with figures too because we know what spending locally means to the local economy absolutely yes so for every 20 euro spent with a local maker or producer that's actually worth 80 euro to the irish economy so you really can you know make a statement with your spending in terms of supporting local makers and producer it makes a huge difference and like as anyone who you know runs their own business will tell you it is that genuine thing of you know the people behind the purge is doing a happy dance when they see the sales come in you know it's genuine people that we work with in our communities you know that use our local services use our local post office to send out the packages you know and it really does make a difference to our whole community when we when we buy locally but there's also another kind of thread to it i suppose and it's it is that it's green it's about shopping sustainably shopping looking for purchases that are ethically made so again that really favors local producers because quite often things might be handmade you know they're made using locally sourced ingredients and they're made in a slow and considered way and they're often inspired by you know the people around us and what we need and and even our landscapes and our environments you know so it's it's trying to shop in a sustainable way so you know again if you're shopping more locally you've less air miles are involved things aren't being shipped from countries on the other side of the world you know you've a lower carbon footprint and i would say as well a lot of the time the customer service is excellent you know you've you've a person and a face that you can go back to just in relation to that you see a lot of people do their weekly shopping online now and you know there are a number of people still like to shop in person but but it is getting smaller it's much different to what it might have been 10 years ago i think in terms of e-commerce a lot of irish companies did make great advances particularly during covid but i think they really need to be like even something as simple as having a shopping basket in their e-commerce part of their website stuff like that i think they do they are going to have to um to to operate at a level to your amazons and your whatever is you wishes or whatever you know what i mean they can't rely on our good will to say okay i'm going to spread a bit of love locally do you know what i mean i think they really do have to get into that space more aggressively because as i say i'm shocked the amount of people i know that don't even go to do their their their food shopping anymore in person yeah i agree i mean we do require convenience now as well don't mean that's the world we live in covid totally amplified that and and accelerated that but i mean even when you're shopping online for your grocery shops you can very easily you know identify what are you know what food products even are produced locally as well you can you know so there's a way to really in fact it might be a little bit easier than that rush of the aisles exactly yeah totally and it's just a case of familiarizing yourself you know if you want to buy um you know a jam or something like that quite often they're the supermarkets to be fair to them they are stocking more and more irish producers on their shelves because the demand is there like we we certainly see it from our readers that they want options that are locally produced so the more we put our spending power behind that the more that they can cater to that for us as well and you know we can put it in our online baskets when we're doing the grocery shop but i suppose i will say we certainly have found a lot of small medium-sized businesses you know they have tailored their services to e-commerce now as well and they're boxing really clever with green friday too because look the reality is when you're a small maker or producer you just kind of compete with the big guys you cannot compete with these massive retailers that can do you know two for one or these huge 70% discounts it's it's not realistic like i say even some of those big retailers you know when i've mentioned amazon and i know that's a store right and not a you know not a business itself but i mean i can demonstrate that the black friday savings are not savings at all we also do do we also have to challenge this perception that buying internationally is cheaper than buying local because you know maybe people should reevaluate i think local businesses have done very well in recent years to actually say right we are actually going to have to deliver some discount or some value you know but maybe people haven't been in that space and don't realize it and have this perception that local means more expensive i think the question there greg is what what do you value you know if cheap is cheap and and and there's no disrespect to anyone you know if you need the you know those cheaper purchases those budget purchases and look we're all in a cost of living crisis the reality is we need bargains you know at certain times of the year there is an immense pressure particularly on families to spend and to buy and to have something under the tree right so of course if you're looking for bargains go for it but i suppose if if you are in a position to consider right what is our value to me and if it's thinking okay look i can do green friday instead of black friday instead of going for something that's going to be shipped from a long way away from an international store like you say and for the cheapest element and made made maybe in a low quality way and i'm going to look you know nearby i'm going to look in my community for a quality product and like i say a lot of these brands they're they're boxing clever instead of saying right we're going to give you this massive discount they might say look you buy something from us and we're going to donate to a charity you buy you buy a product from us and we'll donate a meal to someone in need this year or we'll plant a tree or we'll you know you know we'll support another independent retailer so the companies themselves are getting involved and they're trying to see that they can offer value to their customers that isn't just some massive discount that takes away from the quality of their products that they've likely spent a very long time producing you know that's been made in a really high quality way so they're trying to offer their customers other things that might be of value to them i know certainly for me i'm definitely trying to buy less stuff but when i am making a purchase i'm thinking about it and i'm investing maybe a little bit more but i know it's something that i'm going to have for years i'm going to repair and mend and i'm going to take good care of and i'm going to really appreciate and and get a sense of you know something special for my purchase because i know it's been made by somebody you know down the road yep that sounds far more rewarding as well kira thanks for your time this morning lovely to chat you have a lovely day kira here and there editor of the irish country magazine let's get to some of your comments here i left donnie golfer london in the early 80s as there was very little for people my age those days you either went to the uk or new york roll on 40 years and from what i can see very little has changed once you finish school you head to college and never come back there's very little for the young ones to do except pobbit it seems no one has sat down and come up with a plan how to keep the young people at home another greg we provided our granny flat to some ukrainian people over 15 months ago with the expectation that it would be a short-term arrangement it's becoming a worry now that the government seemed to have no plan for the long term we did not sign up for it to be a long-term plan do you in that situation is there a contract renewal situation or is it rolled on uh what how does that work gary said that uh the young people emigrating had to be replaced but if the government got their act together and made arland more attractive for our young people to live we would not have such a large immigration problem i think the point gary was making is this always always has been a movement of people you know i mean i remember going back 20 30 years ago prop no it's not 30 years 20 25 years ago that um working in certain parts of of donnie golfer there's a massive eastern european population working in hospitality and what have you by choice they came here uh because there wasn't irish people to do those jobs and many of them then left and went back to wherever uh they had come from it's always been the case we can't blink ourselves to history so i think gary's probably referencing you know people will choose to leave their country and go somewhere else and vice versa now there are then young people that are leaving because they've no choice and that is something that really needs to be addressed but thank you very much for your text morning i think hotels and student accommodation should never have been made available for outside accommodation accommodation in hotels is only one factor these hotels also were available for weddings and lots of other family gatherings these hotels also gave so much employment especially to our young students and in some cases made the difference between being able to go or not go to college it's just one of the many things that should never have happened uh believes a listener there i recently got a voucher for just eat every time i order online and try to put in the voucher number it says invalid i found it impossible to get to talk to anyone in just eat how's this happen to anyone else i wonder has it been used uh who gave you the voucher maybe they've already just ate uh but anyway listen if anyone else has had issues with that um i live in the sticks so i have no um insight into that whatsoever uh james how are we getting on well all right i heard heard your theory on about getting the uh ticket for uh parking in which she thought was a disabled parking bay this is just typically great uh what's the first casualty at any stage if there's something going on in the building and indeed government buildings as well too first thing you see is maybe the cup and parked up in a disabled parking space and uh i think it was ridiculous that if they removed a parking bay down there and assigned her local authority control when there's a traffic warden on it that it wasn't replenished with a new one close and the somebody yeah and it's kind of interesting because i missed that point james in that you know i was so focused on on on her um her situation i didn't realize yes of course we've taken a disabled parking space and transferred it to an electric when there are so many able-bodied inverted common spaces or new spaces that could be created i never thought about that james it's a really good point yeah the other thing i would check seeing as local authority was there any european structural fund money used for to initially when that whole thing was built and extended and whatnot because there is very strong obligations under european law for structural funds as to meeting criteria such as minimum amount of the civil parking spaces etc you know i'm not saying that'll apply to that project but it's something uh now when i would have been involved with the european disability form um it was very strong and using it as pressure on local authorities to to meet their the requirements i mean you know reg as well as myself that in letter kenny was uh counselors make them the vigil attempts and the council themselves sometimes make good attempts you take a look at letter kenny main street most of the parking base this old parking base on the left hand side which means it's very very unsafe and difficult particularly for people trying to transfer to a wheelchair because they're that's opening out onto the traffic your driver's door so you know they've made attempts to try and address things like that although they haven't but then they go and shoot themselves in the foot we're doing something like this yeah and some of those parking spaces you talk of james they take a box but they don't necessarily actually serve their purpose now i think i'm a member of the ppm public participation network and i'm cool with the county council where there is a community voice and i mean every person around that table uh are uh past wolf as well as many other things upholding the rights of minorities such as people with disabilities and um i mean it's under local authority control because if it wasn't then the uh council traffic warden wouldn't have a say in who parks where that's like the supermarkets they're all private it's up to them themselves they can cramp you if you're going to uh at a sale parking bay without a current badge but there's another thing as well dig at the mace sorry of course i'll be back shortly listen take your time james please don't feel you're under pressure to get through everything just take your time because they're good points and it's important to get this message out there too i've always said that both rates come responsibilities i know a lot of people with disabilities who would qualify for a parking yard but for some reason i themselves i know be in the house looked about it and if they are parked in a disabled parking bay without a valid ticket it's something about both rights come responsibility is your responsibility look up at that yard now if you were temporarily disabled say with a broken leg or something like that there uh you wouldn't qualify for the car but i know you don't want to be with a broken leg or broken arm even tightly parked near doors shops and things like that they are temporarily disabled and it actually has given a lot of people a symptom and insight into what it's like for life for people with disabilities on a day to day basis but generally speaking um both rights come responsibilities and that lady obviously wasn't trying to uh be fraud or make you said the civil space that she wasn't entitled to and she has she has a badge holder and all and i i think the very least that the local authorities should do is uh scrap that bull that they give her i think that would be it because she's clearly a very honest uh and very lovely lady she is she is a disabled badge holder as you mentioned the parking space used to be reserved for people with a disability it was an honest mistake she says the writing wasn't very clear do we really want to live in a society that doesn't say right okay sorry genuine mistake that's a lady i don't know how much she needs that 80 euro but i'd say she needs it more than the local authority does well could you but i do know on certain circumstances you can contact various bodies on behalf of people in that can you maybe uh contact the uh letter to any council and ask them uh tell them it's been raised on the show and you know that this shouldn't have happened and secondly if they have not replaced that disabled park and be with another in the but somebody i don't mean a way to go into the care park or anything like that what are their plans to replace it those whales are already in in motion james also to a few people um have text in and i think they've presumed because someone was able to get out of a car and walk away that they weren't entitled to a disabled badge i think we need to remember to james and i mentioned it a little earlier that all uh disabilities aren't as visible as one might expect them to be so we have to you know hold our uh judgment sometimes too in that regard i the uh you know people could have asked her issues there where they can't walk very far and they might be using crutches but uh if it's from level around they may be able to walk at 50 meters maybe or 20 meters or 10 meters or whatever but you're you're quite right uh i would have concerns although that's sort of everybody in the house is using the park in character times and uh i've seen it myself like because i know new the people and i've seen it myself and i'm going into town give me a little pass there i'll be on and out you know and then it's our challenge why you park on the same spot just a month yeah it's gonna be in one way yeah there's one day i had to drive three times right around that are counting the whole look before you could find a parking space yeah exactly and and those abusing the cards make it far more difficult for us to have the argument for people without cars not to use these spaces you know to me they're doing themselves or their family members who deserve the car to serve us in doing that it's not a free pass to be bandied around the house no i do find and this depends on your attitude to them i do find if you politely point out about parking there most people that i've come across have been very apologetic oh yes i know the users and the culture is only going to be a militia or whatever and uh but i mean i don't hold this when i'm not going to place and i say well for you and i'm not gonna have to watch your scene you know that's gonna get nobody anywhere i generally speaking you know people are generally good yeah all right i just didn't think or apologize all right thanks very much james lovely to chat to you thanks for your various points there watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com christmas party nights at the silver tassie drinks reception four-course festive meal live music by the loaves jimmy divine and more priority your elbow for dates and 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380 euro samson galaxy a14 now 165 euro and the canon pixmar printer was 300 now 200 euro see the cope done low on facebook and instagram for more okay thanks for all your comments this morning another busy morning which is fantastic because we get to know what you want to talk about and what you're talking about is there's plenty of room in donnie gall in hotels they're just too expensive believes a listener two nights 600 euro for two people on a bed and breakfast basis i spent 300 euro for five days in portugal that was room only but it included flights well you see that's it that sounds very expensive probably a friday and saturday or something but when you say there are plenty of beds there are many many less beds i think there's 40 odd 45 percent of the beds that would have been here two or three years ago that's going to put prices up because the demand is going to be there so hi i live in glen vue balaba fei i went away in two weeks holidays on the beginning of november i came back to find out the five bags of coal had been stolen that comes from lian right okay that's interesting because we had someone else reporting coal stole stolen in balaba fei another caller says our draw is in a similar position to killy bags as we only had one hotel in the town but for the last few years it's closed to the public and has been turned into turned over to ukrainian people the town has suffered badly as a result because there's no hotel accommodation available that's coming in from bridgett re-ukrainians driving here in arland by law you have to display tax nct insurance why are ukrainians not abiding like the rest of us as irish citizens we have to abide by the law and display these there's no evidence that their vehicles are road worthy will the gardi have said on this program that they're very keen to hear of any instances like that that the same rules of the road apply to ukrainian vehicles as apply to irish vehicles so as i say the guards sat here and said very clearly that that is the case hi gregg are you aware of any reason why the breast check van is not in bunkrana anymore for initial clients we did talk about that let me go back over the details um there was a reason and it did come up before and it was problematic another caller says i'll work with disabilities and i parked my car on main street to shop with a few members i told the traffic warden i might be 10 to 15 minutes more than the free 30 minutes he said it was okay but when i came back i had a ticket it was another traffic warden so now i've decided to shop elsewhere yeah you see your number plate is is tagged um once and then the second person must have tagged it and it was uh over the 30 minutes and there you have it the disabled permit is not a government freebie it has to be purchased no one said it was morning gregg as regards our take home pay being reduced because of the pension age being kept at 66 could all the political politicians pension pots not be reduced to make up the money they get pensions long before the age of 66 thank you in multiple pensions in fact as well yeah i'm not really quite sure of what these changes are what is it zero point one percent next year zero point one percent then zero point two i don't know how that uh because no one's explained it yet what that means financially uh shopping discounts every tuesday in iceland there's 10 percent off for people over 60 i know that there is an iceland and dairy not sure about other areas they give you the discount as long as you have proof that you're over 60 all right okay fair play to them super value had it spend 40 get 10 off now it's spend 50 to get 10 off and although the 10 off 50 vouchers in dons last nine days yeah but they're not used to last two weeks i think that's where and people have this two week shopping sort of plan and now it's in between one week and two week and it's thrown them off hi gregg the real black friday in the usa and worldwide was 60 years ago today when jfk was assassinated in dalis texas as any of you listeners remember that day yeah is it 60 years wow okay um it feels just ever present because it's talked about every year and there's been so many films and documentaries and speculation and what have you 60 years ago today to any of you remember that day let us know call<PHONE_NUMBER> what was it like once the news landed what was the reaction hi gregg there was probably no customs charged for those calendars but there was that i recently ordered a gift from etsy coming from norway value 560 i was charged no customs but vat at 180 on value plus pmp and a handling fee 350 by on post doesn't belong out and up doesn't a couple more before we take the break so i want to bring brendan to venny in for a quick chat there should be a balance spread throughout the county and housing refugees and asylum seekers rather than cramming them all into letter kenny sure these other towns only have a handful well that's completely untrue there's a huge population in milford in downings in kelly bags in donagall town um they're all there's massive population there's well over 5000 and i can tell you right now they're not all in letter kenny there's hundreds scattered right across the county but anyway they say only a handful of these people mostly ukrainian integration should mean a balance spread of different nationalities throughout the county okay i get you instead of creating ghettos and urban areas the council had a responsibility here to uh there's plenty of places crying about population declining donagall native lk's fault for donagall natives okay so you're talking about all different nationalities my apologies i'm not sure of the statistics in that regard so you're saying there needs to be more of a balance spread of um international protection applicants and what have you okay you understand um hello are these the spaces margaret talked about in this link you can see two charging spaces on the left and two disabled spaces on the right as far as i know the charging spaces were converted from ordinary parking spaces and whenever disabled spaces i can still see where people may be confused when they're charging logo on the road that comes in for retirement throw but thanks for that thanks for your research i can't open that link now but i'll get the email and open it and and even if they're side by side now margaret got a little bit confused perhaps because she was used to parking in that uh area or close to it so either way it was a genuine error genuine mistake uh quick birthday request and it's a very happy 13th birthday to millie warsky and kregen baller buffet have a great day uh millie uh celebrating of course lots of love from granny warsky and your grandmother caroline uh uncle kiran as well christmas party nights at the silver tassie drinks reception four-course festive meal live music by the loaves jim divine and more priority your elbow for dates and bookings call us silver tassie hotel 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says to me last year but yeah it was two years ago going yeah yeah and it was a great night two years ago and uh it raised 24 000 euro for three charities plan international arland cancer care west and focus arland and listen in a way the money being raised is incredibly important but also it's almost incidental to a fantastic night out especially if you've ever loved a sport do you get where i'm coming from like it's not pushed left right in the centre this is just a cracking night out brendan yeah yeah that's it and i think you don't like sport that's it that's it listen there's actually going to be very little sport on this one we've we've we've a couple of comedians come on we have legs of danie carragosh a k uh buster eric roberts influence is coming he's everywhere i don't know how nice to get here yeah we pulled on eric this is fantastic to have him on board this may obviously have some fallage in that from from the trip to togo earlier in the year and uh we have different three bits and pieces on the night we have we have loads of prizes sponsored i mean alma cavern has been rounding up there we've i'd say there may be two or three prizes per table going out the door people have been that kind and that so she said greg i think it's the way forward is to you know give people a night and uh they contribute to something a bit bigger and it is described as a ball but it's chill isn't it i mean you're not uh you know you're not a i mean you can dress up obviously you look smart but you know what i mean you you like to be able to sort of dress smart casual i think it suits things yeah because people talk about i always think the black tie thing particularly when we're we're raising money we're sponsoring kids in the development world i think you're stepping about in the talks i don't know what wouldn't feel like i know exactly what i think the dress smart is always good i think everybody likes that we have a lovely backdrop there uh it's got made for us with uh for pictures in the way and we have a couple photographers coming so you need to be looking well great because you get to end up in the paper and everywhere well some papers some papers won't print a picture of me in all this world was i don't know what that's all about i'm a nice guy brand i don't know what's going on believe it um so uh it's it's gonna be a good fun night there's just no doubt about that it's this coming friday tickets are priced at 75 euro with 10 tables 750 and you can get your tickets through us here at highland radio the arch complex in letter kenny sister sarah's in letter kenning the mount ergal hotel in letter kenny and you don't need 10 people uh either you know you can go with a couple because i think sometimes you know what a great couple's night out yeah you know what i mean you don't you don't need you know the two years head on there uh you might need meet new people you can keep to yourself whichever you prefer yeah and have the fun you don't need a whole group of people just a couple full people whatever it is that the girls tell the story about this couple came on the last time and they didn't we were trying to get them all in there was a a space between the covid and that and covid a passport's been checked and the way in so they were like where are we sitting and there was a wee bit of confusion about it but and then you know they ended up something saying out in the below and they thought this was unreal it made their night so yeah listen no matter who it is great that room of people you know i'm looking out everybody's air i was even sending someone yesterday i could literally just let the night happen and uh everybody would have a good night regardless but listen we're there to do a bit of entertainment and i suppose highlight the the three charities this time you know in terms of Donegal Hospice and epilepsy Ireland and of course we keep the sponsorship up with the kids yeah and what we're doing is is unfortunately in this world at the moment we've been reminded because sometimes we can't forget a little bit but with what's going on in gauze at the moment we're being reminded that there are many many children in this world that don't have any of the benefits that our children have whether it is through bombs dropping on them or it is in different areas where women or girls are treated a different way or forced into marriage or female genital mutilation or whatever it might be there are different parts of the world where children just simply don't or will never have the childhood that hopefully the majority of our children will have plan works with some of these children you were out there you get to see where your money goes yeah you know what i mean this isn't money that's sent off to arm a dictator somewhere yeah you get to see that's where your money goes and to help children so that the children get some semblance of a similar life to your children get so talk to us about the money and how plan that's it there are multiple countries all over the world there's 98% of your contribution go straight into the community and it's not just that you think about you sponsor a child you think what does that mean obviously and actually you you think straight away nutrition and education and all the things that you mentioned but they actually go and they help the family and the community so it's very much they pull up the whole community with them and you tool people to better their lives yes yes and when you think all the mass immigration and all the problems we're having in the world unless we go and try and help out places in that and I think if you turn on the news it can be very depressing and particularly at the minute it's horrific you know what you're looking at and you're often a wee bit kind of like lost terms of how you can you help a bit so I think sometimes nice like this and just small wee bits if you can help us more but at all it's it's something that well two years ago a number of make a bit of a difference two years ago a big difference we made in a number of children's lives because they were able to be supported through this also on the night two charities very close to your heart and close to many people's hearts as well that's the Donegal Hospice of course and Epilepsy Ireland yeah and indeed listen dad's final days was in the hospice and everybody knows I mean fantastic people in there and I suppose the care you know when he first came back to to letter Kenny and and even when he was initially up in Vance and you know being in a being in a room with loads of other people who were really ill in that then there's like a privacy in that you know it was really tough when he came back down he was initially in the hospital and we were that glad but we got into the hospice because you just did that thing that you knew what was coming and you could be together as a family so that's what the hospice does it's just unreal there's probably nobody listening to this that hasn't unfortunately had to had that some involvement with the hospice so any help we can be there of course that's that's obviously ongoing and then Epilepsy obviously touched my family you know three of my sisters at Epilepsy and obviously Margaret that passed Sharon and Maria actually grew out of it but the amount of people that deal with that and that and because of what happened last year we just wanted to include them and as well as charities as well. Yeah indeed so three great causes two local causes and an international cause there as well Plan International, Donegal Hospice, Epilepsy Island for three very important courses but the night causes but the night itself is about fun and helping. That's a big deal. You're going to be there. Yep you're going to be there.  Don't we have you under pressure now? Robert's both there. Who else is going to be there until we know? Do we have an absolute flow of G.A. personality isn't it? Well there are some of the biggest comedians go and yeah listen we've been. And I'm ending that in a very positive way. I know Mark Black is doing our music and the welcome drink from seven on really in the Mount Errigal half seven is down in the tickets but if you want to come early you're more than welcome and as I say bumblebee honey coming up from from Ross Common to to do the music in that and listen they're absolutely brilliant behind the first class they were at the last one as well so listen I'm looking forward at that time and you know Greg when the when the mic goes live that everything's done because at the minute there is like it's hard to take a breath putting it together but once it starts I can't wait for it to start Friday night because we'll have a cracking night. Okay it's this Friday in the Mount Errigal hotel there's already huge crowd going to be there there's a brilliant atmosphere but there are a couple of tables available you can get one table for 10 for 750 but you don't have to have a table of 10 I can't emphasize that enough the crack is for everyone two years four years a date night whatever it might be 75 euro per head but you're going to be really well looked after with entertainment and food and crack for that. Brendan thank you so very much indeed. Much appreciate it. The best to luck. Brendan Devaney there. The 9 to 9 show with the Silver Tassie Hotel the perfect venue for a Christmas get-together serving festive lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and drinks throughout December follow Silver Tassie Hotel on Facebook and Instagram. 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It comes as government has announced the exclusion of cafes restaurants and pubs from a 10 million euro support fund to help businesses in areas where a large number of hotel and BNB rooms are being used by refugee accommodation. It's hoped additional funding will be made available to alleviate ongoing flooding in the Trenta area of letter Kenny. Some improvement works have already been carried out in the area and Donegal County Council has confirmed an application to extend the works is to be submitted for climate adoption funding. Councillor Karen Brogan says in the interim its vital signage is erected toward users of flooding at times. Any measures that defers people from smoking would be welcome according to the head of National Cancer Registry, a proposal to raise the age limit to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21 will go to public consultation this week. Britain and New Zealand have introduced stricter age limits and a bit of phase out smoking among young people. Bundorn is seeing a number of developments including a 200,000 euro revamp of its playground. Councillor Michael McMahon says the 25 year old play park has served locals and visitors alike. The development of 42 housing units and a 350,000 euro outdoor diner has also been welcomed. And finally, Israel says it expects the first hostages to be freed by Hamas tomorrow under a deal that'll see fighting stop for four days. The agreement will see the release of 50 people who've been held in Gaza since they were captured last month. It'll also allow humanitarian supplies to enter the territory. That's all for now from Headland Radio News the next news update will be at 12 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Thank you very much indeed Donna Marie and we're going to give you another reminder of the fantastic competition we have running in association with our friends at the Silver Tassie. Stay tuned, here are the details you can enter and you could be a winner on Friday. On this week's show with thanks to our sponsors the Silver Tassie Hotel and Seascape Spa we're giving you the chance to win their relaxation heaven package. This luxurious two and a half hour package includes an aromatic steam session and cocoon room, a hot towel, foot and back cleanse, an indulgent full body massage, a mini escape facial with scalp massage all followed up with snooze room relaxation time and refreshments. To begin with the chance of winning this fantastic prize on Friday simply answer the following question. What is the day after Thanksgiving known as in terms of shopping deals? Is it A. Black Friday or B. Blue Friday? Text or WhatsApp your answer name and address to 086 60 25000. Morning Greg, the prices here are abysmal. We're just back from a long weekend in London. Hotel, two West End shows, food all really reasonable. We cannot afford to holiday here at home. We were in Wembley for what? We were over there for the um oh summer that's why it feels so long ago the London vintage and the hotels in Wembley now in the shadow of Wembley Stadium and I don't mean that it's some sort of advertisement pitch quite literally in the shadow of Wembley Stadium and for a Sunday night it was £76 for a hotel room there and that was right as I say under the arches would have been much more expensive of course if something was on but anyway the PRC charges changes sorry will result in around 46 euro per year deduction from your wages oh okay right Joe joins us now hi Joe we're talking about uh housing refugees a little earlier on you'd be keen to do so that's right right now and what's been your experience um just to a brick wall yeah um we were previously in a emergency accommodation center for the Irish government so to me when I applied for the Ukrainian refugees I thought there'd be no no but the straight away I would have them but basically the time ran and just read yep can you prove it's got a fire certificate can you prove it's yes that's the fire certificate I can you prove it was trading as a commercial before 1992 which basically it's nearly impossible to do because there's no records that's the center didn't so you keep records with only well council so on the computer from since 2020 2006 you know right so no matter what what you have everything I supply or I try to do I've got a lot of compromising that it was a patel station it was a shop before the safeties no do you believe do you believe it is red tape or do you believe maybe the whole refugee housing uh process is a bit of a closed shop if you know what I mean I was the the second part Greg I would tell him I said if you were you put it out there to your listeners and say you know how many people have actually applied and offered their homes or offered houses and commercials for the Ukrainian refugees on house or like me stuck a limbo for over a year well I can tell you because I can tell you one example because I was in contact with someone in the first round of where they were looking for people to house refugees they had an empty house never got a call back from the council then you might remember there was this announcement made whereby councils were going to be staffed and funded and everyone would be get a call back within two weeks again nothing never had anyone from the council out never had any offer of of refugees nothing ever and yet yeah you know since then another 3000 have come in and they're going into all different types of of of premises be hotels or whatever it might be so it seems that really it's more of a case of maybe you have to know the system I'm not yeah but that's but that's not what you know so you know so you're saying between you and a friend you could accommodate 40 people in total and you can't even get any progress in and as you say quite rightly there's no guarantee people won't be intense that's what the government says but you've got kind of accommodation for 40 people and you can't get anyone into it that's right that's correct can I ask a general region that you're in like north south east or west or wherever as specific as you're comfortable in being Joe just we get a sense of of of the situation we're up and we're up and uh right up in port silent direction okay right um and who are you dealing with is it the local authority is it a central agency department of students and children you know the D.E.Y.C. whatever it is right okay all right well we'll we'll chest it up Joe the lines breaking up on us as you move I think so I'll leave it there but listen thanks very much for your contribution there 40 spaces now it is quite possible that um it is quite possible that we aren't um taken many more in um that we're moving them around within the county I don't know what the situation is a caller says there's been no water in urus clon mani since monday she has a small child in the house and a farm to run there's no updates in Irish water in the council don't know anything about it I'll check into that for you see if I can get anything for you my name is Dennis I was sitting in a flat in Glasgow when an emergency alert went out say that JFK had been shot in dollars that was in 1963 really uh okay when I like breaking news do you remember there used to be breaking news uh we you know we cut across regular programming to bring you this breaking news story that's from Dennis he was in a flat in Glasgow when the alert went out in 1963 great story Dennis thanks to have uh thanks for listening