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Alright it's nine o'clock a minute past now let's get a news update and it's over now to Donald Kavanaugh. Thanks Greg good morning. Wouldn't three people say they're just about getting by financially with just over 12% saying they'd be able to cover costs just for a month if they were hit by an income shock? A study of 1,500 people carried out by the Competition Consumer and Protection Commission has found Ireland's wealth gap has widened. Homeless campaigner Father Peter McVerry says the situation is much more serious in some areas. Now I live in an area with a lot of low-income families and I would say many of them couldn't even get through three days if there if there was an income shock if their welfare was withdrawn for example the request I get to be honest our two euro for the bust into town I get a request or maybe three or four euros to get a prescription out of the chemist. Donegal County Council is being told that while Ishkaya Erin works due to take place in Urs Klonmani will resolve a number of issues in the area they will not address the key problem faced by several residents particularly those living on higher ground. Councilor Ina Donahy says the laying of 800 meters of new pipes will help but a reservoir will be needed to ensure a uniform and reliable supply for all residents adding that a reservoir had been proposed several years ago when water was still under council control at Herbie Hestonegal County Council is to contact Ishkaya Erin asking for the reservoir to be put back on the agenda. Ultimately what we do need is a reservoir and auras so that people that are in the higher areas will be accommodated as you go into auras and as you start climbing and get higher up those people at the end they don't get water for hours after everybody else and I have proposed that a strongly worded letter be sent to Irish water to look at the bigger picture as well as the new pipeline we do need a reservoir. A meeting between the incoming director general of Ortee and media minister Catherine Martin has been brought forward to today it's after further revelations at an oracus committee yesterday of lavish spending from a series of barter accounts and the group representing victims of abuse in the defense forces has rejected the terms of reference for an inquiry into what's been described as a culture of bullying and abuse women of honour criticizing what they say is tarnished and we hold Martin's decision to run ram through what they believe are flawed terms of reference which they would be opposing when they meet him later today retired army captain Diane Byrne says the terms of reference as proposed simply don't go far enough. If you don't have the broadest terms of reference it automatically excludes huge chunks of people many victims whose lives were destroyed by you know in the most subtler ways but in very very difficult circumstances that you know just don't fit into a night beast a little box that's being put forward in the terms of reference by the state. With a forecast to material and tell us the freshening southerly wind will bring rain and drizzle through the morning becoming heavy and widespread in the afternoon with some spot flooding possible top temperatures 15 or 16 degrees celsius southerly winds becoming fresh to strong it'll stay windy tonight with rain again heavy in places with possible flooding mild and humid lowest overnight temperatures 12 or 13 that's island radio news we're back with more at ten o'clock the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the nine to noon show with greg hughes on highland radio hello four minutes past nine a very good morning to you on this thursday the sixth of july 2023 you're welcome along to another edition of your nine till noon show and uh plenty to keep you informed entertained we've got some live music a little later on and lots more besides as you know yourself we'll keep you across all the big stories of the day but we're here for you too if you wish to raise your concerns your issues pass on some news some good news a an active kindness something that's positive in your life we're more than uh welcoming of such information as well but how do you get in touch well i tell you every morning and i'm going to do it again today you what's our per text 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 now if you're outside the republic of ireland 00353 86 60 25 000 caroline and neve taken your calls this morning 07491 25 000 again if you're outside the republic 00353 7491 25 000 and emails from wherever you are to comments at highland radio dot com thursday morning's a a bumper morning for newspapers let's start with the trochanal tribune letter kenny draff plan now in moth balls that's according to a leading member of donningall county councilor who says the changes proposed by the office of the planning regulator are not acceptable and will not be addressed in the council chamber because uh june's local elections next year are just around the corner councilor michael mcbride says there is no appetite to reduce zoned lands by half to reduce housing projections by thousands of units or to implement flood mitigation proposals that would reduce the value of land some of it right in the heart of the town he said that there were about 20 meetings in all to find a way forward and there has been no real progress asked if the opr may take back control of the plan canceling mcbride said there is a very real possibility of that happening especially when no progress has been made at the many meetings of the council in the past four months detailed coverage of that on the front of an inside the trochanal tribune the donningall democrat tells us that arrests are imminent over sleeve league death a guardian closing in on the arrest of chief suspects following the death of a man in southwest donningall the man whose body was found in the water off sleeve league on monday was due to stand trial from smuggling over 6.6 million euro worth of drugs it's now likely that the investigation will be upgraded to a murder inquiry after the badly beaten body was recovered in the early hours of monday morning a week-long search uh following a week-long search operation while garty have officially referred to the matter as a serious assault a source told donningall live that the resources assigned to the case are consistent with a murder probe just to remind you two suspects have been identified in a case uh that has brought a dark cloud of the scenic tourist hotspot garty who have remained tight-lipped have been keen to build an extensive dossier and while it may not be while it was not expected that any update would be forthcoming before thursday morning sources say that arrests were imminent the donningall news this morning garty will need business that will meet business leaders in letter kenny tomorrow to discuss growing fears of a violent crime in the town traders have called for a greater guard of presence on the street following the widespread circulation of a video showing an alleged altercation involving knives in letter kenny courtyard shopping center last saturday reports of a man carrying a baseball bats on the street in a recent separate incident have also heightened fears of growing violent crime in the need for resources to prevent it and um look at i i don't want to add any fuel to the fire but speaking to people from outside letter kenny that might be inclined to go into it uh and we might as well have the the conversations that we're having privately out in front some say they do not feel um that they they don't feel as safe as they once did perhaps even during the day uh walking through um letter kenny now i'm not saying that's the case i'm not saying it's what i feel i'm just telling you it's what people have said to me is uh that's something that you feel or you're a business person that believes there needs to be a greater guard of presence to move people along maybe a lot of sometimes i was through the town that's long ago and had to step out into the road a couple of times with groups of people gathered around the place i don't know does that it doesn't bother me particularly but does that create a certain sort of a feeling or vibe i don't know uh if you've got feelings on that let me know 08 660 25 000 well a meeting will take place tomorrow between guard and representatives of letter kenny chamber of commerce to discuss growing concerns the chief executive officer of letter kenny chamber tony forester said the chamber has long been calling for extra guard of presence on the streets of the town and i think for reassurance it would do no harm at least for a period to have a visible policing presence just to make people feel secure things can change really quite rapidly in a place you know in terms of what might happen to the future as they say if that's something you have a feeling on or something you want to get involved in 08 660 25 000 the dairy news this morning a visitor to dairy has thanked the good samaritan who went well above and beyond for himself and his friend during their recent holiday in the city dean cambell who's from south yorkshire contacted donningall news to highlight the unforgettable kindness shown to him and his friend by the landlady of their b&b following an incident which happened during their stay you can read more about that nice story uh it has a nice conclusion in terms of mr cambell's uh thankfulness that's uh on the front of an inside the dairy news this morning the farmers journal their lead today demand for lands expected to go into overdrive as the european commission looks set to reduce the maximum stocking rate for nitrates derogation farmers from the first of january next year an environmental protection agency report has indicated that most of the country will be subject to a new maximum stocking rate of 220 kilograms of organic nha despite protests from across the industry that the move will have no significant effect on water quality there was another appearance before an aractus committee yesterday of the rte team um and uh plenty came out of well we'll speak to someone who was questioning them a little later on in the program uh i don't think there was any major punches landed i i'm kind of at the point now at this stage that nothing surprises me nothing shocks me and i found my interesting what interest waning as i watched some of it yesterday i was able to make time uh to do so uh the bottom line is is it the they need a root and branch uh clear out of the people who make decisions the executive board i think they're called it's a confusing structure that you have they're on total salaries of 2.1 million per year they clearly don't know what's going on and they need to uh move along and let other people in that can do the job and also what they do need to get rid of there is this two-tier culture where you've got obviously the elites making an absolute fortune and then you have uh regular workers the vast majority of workers who are um like everybody else struggling to pay their mortgages struggling to pay for cars um perhaps in the job because they love it but not necessarily getting the money they might be able to get elsewhere that's the majority of the rte staff but it is those at the very top that seem to be uh living in some different world not only from the rest of the staff but from the rest of the country as well that's kind of uh and i picked this part of the story out that's i i'm not too the toy story the musical thing uh i mean it's all over the papers today look at part of their remit is to try and diversify their income from sales is dropping all the time you know from adverts uh they have a big machine there i don't really see a problem with trying to organize a show there was quite a bit that did wrong with it but i mean you can't stifle creativity either or discourage it can you i mean it was crazy what went on and how it went on but that's i don't i is that a scandal um i don't know if they'd have pulled in five million off their two million investment it would be plus three million clearly it wasn't and some mistakes were made but i think stuff like this is is uh more indicative of what the problem is is that was a bad decision uh was it corrupt or was it uh i don't know well no it would be my feeling in terms of toy so toy show the musical i think it's ridiculous that they're they're funding that kind of stuff but they are charged with that that is the remit to try and diversify diversify the income but anyway this is the more sort of the reality of the situation if you're within rte and you can't really speak out either uh a senior rte reporter was forced to do live on air interviews from cafe toilets in london and well i don't know if she's doing interviews i think she was recording the voice over us rather than interviews but anyway a senior rte reporter was forced to do live on air interviews from cafe toilets in london at the same time as the broadcaster was paying thousands of euro a year for membership of a private members club there the revelation came after another day of shocking statements from rte bosses who are now split over the management of the organization rte's chair wrote to interim director general adrian lynch hours before an eructus committee hearing uh outlining her inability to express confidence in the executive board she's the head of the board with it which is a different group of individuals well late on tuesday night she privately warned of the board's deep unhappiness with the people responsible for the day-to-day running of the station so while obviously those involved in sales were able to enjoy lavish lifestyles days out you know access to different types of things the regular workers were struggling radio stations were being shut down camera equipment was faulty people who were looking to report from the regions were unable to get camera crews but at the same time staff executive staff members and their partners were able to wine and dine at rugby events and what have you so that's that right okay the Irish Times this morning tells us that all maternity hospitals are expected to be able to provide abortion services by early next year minister for health steven donnelly has said mr donnelly said it had to be ensured each services uh such services are available around the country the minister was speaking in the doll yesterday uh as the health termination of pregnancy services safe access zones bill 2023 was being uh debated at second stage the proposed legislation would prohibit anti-abortion protests within a hundred meters of any facility that could be providing access to terminations what do you think about that decision i mean there are some that are fighting for the right to to protest outside places where such services are provided i'm not really quite sure what what that achieves when someone has made a decision that they believe to be a health care decision a hundred meters is not terribly far away either but obviously this has become a tipping point in terms of conversation well mr donnelly said it was his intention that by early 2024 all 19 maternity hospitals would provide abortion services now i don't believe those services currently available at letter kennie university hospital i'm open to correction on that but i don't believe they are the minister is saying that they should be available there by january the first of next year a horrendous story and a horrendous experience for the victim of this awful awful crime this is in the arish daily mail a man has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years for murdering his wife by setting her alight in a car after throwing petrol over her thomas reyney 61 of quarry road in nock loctrum county dairy had pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife katrina blaney sorry katrina reyney 53 in october 2021 judge jono hara delivered the sentence yesterday at belfast crown court and said that given the horror of what he did to his wife it was the least he deserved now he's 61 18 69 79 so some might feel that's too lenient i mean it is i don't think it's any problem commenting on it but to put someone who was much younger obviously in the early 50s with much of their life ahead of them to pull petrol over them to set them alight that the horror of that experience for the person who eventually passed away 18 years to me seems it seems light now i think the judge made a comment that given the person's age it is effectively from you know it's effectively not a live sentence they didn't say that but anyway i just don't think it sends a very strong message i don't really care what age the defendant is i don't think that really matters i think if you do this type of thing you know it's just 18 years this doesn't seem right to me the incident occurred at the family home where miss reyney was leaving for work and her husband opened her car door covered her with petrol and set her on fire a mother of six miss reyney was still alive and being attended to by her children who were covering her with wet towels when emergency services arrived miss reyney was able to relay details of the attack to emergency services some of which was captured on police bodycam you know again it is horrific not only for that lady but for her family that had to go through that and regardless of the incidents of the the defendant what kind of a message does that send i wonder um okay single vapes to go up in smoke a ban on single use vapes is needed to help reduce damage to the environment that he is claimed this is in the sun recent research has found that one in ten or five hundred thousand irish adults now claim to use e-cigarettes while use among children is at an all-time high disposable vapes were also included as a litter type for the first time in irish business against litter's latest nationwide survey having been found at over six percent of the testing sites again a quickie really for you do you think single use vapes even if you use them perhaps should be banned let us know oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand the mirror more than 1700 people have been driving with only a learner permit for the last 30 years now i did know people to people i can say because sadly they're no longer here um that drove perpetually on learner permits now this was really before it became do you know what how certain things were more acceptable and then there was a big crack down but it doesn't surprise me that 1700 people are battering away on a provisional license for three decades in total there are currently 301 thousand with learner permits to drive cars you're not allowed to apply for a third or subsequent one unless you have taken and failed a driving test in the previous two years or have made an application for the exam now there is a problem because there are people who apply for a driving test and it's so hard to get a driving test at the moment and i feel so much and i know about this myself you know young people working hard 18 19 20 21 22 doesn't matter what age they are actually really whenever they come to driving and they're applying for their test and they're waiting for months and months and months on end routinely checking the emails every day to say is today the day i'm going to be invited for my test and then you have a situation and i've raised this before in the past whereby you can apply for a driving exam say you want to just stay in a provisional license or you just want to hold on to it as a form of id or you know it you might just choose to drive on it even it's even though it's legal but if you apply for a test and then don't turn up that qualifies you for an extension of your learner permit now i don't think that should be the case i think you should have to sit the exam before you get that extension now if there's 301 000 people with learner permits how many of those are just applying for tests and never going to take them to retain that license i just think you should have to at least sit the test because it should free up some spaces 1000 2000 3000 spaces for young people who need their cars and not just young people to get to work and live their lives it's terrible really um over 11700 people have been driving with one for at least 20 years with 1701 as i mentioned for over 30 years and finally 202 drivers that had to learn a permit for at least 36 years are you one of them let us know why just you know you don't have to give you an aim or anything i'm not judging anyone i will judge people in that i do think it's not judging but i do think you should have to sit the test to extend the to continue to hold a provisional license and it's mostly i wouldn't really feel as much if everyone was able to get a test in a reasonable amount of time okay so if you're looking this is finally in in the star if you're looking to get out of paying your tv license some people might google well how do i avoid paying my tv license well who come out on top would you believe it's cavern they've topped the list of counties in ireland where people search for ways to avoid paying their tv license amid the ongoing rtu payment scandal there has been much debate about the national broadcaster's spending and where the money from your tv license fee actually goes well the tv license is required by law for anyone who owns a television in their home and costs 160 euro a year if you don't pay it it can land you in court with a fine of up to a grand however some households may be exempt there are certain conditions to fulfill that legally that legally allow you to skip out of paying the tv license fee such as qualifying for the household benefits package well new data gathered from google searches shows that cavern is the county that searched the most for information on how to avoid paying the tv license the second highest was west me followed by dublin in third and then limerick kill kenyan kill dare we're not in that list and i just wonder is the case that we don't have to google it because uh maybe a lot of you out there don't pay it anyway i've already figured it out maybe that's why we're not in the top five or six all right uh we're going to be uh speak to a member of the rockers media committee on the uh proceedings uh yesterday where an other group of rte heads were in answering uh questions we'll get their assessment of what went down after we take this break stay right where you are the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny the 2022 seastore national off license of the year the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today the one you've been waiting for the macklehenny summer sale is now on with up to 40 off across almost all departments and massive savings across your favorite 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mary thanks for your time again today good morning greg morning to all your listeners right what is your uh assessment uh from yesterday i mean what we have learned and uh there was a lot of spoilers the night before and i suppose on the morning ahead of the the committee meeting is is that there is more information coming out and unless you seem to ask a direct question that actually hits on a point that they must answer you're not going to hear about it yeah and i think that's been the extremely frustrating situation now over the past week that we've had to ask questions two or three or even more times to try and get direct answers i think to be fair i think the rte executive were a lot more forthcoming yesterday but i think it's you and iraqt did say you know there there there is more to come there's more bodies and well in an unfortunate phrase but certainly there's there's certainly more um you know there's more information to come out and and i think um we you know a colleague used the phrase yesterday we have two rte's now i think on one side at a time where um you know during the pandemic uh um and you know hundreds of thousands of people out of work in this country not quite sure when they would be getting a decent income again and ryan toberti gets a letter of guarantee effectively saying he will not have any you will not be asked for a pay reduction for the next five years so that was in the middle of 2020 and just seven months later um rt staff were then asked to take a pay cut and certainly for the the the hundreds of rt staff who go in day in day out to you know undertake public service broadcasting to the highest standard um i i think it's a real kick in the teeth in terms of what we've learned over the past week and a half i think you know i'm uh oh kelly who's chair of the n uj branch was talking about fiona mitchell the london correspondent having to you know record in the toilets the cafes in london during brexit and yet the commercial side of rte was spending what we would consider extravagant sums the argument was made the argument was uh i beg your pardon murray the argument was made though that you know they're talking about 180 million euro worth of ad revenue and whether we like it or not uh whining and dining uh these companies or or their agents is part of it you know and if they're delivering you know tens of millions of euro uh and as i say you know news talk or any other radio or tv station may be at the same crack uh you you know it's not necessarily is it that that's actually happening it's the fact that then you have the rank happen to record in toilets yeah look i i think and i've spoken to quite a number of i suppose um media outlets over over the past a number of weeks to understand more about how the commercial side works and it is a reality as we understand that like in order to attract new clients to retain clients that that whining and dining culture exists but we have to think this is rte we're talking about here it's the national broadcaster yes it relies on 43 you know relies on commercial revenue for 43 percent of its overall income which is a massive amount of of of of a massive reliance or over reliance on commercial income but you know i think most average most companies would be looking to advertise with rte because they're they're you know broadcasting to the biggest audience in the country so i think the question has to be asked at rte you really have to spend those sort of monies to retain those clients i think you know many people would say georgi you know leary you know it did did it was doing her job and she was but i think um but but but spending those sums and i think certainly like the trip to the ruby world cup in japan um the uh the the the you know the the extravagances with regards to the parties that were you know i suppose organized we heard about the flip-flops and the balloons yesterday um you know soho um the soho club in in in um in london you know the i i think there's there's winding and dining and then there's bringing a whole new never right so marie like what we have at this point i think we kind of know everything i mean we might get little shocking details like the flip-flops and stuff but we know that the vast majority of uh people that work in rte uh work well uh and many of them are on modest incomes then there is another tier of people the top talent and inverted commas uh the people who really are using their jobs and rte is a platform to make money elsewhere contractors okay and then you have the very very top earners uh who run ridiculous money because apparently the bbc and cnn's just waiting to swoop in and and pick them up as talent and then you have of course in charge of that uh an executive board on circa 2.1 million between them only a small group of people that really don't even know how the organization is being run and then we've got this this this funding model right so i think we know everything there all the cards are on the table and ryan toby will come in next week and we might find out that something or rather but it's not going to fundamentally change i don't think they're not some bolts of where we are so i'm not saying i want the story to go away or not necessarily but what i'm saying is this now now we have to start talking about where do we where do we go where how do we move forward for the public i don't think simply changing the executive board matters because in truth the majority of us didn't know who they were what they did or we'll never hear about them again into the future so we need something to change that we can see because it's our doors that get knocked for the 160 euro we need to see wages come down we need to see you know this culture this this sort of celebrity culturally thing where you know certain companies are all intertwined with certain staff on to a femininity and all that kind of stuff so what do you think needs to be done to get us through this and pass it now because i think everything's out there now there'll be a few shocks and what have you but now we want to know as what happens next would you agree with that assessment by the way and and what is your answer yeah i know i i i i think you're you're right to a certain extent um i i i do think there are questions to be asked to write to opportunity next week but you know but but but but i think overall you know what we have now is an orty that is in disarray and you know we've a deadly serious situation where you know orty relies on the license fee to be paid and i suppose what is really sad about all of this is that there has been calls now for like you know withstanding this crisis you know orty needs investment particularly because of where broadcasting is at in the 21st century and so this is where we made this appeal to cat to minister martin during the week we can't on one hand now say we need a review of orty and pause any discussion about invent you know the money that goes into orty because you know we still have a situation where there's you know reporters current affairs still left short and so i think in the first instance we have said to kather martin that we need to have assurances that you know the staff who are going in their day in day out to do their jobs are going to be fully supported this year that they're not going to be left hanging i think number two that discussion of the future financing of orty needs to take place the reality is that as i said a few minutes ago orty relies on commercial revenue for about 45 percent of its overall income we understand when you look at public broadcasters and other EU member states that the average is less than 20 percent somewhere around 18 percent and so to me there's an over reliance on commercial income and we need to look at how we actually improve state investment into it and look there's no easy answers here i don't think like isn't there's an you know a should it be increased above the 160 yours i think that would be a bit of sweat pill for any anybody to swallow and b there's collection you know not every household pays it of course and and so all and you know do we need to have a direct subvention from from the government i think all those things need to be trashed out now would in a way that we don't kick the can down the road because that has been done for years but i would love people at you to sort of or to get into this a little bit like say for instance the digital output from from rte i mean who is consuming it how many people consume their digital output and what that is effectively is when a dj on 2fm or rte sort of goes past their sell bite date they don't disappear off into the independent sector they drift off into this digital landscape what kind of salaries are these people on versus how many people are consuming this digital content i mean i can't even name the stations but i know we've we've had roland collins is going off to a day fanning is is heading off to it there's a anyone who used to work for rte you know when their time on air is over they drift off into this digital landscape that we don't know how many people consume it as i say what kind of wages are they on again and i'll say it again why are we funding 2fm what is the public service remit of 2fm where an awful lot of these people can i just say i think there's a serious issue with regards to broadcasters and you touched on it earlier using their programs particularly in 2fm to be able to draw attention and market their podcasts but what is the public service delivery from 2fm or any of the digital channels for example well look i think i think those discussions need to take place you know but look i think that but the other thing is you know we've had you know there was a time where rte was talking about you know significantly downsizing lyric fm i i i know many people across the country might listen to lyric fm every day but they certainly switch over to it and you know at different times and hugely value it so i think look we need to have that conversation in the round i'm not going to be able to give you an answer here about what needs to be caught because i don't think that like at the end of the day we need a stronger and better rte and i know there are some that have an agenda that wants to see a much smaller rte but i think what i would say is that you know rte isn't just about current affairs rte is massively important for the arts and culture and music in this country and sport and we need to think very carefully okay but just in terms of sport the national broadcast is supporting all of those because the reason are of course mary but in terms of sport last week two of the quarterfinals of the gea football championship were on pay per view yeah i know i i look i'm opposed to the you know the public need to be consulted like to be frank right like we either take the public service broadcasting remit seriously or we do not trying to make money off of it and i think this is the lesson from the toy story my own sense is that some persons with an rte kind of thought this is going to be a riverdance moment they'd be able to have a quick book go off into the sunset and ultimately um you know it failed but it was a very expensive failure and part and parcel of any artistic project is is is is the problem you know that the there's an element of risk and that has to be accepted but there was vast sums of money spent in a in a very short turnaround like musical theater can take normally a number of years to turn around as opposed to less than a year and and to put it in the convention center which if any of your listeners have ever been into will know that it's a big cavern as opposed to a theater so um so certainly uh i look i i think they're they're they're huge questions about how money has been spent yeah and this back to the points that i was making last week ultimately those at the top of rte have not had that collective responsibility there's a disarray amongst the executive and unfortunately we need to see very serious reforms in order to re-install public confidence in the national broadcaster yeah and very finally just to run through what's an rte one at the moment coming up very shortly it's the kelly clarkson show then it's doctors all in ports uh then in the afternoon home and away shortland street uh taste like home then east enders then we have shakespeare and hathaway private investigators another import a rerun of some of the today highlights uh and then it's on to east enders um without greg can i just say now right we need to be very careful here so you and i might necessarily be looking at television during the day but i like when i think of my own parents or well they don't necessarily be looking at television but there's a lot of elderly people or people maybe that you know aren't working or are not out and about who rely on daytime television and i think they're the experts as to you know how good or bad the the schedule is during the day i'm certainly no expert in that all right other than children's television i next time i'll get your pet next time i'll get your parents on then that's it that's it anyway all right take care don't you go all accidents could understand the kark actions i think that'd be the challenge but anyway okay have a lovely one take care uh senator reshare look of the labour party they're a member of the rock just media committee have you any insight into that 08 660 uh 25 000 uh 35 38 6 60 uh 25 000 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com 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 connect hearing is open for free hearing tests our audiologist is available monday to friday for wax removal services at our letterkenny clinic in the courtyard shopping center we also offer a home visit for those who aren't able 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insurance focus group kind of got together over the course of february and march as you know we only started the redress focus groups back in in january so it's a very young initiative and the guys got together in february and march which between then and now they have met they've managed to meet with um the major or the senior management of the major banks so bank of ireland permanent tsc aib um they met with the bank confederation of ireland and then yesterday and they met with the the minister of finance uh last week or the week before and yesterday was the joint committee meeting at the iraqtis so that was with the um the finance department public extenditure and t-shirt so yesterday they kind of talked about where the government could come in and where where would they play their part in getting the banks dealing with the banks working together and trying to come up with solutions for homeowners which are basically trying to do with the shortfalls um of the enhanced scheme and uh what was some of the most important um points made at that and the response to them russian well it was as we heard they were excellent they did so well at it um trying to bring up the points of zero percent finance bridging loans where people that have to um come up with finance themselves while their builders is ongoing that the banks would step in there and pay for that or sorry uh from that um essentially their percent interest um they're also talking about the fact that you know people who wouldn't normally fall under who wouldn't meet normal lending criteria that they would be accommodated as well so at OAPs people that are unemployed you know that kind of thing and and i suppose it's we know the points uh up here because we discuss it all the time i suppose it's really how these concerns uh were responded to and and if they were taken on board or not uh previously to this yeah no during the process yesterday you know like what what might come from this was there anything said to uh the likes of Patrick Sharkey uh Sean McCabe Donna McDade Sarah Shovlin that could give us any hope for the future or is this really just about airing the concerns and getting them on the record well everything is on the record as you say and as we heard from the representatives there yesterday they are committed they are they have committed to working with the focus group and getting the central bank to the table as well to figure out the spoke products that will help this um very different and unique situation so i think they they are very positive of the outcome i mean nothing is set in state and in state and nobody wants to give any promises of anything happening that hasn't happened yet but everything is looking optimistic and i think the timing was very good after the enhanced scheme coming out to be in pretty negative people needed a bit of hope and i think if they watch back that um replay i think um they will find out hope within that within that um because i'm slightly disadvantaged i didn't know it was on yesterday but it is available and we'll link it it is available for anyone to watch back now i look forward to sort of you know going through that yesterday as i said i didn't know it was coming up uh and i'm a bit of a nerd on this because i watched it i watched it twice then but i have to mention that grant march march has done an amazing job um on he broke down uh this two and i think it's almost two and a half hours long he broke it up into about 126 clips and he described what each clip is and and pointed out which clip who's speaking and each clip so it's very user friendly that link is now all over facebook and twitter and he's amazing the turn it is amazing that he turned that around as quickly that is available there now the grant works really hard last night on that and he is backstory.ie on facebook and twitter so he really deserves recognition he's doing at all voluntary for to document the crisis for us now grant is from cork so we have to really be appreciative for all the work that he does so what i'm trying to say about the video is although we will get the people from the banking group on to you and they'll be able to give you more details of the financial aspects of this i do think it's really important for absolutely every homeowner everybody that thinks they might be affected even if you're not affected and you live in this area anybody who's a stakeholder anybody who's helping people through this crisis any volunteers to watch that video from yesterday do you watch it it's so educational it's so informative they talk about lots of different situations and also don my day give a very good explainer a breakdown of her situation in terms of the finances and the source false so it's very informative i really recommend everybody to watch it yeah backstory.ie is but you can find it on youtube just if you search finance com banking redress focus group it just pops up straight away i mean we saw yesterday at the in the other committee room we saw senators td's clamoring to get questions in and to get their sound bites as it relates to of all different political backgrounds of course on the rte issue was the same was there the same urgency for well our local representatives i suppose to be present or have a say in the committee in the committee meeting yesterday uh no the uh we had joe mckay in there yesterday and the committee in the committee meeting he spoke near the end of it um we had no um interaction at all the the bank and insurance focus group representatives that were there donna um pharah patrick and shawnt they had nobody came up and talked to them or met them or spoke to them but you know mr mccunlough was next door um he was in the in the building um but he didn't want to speak to them or he didn't want to acknowledge them or welcome to welcome them to the doll so that was it's very interesting i find it extremely confusing why was why is there such a circus around the rte uh debacle but when we're talking about a 2.8 i think it is some people say in 2.2 i think it's 2.8 billion um scheme why have we been completely ignored we haven't been picked up by rte or or any of the major media national media outlets i don't understand it people's priorities seem to be in different places yeah but if the truth be told even if you look through uh if you look through the government social media and to a lesser extent the opposition social media there's not much talk about it there either so it's not really capturing the imagination of um the the the media is such but it doesn't actually seem to be catching the imagination of a of of um of those that announced it no not even them and i mean for not to be able to come on to your show our local um radio the main radio station the main radio show in our country and for Charlie mcconnell to send that text message to you um and make this a personal thing to you as well great i really just find it all very bizarre and then i'm not i'm not i'm not it's not it's not about me i i it's about people so he'll talk to go on but he won't talk to you great i think i'm like yeah i know but it's really about people's houses and and uh yeah the what i've spoken to so many people through this in tears um struggling i don't care about my feelings and i appreciate your comments don't get me wrong rushin but i want to speak i want to speak to these people to to try and we all could work together to come up with a a solution to this this is the biggest crisis ever in donagol i don't think there's anything that can match it we don't even know where it's going yet people have taken their lives over this issue relationships have been broken up children are going to be scarred by this for the rest of the lives if minister mcconnell we can do whatever he likes as it relates to me personally i don't care because the issue here is is the people and what they're going through and that is what's horrendous and i look forward to speaking in more detail and listen fair play for the establishment of these focus groups i think it's been really a critical and pivotal part of this conversation and i look forward to speaking to some of those when they're available they weren't available this morning just to tease it out a little bit more but rushing for the very point you mentioned as it relates to the coverage of the rt story i wanted to invite you on so that we recognize this can happen direct people to this important video and as i say we'll tease out these issues more down the line is that all right russian thank you very much craig thank you and thanks to everybody for the support of the redress focus groups as well being such a young initiative it's been amazing to see it's got such potential and i want people to feel hopeful and come forward and feel like they can be part of their redress focus groups so they can take power in their own situations and this is what happens when we make change happen together you know we come together and we we work together and things can actually happen so that's the message really yeah exactly and i think we have to sort of take control of this of ourselves don't we can't necessarily rely on we can't necessarily rely on the the elites let me put it like that to do it all right listen thank you again thank you very much for your time thanks for giving us an outline of that and thanks for directing us in the backstory.ie i think it reduces it yeah it reduces it into bite size contextualized clips which i think is amazing that it was turned around so quickly all right have a lovely day roshine take care of yourself bye roshine galaheer founder of the redress focus group 08 660 25 000 that's the what's up in text number 08 660 25 000 or call us an 07491 25 000 the 9 till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on<PHONE_NUMBER> or apply online via our app or in office 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they want it i don't pay a tv license i don't want to watch rte or listen their prop to their propaganda your list of tv programs on today just confirm to me that i'm missing nothing uh really i think the problem is is though if it became a subscription only service they couldn't survive um i think there has to be a compulsion there and you do see that with uh state broadcast uh media right around the place that there has to be a compulsion to pay for it because uh they can't compete with amazon netflix disney so on and so forth uh greg rthq should be moved out of d4 to say athlone the top 10 presenters should also be dropped there's plenty of young talent out there and some of the top presenters are great it's just i mean it in this day and age when we have so many people who can't afford to feed themselves when you get people being paid 550 000 odd euro for doing an hour a day it's just not fair uh i don't think anyone i don't i don't like the the presenters are it's not my necessary i listen to some of them don't listen to others that's fine that's the way radio works some people listen to this show others don't uh and so on and so forth but it's just the it's this this gap between these people and and the rest of society quick question can you ask where or who can give a bca certificate i can't find an engineer or architect the ones i talk to say they have to update accreditation one step forward two steps back so anyone out there know where one could get a bca uh certificate uh hi greg why would anyone pay their tv license after all the scandal coming out i won't be paying mine they can buy their own flip flops or at least uh buy cheaper flip flops i don't know where they're getting the flip flops but 25 euro for a pair of flip flops seems quite excessive good morning greg can you please ask if someone could cut the hedges on the dramahal road this is a very narrow road and it's extremely dangerous at the moment with hedges almost out onto the road it's also the same uh road to dramahal chapel i i don't cut hedges as such i know you're not asking me to do it but in terms of i'm not sure is it loud at the moment is can you cut hedges at the moment i think in any case regardless of the time of the year if it's a dangerous situation like a junction or a road or something i do believe that the council can actually still cut hedges if it's in the interest of road safety a caller says the whole rte situation is a joke we could watch prince charles's coronation no bother but not the quarter finals of our national sport which is an interesting and factual statement would this have come out if ryan did not step down well did he step down because this was coming out you know what i mean um if you look at the timelines uh he knew what was coming right okay let us take a break we'll be back with more in the nine till noon show after we take a break as i mentioned for the news and obituary notices the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny 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out if you're paying too much for health insurance all inside this week's irish farmers journal you can't afford to miss it online and on the hyland radio app this is hyland radio news good morning it's ten o'clock donal kavan up at the news desk the banking and insurance focus group has briefed the iraq this finance committee on issues pertaining to financial issues in the ongoing defective blocks crisis among the issues raised was the fact that many people who are facing rebuilds as a result of defective blocks do not qualify for mortgages or loans and are finding themselves in difficulty roshin gallehram is founder of the redress focus groups and she spoke to greg on this morning's nine till noon show the bank and an insurance focus group kind of got together over the course of february and march as you know we only started the redress focus groups back in in january between then and now we've managed to meet with the senior management of the major bank they met with the bank confederation of ireland and then yesterday and they met with the the minister of finance last week or the week before and yesterday was the joint committee meeting at the iraq just so that was with the finance department public expenditure and tisha the incoming director general of ortee will meet with the media minister later it was due to take place tomorrow but was brought forward following further revelations of lavish spending from a series of barter accounts yesterday the iraq this media committee heard of a 2.2 million euro loss for toy show the musical a five-year car loan for a staff member and to spend a 5000 euro on flip flops for a summer party former minister and author shane ross says more questions need to be asked about the ortee board as well as the executive boards are there to challenge executives that's what the point of the board is for and the board in this case and in not just in the case of remuneration but it's one like patently obviously was not challenging the executive because they didn't seem to know what was going on this has been going on for years and years but the board doesn't seem to have challenged them on any of the issues which have emerged donningall county council is being told that while ishka erin works due to take place in urs klalmani will resolve a number of issues in the area they will not address the key problem faced by several residents particularly those living on higher ground council arena donne he says the laying of 800 meters of new pipe will help but a reservoir will be needed to ensure a uniform and reliable supply for all residents adding that a reservoir had been proposed several years ago when water was still under council control at her behest the council is to contact ishka erin asking for a reservoir to be put back on the agenda ultimately what we do need as a reservoir and or so that people that are in the higher areas will be accommodated as you go on to oris and as you start climbing and get higher up those people at the end they don't get water for hours after everybody else and i have proposed that a strongly worded letter be sent to irish water to look at the bigger picture as well as the new pipeline we do need a reservoir the group representing victims of abuse in the defense forces has rejected the terms of reference for an inquiry into what's been described as a culture of bullying and abuse women of honor is criticizing what they say is thawneesh to me hold martin's decision to ram through flawed terms of reference which they will be opposing when they meet him later today retired army captain dianne burn says the terms of reference as proposed by the government just don't go far enough if you don't have the broadest terms of reference it automatically excludes huge chunks of people and many victims whose lives were destroyed by you know in the most subtler ways but in very very difficult circumstances that you know just don't fit into an ideal little box that's being put forward in the terms of reference by the state a leading carers charity is calling for the means test for the carers allowance to be abolished in their pre-budget submission family carers arland are also calling for an overhaul of the allowance they want the weekly rate to increase to 325 euro per week that would be up from 236 catherine cox's head of communications and policy at family carers arland she says health supports particularly in terms of respite need to be improved we do not have a figure of how many respite beds or places there are in ireland at the moment so we are calling on government to first of all and the health service to conduct a notice about how many beds we have for respite in this country and then also that will identify where the gaps are well the forecast and met hair and tell us a freshening southerly wind will bring rain and drizzle right through the area this morning that'll become heavy and widespread in the afternoon with some spot flooding possible top temperatures 15 or 16 degrees celsius as southerly winds become fresh to strong rather windy tonight with rain heavy in places leading to possible spot flooding once again mild and humid with lowest temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees celsius and that's how in radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team have a very good morning the obituary notices for this thursday morning the 6th of july the death has taken place of tom clark formerly of sincolum kill village boharna clon mani and chorey england his remains will repose at the sincolum kill village oratory from five o'clock until nine o'clock this evening finnable from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to saint mary's church clon mani for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only pleased donations in louis desired to sincolum kill village and boncran and nursing unit care of any family member or komisky funeral directors the funeral mass 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of this money on other local programs and staff what rte committee signed off from this were the rte board consulted why would anyone spend money on such a birdbrained idea and who allocated and paid for the massive promotion and advertising budget that's in relation to toy story the musical hi rte has to pay this was all taxpayers money eight million they received from the office of communications when denis nocten was minister and they just spent spent spent on everything uh and anyone no sense of responsibility that comes in from no lean minister donnelly abortion is not healthcare strange how there's no money to provide service to real humans but no problem providing instant money to kill the innocent without a voice now some people believe it to be health care others clearly not this listener amongst them has the housing has the minister of housing agreed to come on the show to explain the enhanced scheme normally tripping over themselves to spend these days he obviously doesn't think it's good enough people here should not forget my conologues refusal he doesn't appear to know the difference between being allowed to mislead people uninterrupted unfair questioning that comes in from martin and the simple question is is that you know it's stated publicly uh that this is a hundred percent redress scheme i saw the press release and the simple question is is would be could you explain how it's a 100 percent redress scheme you know who can qualify for this you know that's a question that no one wants to try and answer especially if you're announcing the scheme or backing it because it would be a very difficult one to answer there was assurances uh on this program through uh in fairness a tough line of questioning uh if the truth be told that there is uh there would be no sliding scale well there is the sliding scale it was said on this program following a tough line of questioning that um that foundations would be included the clip available if you wish foundations were not included so i can understand why people might not want to be questioned uh on on this issue but that being said i and other people have a responsibility i think mine's not you know mandated as such it's just one i i feel i have is to try and get answers to questions for people and those that it affects their real lives one lady tweeted uh something i can't remember because the notifications on twitter have uh have been really quite busy of late but it was an important it was just it was five or six or seven words i wish i could find it here now but it was a um i don't want to misquote it there's so much stuff here um but it was a person who who tweeted me uh about their situation they have a child with special needs i believe and they said simply that um they can't access the scheme but it wasn't simple it's not that i can't i can't get to it um i can't find it here i will dig it out and read it to you but that is that's the reality of it it doesn't matter what i think or what other people think it's about whether or not people who've been waiting for this to give them some hope of a future to give them some hope of leaving something to their children that's of any worth and that being taken away as i say it's just been crazy the last couple of days on social media so i can't find that particular message from a lady uh but anyway that's that's the important part of all of this uh in my view back to the rt uh situation a caller believes it is fraud if a guy steals a loaf of bread from a shop it's gel for them uh they're stealing our money yes covered up by what mattie mcgrill was saying yesterday he was saying the guard he should be involved regards brendam they got their own legal advice which is another really quite remarkable thing hearty got their own legal advice and they were told by their own legal advice that there was no fraud right okay there is a lot of heartache in my family but we spoke yesterday and this is why it's really useful in terms of a podcast or the video podcast and i want to say a very good morning by the way just as a remind you to uh shivan uh christina charlie annie paul rosemary amongst the many people uh who are watching the show on our youtube channel and on facebook youtube it's highland radio arland you can watch on um you can watch on your smart tv you can watch on your forestic your phone tablet laptop but also you can look back at programs that we've already broadcast and we had two people on the program yesterday elinor and elaine from an organization called cry we spoke to a mother who's six foot strong healthy 38 year old son she came in and uh he was watching tv she came in and found him dead and she says as she tried to do cpi it was clear that she was working on her son who had passed away incredibly incredibly sad but she engaged with the services of cry and it's worth watching it back again especially if you maybe have been bereaved uh and you're looking for um people to talk to or people that might understand i hope that piece might be of benefit to you this caller says there was a lot of heartache in my family i resonated with the lady from cry i've lost uh grandchildren and my wife but greg good news my grandson daniel passed his driving test today and i'm so proud of him life is incredibly difficult at times but it's so important to celebrate the good times too thank you for the show uh yesterday morning from granda shamus in strunaller and well done to your granda and clearly a really good granda you've been through it but you recognize the fantastic achievement from your son uh grandson daniel and you can see the hope in that and uh we're thinking on to you shamus as well my son has dyspraxia with concerns with adhd he also has dyslexia the doctor made a referral to cams the referral had to go in five times because they kept sending it back saying it was filled it wasn't filled in right then i got a letter back saying they need a report before they can move forward that report will not be finalized until august all our concerns even with the gp writing to them are being ignored this appointment with cams is only the beginning of trying to get a referral i thought the hsc was there to help us not frustrate us more sorry we'll see we can make any inquiries to assist there hi greg can we have a discussion about if all arland is put to the people for a vote what happens to the national health service at present we have free hospital services free doctors free dental free fire service free ambulance free prescriptions free mental health services etc who will pay for these things if an all arland becomes a reality i'm from the north living in the south and in my opinion an all arland is never going to happen as when the public realize the implications of an all arland and the loss of the national health service alone will be a deal breaker when you explain that to see a doctor 60 euro to see a dentist 60 euro fire service call at 120 euro what will 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permit for over 30 years not just to remind you again you're not allowed to apply for a third or subsequent learner permit unless you've taken and failed a driving test in the previous two years or more importantly the thing as i mentioned i think needs addressed you've made an application uh for the exam now we know the huge pressure uh on uh in terms of uh long waits for primarily i think young drivers but not exclusively uh good morning to you uh deputy thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today good morning gregg how are you doing good good good so what was your your motivation for for seeking out these figures then and what's your takeaway from them yeah and i also want to get credit to own murphy from the that the irish mirror as well for the work that he's done with this too and but i i suppose first of all the road safety is a very very important issue and and we the government have created a lot of new laws and a lot of changes in recent times around road safety we've made the the the points a number of times that the government if the government just implemented the laws as there were and policed them properly it would make road safety better so and we if they learn a permit does what it says in the tin it's for use for people to learn how to drive and you know it's only a short term uh permit and it's just we find it incredible that this government has allowed the situation to arise where right now 11 700 people have been driving um on learner permits for 20 years and which is an an exceptional figure so that shows you that that those learner permits are not being used to learn and they're being used to do long-term driving so you know according to the government's own statistics a person is a safer driver when they've passed the test i.e the government is allowing a situation persist whereby we have drivers that are not as safe driving for years and years and years and you know one of the real issues that has frustrated me in my time in political activism is just the the incompetency of the administration in Ireland's that level of maladministration that lack of accountability that seeps through so much of Irish uh government and councils etc and this is another example of it so we have you know this crazy situation where the government is basically allowing for nearly 12 000 people to drive for two decades without a a full driver's license and you know that's similar to what's happening in other sectors such as you have people waiting for NCT tests for you know months and months you've hospital bills you know surging through their budgets and their time scales for months you know for years and years we've even a person waiting 14 years at the moment for their first application for asylum into this country to be processed and that's an incredible thing that's wrong so we we need to get to grips with the maladministration but i mean road traffic laws are a basket case uh anyway i mean if you challenge them you get off that seems to be the case if you know you know because the amount of people that successfully try uh challenge uh the certain elements of the road traffic laws they almost routinely get off with the figures are absolutely astronomical but in relation to this one of the simple solutions would be that you have to sit your test now it wouldn't be it's not it doesn't solve all of it because we don't know if people are using it for id purposes or what have you i mean there's a lot of advantages to having a full license but like if i i just everyone listening probably has someone in their family you're connected to them waiting for a driving test we've got loads of people with no intention of ever sitting their driving test so at the very least you can only get another permit if you sit your exam and fail yeah that's a simple thing i mean that wouldn't take too much legislation no no it's a very simple fix and what's obviously happening is people are being allowed to apply for an application apply for a driving test and then when the driving test comes up they're entitled to cancel that but they still keep their their permit license um the learner permit license and you know they can keep going pretty much every two years in in that scenario and in many cases if they if they postpone the driving test in time they'll actually get their money back as well so there may be very little cost to a person other than the renewal of the permit on a regular basis because i spoke to the rsa not quite some time ago the head of the rsa then i believe she's often representing insurance companies but i uh was uh interviewing the head of the rsa at that time and they says well this is not you know it's not awful people aren't turning up for their tests and we kind of had a little tete harte over that one if the truth be told but of course if you have a system whereby people can perpetually have a learner's permit because they can book a test and not turn up i mean that's you know don't always blame us you know the systems of fault here but yeah like it's common sense Greg it's just it's just common sense that if you see people abusing this so obviously the very simple thing to do is to make sure and that a person can't postpone their their exam over and over again and it's just as you know you may get your tree strikes and you're out if you postpone your your application three times and you're out and but again it's that it's there's an instinct in this country where this maladministration is allowed to continue and the reason why it's allowed to continue is because there is no accountability and accountability is the best tool to make sure something doesn't happen because you know if there's no cost to you or i or to anybody else there's no penalty for doing something wrong well then there's no change in behavior how do you fix that though because you know any slight changes to road traffic legislation or licensing laws they're you know they're delayed in in either the doll or the shana there's huge lobby group seemingly that oppose a lot of changes like this some would say it doesn't matter really who you elect because you know what i mean they can't work with this broken permanent government so it's great we could appoint you as the minister for observation perhaps because you're telling us you're telling us what we know what the public want to know is what changes this what changes this culture of of of a lack of accountability of of broken systems like we were speaking to someone earlier on who's trying to get a young person into the cam services and they're finding the hsc is actually frustrating them rather than assisting them you know and it all ties into the same thing so what actually can be done to make change a very very simple thing would be when people do wrong that they lose their jobs so this whole or or te crack that everybody's watching at the moment is we're seeing where you know people have you know been living on serious largesse in terms of the amount of money that they've been receiving the amount of money that's been spent on slush funds etc we're seeing a an absolute lack of governance in what's happening people don't even know what's happening in their own organization now my worry is that after all of this and you know circus on the television nobody's actually going to lose their job nobody's actually going to have any penalty financially to them at all yes what what's likely to happen is that there will be a reorganization of the executive board in there and that will mean that people will will may have to step down from the board but they will get a severance package they'll get their pensions they'll get their wages for a period of time etc so there's no real cost to them to do that so the key ingredient to accountability is cost and if a person doesn't fulfill their contract if they don't do their job properly if a if a TD or a minister allows for this kind of rubbish to go on in the driving situation for 20 35 years well then there should be a cost that person should lose their job and and that's not like unusual in other european countries when you have a a silly thing a stupid thing like this happening which could in in effect leads to people being killed on the roads you know a person would lose their job a person will be held accountable and that's the key missing ingredient in this country just back to the RTE thing in relation to that and this is strange because a lot of people aren't calling for this whoever whether it was contrived or not but incredibly convenient whoever sought or accepted the resignation of D Forbes who was then blamed for everything that happens at RTE they all should be removed from that board as well ignorance is not a defense oh well we thought uh we thought the I mean obviously there's executive board and then the board above them isn't it that board above them should also be disbanded because they rub the public of answers now it is all very convenient that they sought a resignation eventually accepted it and now Ms Forbes can't speak to the committee that one person really that can answer questions again that the it's not only the executive board that needs to go from RTE it's the board that allowed that situation in full knowledge of what was to come just three days later but again that's not even they're not even talking about that in the committee meetings which I find I mean there was some reference made to it but anyone who accepted that resignation their position to me is untenable I agree I agree I think it's an incredible situation that you know ignorance is being used as an excuse by many people in in in these committee hearings but like if you were in a private business and you you know we're getting paid a big wage to do something and he said well I just didn't know you just wouldn't last in that job and after a period of time now I'm I am a left-of-center political activist and I do believe that the state should have a role in certain aspects of our lives but I will tell you the older I get the more frustrated I become because right now if you put the word national in front of any project you're nearly guaranteed for that project to burst all its budgets to go way beyond time and to you know to to cost the citizen massive money so the national children's hospital the national maternity hospital the national broadband you know RTE the state has been allowed to run massive projects really really poorly and the reason that it's happening is because there's no accountability but there is a sense that there is a sense that it doesn't matter who's elected to work with the system that it's the system itself to its very core that is in control that runs the situation that is untouchable we've had the promises of people saying elect me and we'll go in and we'll change things but at the end of the day I will tell you this there's one of the major problems in the political class is because so many politicians are passengers on their buses they're not steering their buses what's happening is senior civil servants the long-term civil servants are actually in control of the situation I will tell you in if in when aim to get into government we will have a situation that if any civil servant does not fulfill their contracts that civil servants will be released from their contracts they will no longer be in that position because we cannot run a country in the manner that's happening at the moment it's costing far too much for citizens and at the standard of service and health and housing and so much else is far too low than it should be and you know this country is grinding to a halt in many areas especially with the level of bureaucracy that's been put into the system as well okay listen thank you very much for your time I do appreciate it have a good day take care that is deputy Pada Tobin who is the leader of aim to again you know good luck to him he thinks he can save the system how then would you stop people simply retiring from a position or moving on and then the beyond they are then beyond the the reach of the authorities how who's going to negotiate with the unions to ensure that you can just sack someone you know what i mean it's listen he knows more than i do but it's certainly not something i would ever commit to try and change because i don't really think you possibly you possibly could right soak it up let me take a break stay where you are watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com the night till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today the enhancement to the legislation for the management of business waste means all waste collectors must now provide three bins to their business customers for the separation of recycling organic and general waste and place all customers on an incentivized 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pure by pure coincidence because we have a toddler around the house kailyn i'm by pure coincidence and some talking to you today uh take us back to when you were 18 months old well i obviously don't remember quite well but i got under the kitchen sink and i i got access to cosmic solar which is a grand cleaner quickly raised grand cleaner and my mum was in the toilet at the time it was literally five seconds and i drank a bit of it and it burned my whole inside and my my mouth and stuff and left me in a bad way yeah and uh it was only because of quick reactions that were able to speak to you at all that you didn't lose your life uh kailyn yeah yeah there was a few scares a good laugh but after a after a long long journey and here i mean it was how much i am and how it was useful now you have had numerous numerous operations uh over the last well really since the age of 18 i mean do you do you have a number on it and what were those operate what have those operations achieved and you know why were they carried out on you kailyn i i last got 64 operations since since that so it was about 22 years ago so uh basically i had no i couldn't do it properly and i couldn't call properly and and i'm operate and i've a lot of them weren't successful but thankfully somehow so i'm able to park me there and i'm able to very good now people would maybe have heard your story before you were on that tv tv 3 uh uh or virgin media documentary temple streets uh so remind people of of of your role in that documentary it was your story obviously but in temple street hospital yeah yeah it was it i think it was it was one of my two operations in 2012 i filmed most of it and i didn't really share much honest but it was mostly my mum and my size and that were talking about what was the unborn money and how you were saying this and put it in my eyes and i did so thank god now you and uh you've got a good friend haven't you you and uh ryan field is a mate of yours have come together to make your own film now so talk to us about that well we decided uh why not tell my story from my perspective because but actually i was just now mostly told by my family and my doctor so over that time i was contacted by a person in Australia and she has said that she has seen my story on youtube and she has been through something similar and she and my story had inspired her you know possibly and and we thought why not make a documentary and the hopes of inspiring people who might be in similar situations because i i i have a good reach i saw people that might a lot happen to you know as always right at the end of the tunnel yeah for sure and it's a real story of inspiration and and kailyn too is there an element to it now i haven't had an opportunity to see it though because you know we i think everyone knows the dangers of putting dangerous subjects substances under the sink and we all do it you know not all we don't all do lots of people do it do you hope that too in this story that it sort of brings home the importance of making sure uh some of these items that sometimes look like sweets god knows that to make sure they're well out of the reach of of young people absolutely and we make the point of of telling people that i'm not gonna just be just gonna have something like this going to happen in your own home but what he says is this about as a tightly locked and harder to get access to but you know what can happen in this way so the sort of thing so where is that a bit of an order it is easily going to it is easily presented okay and uh the uh documentary is gotta it's got a cinema release in fact as i mentioned it's in the clip cinemas uh and um people can check out uh when it's on uh and also Caleb i mean it's great yeah it's great to get a cinema audience but it's it's the kind of thing that you'd want as many many people to see as possible so are you looking for any other outlets uh for it to be released or is it available uh will it be available after uh it's been on the cinema anywhere else well uh it'll be on YouTube anyway but we're not sure right and i was like on the list but you know i'm gonna look at it could be shown in the cinemas when i can't be in the country so we'll see how it goes on this one today and uh you and ryan did you think it would get this far when you's come up with the idea have been a pleasant surprise it has been it but we both very uh nervous and anxious about the the reception is starting and i haven't seen them release yet but yes we don't have this reception but we're happy for it and i'm always looking near aware of of of the dangers of chemicals is all the better isn't it brilliant okay so onto the kitchen sink tell us where uh people can watch it locally and at what times i think you mentioned a date and time there kaelin yeah it'll be on the plant paper today and it said cinema's ongoing and after that we're not sure if it sounds right it'll be it'll be in the cinema at the end but after that it'll be on YouTube well done kaelin excellent all right good one well done thank you very much indeed really appreciate it that's kaelin goal now uh kaelin goal at 18 months old he drank caustic soda caused horrific injuries and he could have lost his life only for a quick medical intervention he's had 60 plus operations but now he can speak again he can taste food again and as i say many of you might have seen him on that documentary temple street which was on tg3 or tv3 or virgin media as it's now known all right thank you for that uh okay what about the young people says this listener who have their lessons took and applied for their test has to wait eight maybe nine months but they are still being charged for insurance as a learner driver through no fault of their own why should i see young people pay thousands on insurance while they wait for months for their driving test it's a horrendous situation and it only makes it i think even more pressurized uh that all of it leads to that one test i don't know why they have to wait so long it's it's terrible really can anyone uh greg remember what was the main topic in government before the whole saga started surely there's more important issues to be discussed most people couldn't care less about a couple of extra pounds ryan topody received this practice was probably known about for a long time i think we are being distracted from other serious issues like irish neutrality which was if i'm not mistaken the headline does anyone have an opinion on this it's an interesting point that you make but of course again as i said i think this conversation and uh uh deputy tobine uh mentioned this as well and i've said it in the past i think this really this whole thing that's happening in rt he talks to the whole public services situation as well i mean the doll is going into recess shortly they're going to have a their holidays in the not too distant future and again as it relates to that whole conversation about night irish neutrality i 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trainers look the part play the part in store and online click and collect on bmcsports.ie the saturday shuffle with paul mcdevid will be live this saturday from home store and more in letter kenny retail park where you will find grit savings and a choice with their selection of homeware whether it's cooking up a storm in the kitchen or transforming your living space they will have quality items that you want at grit value that's this saturday from 12 noon live from home store and more in letter kenny right here um you are tuned to the nine till noon show just to remind you of the telephone numbers what's apps and text to 08 660 25 000 if you're outside the republic it's 00 3538 660 25 000 if you want to give us a call 07 491 25 000 okay uh we have learned that a foundation set up in memory of dairy city football or rye mcbride may be forced to close over funding cuts this according to members of the charity gareth mckay is a board member of the ryan mcbride foundation and johnson now thank you very much for joining us gareth no problem great thanks very much for having me um remind the listeners as to uh the why this foundation this charity was was um founded and um what work it does yes so so ryan uh obviously was um captain of dairy city um he was born and lived and um passed away just you know a few doors from the stadium as a lad grown up uh played local football but um he was never in any like the academy systems and and never really picked out um and he was playing sort of local pub football when he was 17 and got noticed by some of the coaches at dairy city john quick and eddie sedac and he was asked to come and train with the first team and ryan had kind of played a bit but had really focused enough probably to be successful unfortunately his mother passed away when he was 17 from cancer and it kind of changed ryan's life he focused and um he went to dairy city the first team and steven kenny was the manager obviously the manager now and uh steven saw something in ryan and um developed him and within six months he had gone from playing football pool football to playing against shan rap rovers and the brandy well mark and gary twig who was probably most dead list strikers a league scene and and kept him quiet the whole game and dairy woman ryan's career took off from there and he and eventually became captain of the flow um and you know for anyone dairy and common captain of of dairy city is you know it's as good as playing for many later yourself and i think the the story of how we got there uh made it all the more relatable uh a local lad and finding his path and uh then going on to achieve what he wanted to do and i think for for for uh all of us uh we remember when that news came through uh in march of i think it was 2017 uh and just the just the shock uh and the outpouring then of love uh and respect in ryan's direction so the foundation was then created with the aim of doing what um so the foundation i suppose it's support assist and inspire is the three the three words we have that's kind of our three values and it was set up really to try and help young people um to i mean look we understand that it's not really our role to try and create footballers that's for professional clubs but we use football we use sport we use being healthy as it means to try and help children basically reach a potential whatever it is and as they show them that you know the canopy you know it doesn't matter what background they come from or where they come from and it's discipline isn't it and it's routine and it's with other people we see it in boxing clubs we see it in football clubs we see it in athletics it's proven that it it can help uh either keep young people on the straight narrow give them a focus uh or or you know pull them away from a different type of life not just that but i mean you can have those benefits as well yeah it's a massive social aspect to that that's what it is and you know we work for we children from three years up to about 14 but then we also bring young adults into the foundation as coaches on apprenticeships so we give them a a job and give them a chance to try and get a role in football and we also our coaches are trained that go and work with children them with additional needs so we work with an ardent sheath school we've worked and fought down syndrome trust so it's a way that the foundation is going to be a wide scope but it is all around you know healthy activity healthy living and as part of the program that we've lost the funding on um we build in issues around you know bullying racism so each each week at a different uh a different aspect and the coach has spent 10 minutes building that under the sessions explaining what bullying is and it's not always hitting someone sometimes it can be no one people and so it's and then we get them active so there's loads of different aspects to it's not just here's a football and a way you go yeah exactly so the primary school community project uh was a was supported through the executive um work with 30 schools 2000 children involved um every single week then you've got the coaches that you've mentioned and then was it out of the blue uh you received an email that that discussed funding when did that happen what did it say so around about probably maybe six to eight weeks ago we received an email just advising that funding had been cut and you know everyone should expect that they're not going to receive their full funding that they received the year before we were fine with that we understood that we understand the the realities around things and we understand what's happening with government we understand the effects of Brexit and everything else um so we were we we had meetings and we looked at ways of absorbing the loss of the of the funding we're going to have and we put we did a Go Red for Ryan scheme which was great and everyone got involved in um and then last week we got an email they say actually we've received zero um and that is just unsustainable it's too big a hurdle really declined I think if we opened up the text line and asked people who didn't know to guess how much funding it received from the Northern Ireland office last year and given what we've spoken about and given the fact that they're talking about pressure on budgets I think people would guess 250 000 pounds 500 000 pounds or whatever but the figures that you were able to to e-count so much from was relatively small last year wasn't it yeah so we we managed the we got 45 000 last year and um we the foundation supplements up with some funds to keep it going but you need that core central funding though really does the the get you going doesn't don't you you do because you need the certainty that you can afford to employ the staff that run the project so the foundation is run by a board of volunteers we all have our own jobs and we do our own things but we have coaches and we have a coordinator that runs the foundation runs all the schemes highly skilled number of number different training schemes in relation to you know dealing with kids with additional needs all of that um and you just need to know that you've got the core funding that you can come up they set the schools look we we can be there two hours every week for you know 37 38 weeks whatever is in the school term um because you've got to make the commitment from the start to the end you know it's not good luck for the for the children either if you kind of flat down and flat out because your phone runs gone so you need that you need that bulk that you know you can come out what can be done now though i mean look listen there's not i don't know if there's any advantage to getting into the politics but there's an awful lot of people sitting doing nothing at the moment they'll argue the working in the constituencies blah blah blah but there's a lot of money being given to politicians who are effectively not at work some would feel which makes that even the likes of the 40 000 pale into absolute insignificant so i mean is there any route to an appeal on this because this is not only this project this actually put the the future of the foundation into doubt garth it does it certainly puts it in the in the doubt in terms of what we do at the minute we will not be able to deliver what we're delivering in fact we'll be able to deliver very little the foundation will always be there because we want ryan's name and legacy there to keep keep going but in terms of the format that we're in now the staff at ryan the guys that we have run it it's just not going to be sustainable what can be done now well there's no there's no appealing mechanism to the executive office so that's gone we can't start depleting other funds but that's a long longish process yeah for sure yeah we're very contacting children we're contacting the national lottery fund we're looking at there's a sebu fund as well that's heavily funded by the irish government there's obviously a potential that we may have to consult with the irish government agencies and see if they can fund it because we can't incorporate border schools because obviously our our project straddle the border we do schools and come more in in holly bush which are literally a stone throw from the from the border so we can we can make this across border it's currently across community project yeah why not bring it across the border as well for sure as you know lots of people in north donningall follow uh deri city okay well listen keep us updated on on any developments uh hope something comes from this the money we're talking about for what's delivered is in the wider scale of things it's it's small change in terms of overall budgets and i just hope that someone sees sense uh in briefly is there a fundraiser or anywhere that if someone wants to contribute they can we haven't gone down that route at the minute Greg because we we did as i said when we knew we were getting caught we did do a fundraiser a couple months ago go out go read for ryan day which was okay you mentioned that yeah yeah so we just don't want to go back to the public things we know it costs a living crisis at the minute so we're looking at all our options but yeah certainly in the future it may it may happen right hopefully we'll keep us in the loop gareth if you don't mind thank you very much for your time this morning okay that was gareth mckay board member of the ryan mcbryde foundation they only got 45 000 last year nothing this year uh from the uh northern island executive the nightly 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 summer is here and that's why super value is making sure it's the summer of savings enjoy great offers like super value fresh irish fillet steak saved 33 selected hb ice cream like magnum three pack and e2 for seven euro and baron de villard six 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gut microbiome search for purina ones blue pack online and in store right let's get to uh some of well actually before we do that let's go to a telephone call because uh may joins us now hi may hello greg how are you did you know they call me shawn may oh god it's die hard and and there's no harm in that aether by the way it would be uh it would be uh an honor okay so may you were listening to the uh you were listening to uh cailan earlier on and this resonated with an experience in your house uh didn't it may add to us uh i was i'm going back now in nineteen i think it was 1989 now um i we live in farm down here uh at brine a wrath mullins and there had been a an old sort of car here for parts out and um uh shawn and she needs the tons there were about four years of age and they were out and they were playing in the car and that and the next thing shawn came in and he was sort of started choking you know or and he had been on medicine for his chest at that particular time i thought this is maybe took his own medicine and it went the wrong way but anyhow i uh give him a glass of cold water and when i give him when he started to take it he started to foam at the mouth oh my words just foam and of course i panicked and i got well my late husband died there a year and a half ago and uh i got him and uh took him up to the hospital or to the doctors and then they said that oh give him just ice cream and keep you know and went on and on like this so eventually anyway he got worse and he had to be taken to the hospital and he was in letter kenny for a while and then he was transferred up to our ladies in cromland yeah and um he he didn't go through the operation for it was i think a few years after that because uh they tried everything that they could do but eventually he did have the operation before we get to that because it really is quite remarkable uh operation particularly for that time may did did you ever find out what he consumed i didn't but we went up at a night time at uh was uh who'd just say it was a Wednesday evening i got a message to say that there was a bed free up and and doubling so i thought i would just go on up so we went up that night and then the next morning when the surgeon that came around then they said you know i explained to him and he says really mrs mcfadden he says with your quick reaction he didn't get it into his stomach oh okay but it did cause serious damage though didn't it to his esophagus oh yeah he had uh he had to get three inches cut of his colon and it was transplanted on to his esophagus wow and how did that operation work like did that it worked yeah it worked quite good he was away right now from 11 in the morning until five o'clock in the evening yeah and uh then they sent him out with what they called it a bougie it's about 24 inches of sort of like a rubber tube yes and it was full of mercury and he had to swallow that two or three times a day wow to make sure that the throat you know that the esophagus would that would work yeah okay and and what was the long term um was there any long term damaged cause uh or did the operation resolve most of the issues may oh well yeah the operation did do that and it went on and on for years and years in the 40s now right and it went on for years and I got any any clue at all that the throat was narrowing we've just had it straight to Dublin right and did that happen often oh mind you there was weeks a good while up in Dublin with it you know but it came on then as I thought it was this was a lifelong thing and then about about six seven years ago then yeah he um he was up for the dilatation for the the esophagus yes and I was speaking to the head surgeon and he had a talk with me and he said I just want to tell you mrs. McFadden he says he should be clear of this hospital in about a year and a half now that was in November of that year this isn't well into his 30s now isn't it yeah he's in the 40s now but when they said he'll be clear oh yeah it wasn't his 40s okay so what did he change or what happened that oh well I just I suppose prayer had a lot to do with it too and we were out in Lourdes we went out to Lourdes as well in 1991 yeah and um the surgeon that I was talking to he told me that news in November that uh within a year and a half or something he should be completely cured that's remarkable so well do you know Greg it was the greatest Christmas present I ever got to hear them words for a thought that it was a you know a lifelong thing that he would have to do that all his life and actually there was a man came over from England from the Children's Hospital yeah over in England and he came I got a phone call to say that he was calling so he came here and he took a video of Sean swallowing the bougie right okay I don't think they'd prescribe mercury now to to consume would they well I wouldn't think so it was full of mercury and then it's it's it's it's well he doesn't take it now thank god but he you know he's he's still wary to just about it you know I love may the fact that you speak about him as if he's still four years old he's still your wee baby still your wee baby you're talking about your dad well be I know well you're talking about being down in Dublin and chatting to his surgeon and him a big hairy 40 year old I love it the exact same as it would be in my house by the way so that's uh I think that's a lovely part of the story now he's he is happily married and everything's going good mate thank god he did he did have uh there some time ago he started to get the hiccup right and oh Greg it was unbelievable what he suffered for about 10 days and he tried everything and he had tablets and now he can't he can't take tablets except soluble ones yes yes you know yeah and uh he decided then that he would go up to the hospital and see if they could uh you know give him something for the hiccups yeah and they went up he went in he was putting a drop on one thing and another so then they let him out then on the Wednesday and uh with a prescription for tablets and he came out the way he went in and then uh steps a daughter then said she says I'll try and see if it can get anything that'll help you in any way yes and she went online and she got a hiccups straws they call it and within a couple hours the hiccups was gone after him spending uh nearly over a week in the hospital amazing stuff listen come here I uh I am um I'm glad that everything is turned out well for my experience but you couldn't what I mean on a farm too and there was nothing it was just happened to be and the car that uh my late husband had bought for parts for the other car and the two of them were playing they weren't at school they were only four yeah and uh yeah and they were only four and uh then the first communions was coming on then I didn't know what the story was because the two of them were going for first communion so they said then up in the hospital the chaplain up there said well he says I can you know give him a first communion here and then with them being twins I thought no you know I prefer the two to go together so I rang the parish priest here in Rathmoreland at that time and he said that he would do them any time but before that then the surgeon come around this is if you want to take him home you know for the communion yeah so we got out on the friday and then made the first communion saturday okay and the only thing was he couldn't take the communion he had to take the wine of course right okay yeah because of the injury yeah yeah you know and that you know it was very emotional because he got out on the friday and then he had to go back into hospital again on the tuesday he's been through you know and you have to and of course too may you mentioned losing your husband really recently too and hopefully you got good comfort from your faith which it's clear you have well that's the only thing people has to look to I'll tell you at a time like that too yeah that's when you know when the prayer has read but thank god everything's married now and is back to square one you know exactly yeah all right may listen bu