That's it from the Naughty Alarm Clock 4 this morning. Greg Hughes is up next with the 90 noon show and he's got his check boot out because he's given away the first of our cash prizes two and a half thousand euro up for grabs this morning. One lucky winner will take it away. Yeah indeed not too bad Roy. See you Monday. Okay it is just after nine time for news update and this good morning Emma Ryan. Police are appealing for information and witnesses following a report of theft and assault at a shop in Church Meadow area of Derry last night. Four males arrived at the shop caused a disturbance and stole a number of items with more here's Donna Marie Doherty. Police received a report that four males arrived at the premises in a silver vehicle entering the shop after 9 p.m. They caused a disturbance in the store and had stolen a number of items. While leaving the shop one of the males was confronted by a staff member and he punched her on the side of the face she required hospital treatment for her injuries. Police inquiries into this incident are ongoing and the males are described as being aged in their mid-20s with one possibly in his 40s. The male who carried out the assault has blonde hair and is wearing a navy zipped top shorts and socks with sandals. This was a despicable attack and the staff member was left incredibly shaken by what was obviously a terrifying experience for her. Police are appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time and has any information or who saw four males matching these descriptions to the call detectives on 101. Donagall Town Base GS Med Tech giant Abbott Laboratories has announced additional jobs for Donagall. Abbott will invest in new equipment for its Donagall Diabetes Care Site and is set to construct a new greenfield manufacturing facility in Kilkenny representing a confined investment of 440 million euro and creates 1,000 jobs between the two sites. The new jobs will be in areas of engineering, quality control, medical device manufacturing and other science-based areas. Tanisha Leo-Vragger has welcomed the job announcement. Crucially, I wanted to make sure that we have jobs and investment in all parts of the country, not just in the big cities. So this is really positive from the point of view of balanced regional development. New jobs, well-paid jobs being created in Kilkenny in the southeast in Donagall in the northwest. Belfast is out of the running for hosting the Eurovision next year. The city failed to make the shortlist of seven cities being considered to host the event. It was previously suggested by Alderman Derry Kossy that Derry City and Sturban District Council should submit a bid to hold the Eurovision in the area. However, that bid did not proceed. Songgaden test organizers decided the tradition to hold it in the winning nation couldn't happen this year because of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. And to well or now, very warm, dry and sunny today with highs of 26 to 28 degrees with some light winds. That's all from news from now. We'll be back with an update again at 10 o'clock. But until then, good morning. Streaming this summer for only $8.99 a month, $18 plus up-crypto required, season C supply. The Ninetown Noon Show with Letter Kenny Credit Union. Student loans now available and free banking for students from your local and friendly Credit Union. Call 9102126 or email loans at letterkennycu.ie. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The Ninetown Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Okay, good morning to you. Five minutes past nine this Friday, the 12th of August, 2022. You're very welcome along to another edition of the Ninetown Noon Show. It's the last one of the week. I do hope you are well. And you'll be with us for the next three hours in this program. And of course, throughout the day here on your number one local radio station, Highland Radio. We've had a great panel lined up who will introduce to you very shortly. But it's also important that you have your say throughout the course of the next hour. 08 660 25,000 is your WhatsApp and text number. Or give us a call on 07491 25,000 emails at HighlandRadio.com. We'll go and watch the show on our website, HighlandRadio.com, on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, or across our Facebook pages. Okay, let's say good morning now to our guests. We'll say good morning first to Edward Grant, the president of the Students Union at ATU Letter Kenny. Good morning to you, Edward. Good to have you on the show again. Good morning, Greg. We also say good morning. Thanks for having me on. No, it's our pleasure. We also say good morning to Professor Pat O'Connor, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Limerick University. How are you keeping Pat? Great to see you again. Good morning, Greg. And our last guest today is Donagall Finifall County Councillor, Councillor Reena Donahee. How are you, Reena? I'm fine. Thank you, Greg. Okay, good to have you on board. Right. Deepening Housing Crisis has seen accommodation availability for students in Letter Kenny dropped by 63%. This, of course, at a time when the Atlantic Technological University Donagall campus is anticipating record numbers. An accommodation list will be released next week ahead of the new college term. The list shows only 123 beds, a figure that is down from 331 last year. This has led to conversations about all manners of ways of providing accommodation, including mobile homes. I heard some reference made to that. I suppose we'll go first to the rep with us from the Students' Union. Has anything changed as the week swore on to see an improving situation? I wonder, Edward? It's an improvement that's coming on the radio yesterday. I think it was great. We've had a couple of calls then. But again, it's nowhere near as much as we need. We're nearly up at 130. And what are the solutions being looked at? Your connection is not fantastic. I hope you can hear me okay. What are the realistic solutions being looked at now? So as of this morning, our sales union has submitted to our national body, USA, our request for the interim pre-budget submission. Including this here is the idea of a capital grant investment for TU's to be able to draw down funds to either build new property or in a more hopeful scenario to be able to buy urbanised property and renovate them, retrofit them for student use. This is going to be a lot faster than trying to build something in the ground up because you already have an existing structure. And there's also going to kind of interject more student life into town centres. Of course, it's going to try and read you in it and kind of hopefully keep the main streets alive. Yeah. And that's sounds like a brilliant medium term, maybe long term plan. But in terms of what's going to happen next month, we have hundreds of people effectively or potentially without accommodation. What are we going to do? Do you think I know it's not down to you, but you're the person perhaps with the best insight on this call? Yeah. So obviously, at the union, we've been trying to reach out to everyone that might have accommodation and we are trying to reach out to the likes of local caravan parks places that maybe historically would have been used for holiday homes such as big houses and that sort of stuff because any room anywhere for a student to lie their head down with a roof is obvious to a student somewhere. Last year, we had students staying out as far as Donegal airport and that was used by at least two students over last year. It's really, really desperate situation. And without kind of immediate access to those kind of temporary measures, I don't see it improving much between now and then. I see the possible of a lot of dropouts happening this year. And I know for a fact that a lot of people have put off applying to what the preferred CEO places would have been due to more local courses. Which again, is a great help, but it isn't something we should be expecting students. Yeah. All right. Professor Pat O'Connor, I mean, obviously, it's a dire situation. You can imagine the stress in amongst individuals and families with such a short lead in now till college is starting.  I don't know how long and yet here we are. It's got its status. There's more development for places. Obviously, there are external factors, but it seems not much planning has been put in to cater for the inevitable. I mean, it is a dreadful situation and very disquieting for students and parents. I think you used to be yourself made a distinction between what can be done immediately and what needs to be done medium to long term. And I think immediately there needs to be a big publicity campaign on the rent to room. And Edward has also suggested some really useful, interesting ideas like the caravans and summer accommodation. But I think the rent to room was is really an immediate solution. And partly people dropped off because of COVID that just were too nervous. And in a way now, people's anxiety about COVID has, for right or wrong, it has abated. Of course, COVID is still there. And we still have a problem, but people's anxiety about it has gone down. And so in that context, a major drive to rent to room 14,000 euro tax free, I think would be really helpful. Well, you see, that's very interesting, you should say that because I wasn't sure about that. And it was only in a conversation with Edward earlier in the week that I was fully aware of that.  But why aren't we actively running adverts and campaigns to say, do you know you can make 14,000 euro tax free by renting a room out to students? Oh, and by the way, in case you worried about such and such, well, this is in place. If you've any issues, well, this is who you contact, we've got that kind of system in place, you know, actively, and this is no reflection on an Edward at all, because I think he's done his bit, but literally actively, actively campaigned to say, you know, this is a real opportunity for you here. Exactly. Exactly. Well, I'm afraid I don't represent the government. So asking me why it isn't being done is not really you, you know, I can't answer for them. But it is an obvious immediate thing. In terms of more long term, medium term to long term, I did notice that there was a report during the week, which said that we had basically a low level of vacant properties. But they said that vacant property number did not include derelict homes.  You need to only walk around any town or city and you see loads of them, right? They're not being counted in the vacant property. But they are potentially, as Edward has mentioned, there are potential sites for accommodation that could be refarbed. And basically, like this might not be, you know, top quality accommodation, but to be honest, many students can't afford top quality accommodation.  Those are almost literally the plans that are being employed to because we have hotels all over the country, and in Donegal and other accommodations, student accommodation, maybe some not so much of that here, that Ukrainians are being moved out of in the next couple of weeks, and all of your solutions are being earmarked to house those people. Well, I mean, in a way, I do think derelict properties haven't really been activated by local authorities or by anybody else, partly because it's felt that they couldn't bring them to a standard that would be acceptable quickly enough. And in a way, like, okay, it's wonderful if your parents can afford, for example, I looked up the cost of student accommodation in Dublin, and UCD, and it's for two semesters, it's just under 7000 to just under 11000 for two semesters. Now, a lot of families can't afford that, but they could afford more hostile type accommodation, which is often what young people use going on holidays or whatever. Do you know what I mean? Of course, it's not ideal, but you have lower, more bunk bed type arrangements. Before I bring Reena in, I mean, would that be agreeable to a lot of students? I mean, it's not necessarily the experience of the life they're looking to sign up to Edward. It would fix the issue, and it's a decent suggestion from the professor, of course. But in reality, would people take up that type of accommodation if it were provided? i.e., say, for instance, a large hall or something along those lines was converted with bunk beds and what have you? Students would, Greg, to be perfectly honest. I've heard reports from around the country of obviously this is not what we've been looking towards, but students sharing, I think there was eight in what would have been traditionally a single room. They are crammed in everywhere we can get them around the country. We just don't have the local infrastructure. I extend in some kind of hostile accommodation is definitely preferable to a lot of students and having to travel like Dublin, Slago, Monaghan to try and get to their courses every morning, and it's definitely a lot less tall on them. As long as the students are able to get to college at this stage is all we're looking for. Yeah, and not sleeping in the cars in some cases too. Right, sorry, Chancellor Reena and Donahue, just to bring you in here, now what's your views? Yeah, well, certainly, Greg, it's a huge challenge given the wider challenge that there is at the moment for accommodation and housing in general, and that's impacting the student accommodation as well. And it's limited to what can be done in the short term, but the key solution is developing more housing supply across the board for people as well as students. And as Pat has rightly said, in the short term, I think we have to look to encourage those who can provide digs or rental room. And yes, that is a fact it's 14,000 per year tax free for anybody who does want to engage and that that would be maybe a short term solution. But I think and you said yourself, we are so lucky here now to have the ATU, the Atlantic Technological University. We fought for 30 years to get this status. It's one of the most positive things to happen in the county. And the ATU is the backbone of the county. And I believe that we should be looking at the ATU's own accommodation. It's paramount that the university has student accommodation. Realistically, I think we should be looking at 500 student bed accommodation. We need to be looking at capital grants. I get that. And with all due respect, let's make it 25,000 because at the moment it's pie in the sky. As you say, 30 years in the making this, did no one at any point sit around a table and say, you know what, this could actually we could achieve this. I mean, it's we're talking tens of millions of euro have been invested in this. Did no one think, or perhaps they did, and if they did what went wrong, that because of the popularity, we are going to need more accommodation. Yeah, absolutely. We've less accommodation. Yeah. And there was a very fine premises and letter can be not too far from the from the ATU for a law at lay derelict for years and years and years. And it wasn't taken up. And it's known and direct provision. But no, I just think that was a decision by the owners. They decided that that's what they wanted in fairness. They decided I just I think Edward, do you want to come back in there? Sorry to hop on there. It was just when you're chatting about by the way, just hop in. You don't have to announce it. It's perfectly fine. Rena and Pat well capable of well capable of dealing with it. I can assure you of that, Edward. Go ahead. It's just when you're chatting about plans to build accommodation that he actually has in their master plan for the last number of years to provide accommodation plans have been drawn up. They've been priced, but up until now, there has been no structure in Ireland for ITs to borrow money. It's reflected negatively on the government's balance sheet. And therefore, there was no drawdown ability for them for capital grants, investments or any of the other That's the reason why but that's no excuse in my view. That's it's a reason and you're perfectly right. And it's not your rules. But I mean, it still doesn't it still was a setup. They must have said, right, we need to you know how we have this system whereby you have to have university status to draw down funding at certain rates and on balance books and all that. Well, we're going to have to do something about that to make sure we have accommodation when this actually becomes a university. There's a lot of people actually being for not texting in saying, where do you get more information about rent a room? You know, so like, I really think there could be a push on for the next week or two to really try and get the word out there that people can give up a room, rent a room to students for and make up to 14,000 euro per year tax free with the cost of living. I mean that that would be a huge lift for some people. What kind of do you what what is the role of the the university or the union in terms of liaising with landlords or if there's any problems or support in that regard just so people know that to Edward while we are on a role. Yeah, so the union facilitated completely or accommodation us through the the IT or through the TU. So if there is any issues with students we can negotiate liaison between them and we have over the last number of years and it's imperative that landlords who are thinking of renting the students reach out to us because if you're not on our official list there's not much we can do as far as liaison goes. But if it's an issue with students sometimes it helps have the union step and then just kind of have a chat with them because they tend to respond better from their own peer group and I think a lot of students tend to see us as that. How much of the before bringing you impact just want to ask one question to either put something to bed or to confirm us that how much of the how much of the lack of accommodation this year particularly in your view is because of us helping refugees? It is definitely a pressure but not as big as this made out to be to be perfectly honest Greg like we've had these conversations last year and the unions before have had this I've been reading through the pre-budget submissions of USA for the last four years every year without fail student accommodation has been issued it's been issued for the last 10 years and I've just built them. I just wanted to hear that directly from you because you actually know lots of people have opinions but they don't necessarily know what the lay of the land is Pat sorry you wanted to come in there please. I just wanted to come in in terms of going back to the point like technological universities have been a strategic objective of the higher education authority for a number of years and they started to be created in 2019 and that pattern has continued so really one would have thought that the financing issue would have been faced given that it was a clear strategic priority of the higher education authority and given the creation of the new department of further and higher education research innovation and whatever that creation of that department offered a really unique opportunity to focus on and plan for trends as regards the whole higher education sector so it is true that this has not suddenly appeared as a crisis right the bus has been coming down the road since 2019 I think the situation as regards and rent a room has been exacerbated by Covid that's where I think it's so important to have a real push now when anxiety about Covid is receding Reena sorry I cut away from you I wonder had you finished your expression your views on this topic yeah no I was just going to say that the university no doubt will be welcoming an increased number of students now with the status and that and places from the CAO are increasing and we need to embrace this and and be able to accommodate it students from northern Ireland that that generally would have went to northern Ireland we'll be seeking and securing places in letter Kenny as well and we have a long we have a long history and don't at all producing excellent students we've had far too much brain drain to other countries if we had the student accommodation here we have the hospitals we have the schools we have plenty of places we have we have great employers and we want to accommodate our students in the best way that we can and make sure that we can keep them then and on a go yeah I mean just back to the planning and not to lay with the point like Abbott announcing a 440 million euro investment today they would not be making that announcement or going certain places unless they had checked out the surroundings in other words nothing that would hinder the development and the function of their factories and what have you and I just wonder maybe when we're doing it in the the public sense from public spending and public investment I just don't think we have that same level of organization because maybe there's not the same level of accountability okay we have to take a quick break before we do just to some of the comments coming in here now because I can be a bit lazy on this so many disused properties in letter Kenny alone owners have a responsibility to make these properties usable I think there'd be some agreement with that good morning Greg they had plenty of accommodation across the road that they let be given to refugees so it's the 80s board and the government's fault not forward thinking pure virtual signalling signalling on that one Edward they had plenty of accommodation but they gave it to refugees that's what a listener believes we at the union were in talks at that time and we were looking to keep that for students but unfortunately it just wasn't possible as you said it was privately owned there's nothing we could do to stop somebody they made a commercial decision and apply it to other changes yeah I remember it at the time because it was a there's nothing could be honestly compulsory purchase the property and decided to do something with it it's what they wanted to do cleaning your house at Tesco round about why can't this be used for students if it was fixed up Greg where do you get your information on rent a room for students well we'll actually dig that out and make that available to people is it true that a lot of students either can't afford the rent or are always behind in paying the rent and this is why landlords won't take them Edward do you want a word on that our people have people given up I mean we heard from Professor O'Connor there and I think she's she's it's certainly a huge factor I would say because of COVID and having strangers in your house and all that kind of stuff but our landlords exiting the student accommodation business because they're not getting paid that's not what we've heard from Aura and Greg and as I said if there was a case it was underpayments we do offer liaison services and there was on the list and we had no complaints last year from any landlords even in landlords leave on our list that hasn't been an issue okay no complaints from current landlords or those that left the list for students to ensure that you take photos of your apartment when you first move to protect your deposit yet that's a conversation we've had in the past but it's amazing how it's almost trumped by the fact that students can't actually get accommodation to begin with let alone to worry about whether or not the deposit is protected but it's still very good and important advice okay back from with more from our panel after these the 9 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categorically i wonder i'm pretty sure you can yeah i wouldn't i'm happy to be correct and yes i i believe you can yeah it's right across the board all right another call says greg rent a room has been an operation for the last 20 years and most people are aware of it especially in large towns and cities do you think there is a general awareness of it and the tax breaks um i think people were aware of us but i think it's kind of slipped out of their head i think the two years of cold which made people feel they didn't want anyone in their homes okay the issue not being highlighted is a lot of properties are being let out for airbnb and landlords are looking for the most hassle free way to secure an income all year round and hence are getting out of rental yep that's possibility the government has not been strict enough and enforcing rules around airbnb i completely agree with that caller it needs to be tightened up and that would help greg i think rent a room could be abused i remember when my daughter was starting college in manuth and was looking for accommodation some of the rooms or box rooms and just looked like a child's bedroom going by decor where parents just thought they could let out and make a bit of money just ripping people off as they know students are desperate but i think the situation we're in now edward you know for the right money a student listen they're going to go home with the weekends i think mostly um a boxed room providing they weren't paying through the nose would be would be welcome it would be welcome greg and to be honest that i think is the crux of the issue the fact that students have no uh persuasion power there they can't be involved in any kind of negotiation because we are in such a desperate need greg please talk about what do you have to do when you keep a student does it mean you have to cook for them and wash their clothes you know this this is the distinction between it's called rent a room not be a mami okay they would love they would love that now don't forget to separate your whites from your dogs right thanks for that keep them calls and comments commenting right okay um a quick one on this the irish rugby football unions being urged to reconsider its decision to ban transgender women from female contact rugby competitions due to freeze it will set a dangerous precedent in other sports equality groups and rugby clubs have described the move as regressive and disappointing in a statement issued during the week the irf you said the decision was based on medical evidence and follows world rugby guidance this means that contact rugby for players in the female category will be limited to those born female now we understand the gea and soccer bodies are also reviewing their stances and in terms of the amount of people transgender people it affects it's very small at the moment and well we're just we're talking to you pat o'connor so i'll stay with you um this is a conversation that's happening across this country and across the world um what what do you think i mean obviously there's been a big pushback on this from uh representative groups um do you have a a feeling on it well i know nothing about rugby okay i generally know very little about both physical contact sports and i'm very happy to talk about things i know about um obviously i do know that rugby is very dangerous in the sense that there's been this linking of dementia to um concussion in the case of rugby players i also know that not everybody and this now i'm speaking really from a base of ignorance right that not all rugby players are large i mean there was that fellow pete stringer am i right was he rugby yeah quite small so in a way as so that's in in the context of saying that i'm not at all sure that issues surrounding the protection the fit it seems to me the decision is being made are argued there they are if you are saying on the grounds of physical protecting physically um the team players and since those who are designated um male at birth and who subsequently transitioned may be um endangering physically endangering those who are female at birth because the of the greater the developments particularly at adolescence right so i mean in a way it seems the argument is that medical evidence is supporting this on grounds of physical con and grounds of safety for women but i am puzzled as to why then they have been so reluctant to face the issue of dementia for example in players and which is a proven risk and their number as i understand it a number of players are taking cases um about this so um really uh this is an extremely difficult issue in the sense that obviously um those who've transitioned feel that they're not being treated as the gender they wish um and but as i also understand that the IRF you are saying those who were designated female at birth and transition no those who are designated there's one category that they're allowing to play basically and they're offering other opportunities for involvement of trans people so really um i don't feel i'm clear enough on that's okay and your point is well made and and i respect it's an issue that everyone wants to necessarily have a public view on because it is incredibly complex um but we'll only have a brief chat on this because there's other stuff we will want to get on to uh rena um do you have a view yeah i would concord totally pat and there is a review on going at the moment and i think we need to strongly consider the medical evidence that that's available and that's uh i don't i like pat i don't know an awful lot about it but the review has taken place at the moment and there there are no doubt that there will be changes and there does need to be changes but we'll just have to wait and see what the outcome what the outcome is all right and briefly to you Edward um obviously my experience i have played rugby for a number of years and that's an extremely physical sport but on my under 14s and under 16s rugby team there actually was a woman at the time because there wasn't a equivalent team and she could put down any man in the past just as well as uh as i could so i do think it's an extremely nuanced issue and we don't have enough real evidence into it last time i was reading up on the medical journals i do appreciate a review and i think it's important that whatever is going forward that safety is the number one priority okay um the association of secondary teachers in Ireland has said it will ballot its members next month on possible industrial action earlier the irish national teachers organization said it would also ballot its members on potential strike action unless the government puts a respectable pay offer on the table both unions are recommending that their members mandate them to utilize all options up to and including strike action in order to secure pay rises and this has led to the annual teacher bashing uh and teachers happen to come out and defend themselves at least the conversation is happening in august rather than september when all the teachers are working and maybe can't express themselves as they might want to um a lot of people think teachers are are already well paid and you know yourself rena they'll talk about long holidays and all that type of stuff well what is your view on this do you think teachers deserve a pay rise now greater than that which has been offered by the government which is around two or three percent uh plus whatever has already been added uh this year yeah well i think there needs to be a look across the public uh service at the increased cost of living and the response from from the government to that there has been significant pressure pressure uh on in terms of inflation and we've seen record inflation i think the highest maybe in 37 years particularly driven by energy costs and fuel costs and the impact that this is having on the cost of living in food and on all products and that's impacting on all walks of life uh it's affecting teachers and it's affecting those in the private sector as well but no doubt the private sector they will respond in their own way uh and the government have said that the upcoming budget that the cost of living will be a key consideration pascal don't know who has said that and this needs to be a mixture of cost of living support uh and tax packages and whatever but but i have to say that students generally now compared to 30 40 50 years ago education is very very different and students generally love going to school compared to what it used to be in in my time teachers have a very very challenging job now and a lot they have a lot more work to do than what people can see or think of teachers and still great confidence in their students nowadays and now obviously some teachers are better than others but teachers are they're preparing schemes of work the things that people don't see are teachers preparing schemes of work preparing lesson plans creating exercises for various abilities why are they doing that so much that stuff on their own time up to a 10 11 or 12 o'clock at night i don't think anyone should should expect people to work outside their working day yet teachers often will tell you they're working till 10 11 o'clock at night what marking stuff at home i mean maybe that maybe the the job of work needs to be restructured if that's the case yeah well that that is how it is and i do know that from my being involved with adult learners and i see the workload at first hand and and there is an awful lot and teachers are very very dedicated and i know people are saying oh teachers are off for the summer and they have the full wage that is factored into the 12 month wage it's not just that they're off all summer and i know teachers that are in these days and have been in in recent weeks preparing the classroom maybe particularly in more in national schools and getting the classroom ready and getting the reposters up and and all of that worked on you know i just think that teachers deserve their time off i think people don't see what the workload is there's a huge response to just a relation to pay just to move it on a little bit they received a 1% pay rise of things since january 2021 there's a 2.5% pay rise offer on the table um um as of the the negotiations was in march and the month follows do you believe that that pay offer should be increased closer to the say let's take an inflation rate of 9% or should they like the rest of us have the pressures of inflation eased through decisions made in the budget in terms of taxation like do you believe teachers deserve a 9% pay rise this year let me put it as director's that to you well i think it should be i think we should be looking at it across the board and i think that it should be it should be factored in the cost of the cost of living and in tax cuts or whatever but i think right right across the whole services it needs to be looked at with the nurses with the guards with the paramedics with everybody else and i think it needs to be looked at right across the board all right pat yes i mean the fact is inflation is 9.1% it's estimated that it will increase to 10% it is also clear from the government that they're not going to be able to protect everyone from the cost of living increases it's also clear that not all the inflationary pressures are due to energy it has been estimated that there's about 6% that are due to other sources so that basically means the people in the private sector have effectively businesses being catching up on what they lost during covid now at one level this is very reasonable but at another level it is pushing inflation so i mean focusing on the teachers as rena has said is a bit kind of partial but they are in fairness though it is they that have come out this week asking their members to give them to give them the latitude to do what they need to do do you know what i mean i was so yes i know i didn't ring up the asdi and say what's your views on this i know but the whole public sector is really going to be involved in this issue right and the question is like if we were talking about nurses or if we were talking about midwives like in a way the conversation might be quite different but the basic issue for me is that the private sector has been through i mean you need only look at the profits that are being made by energy providers at a time where people's energy bills are going up through the roof so it's not simply because of the russian war it's not simply because of basically other pressures but yes they are and unfortunately we all are subjected to that public private the whole lot of us whatever we do we're all subjected to that but it's the teachers that have come out this week balloting their members or seeking a mandate from their members do you believe that they deserve a pay rise say in the region of nine percent i don't think that they are going to get nine percent but i think they i think it is appropriate that's basically an improvement from two point five percent be made i do think that there is a problem inflation like there is the example of the classic kind of case of a teacher and a nurse can no longer afford to buy a house right two people in good invertecom as well-paid jobs and that tells you that effectively you know the housing prices are increasing stratospherically and the cost of living a day to day rents etc so you have in a way if we don't increase could you could explain that to me you talk you give the example of nurse and a teacher can't afford to buy a house right but neither can a hairdresser and a plumber exactly what does that mean but it means like because if you're a teacher or your nurse should you automatically be able to afford a mortgage but from the point of view of parents the effect of this is that there won't be teachers in Dublin and there won't be nurses in Dublin now in a way of course if you can't get a plumber you also have a problem and probably a hairdresser you can perhaps do without and up to a point me me me me in a way that it is already in the pattern that young teachers can't they're cutting down range of subjects in Dublin schools because they can't get teachers when a teacher said on the program yesterday if the if it's such an attractive proposition with holidays and everything it's never too late to retrain and get in front of a classroom if you think it's that easier job and and if it were perhaps we wouldn't have the shortage of teachers that we have Edward Grant who is a delightful head of hair Edward what's your view um to be honest I think the union is 100% back in the uh the teachers unit at the moment I think education is the single most vital commander that we have as a society and I think as well that we need to really remember the strikes aren't the negative thing they seem to be being allowed to be without strikes we wouldn't have weekends we wouldn't have overtime we wouldn't have maternity leave we wouldn't have the quality loss we wouldn't have sick days there's so much that unions have given us over the years and I do think recently it's starting to change public opinion that people seem to be scared of strikes they seem to not like them and I think it's understanding that is a vital part of our democracy the ability to protest the ability to strike and it needs to be upheld who drives the sort of anti-teacher sentiment that we see every year I wonder because uh I'm not sure how widely there is an anti-teacher view out there and I don't mean that in its strongest terms but you know what I mean that even if it's just passive in other words oh well sure another three months holidays for you and all that kind of stuff and the media love it because there's plenty of mileage out of that Reena Paz who yeah uh you know I suppose it's called teacher bashing and that's been around for a long time and I think it's because people have this idea that a teacher starts at nine o'clock and finishes at three or finishes at four and also the summer holiday I think that's where it all kind of stands for they don't see beyond that and there is honestly a huge workload I know from teachers that you know compared to what it was years ago and as I say is it particularly difficult in primary school yeah and secondary school as well there's big challenges now in secondary schools absolutely big challenges for teachers yeah I do think probably it was fueled am I cutting in on your Reena no sorry I think it was fueled by poor child care facilities and demented parents were basically often mothers were feeling oh my god you know here are my 24 seven out of my mind right and these teachers you know have a not easier time I think paradoxically COVID did actually change some people's attitudes and that they found that even teaching your own children right three or four of them was actually quite a task they did not enjoy and the idea of teaching 30 of them right began to seem as not quite such a doddle as they had always assumed it would be so I think it is to some extent stoked by the media but I do think it has come from poor child care facilities poor backup for parents but just to hop on there as well I think it's really important to remember that all the people chatting about how easy it is to become a teacher don't actually really think the logistics of being a student teacher and the survey released by us I think it was 2020 so that 42 percent of student teachers considered dropping out due to financial pressures they were paying up to 60 euro extra on resources now and up to 40 euro extra a week on travel it's not an easy journey to get there so the people that do are real heroes in my eyes would you get away with your facts we're not interested in facts here we want speculation and conjecture you know me Greg can't help me but a weekend reading I do I do I do I'm being I'm being facetious okay we'll be back with more from our guests after 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variable dependent on maybe if there were an on-suite room for example 100% that would be completely up to the landlord to set those rates the union has no qualifying rates at the moment for our accommodation list just because the situation is so desperate i call us as teachers work hard and get paid for it not many other professions get the perks teachers get a 100 000 euro lump sum for retirement at the end is that true well there are i mean any public servant there are arrangements as regards retirement and it depends obviously retirements are financial lump sum is better if you started pre oh if you start in 1970s whereas if you started for example the ones who are starting now will continue till on the graduated scale to 70 and we'll get less just in relation to teachers do you think we were talking before the break about you know people's attitude to them do you think it's because we take any criticism or any involvement with our children so personally that maybe some parents see teachers as in some way patterns an enemy or something do you know what i mean that they might give an end of year report that they don't like and then that can sort of uh harden a view that they might have i don't really think that's part of now i do think the fact that most parents their greatest involvement with teachers up to recently would have been a primary level because there's obviously greater need for interaction with children and most of those teachers are women so i think there is kind of a bit of a residual sexism misogyny devaluation who do these think women think they are getting all this money for looking after their these children and i don't get anything for looking after them and why should they okay don't have any of you seen the new county council outfits they've teamed up with sportswear suppliers or neil to launch an exciting new range of branded clothing are you across this arena yeah yeah that's right who's doing the marketing why don't i haven't i look i have to worry about who's doing the marketing i should be sitting here in this gear yeah well you can see my background here today the dunagall dna yes dunagall has teamed up with a sportswear supplier uh o'neill's to launch a new range of branded clothing and back in april 2021 when i was mayor of the county a new uh place brand for dunagall was introduced to promote the the region as a great place to love to work to invest uh to rare a family to study what to explore whatever and the design which visually communicates a fingerprint symbolizes the the county's uh unique dna d dunagall n a the three letters collectively that represents a number of dunagall's uh distinct assets from a rich heritage to its uh strong diaspora its warm welcoming people uh so on so on so we're advertising boards really i mean instead of adidas so naiky we're advertising the county no well we've always i mean we we've always had a very good history of advertising let it be a good thing that's a good thing by the way well no i know and partnership both o'neill's leisurewear uh uh instrument dunagall has launched a range of clothing available and participate in retailers right across the county so uh they can now proudly showcase your dunagall dna let that be t-shirts polo shirts out outerwear or whatever and then places like uh no we have other great providers we have uh o'neill's and ball of a t-name but a few you know but uh and anybody that comes up with this kind of proposal we will gladly embrace it and look at it okay well listen it's not a bad marketing strategy strategy i suppose uh thank you rena for highlighting and appreciating the dedication of work teachers put in uh after teaching hours um we asked students to leave our house as they were misbehaving on leaving they set light to a bin in the bedroom thank god it was at home i mean that's one isolated instance i'm sure it's not reflective of uh uh students at all at all um right reteachers if it's such a special job why are some of the most unsuitable people allowed to become teachers they're in it for the money and holidays and many haven't a clue uh as to actually uh how to actually teach maybe that uh feeds into your views pat as to you know what forms the general public's views yes well i mean in a way show me an occupation that you know is only stamped by perfect people you know journalism quite the contrary actually quite the contrary uh the truth is all right listen pat it's always a pleasure to have you on the program i really appreciate you accepting our invite again i hope you have a lovely weekend and we'll chat to you soon a pleasure great thank you so very much indeed uh cancel arena donahe have a great weekend see you soon thanks very much great and enjoy the good weather hopefully we all can indeed and last but certainly not least uh president of the students union at atu in letter kenny edward grand edward good man thank you very much for your time today i really appreciate it again thanks for 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o'clock i'm amarayan the atu student union has submitted a request for a capital grant to buy student property in a bid to combat the accommodation crisis a large number of students have been unable to secure permanent accommodation for the college year ahead and it is feared that many students may be forced to drop out or defer atu student union president edward grants is a potential of buying new property would alleviate the problem long term however temporary measures are also desperately needed for the next month i've submitted to our national body usa our request for the then turn pre-budget submission including this year is idea of a capital grant investment for atu to be able to draw down funds to either build new property or in the more hopeful scenario to be able to buy urbanized property and renovate them retrofit and enforce student use and without kind of immediate access to those kind of temporary measures i don't see it improving much between now and then i see the possible of a lot of droplets happening this year police are appealing for information and witnesses following a report of theft and assault at a shop in the church meadow area of dairy last night four meals arrived the shop caused the disturbance and stole a number of items while leaving the shop one of the meals was confronted by a staff member and he punched her on the side of the face with more here's donna marie dordie police received a report that four meals arrived at the premises in a silver vehicle entering the shop after nine p.m they caused a disturbance in the store and had stolen a number of items while leaving the shop one of the males was confronted by a staff member and he punched her on the side of the face she required hospital treatment for her injuries police inquiries into this incident are ongoing and the males are described as being aged in their mid 20s with one possibly in his 40s the male who carried out the assault has blonde hair and is wearing a navy zipped top shorts and socks with sandals this was a despicable attack and a staff member was left incredibly shaken by what was obviously a terrifying experience for her police are appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time and has any information or who saw four males matching these descriptions to call detectives on 101 donnie gall town base yes med tech giant abbey laboratories have announced additional jobs for donnie gall abbey will invest in new equipment for its donnie gall diabetes care center and is to construct a new greenfield manufacturing facility in killkenny representing a confined investment of 440 million euro and creating 1,000 jobs between the both sites the new jobs will be in the areas of engineering quality control medical device manufacturing and other science-based areas i da regional business development manager for the northwest michelle connor connex is the site in donnie gall town as a center of excellence for diabetes care it's terrific news emma and the abbey diabetes care facility in donnie gall town is a center of excellence for blood glucose monitoring and the investment today shows further commitments in the site and that will make us a state the leader in the production of high-tech glucose monitoring devices so yes it's an absolute specialization but we shouldn't forget like abba have a number of sites across arland and a significant footprint here in the northwest with three sites overall with the one in donnie gall but also there's two in flago delfast is out of the running for hosting the euro vision next year the city failed to make the shortlist of seven cities being considered to host the event it was previously suggested by alderman dairy costly the dairy city and serban district council submit a bid to hold the euro vision in the area however the bid did not proceed song contest organizers decided the tradition to hold it in the winning nation couldn't happen this year because of russia's ongoing war in ukraine the national parents councils for primary school children says its autumn is shaping up to be the most expensive ever for families of those returning to the classroom it's calling on the government to scrap the practice of voluntary contributions which parents pay to run their respective local schools the fees per household can reach from 200 to 400 euro per school year on your lunch of the national parents councils says the process is grossly on there particularly for parents who have more than one child at primary school the cost of living crisis that we're currently experiencing adds to the pressure that families are under with the back-to-school costs and and remembering that back to school costs there are a number of costs around that that all come at the same time parents often have more than one child so it's multiplied by the the amount of children they have so it really is becoming a more significant issue for parents to weather now very warm dry and sunny today with highs of 26 to 28 degrees with some light winds that's all the news for now we're back with an update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning obituary notices for friday morning august 12th the death has taken place of rosie divver knee cannon middletown dairy bag and formerly of lower keel drum gordon hork her remains were opposed at her home from 11 a.m today rosary tonight at 9 p.m and tomorrow at 8 p.m house private after the rosary to 11 a.m and on the morning of the funeral funeral mass in st mary's church dairy bag at 11 a.m on sunday with interment afterwards in maher a gallant cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on cairn roti funeral directors facebook page the death has taken place of daniel galleher dan ruah strana corcra dairy bag his remains are opposing at his home rosary nightly at 8 p.m house private after the rosary and on the morning of the funeral funeral mass in st mary's church dairy bag tomorrow morning at 11 a.m with interment afterwards in maher a gallant 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actually something that's just been handed to me now I'm not a hundred percent sure of the true implications of this because we know that Pope Benedict the 16th has been releasing quite a number of statements as of late but this morning in the last few minutes his released the Catholic broadcast has released a message on his behalf now we are trying to ascertain precisely what this might mean okay because I don't want to I don't want to presume anything from it but the the way it's written would suggest it's really quite serious so it's entitled a message from Pope Emeritus Benedict the 16th and it says very soon I will stand before the ultimate judge of my life although I may have many reasons for fear and fear when I look back on my long life I am however happy because I firmly believe that the Lord is not only the righteous judge but also the friend and brother who already suffered himself my deficiencies and by that as a judge is also my advocate in view of the judgment hour the grace of being a Christian becomes evident to me and it goes on somewhat now I'm not sure as I say he's been talking about his mortality over the last number of weeks and months but the wording of this the first line is very soon I will stand before the ultimate judge of my life now I'm not sure if that means that he feels that his time on this earth is short or as I say if it feeds into previous statements he's made but just thought I would bring it to you for those of you who would have an interest in that as I say we are contacting our journalistic friends in Rome to see if they can give us any further information in relation to that right 08 660 25000 whatsapp or text will call 07 491 25000 uh let me see where are these comments here uh teachers guaranteed job for life they cannot be sacked that's not strictly true I don't think is it but I I mean if they were if they were failing in their duties or there were some some um in discretion I presume they can be sacked surely morning Greg unfortunately some teachers have favorite pupils in the class I remember it and my children have experienced the same thanks okay Greg I would like those teacher bachelors to go into a classroom for a week and observe what a day's work involves not to mention a week that definitely would change their opinion some parents complain about being exhausted looking after two children well try looking after 30 do you know it might be an interesting TV program that um you know pitching people who have views about certain jobs or ways of life like I would like for instance people that call those that work in the building trade non-skilled labor I would like if they did a work a week's work of them follow them around with cameras for a week wouldn't that be interesting people who think that teachers have an incredibly handy put them in a classroom for a week and let the cameras follow them I'm not sure that's been done before but I'm sure it'd be an interesting idea for some TV production company where we get people who are quite vocal about others to live you know walk a mile in my shoes sort of a thing and observe it and then at the end of it see if it changes their views wouldn't that be an interesting concept on the matter of teachers pensions we pay a substantial deduction into our pension each month as well as the public sector pension levy which is hefty how is this different to someone who pays into a private pension we pay throughout our careers for our pension it's not free that's a very important comment there from a teacher in relation to the the notion from an earlier text that they just land they just end up with a hundred thousand euro when they retire it's a contributory pension that they pay into morning Greg I'm I'm really being frustrated now no back to school elements yet and secondary school starts back less than three weeks time any suggestions for me me personally I don't know what the delay is or if it's a delay unique to you but what I do know is we are an amazing community here across the northwest and I know there are other people that have done a bit of work on this and they will know what the situation is is so is this listener are they one of the ones left behind in terms of receiving a bigger pardon the back to school allowance or is it yet to be issued and when is it going to be issued because people need it now I hope this wakes up our young people to the fact that finafore finnegal governments do not care about them housing health and education I hope they do not vote either of them in any elections for the rest of their lives they have been in power for 80 years and more teachers first have to hand out first to have the handout for money they wanted frontline compensation during lockdown they taught by zoom finished at 11 a.m. daily some teachers just mailed a week's lessons did nothing the rest of the week where was line management winters pensioners welfare recipients can't go on strike right okay just how much does the teacher earn per year let's get some facts here for change those figures are available I can take them out personally I'm a little bit uncomfortable in going into talking about other people's income I don't mind if a union rep was on and says well this is what a teacher owns in year one or two or three personally it's their private business I would be uncomfortable with it but anyway some very good teachers out there but unfortunately also a lot of bad ones my son don is leaving certain June and he told us the majority of teachers at his school did not care well that was his view I understand Greg could you remind the professor that it was the parents who did the teaching during lockdown as she said yet who got paid for it it wasn't the parents remember so teachers had free pay okay what about all the parents can well lots of people were paid for not going to work though we must remember okay I mean anyone who couldn't go to work was being paid not to go to work wasn't that what the schemes were all about now obviously maybe not the full wage what about all the parents complaining about having to teach their wins during COVID would they like to teach full time that's a good point will teachers ever be happy with their pay it seems there's always looking a pay rise did they not know the wages before they applied for the job any teachers I see them that seem to be well off with fancy cars early retirement that's another view there I don't want to get in the room I don't want to be all part of that but people have their views if you know what I mean and we are getting some views coming in from teachers to cancel counterbalance it too to some extent okay let's catch up on a break here back shortly the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie this summer Disney plus brings you unbelievable entertainment for an unbelievable price join the rebellion in the 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kenny main citron dealer in dunny gall the new c5 air cross gives you absolute comfort and style now available in diesel petrol and plug-in hybrid test drive viewers today okay you'd think at this stage we don't have to issue such warnings but inevitably we have to because invariably someone's going to go out and quite innocently perhaps they're going to light one of those disposable barbecues or they're going to disregard a lit cigarette or light a campfire something along those lines and the conditions are such that the ground is just like a tinderbox it's ready to go up joseph mc taggart his chief fire officer with dunny gall county council he joins us now uh joseph thanks for taking the call you're welcome greg have we have we escaped any wildfires or even the beginnings of them in the county so far but there have been a number of small fires of course are greg over the past number of days uh so that's uh specific to any area but they have been scattered okay right so i mean the the conditions sorry i think we lost you briefly there joseph the conditions are such though now that it's really important to get a message out on behalf of the fire service and what is that absolutely the conditions are right at the moment for wildfires and the temperatures won't just to be 27 29 degrees on saturday and sunday there is no humanity there's like one speed and people are out and to join the good weather and they're participating in outdoor activities and there are many of those activities are in areas that are susceptible to wildfires so what we're asking the members of the public who are engaged in outdoor activities is to be aware of the possibility of wildfire starting to be careful of the sources of ignition and not to use barbecues or open fires in areas that are susceptible to wildfires and indeed in britain many stores are not selling disposable barbecues because of the fire risk that they pose we're asking members of the public not to discard uh cigarettes or matches that ones that is and if you're using a solid fuel as a means of heating to put hot gases into a metal bin and make sure they remain covered until such time as they're cold we're also asking members of the householders and building owners in areas that are susceptible to wildfires to cut the areas of vegetation or in the immediate vicinity of their houses or buildings and oil tanks so that if there is a wildfire at least there's a degree of protection afforded to the buildings and to the oil tanks and this is a message that we have been putting out through there in the public media since probably february of this year and we'll be continuing to put it out for the next month to put to encourage members of the public to do that around their buildings now i'm not sure if you mentioned it um what about you know maybe landowners farmers clearing land burning shrubs or whatever it might be um is that permitted at this time or is it discouraged at this time no you're you're absolutely right uh greg i didn't mention it and there is a pro-basin on board in a full on vegetation uh in effect and that is in effect year from the first of march to the 31st of august and of course uh to chariot designated boardings at this time of year there's also a pyramid system in use but in general there is a pro-basin on boarding grown vegetation all right okay and obviously that can lead to a destruction of wildlife habitat specifically during the breeding season but one of the big issues with wildfires greg is the resource demand and that is a high demand on fire brigade resources and it means that the resources where they're engaged in firefighting at wildfires that they're not immediately available to respond to house fires to other property fires to road traffic collisions where life may be at risk or where people may have sustained an injury and also to you know the authorities do pursue and can pursue people you know it is an offence and people have been you know found guilty of that offence you know i mean we're asking people to sort of be responsible and to ensure as best as possible this doesn't happen but also you know the guards for example and others will chase this up and try and find the source of these fires if that's possible yeah absolutely that that is quite possible and i mean it's not that we're trying to put a damper on people's enjoyment of activities during the spell of good weather but what we are doing is that we're asking them to exercise caution and to be careful and bear in mind like that maybe a relation or a friend of yours that's involved in a road traffic collision or whose house is on fire or buildings and fire who may need the fire brigade and it may be tied up fighting a wildfire and it may not be immediately available or a response may be delayed okay right um and it only takes a spark doesn't it uh as as you've said and just to reiterate it can very a fire can very quickly be out of control really really quickly especially with the sea breezes dependent on where you are of course and i mean people may think that fires that you can carry out control burning or easy fires at this time if you're specifically with the weather conditions we have at the moment will grow rapidly and spread rapidly and will not be easily brought under control okay thanks for your time this morning uh joseph i hope you have a quiet weekend but i just said we'll go ahead further things i mean if people do come across a wildfire please call the fire brigade earlier we get notification the sooner we can and the easier it will be for us to do yeah and and even if you're responsible for it i know maybe people might pack up and get out of there as quickly as possible for fear of of being found responsible but if you do it you know maybe you could be the first to see it and then make that call as well even if you scarper afterwards i'm not endorsing or encouraging anything joseph but you know we don't want people fleeing the scene and a half an hour or three quotes of an hour lost as the fire takes hold absolutely i mean if the fire does start we want the call we don't really care who we get the call from but we want to be able to respond to the incident as soon as possible okay thanks and the sooner we can respond the sooner the and the easier the fire will be extinguished right thanks for your time joseph joseph mctackett there who is chief fire officer with donagall county council ladies and gentlemen okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show now there are calls for water safety trainings we've made compulsory in every school finnigale senator martin conway says children need to have general knowledge of the dangers of currents and understand water terminology like undertoes high tides and rip tides how are you getting on senator conway good to have you on the program yes indeed and as you would know we have a beautiful county with the longest coastline in the country i believe and so many of us and almost it's the closer to the coast that you are can't even swim have never learned how to swim yeah there's a kind of a culture in course of communities there was a fear of the water and it was close to remarkable that you had many fishermen who spent their lives on boats out fishing but were never able to swim there was just some class of a mental block or a phobia or kind of a some sort of a fear of the water i think pretty i think that's changing with the newer generations there's a lot of swimming pools now in communities i think in the country you're talking about 400 swimming pools in total over 100 of those are ran by the local authorities and here in clear of where i'm from near the hinch with a swimming pool which was six a million euros which the government money spent in the recent days but i wouldn't boast too much about that up in uh particularly north tonnigale senator because uh we're waiting on a swimming pool for in a shone uh a a peninsula there will be very much i'll be very i'll be very much supportive of um uh in a shone getting a swimming pool because i believe that the more swimming pools that we have in communities the better chance people will learn how to swim and as i was saying to you um in prayer in this one in the hinch over a thousand young people from september on won't be using this swimming pool to learn how to swim which is important but it's not just about learning how to swim it's also learning uh to gain respect for the water uh to understand how the sea works and and how ripcorns work what they are what they mean and how the tidal cycle works it's also in terms of learning respect for signs about the dangers of swimming coupled with that then respect for instructions and lifestyles yeah and also to cultural respect yeah of course and when we have serious issues with our inland waterways to rivers uh lakes um you know maybe flooded quarries it's interesting you should say because if you i agree with you because if you say to a young person don't touch that some of them the first thing you want to do it's almost irresistible to touch it but if you actually educate them as to why you're saying that i think it uh resonates well the same with seat belts we've done it successfully i think with seat belts i think education in schools changed adults mindsets for example uh as it relates to seat belt wearing and other issues as well so i think it's it's something it's an old brainer it's something we should start doing as soon as possible absolutely i suppose it is important as well to say greg that there is uh quite a lot of water water safety training that does take place in schools as it is part of the pre-curriculum i believe there's about five or six terms and obviously just getting gains and other strands to it and a strand is water safety and swimming now apparently schools can choose two or three outdoor strands they don't have to provide all of the strands and that's i suppose the point i was making in what i said publicly yesterday in the sense that i believe that water safety as a module should be an annual uh uh module uh within each uh uh school so even if a young person has had water safety training and swimming lessons if you like in primary school and when they move on to secondary school then and they grow up uh if you like a little well that does will continue this it will continuously be refreshed uh because we know the children's attitudes to water can vary from teenagers attitude to water i think the fact that we live on a coast that we are a coastal island that we're an island nation and the fact that we have so many lakes waterways which brings massive recreation uh enjoyment and pleasure to people but they are dangerous and you know how you educate people and how to to use these facilities safely you also teach them respect and teach them that you know that there are difficulties people need to learn what to do and to get into trouble themselves for example if you're if you get caught in a rip cunt you don't swim against it because you're wearing yourself out you're swimming parallel to the beach or how you float uh and car for health i mean the little basic uh tip uh that needs and i think too and it's a good time to talk about this at any time but obviously you know the media and maybe the likes of yourselves looking for things that are relevant at any particular time and we're in the middle of this mini heatwave we need to start having these conversations too don't we in september in december in january and february so that we're not just doing it every single year you know we need to sort of say right let's do this so does this come is this individual you can address that too senator and answer this question does this is this ant individual schools to take the lead is it an advisory from the department of education how how does something like this i think it needs to happen i think right this needs to be driven at central level um you know and the funding that's necessary and all the providers needs to be uh uh incorporated into the school budgets as part of the capitation grant i think that there needs to be addressed at the national level that this is something that we are taking seriously that we want to happen we believe it's critical given the facts that we are now in the nation and we have so many workways and lakes and you know that this does need to happen at national level and that schools then become obliged to to find ways to provide the training but they need the funding to do that as well and you know i think that that that has to happen now you made the point correctly that this discussion is to happen January February you know i have actually called for this before i i've issued many press releases on this issue over the years winter and summer but from front of the it only seems to be as attention when the weather is very fine so i'm taking the opportunity now to reiterate my part that this should happen i've already uh and indeed i did i did lay i did lay much of that um responsibility with the media as they scramble for weather related stories you know because maybe we're not going to get a message through to people in the 30s 40s or 50s now as much as we try but if we start with the young people and take it really seriously we can avoid some of the 110 average deaths due to drowning in this country every year the majority i'm sure you know senator but for those who may not know listening the majority those are actually in inland waters you know so we maybe we can't get the older generations to listen but if we start driving this home with our younger people and the local authorities and others do their bit with signage maybe we can start making inroads that's an awful lot of people passing and yet but i don't want to compare it to to other campaigns i'll leave it as is but we need to start working harder on this i fully agree which are great um i think safety in germany is something that needs to receive an awful lot more attention in schools than it does i mean in rural areas i farm safety it should be a critical component of the educational system you know we see the effort that's put into the junior and even certification that's correct it has to happen but we need to start thinking of educating and training young people for life as well i mean what's most important the preservation of life that is what's most important and you know if you teach people how to be how to farm safety and how to be safe on farms if you teach people how to be safe when using the water you made a very very good analysis early on our analysis rather when you spoke about sepals there was a culture of not wearing sepals in this country 20 30 years ago that's changed smoking would be another good example there is education out there now about smoking that didn't exist 30 years ago and you know if we we have to start somewhere and the best test to start is in primary and secondary schools with our young people teach them how to swim teach them to teach them to be confident in the water that feeds into the last point i was going to make to you and i think it's a really important one is that i think sometimes we can be a bit lazy now and we rely on fear uh to try in other words we scare people into staying away from the water we scare people almost into not going out into into the sun you know i i think education and equipping people with the knowledge to make those because people are sensible and they can make sensible decisions rather than us scrambling when we get once well a good weather to almost it feels like we're we're we're we're not going with education and our fall back is to scare people out away from the water so mom and dad's are screaming at the young one saying get back from the water get back from the water when they should have the power and the tools to enjoy the water safely where appropriate absolutely um if fear and shock doesn't achieve anything it just gets people's back up whereas embracing people explaining educating uh needing by example um they are how you do it and like sure of course the water's there to be enjoyed and you know this is going to be one of the most powerful and most enjoyable weekends of the year and like i know the beach isn't doing all similar to the beaches here in player they're fantastic the waves are fantastic for surfing there's a huge surfing culture along your coast there's a big surfing culture along our coast we love to see young people learning how to surf we love to see young people out there surfing and joining it competing in the competitions some of them even have the opportunity to represent Ireland abroad and that's the way it should be and that gives them the confidence uh around the water uh to enjoy the water and make the most of the water okay just just just finally with that is one respect just finally a call that says primary aquatics water safety known as pause is delivered as part of the primary curriculum in schools across the country this does cover safety in seas rivers lakes farm quarries etc uh and then the reference swimming lessons being suspended through covid uh your colors absolutely correct those are fantastic program known as pause but it's it's not compulsory it's voluntary some schools do other schools don't do it and my point is that it should be done it should be done by all schools and i think that that is the model to go down and that is ran by water safety Ireland who have the experience who have the lifeguards who have the staff who have the knowledge who know the waters and these are the people who have the as i say the competence to actually give the courses now during the pandemic um there were courses these courses up online so what i would tell it to any parents actually this is in church or this morning great uh is that if they go on water safety irons you're going to the website they'll be able to download these courses um and their interactive courses online and it will be a very good thing for parents to get their children's children to do ahead of going back to school indeed but you know it shouldn't be it shouldn't be at the discretion of people whether they do or they don't or indeed it shouldn't be at the discretion of schools for that they do or they don't it should be a requirement it should be necessary it should be part of the core curriculum and this program is an excellent one and you know if every student in the country did that program i think we'd be in a far better place all right well you're a finna girl sanitary your party's in government uh if you can't make uh in roads on this there's no hope for the rest of us thanks for your time this morning well we'll do our best anyway everyone take care and same to claire finna girl senator martin convoy way there i call us as i'm retired but all during my 40 years teaching in primary school every year before the summer holidays we spent a lot of time on 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have been unable to secure permanent accommodation for the college year ahead and it is feared that many students may be forced to drop out or defer atu student union present edward grants is a potential of buying new property would alleviate the problem long term however temporary measures are also desperately needed there are calls for water safety training to be made compulsory in every school finnegeal senator mcconway says children need to have general knowledge of the dangers of currents and understand water terminology like high tides and ripped tides speaking on today's nine to nuncho he says water safety should be a crucial component of the education system place her appeal for information and witnesses following a report of theft and assault at a shop in the church meadow area of dairy last night four meals arrived the shop caused the disturbance and stole a number of items while leaving the shop one of the meals was confronted by a staff member and he punched her on the side of the face the full report on this is available on our website at highlandradio.com the rising costs of living could lead to more workers returning to the office this winter to avoid high energy costs later see it later the cso figures show energy and utility bills increased by 48 percent in the past year overall consumer prices rose by 9.1 percent for the second month in a row remaining at a 38 year high tonnegall town based us med tech giant abbot laboratories has announced additional jobs for tonnegall abbot will invest in new equipment for its tonnegall diabetes care site and is to construct a new greenfield manufacturing facility in kilkenny representing a combined investment of 440 million euro and creating 1000 jobs between the two sites and finally the national parents council for primary school children say this autumn is shaping up to be the most expensive ever for the families of those returning to the classrooms it's calling on the government to scrap the practice of 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central bank of Ireland for conduct of business rules you're pretty welcome back to the nine till noon show it's the last show hour of the week and it's the hour where we kind of disengage from all the serious stuff of the week and give away money michael yes two and a half thousand euro the trombola fenula's trombola's right behind yes i call it a draw drum but it's not no here comes fenula now it's a trombola yeah okay and uh the reason why i've mentioned it is because in about 25 minutes one of our wonderful listeners is going to be winning two and a half thousand euro in cash and i'll just give you a quick run through of what's going on here because if you bought your ticket before 11 o'clock today you're in all five draws we've two and a half grand today there's two and a half grand next friday and around the northwest further two and a half thousand on jive time on the 26th and on the second of september leagooch will give you two and a half thousand euro on the naughty alarm 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are you are literally running around the building all morning like if you didn't think it was hot you'd have like no that is true but i do think you know i mean i thought uh today was going to be a bit milder but it's absolutely beautiful no tomorrow's gonna be i love the heat um i live in you and john passed away during the week we heard tributes to her from um dana and others as well i think the the thing that came through is she had a tough life uh but she was very down to earth and success didn't change her and she's just one of those people that you kind of think are going to be around forever because still so youthful and vibrant and full of energy i couldn't believe she was 74 like that was the main thing i kind of was even though like i was only six or seven when grace came out the first time but it always holds a special place in my heart and it was because it was the first film that that i ever saw in the cinema my dad brought us to see it when we were uh but just home from america and we were living in goa and dad brought us all to see it and then it so it always had like a special place for us kids in the house you know it was one of those ones that you always put on it's the coat and uh yeah and when my sister was older then and she was doing her nursing all of her they used to sit around watching movies so my daughter then was only about three or four and she would go around singing look at me i'm sandredy won't go to bed till i'm legally wed i'm sandredy which is not a bad attitude to take it there you go there you go in fairness did you watch it again recently uh i did watch it again recently just for the whole nostalgia and i have to say it holds up because it was always a little bit daft if you know what i mean is in the whole thing of it was kind of daft and it was over the era and it totally is and you have to yeah kind of a bit by modern standards strange a bit misogynistic wasn't it uh well like to well the girls were supposed to be you know nice and quiet and they were supposed to get married and like the only chance they had of leaving high school was to go to beauty school but it made for an awesome song so there you go i think you need to watch it yeah no but i think you need to it needs to be watched in the context of what it is i did like if you're going to start me too and you know if people start me too and if not kind of thing you're going to find a lot of issues exactly and i think we shouldn't but i think it needs to be taken as being this is what it was you know it was a film about the like kind of you know rough and tumble guys and and this jacket michael and you know swank around the place uh i've never seen the film have you never seen the film no sweet never seen i haven't either by the way just for a bit of solidarity yeah i've no interest in you've never seen no i've seen bits of it i saw and you know maybe the singing bits but i've never sat down and but i i am not i'm open to i watched this year for the first time i watched uh dirty dancing so oh i like that yeah oh maybe that was last year so like that but then we were brought from school to see that this is much you're brought from school see dirty dancing yeah it was a teacher now i don't understand dirty dancing and everybody talks about it like if it's a really nice wholesome movie yeah but and it's actually not it's not but you know what i'm on there's like the story there's a lot of films from an era like tv series that you'd expect people to have seen yeah so got a hundred percent yeah everybody should watch grease i just think it there's a lovely feeling to it and i know what i know what you're saying is in it it's of its time like it was done in the 70s and technically it was kind of set more in the 60s kind of a bebop kind of an era you know it was all sort of the puffball skirts and the girls wearing the little ankle socks and that kind of thing you know what i mean it was that kind of a feeling but you know what the funny thing is is i think with films then it was honest right i don't think films made now mainstream films will actually truly reflect culture and attitudes and stuff they wouldn't it would be a representation of what we all should think you know what they taste exactly what we're at now so we don't so and this is why young people aren't watching soul poppers or you know that it's not really reflective of real life it's reflective of what adults think they can write and it not to be offensive and not to get cancelled as opposed to realistic yeah that's that's the thing you absolutely absolutely right we're in that at the moment yeah big time big time you know we don't it's it's everything is perfectly representative everyone's got now obviously there are independent films and others that are made that may be you know pull off the sticky plaster of it yeah the truth be told everything the mainstream we talked about oval a few times or the oval or whatever it is yeah i mean it's so right on and it's fine do you know the way they sort of bring modern issues into the sort of this 400 years and even things that are set in 2022 or they're about there's an idealized representation that it just is not accurate like that no it's not you know and that's why young people it's not relevant to them they're listening to music that there's a very hard to look back on the on these these few decades particularly the last decade in 50 years time people will not look back and say oh that's an accurate representation of what was going on unless you're watching a documentary but i think there's a bit of a pushback on it now i think there will be because everything is cyclical things change i think part of what happened in in the work in the realm of fiction there's a lot to do with the real world and in the last decade having things like trump and having things like the side of america that came out made a lot of people in the pop culture arena uncomfortable and as a trump gave a voice to a lot of people that believe what he believes but as a reaction all the extremities of it but as a reaction then fiction as regards movies and mainstream tv has has course corrected for what's actually happening in the real world it's no longer authentic yeah anyway greece it's available somewhere i'm sure it'll be shown oh yeah now you can get it to uh we'll get it through apple tv and it'll bring it through to the stream and you can rent it that way i think it's on as well and sky said we talked about blackbird last week did we did i mention you've been mentioning did i mention it on the problem none of the problem yeah right blackbird on apple tv have you seen it no that's fantastic yeah i saw you at least i have a true story isn't because it's on the list to think that it really is if you've got a list right and you've got access to apple tv and let's be honest right other people have access to programs not through apple tv right yeah you know put it up the list because it really is it's really really good it's a very good show and we talk about a lot of programs and do you know how a lot of them are kind of good and then we look for the ones that are great are great i think this is i think it's a great show blackbird two separate words um i don't know any of the actors i just know it's about this is no spoilers it's uh a fella who has it all form a football player he's deals in drugs seemingly he's put into prison he's approached by the fbi to say would you befriend a serial killer uh or someone who we believe to be a serial killer because we want to find out where he's disposed of that's a good story that's a good hook he decides whether or not he'll take that and it's a maximum security prison and all that it's six odd episodes i think seven maybe i don't know an hour along and it's i i tore through it it's got the Greg seal of approval that was really really good okay i have really good things really good things about it a couple of people said to me that i should watch it the way i tried to describe it is season one of true detective mix with mind hunter and you like those two programs and mix them together you come up with this i've heard good things about it as well from greg about 30 seconds ago he was saying it was really good let me reiterate this is like a true detective he said if you've watched it oh wait six six twenty five thousand tell me what you think it's two things on apple severance is on apple as well which is what i want to watch it's i haven't seen it ben stiller did it and it's got 14 me nominations yeah right across the board so it must be amazing and i'm now terrified of british archet she's the scariest villain i think i've seen in the last five or six years right um disney plus has overtaken netflix in terms of subscribers i find that unbelievable it's astonishing disney plus seems relatively it's a big brand name yeah i thought leptics had it all the wrong way for so long and they're still losing billions they're not going to make money they don't think called 2024 but here's a sidebar and let me take a second but it's not known over here but another streaming platform called spectrum has gone to the wall in america now it wouldn't be known over here but it had shows like it had jessica alba's cop show and a few other shows around the last few years they pulled the plug yesterday so streaming streaming platforms are falling there's a consolidation going on is there and we're probably gonna know what the future will hold once the dust settles exactly i think disney plus also showed live cricket and had a huge uh a huge market in india but they lost those rights so they think they're gonna they're gonna lose some of their uh right those rights okay yeah they lost those rights okay um i i've been pontificating and praising uh blackbird but i'm still well behind you in terms of uh the the european of better call soul i mean this is just the best program you've ever watched in the world ever ever um we're heading into the last episode there's not much to say in terms of anything that will give away spoilers but i can honestly say the last few weeks have been genuinely incredible in terms of not only in terms of the drama the pathos the emotion they've brought to the screen but the fact that they have now dovetailed perfectly into breaking bad and they are it's again it's not something we've ever seen on tv before something done so powerfully yeah and they've also changed the tone the style the content of better call soul dramatically in these final episodes you mean it's more like breaking bad it's no all right actually you know it's it's become its own thing it's it's because the again no spoilers here but again they've they've now gone beyond the timeline of breaking back i think people will have to grind out the first few series of better call soul to get to the excellent program that you're talking of possibly yeah but yeah yeah i mean i was hooked from the start i know some people thought it was slow at the start but i was hooked one episode left very very very late on monday night the last episode will drop internationally so don't ring your Tuesday morning exactly um but it really is incredible drama um and again i can honestly say there's nothing like it on tv and there hasn't been anything like this done on television is that the general view of it yeah it is it's not like it's not just something that's like you know just ticked all your boxes 98 percent from critics 95 percent from the audience that's incredibly high if you go to imdb all these recent the last six or seven episodes are now in the top six or seven episodes of the show everybody is giving them like 9.9 10 out of 10 i'm not even surprised i mean it's just it's so powerful um and anything anytime it comes up in conversation you meet people for lunch or whatever everybody that is watching it is absolutely raving about it you know all right listeners watch 13 lives on prime video i think i did prime video we criticized them in the past i think for the the makeup of their landing screen they have rejicted it tells the story of the rescue of the children's football team from a flooded cave in thailand which is not that long ago uh carlin farrell stars and they say it's a very good watch so that is definitely list worthy right both of you have csi vegas on is this a brand new series yeah it's a brand new series yeah it's a brand new series and what they did was they're just trying to re-invigorate like the csi kind of went a bit cracked it went a bit law and orderly in the sense that it went every there was one in florida there was one in miami there was what you know what i mean every time you turned around they were sticking another one in another town you were like all right and it was the exact same thing for csi car and donna but yeah exactly but it was the exact same program you know what i mean it just happened then whether or not the character is kind of appealed in that um i really enjoyed the first one which was the original which was a rigid was csi investigation which was the vegas one this is it started back up again it has brought up he loves it because it's got his two favorite characters in it from the original i'm a little bit iffy about it but it has brought back the two main characters in it that were in it by the time it finished up gil grissom is the main detective and serah is one true love right so those are the only two about the only two returning characters she i don't think she can emit chemistry yeah i don't i don't think she is the range he adores the ground she walks on which is bizarre but makes no sense to me it just is an insight into your life that's right i think um they get on the couch they all started when i was three and no i i don't i don't it is good there's a show that what they've done is is that they came back and the if anybody watched it in the in the original series there was a police officer that was always kind of with them all the way through it as well his life is under threat and so next minute the the two show up uh gail and serah in order to figure out what's going on so and it turns out there's a bigger mystery going on and in between this what they've done differently in this is now there's one overarching yeah okay for ten a criminal that's going on and then obviously then they have their day today crazies uh each episode is a self-contained story as well as advancing the arachnid yeah so there's always like that crazy story like well you know that like this week's one was like a frozen frozen an airplane landed completely sealed and yeah i love that one but somewhere they are this week yeah yeah that was i mean i kind of tuned in one time and there was a it turned out that a frozen block of pee had fallen from a plane well this is an old episode isn't it that's the last one i watched yeah but that's because it's like that's what usually is that was back in the day when it used to be like somebody actually did die from that yes and it can became a thing but that that's what is it like they just have these kind of like bizarre story you don't mean these sort of bizarre stories and see this i've done a lot of it was a tenopees it was just something to a tenopees it was much more low-tech but it's it's not a bad watch it's not bad watch for it they're not coming back that i mean it has been taken over a second you don't love it i do yeah he really liked it i don't find gi