issues and what we're trying to do at the conference is to address some of the practical issues that they need to understand about making the move. They're also now taking over the care of their own condition so mum and dad are no longer attending the appointments with them they need to understand the terminology and they need to be able to take and adjust the advice that they're given and really take control of their own health and manage their own health so it's to you know in part that that's important it's something that they need to attend to and also it's to give them coping mechanisms to understand that you know there is help out there and there are ways and means and other people who they can turn to for help and support. The conference takes place in the Chartered Accountants House Peer Street Dublin 2 as I said on Saturday runs from 10 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. Is it broadcast I mean as you can imagine traveling from from from the northwest either a very very early start or a very expensive hotel stay on Friday night is this in any way sort of semi remote as well or is it a complete in-person conference? It's a complete in-person conference because we really felt the benefit of being able to get the young people together into one room where they could get the benefit of seeing you know 50 or 60 people at the same age that they are you know with the same condition that I don't think it would have the same impact if they were watching online and the same for their parents so we have two different streams of programs for parents and for adolescents so we really felt that the benefit would be had if people were there in person. That said our keynote speaker is Dr Lisa Morton who is a canceing psychologist who's written a book about improving standards in CHD care and just coping mechanisms for adults and we will be recording her session and that will be available for people to view following the conference if anybody's not able to make it. If anybody wants to inquire about attending they can just email info at heartchildren.ie or if they're interested in watching the video link when we have it also maybe send us an email and we'll arrange to get it to them. Okay thank you very much for your time this morning I really appreciate it Sheila Campbell there CEO of Heart Children and I understand that you know Dublin is the centres of excellence and all of that but I just wonder if a 10 a.m start on a Saturday is going to exclude people here in Donegal but it's I'm sure it's by accident rather than design but anyway hopefully there was some information in there that you found useful I call it says it took me 43 years to find my congenital heart condition so don't give up if you know something isn't right keep on it which is good advice generally speaking about your health I think often people are discharged or here's something with GP or whatever and it doesn't you know there's something else going on here you know I don't I don't but then they go right you know what it's good news I'm just going to listen to it trust yourself trust yourself you're normally right uh a caller says my son recently bought a car and was doing some work to it it was up for NCT so it took it for him while driving to Donegal town under the speed limit I'm at a speed van and after a few days I got a letter to say it was fine 60 euro for no tax does anyone know can a speed van do this can I appeal this as the car is not ready for the road yet this is interesting this is the second contact we've had from a listener who was done for no tax uh by a speed van now obviously you know the laws the law and all that kind of stuff but I find myself driving well maybe it would know but I found myself driving with no tax disc because those are delaying the tax disc but I presume the system would be updated as they was taxed but if you get a new car if you're waiting on the if you're waiting on the logbook as it used to be called you know you could be driving legally with no tax I think um and people are getting fines in the post from a speed van this is a I can't believe we haven't been informed of this if it's the case I've no doubt now two listeners saying the same thing how do you appeal it does that mean you have to go into court an appeal or can you do it by post it sounds like it's it sounds like a court appearance to me because you're going to contest it because you know you will take the car to get nctd and that has to be tested is that a is that a legitimate excuse any more information on static cameras sending out well they're not sending them out but identifying cars that aren't taxed and and then of course uh letters being sent out two listeners so far have been done in that regard all right okay small farming businesses is on the way out just like our small fishing industry operations it's all about big enterprise and investors well the the the fishing industry in the farming industry are pushing back they're not going to accept it they perhaps see that that's the direction of traffic and they're saying hold on you a moment here we're not going to accept that and we feel that organizations that represent us aren't making that point strongly enough i presume um so that's why that means taking place on our phone i call us as all our tds and ministers away for st patrick's day but burty her and staying at home to keep an eye on our finances good man burty in safe hands uh did any listeners see the spot yesterday between a finnegale government minister and opposition td accused the minister of smirking while he was making his point i watch rockers tv and smirking from the government side especially finnegale in my opinion is visible as some form of upmanship i wonder are they advised to act like this nothing surprises me anymore but listen okay i get where you're coming from here but i try and be fair you the government politician might feel that maybe the opposition uh politician is playing you know political football or something the smirk might not necessarily be to trivialize the issue in question it might be as if to say come on here you know what would you do different if you were over on my side or something but yep i get you you need to be aware that the camera's on you all the time on our way home from reticanny yesterday i too noticed a lot of rolled side rubbish within minutes an open back lorry passed us with a load of wooden pallets wrapped in cling wrap and it was shedding with the force of the wind while in transit i saw a chunk of it fly off and flew away into the backflow of the lorry it made me say to myself this is only adding to the problem i guess not blaming any one person it's a collective problem all right fedama thank you for that why can't cancel people when filling in potholes etc grab a black bag and collect uh nearby rubbish what about people on unemployment on employment schemes like this is i understand where you're coming from right but we are expecting people are dumping stuff out of the car because they can't be bothered right there is an argument about the cost of disposal i get that but come here you know they're doing it because they don't care let's be truthful so rather than sort of target them we pay people who are are on back to work schemes or whatever money to go and pick up their rubbish i'm not sure that you know that's not fixing the problem uh call us as vaping inside is becoming a problem now i hate the thought of inhaling the residue from this back to rubbish here perhaps if signage was reduced that would be a place to start many of these offer hotels bars restaurants and other tourism businesses some far from the immediate area of operations in regards it's tough our business i don't mind those signs and to know what you're on about and i think signage into that a kenny one time was flagged as a negative in an eyeball survey um but i don't know it's a tough all it's a tough all business out there at the moment i wouldn't begrudge someone a sign but anyway that's just me you uh it me feeling that doesn't mean you're wrong you're right because that's what you feel less signs and you'd think the place would look prettier for me it's it's an okay sacrifice but we're all different and all different views my surgery is now charging 20 euro for blood tests to medical card holders can they do this k yes they can dependant on what they're for and i hope i'm getting this right in my memory k if they're for diagnostics right so if you are saying right i've got this problem and the doctor goes right okay well this might show up in your bloods they should be free if i understand it correctly if you're saying look can you check my bloods um just for routine checking my bloods then that is not free as far as i'm aware if i if i remember correctly blood tests for a diagnostics of a spit spit i think it has to be of a certain level of something as well it does have to be a chronic illness as well i'll have to double check k but not all blood tests are covered by the medical card so unfortunately no good news for you in relation to that i want to mention again that uh electric any hospital campaign meeting is taking place tomorrow night uh in dylan's hotel at 7 30 p.m the the tagline is if you care please be there there i'll read a little bit of it here uh following on from last month successful national day of action at that kind of university hospital campaign organizers are inviting all concerned individuals who signed up and those who have an interest in becoming involved come along to the groups next meeting it's a dylan's hotel as i mentioned tomorrow night 7 30 all a welcome on the night especially reps of staff and patients and public representatives to help plan the next steps for the hospital uh campaign okay quick break next guest on the way we're heading to maville the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features and competitive rate switcher loans are you in the process of moving to a new bank maybe you already have well if you pay 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careers today national broadband ireland is delivering high speed fiber broadband under the national broadband plan to homes schools and businesses across rural ireland we're laying the groundwork for a network that will cover 96 percent of ireland's landmass delivering enough fiber cable to wrap around the entire world almost four times to find out when you can get connected simply check your aircode at nbi dot ie nbi building a limitless ireland supported by the government of ireland okay so over the last day or two we've been talking about illegal dumping and then by coincidence someone um text in a little earlier today talking about signs and how signs are uh blight some are okay the legit others are illegal but it seems to be a problem recognized in morville and ifa gillen is secretary of morville tidy towns and joins us now hi ifa good morning to you hello greg um thanks for having me on and thank you to your listeners no it's our pleasure right okay so obviously we wouldn't be talking about it if there was a sense that uh illegal signage is a problem around morville ifa that's correct greg and it's not just um mobile it's all over the county some of your listeners may not be aware but donnie gall county council they actually have a policy on authorised self-advertisement signs and obviously it applies to mobile in the whole of donnie gall so we just really want to highlight that and it was actually highlighted by the tidy town adjudicators in the last report so we're really appealing to businesses and residents just in and around the town to help us with decluttering as such of these advertising signs now obviously and i mentioned just before the break there you know it's a tough time for business many might be struggling and this might just be the competitive edge they need to keep the lights on and to keep local people employed are those also the types of signs are we talking about or are we talking about old tattie signs that are no longer relevant you're right and we we know it is a tough time for business so it would be great if businesses could look maybe at alternative ways to advertise so from social media and newspapers and sure even on highland radio you know instead of these signs but we're not referring to the permitted signs so donnie gall county council does have a permit kind of policy in place where if you do want to advertise you can go down that road these are more the you know you see them along the lampposts and they're bolted up and and things like that coming into the town it's those signs that we're referring to and you're right some of them are getting really tabby looking others you know maybe they might not even be in business anymore so that's the kind of things that we're trying to address and really trying to reach out to businesses and and the community as a whole to support us on this yeah well i don't uh i never understood why we uh into into towns like maville letter kenny donnie gall town wherever it might be where the council have an actual maybe a nice digital sign a one sign that can be shared space or can be there you know that the businesses can avail of and then really crack down on the signpost signs but then it levels the playing field you see because if i run a i don't want to pick it i'm gonna say a random business say i have a bakery right i don't think there's multiple bakeries in maville so say i have a bakery and you've a bakery for and we've both got two signs up really we're both going to need to take the signs down aren't we because if i take mine down and you don't you get a competitive advantage so this requires a buy-in i think from from all business but i would love to see a logical alternative put in place maybe some sort of a digital digital sign that it rotates on you know something that's pretty but in but in a visual spot do you know in other words let's say we've got a problem we need a solution but also try and think outside the box a little bit you're right greg and actually in most towns and villages jord island there's fantastic information sites for tourists and they offer these advertising in like one central location so that's something to really look into you know the part of social media you know your regular newspapers all of that we definitely want to encourage businesses to look outside the box and one time in particular and every time that we really look up to is malin who you know they're famous for their tidy town competition results they have a very strict policy on these advertising signs so we want to kind of follow suit but at the same time respect that businesses need to advertise and look at alternative ways that you can do that in the local community because i do understand what you talk about when you talk about you know social media highland radio newspapers websites i get that but particularly i think coming into the summer there's a passing casual trade you know what i mean and it's it's that's when you sort of pay your bills for the winter in many cases so that does i just really do feel the needs to be all scientific are you asking at this point ifa for businesses to hear you and do this voluntarily rather than sort of saying right counter cancel you need to crack down on this is are you sort of visit a softly softly approach initially yes we'd like to educate and engage with local businesses and residents help us keep the place looking well and so what we're asking is if they could remove any of the legal signage that is already in place and then refrain from adding any new ones but as you said earlier looking at alternatives so from you know them central advertising locations within the town to maybe like the post office to the local stores things like that where we get a good influx of of people and looking at you know doing things in alternative way in a more equal friendly way as well okay well i mean as you identified it's narrow margins when it comes to tidy towns adjudication and you know there's incredible competition right right across the county and the country and it's these little deductions that really i suppose if you're involved in the tidy towns you can feel like you're banging your head off a brick wall so i presume that's that's the motivation here it is but it's not just for scoring points on the tidy towns report you know ultimately we want the place to look and well we want tourists to come back so we see that there are multiple benefits to the local community and making the place to look well so this is just one element that we're looking at and i would like to thank the local community and local businesses for their ongoing support in this regard and just a a shout out we have recommenced our weekly letter picks and gardening in general tidying of the town so we're always looking for volunteers as well even it's just keeping outside your own business or your own house tidy it does go a long way greg a for fun have you noticed any trends in in littering is it worsened at all because in other parts of the county we've been discussing over the last wee while people seem to be more inclined to dump illegally any trends like that in and around the beautiful maville yeah one issue and we're really going to focus on it as well this year is the amount of dog mass along our beautiful shorefront so we've often been you know we've heard from tourists that the front shore the green is the gem of maville but we've really appealed to dog walkers you know not everybody i'm not tearing everybody with the same same brush i have four dogs myself but if everybody could just be responsible and clean up after their dogs that's one of the main issues that we're having right now you do get the odd flight tipping issue as well and and over the green you know we do our saturday cleanups every morning but if we could all just pull together and concentrate in those kind of hot spots that would be the main one yeah and i'm glad you recognize that i think it's a very small percentage of irresponsible dog owners um and and you know it's a it's a tough false space to own a dog at the moment because you know everywhere you turn there's bad stories about dogs but it's a minority a very small minority but a couple of dogs over the course of a week walking every night can put a lot of poo uh and you know along the way so if you listen keep up the great work you and the crew at maville tidy towns we appreciate your time this morning thank you very much great thank you so much have a lovely wednesday all right let's see for there uh she's right just look at signs for a festival that runs in the summer they've been up since last year how come these are ignored and as i said the event is only on in the summer i don't know but it's just a severe lack of enforcement i'm sure everyone's up to their ears uh but i mean this a lot of stuff could be resolved just with a few letters a bit of enforcement people out and about in the streets uh while 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yes yesterday morning greg over 40 micro businesses and sold traders from around dunnegal started the first of three workshops and that is to help them better understand their finances with a wild-willing accountant online dot e ceo the risafini so they're undertaking the course with dunnegal etb's further education and training service in partnership with dunnegal women and business network so good to see local agencies collaborating there for the local businesses great yeah for sure um progress being made on a new innovation innovation center yeah a big news story early in the week great contracts for the design and development of the letter kennay 2040 strategic urban regeneration site which will include the new alpha innovation center and beta business center were signed yesterday so these centers which will be funded by the border enterprise development fund administered by enterprise erland are expected to play a key role in attracting and stimulating investment and employment so these centers are going to be both great on lands between pierce road and port road i think it's behind where the old esp offices were having a clue what you're talking about as far as i know um i and i don't mean that facetiously across from the theater up on the left what pubs it close to now i'm only joking i'm only joking i know i do know where you're on a boat with the pulse the pulse probably the nearest top of the left and there and there hey come here i like this talk about st patrick's day he's parade because he thinks we're heading into the spring and the longer evenings and the brighter mornings a timely reminder of the season sometimes when you start talking about christmas in october and you go oh come on it's nice to talk about st patrick's day very much yeah just a shout out uh greg from lyricini chamber to community groups schools bands companies and businesses who businesses who would like to be part of this year's parade to get in touch with the chamber and they can do so by emailing info at lyricini chamber dot com or telephone zero seven four nine one two four eight double six for an application for it's a great thing to get involved in a great thing for groups and schools and bands but it's a it's a great way for businesses and companies and i hope they realise it's such to put their wears out there on show and uh you know a bit of innovation there as well it can give you the wee competitive edge you know i i i hope people still see it for for that yeah it's a bit old school right yeah but i'll tell you one thing it's effective yeah if a big audience is most uh out of sight out of mind or unsight then mind is probably the case when it comes to the the parade and the floats and etc i wonder are they still allowed to throw sweets from because i i would say health and safety you know you could you don't want to get a you don't want to get a a an orange chocolate in the eyeball the the the place them in your hands are both the one that you can just don't get the switch Greg health and safety gone mad anyway this is going to be a great day as it always is and uh there's the fantastic parades right across the region which we'll be highlighting of course as we edge ever closer uh national award for a local uh photographer this is uh steve toy i've worked with steve right and i'm only saying this because you know we're a local community aren't we we're local people and uh steve was a pleasure to work with so i'm delighted uh to see uh steve being recognized yeah well he's been rewarded for his good work Greg as you say uh steve has been named Irish wedding photographer wasn't a wedding now okay for uh at the 2023 Irish wedding awards so the awards recognized exceptional specialists and suppliers that go above and beyond to ensure the uniqueness of every wedding and steve as you say as a well-known photographer and graphic designer and owner of logo pics yeah and to say i have no personal relationship with steve and i'm sure there's loads of other front i know there's loads of other front photographers but once i'd worked he'd worked with us uh just to recognize that okay oh this is a toughy now um and i don't really know if the i don't really know if the government have figured out what they're going to do about the hospitality fat rate but listen those in the industry aren't happy about it yeah uh t-shirt lee of wracker has indicated that a decision on the hospitality that rate is likely to be made by cabinet leader this week so the nine percent fat rate for industry is due to expire at the end of the month Greg and industry locally has expressed concerns about the negative impact a return to a 13 half percent that rate could have on what do you do about that though because you know obviously there was we know what the gouging that goes on right down the country you know if there's a concert planned or organized or a football match or a boxing match prices go through the roof and it's not just the last one or two rooms it's across the board um now it doesn't happen i don't think as much here in the northwest there's still good good value to be had but you look at the industry and what it does to its customers with those government supports if i were making that shout or that call i would say right okay we need to put something else in maybe that doesn't reward people for their bad behavior but also does support businesses that are genuinely you know just trying to keep the head above water and and to support local employment i think they need to come up with a different way thinking about it uh curious to say i really don't want some of these businesses down the country particularly to be rewarded for what they do to the public yeah i suppose that's one way of looking at it greg the other way of looking at it is uh the likes of paul divver there from the sandhouse who's the the the bloody god spoke expression for the the the federation uh every hotel federations um they see it as um a possible sort of hammer blow to uh an industry they're still recovering get that i get that so what the what the right or wrong is i don't know the fact that they're sort of still sort of push it down the road even if the supports were profit linked right so if you are a Dublin hotel and i you know there's some some none of all added don't get me wrong but if you're a a hotel or a businesses a business that for no good reasons charge an eight-year-old point or you know uh 15 euro for a sandwich and a bottle of water or if you're uh tripling your prices just because a football match happens to be on you know if they looked at it and said they have all the accounts all all the lodgings are made every year they they targeted the supports or the deductions based on good business practice you know don't reward it's like in business or in a company if you reward the people that are bad equally to those that are good well then those that are good lose interest and go somewhere else and i just think they could look at this in a different way whereby they are supporting the businesses that are just trying to cover like you say but not rewarding those that are shafting us at every opportunity kiran but it's above our pay grade but i would just like to see something a little bit different what do you think listeners i'll wait six 60 25 000 we're both very sympathetic sympathetic kiran to local businesses we get that but you know i think we know yeah i suppose the other thing Greg is how much of that increase has been passed on to the cost work when it's an effect anyway and then is that the reason that people and businesses in the south they will say look it's too much and this we're going to lose people but if it's across the board they're going to have to pay it anyway so it's hopefully it'll work out for the industry as well yeah now i recognize that food and drink i don't believe this applies to and i didn't reference food and drink yeah i'm on about as part of an overall business in areas where there argument would be that it's all encompassing yeah if it's a fixed wedding or a dinner dance or a pint or a night out or a function that's that's going to be affecting the price regardless all right okay right let's that's the news thanks very much for that as always kiran let's get on to the contents of this week's business matters who's you guys yeah i'm joined by the founder of donagall natural soap company and glinty's isabel sangha as we began making soap for family and friends her company in 2010 she's always searching for new ingredients to use and promote in her product range which currently stands at 35 a graduate of aeronautical engineering she also holds a master's degree in bioengineering and during our conversation i asked as a bell when did she decide to make a business through her soap making my husband's an accountant so when i you know started to think about possibly wanting to go into shops he said is about you have to do your market research so he you know i put i put a couple of samples together i packaged them you know it had a bow around it and the the and i went off to shops actually just around letter kenny um and i also looked at what was on the market um was there other irish products where was my niche so there really wasn't a huge amount of irish handmade soap then this was back in 2010 did that make up your mind to go further then yeah well the feedback from the the shops and the pharmacists and the healthy shops that i went into was yes definitely you know a niche for this product and they would have definitely taken it on so that really made me go away and feel confident and you know i also asked questions about packaging size of the bar price point i got really valuable information from that research so it was very valuable all right fascinating conversation by the sands of it kieran yeah isabel uh she started uh as i said then through here making soap you stop clicking the pan making soap for uh her for her family and friends and uh decided back into it at the end to give the business a go she started small and she scaled up the business um in terms of what the time she's able to manage to give the business she has four children and they're getting a wee bit older now and you know she's taking it on stages so um very interesting yeah a really attractive business and product because a lot of people want that yeah uh with different skin sensitivities and what have you but also sourcing irish ingredients leaning on her her degrees and stuff and very much as opposed to supporting local as well so a lot of her products contain a lot of locally sourced ingredients and she's also a member of the dunagall designer makers and uh i suppose being her her own boss she's got the flexibility of being able to give time to the business and still be able to give time for family brilliant the full interview with isabel is available to download now or stream from our website highland radio dot com or Spotify or iTunes and also uh popular on a sunday evening kieran on the radio yeah after six o'clock news greg on sunday evening and if anyone wants to get in touch with you uh drop an email businessmatters at highlandradio dot com all right kieran listen thanks as always look forward already to seeing you uh next wednesday we really appreciate your time this morning come on greg business matters in association with atu dunagalls faculty of business if you're an owner or manager in food production business consider the new one year level eight higher diploma in food business and product innovation it's just one three hour lecture weekly call 918 6600 or email gary dot mcgill at atu.ie all right uh you welcome back after that very short promo there the traffic wardens in towns uh they have them handing out fines for no tax as well yep i think everyone knows about that i think everybody knows about that uh it's this the fact that some people are claiming the speed vans are are tagging them again we've had no official confirmation and it possibly could be that the car was parked somewhere and it was a traffic warden or other uh but i think if traffic vans are actually uh doing this night be good to know officially uh are they sure they didn't get booked somewhere when the car was parked that's the alternative you see that's why i am suspecting that maybe i don't know how it would work good morning greg i just wish to say thanks to the hsc scally place out patient staff friday afternoon last i attended for an appointment uh from donna at reception and nurse my experience was positive uh three perhaps four clinics going on at the same time so the waiting area had a constant change of patients in it as doctors passed by the waiting area appeared to me that although uh in some cases their first language was in english their friendly smile and acknowledgement to each of us waiting was quite noticeable and for me made my visit more pleasant than expected thanks kathleen so nice to pass that on kathleen and we are always more than happy by the way to shine a positive light where uh yous want it shown as well uh a caller says there's a lot of foreign beef being used in ireland at the moment restaurants and shops selling beef should be stating where the beef is coming from there are some who sell it purporting that it is irish beef when it is not uh whereas the traceability for this there should be regular checks on this and there does not appear to be but how do you know it's foreign beef being sold under the guise of irish beef uh some companies i think you know the likes of mcdonald's make a big play and a selling point that they use irish beef i've seen signs in other restaurants that say it's irish beef it's a big charge to say though that some are misselling their beef um like how would you know that do you work within the industry let us know oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand can the trees that are overgrown on the approach road from green castle to maville that are blocking out the view of the foil also uh be cut down i think they're saying or trimmed also cutting out people using the top path on the green the trees are badly overgrown cheers okay um that's in the maville area maybe that's something the tidytowns or a local counselor might take up apparently trees blocking the view of the foil and also interfering with a path caller has been trying for six months to get a street light at a zebra crossing in manakanningham fixed he's been in constant contact with the countercounselor keep assuring him that it will be fixed but it's still not fixed i wonder is that a ti i problem maybe if it's on a main route it could be transport infrastructure island that you need to get on to may i suggest respectfully uh query re a query read the roundabout at letter kind of shopping centre which is uh which is the correct lane when you're coming from the old alde side over to pierce road no one seems to know there should be uh and crossing over each other all the time it's very confusing and will cause an accident right okay my understanding is i'm not sure it's different for this lane but if your turn off if you're exiting the roundabout before as the clock strikes 12 i.e directly in front of you then you use the left lane so my understanding would be the right lane would be for going up the town or coming back the way past the um shop that you mentioned and the left lane would be for the shopping centre at the uh dairy road let's call it that and then the pierce road i think you referenced it yeah so i would say the left lane now unless it's signed otherwise i don't know i don't really use that road that much in that way but my understanding was unless it's signed otherwise that if it's 12 o'clock or before you use the left lane if it's 12 o'clock or after unless otherwise indicated it's the right lane i think there's some n15s or n14s written on the road i have no clue man i didn't build them am i supposed to know which one is which anyway correct me if i'm wrong 08 6 60 25 000 look at that's where we have to leave it for another day unfortunately but the good news is we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock for me greg hughes and caroline oar who researched and produced the program we shall chat to you tomorrow morning at nine stay tuned job residents coming up around the northwest uh just after the news headline