to Donna Marie and Caroline for their help on the program. I'll talk to you Saturday morning at 10 o'clock for the Saturday Rewind. Lee's back tomorrow morning with an audio alarm clock from 6.30. Up next, Greg Hughes is here with the 9 till noon show morning, Greg. Rory, enjoy the rest of your week. Thanks very much for that. It is 9 o'clock. It's time for our first news update of the morning and we say good morning now to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Up to 30,000 hospital procedures will be cancelled due to a strike over the next two days. 2,100 medical scientists are picketing over pay and career development issues. They're refusing to carry out routine lab services from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to day and tomorrow. Procedures will be impacted at Letter Kenney University Hospital with long delays expected in the emergency department as a result. Tony Canavan, the chief executive of the Seal to Health Care Group says the strike will badly affect patients. This is going to have a very significant impact across all of the hospital services in the country and in the sales group it will impact on patients who have already been cancelled for elective surgical procedures, patients who have been cancelled for endoscopic procedures and also patients that have been cancelled for their outpatient appointments during the day today. So the impact on patients is going to be very significant. A public consultation event held in Bancrona last night has been healed a success. Hundreds of people were in attendance to view plans for a new leisure centre for the town and the major 20 million-year repiring Bancrona initiative that will see the town's shorefront developed. Plans are also in place to purchase the old guarda station to pave the way for office space. The ear log of Donegal County Council, Council Director Jack Murray says the potential for Bancrona is vast. I'm advised by the Council's economic development unit that some 50 percent of queries that are now coming into Donegal County Council with regards to the foreign direct investment or job creation or people looking to invest in commercial facilities are for the town of Bancrona. So that just shows the potential that the town has. Part of the public meeting last night was too but the local area plan and we began looking to identify more areas for economic development because I think there's huge potential for job creation. Three million euro is to be made available to encourage farmers to grow potatoes again. Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnug will seek cabinet approval for this spot fund this morning. It's to be spread over the next two years and can be used for specialized equipment and storage. Minister Charlie McConnug says the grant money can be used by farmers in several ways. The three million euro investment will be invested in new equipment also in storage facilities and also in marketing and I certainly hope to see additional jobs and indeed what was a really strong traditional industry revived through this investment. Weather night today will bring sunny spells and scattered shards a few of them heavy. This evening Clyde will increase with rain and drizzle moving in and highest temperatures of 13 or 14 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Can I get two specials please one sourdough and Caesar salad and by the way I'm 12 weeks pregnant. We don't always know who's at risk from COVID-19 and other viruses but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask. Let fresh air in get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell from the HSC for us all. The 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges. Letter Kenny credit union 9102127 and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 90 noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Good morning to you it's Tuesday the 24th of May three minutes past nine you welcome along to another edition of the 90 noon show and what is across the Northwest seemingly anyway from what I've seen a dampish enough morning but all roads are leading to nice weather Friday Saturday and Sunday at least that's something if you like good weather that's something for us to look forward to and you've got plenty to look forward to over the next three hours the lines have just open for you right now you can call us an 07 for 9 1 25 000 to have an a view on what we're talking about today across all the big stories as you'd expect and to raise your own issues pass on your own stories. WhatsApp's and texts 08 660 25 000 right let's look at the papers this morning the Donegal Democrat we owe it to mothers and their own born babies to make sure that abortion is never normalized in our society because it involves the ending of an innocent defense of human human life that was just one of the many messages delivered to the hundreds that attended the pro-life campaigns March for Life in Bandung on Sunday afternoon Donegal ain't two candidates and pro-life activist Mary T. Sweeney from Retter Kenny and chair of the pro-life campaign in the county Margaret McGeehan from Glen Swilly address the attendees or those attended as did Cavern ain't two councillor Sarah O'Reilly and a list of others as well and there's pictures on the front of and inside the papers today. The Derry Journal an innocent councillor has said a water tanker has to happen for Inishon before it's too late and someone dies for over two years. Finafall councillor Martin McDermott has called for the firefighting apparatus to be made available permanently for the peninsula. He raised the matter once again that last week's Inishon municipal district meeting at which he was told his comments would once again be passed on to the relevant officials speaking to the Journal. Yesterday councillor McDermott highlighted how much time has passed since he first asked for a water tanker for the peninsula. It's understood councillors have been told there is a greater need elsewhere in Donegal for the apparatus okay. On to the Irish Independent today and by the way we've been talking about passports apparently it's not the passport office's fault it's not the government's fault it's not TD's fault it's our fault. The reason for the delay in passports is nothing to do with a backlog there's no backlog it's because we can't fill out forms that's the claim anyway. The Department of Foreign Affairs insists there's no backlog in processing passports and has blamed forms being incorrectly filled out as 195,000 people wait for their delayed travel documents ahead of summer holiday season. Four in ten passport applications are incomplete and this is the major course of long today the Department of Foreign Affairs has said reacting to criticism of huge passport backlog it denies such a backlog exists because only checked and completed applications enter processing while the passport service is experiencing a very high volume of applications this does not represent a backlog as spokesperson said applications are all being processed in the usual way with a continuous stream of new applications and a continuous dispatch of completed passports happening every day applications that are correctly completed are being processed by passport services within the average turnaround times the department spokesperson said adding that since March the turnaround time for first time applications had reduced from 40 to 30 days with staff numbers increasing from 600 to 900. TD's of course are being inundated with calls from constituents facing long waits as the summer approaches but it doesn't seem to tally with what we're hearing here because lots of people make the inquiry sorry make apply for the passport it's delayed for months on end there's no indication that things haven't been filled out correctly the passport is processing on the website and then they get a TD or someone to make some representations and the passport all of a sudden is available that doesn't mean forms aren't being filled out correctly does it and if so like what i would like to ask the passport office if that is the case you know how quickly are they identifying forms not being filled out correctly and passing that information on to the paying customer we are paying for this document that we're obliged to have to travel so i think there's certainly some responsibility there at the very least in terms of communication but i'd be pretty skeptical about there being no backlog i don't know what you guys think oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand we're going to be talking about this a little later um a limerick based guard is facing disciplinary action including possible dismissal this is what he did he activated his blue light when a stolen car drove past the guard a representative association has outlined the incident was cited by the association's leadership at its annual conference as an example of the bureaucracy to which it says guard is subjected to it also highlighted the lack of fully qualified fully qualified guarded drivers to respond to emergencies it said so i mean i presume most people are aware because we've discussed this on this program years ago but unless a guard has received a certain level of driver training someone can fly past them someone can rob a bank someone can be evade a checkpoint and if they aren't if they haven't done this training in the driving of the vehicle advanced training they cannot follow them they can't speed after them in other words they have to stay within the um they have to stay within the speed limit and they can't activate the blues the blue lights so that's the situation now you might say well that's pretty fair train them all up well that's the problem you see there's no training available an awful lot of the time well there's an awful lag in the training well the guard uh uh was at a junction when he saw a car he knew to be stolen driving in the other direction he activated his lights to alert the public to the danger and turned his car around to see where the stolen car was going said g r a president frank thawnton the guard did not give chase and he was only qualified to competency based driving cbd level one he's facing a board of inquiry for his actions only guard e qualified as cbd level two drivers can use the emergency lights and sirens the board has the power to recommend various penalties including dismissal for activating the blue lights the irish daily mail tells us that arland could be set to introduce tobacco-style health warnings on car adverts under new proposals being unveiled in the doll today an expert previously told the norctis housing committee hearing that car adverts are often unrealistic and very sexy with no other cars on the road politicians were also informed that motor vehicle adverts ignore climate change and pedestrian inquiries uh injury sorry and uh that mandatory warning on adverts have been used for other public health campaigns now a new housing committee reported cited those experts who note that france has introduced a similar warning on car adverts advising the public that they should walk when possible to avoid the worst effects of global warming okay so can you imagine if our adverts are car adverts now at the end says uh you know the government recommends you should walk instead um i don't know uh and adverts have to feature pedestrians and i don't i mean back in the day cars used to be driving around you know rally tracks and all that kind of stuff and screeching tires and they did put an end to that but this sounds to me like it's just going too far next thing you know is it adverts for razors you have to have people coming in out of the bathroom when you're using it or windows left open or towels on the floor just to present a realistic scenario of what it's like to have a shave i don't know i think we could find ourselves if we're not already going a little bit ott on some of this stuff uh the irish daily star a senator faces sleeping in his car in dublin for the next two uh two to three weeks because he can't get a hotel room the don't ross common base eugene murphy said that he has only been able to get a room to stay in dublin on one night in the past three weeks and he can't secure anywhere to stay for the next two or three weeks because of the chronic room shortage exorbitant prices in the capital now he has a car i don't understand why he doesn't go to one of the county's um one of the counties around dublin and commute in and out of work i think a lot of people listening to this program uh would travel within donnie gall 45 50 minutes an hour maybe even more an hour and a half um would he not be better rather than sleeping in his car in dublin maybe trying to find accommodation on the outskirts and driving in and out well the senator has a 288 kilometer round trip to his ross common uh home so he fears he may have to sleep in his car if there's a late night shanard sitting mr murphy said he has slept in his car in a petrol station car park twice in the past two months instead of driving to ross common late at night he added i was going back on my records there and in the last three weeks i managed to get one night in dublin that was last uh tuesday night i drove home most of the other nights now he wouldn't want to be driving home after a late shanard setting but as i say sitting sorry as i say i mean why can't he get a hotel just outside dublin or a bed and breakfast for that matter and um much shorter drive he could be back in bed in you know half an hour 40 minutes but anyway he wants to sleep or he feels he has no choice but to sleep in his car the irish daily mail fears about the spread of monkey pox in arland have led to health professionals advising people with suspected symptoms to self-isolate for three weeks now all this has to be put in context the who not overly worried about this becoming a big thing there have been a number of cases across europe and elsewhere a couple of hospitalizations but these do happen from time to time but the head of the hsc's new monkey pox task force said the heightened alert situation has led to the new direction for those who might have the virus no monkey pox cases have been confirmed in arland but hsc specialist dr dorval igo revealed people are being observed over a period of 21 days will be just giving you the the facts about that a little later on in the program because there is a great deal of interest as you can imagine and last but certainly not least for the hundreds of you potentially across the region who received a phone call from the hospital yesterday or today to say that your elective surgery and some of it really quite serious surgery of course has been canceled we heard from dr chtoni canovan last week speaking to us ahead of a one-day strike by lab staff of the impact operations being canceled and no promise of when they'll be rescheduled because such is the backlog that was a one-day strike it's a two-day strike this week we'll be speaking to union reps a little later on a three-day strike next week but this affects obviously it affects those of you going in for elective operation surgeries you'll have been notified by now that that's been canceled unfortunately your gp testing your blood tests they're going to be delayed or deferred today and tomorrow the hsc says it means it slows down on discharges they also claim that patients in hospital who would be regularly blood tested they may find their health deteriorating and that not being picked up because of a lack of blood tests there are some derogations but the general consensus is that this is having a big impact on hospital services but the medical lab staff and i'm sure we'll hear from from them later are saying that you know they've been mistreated in the workplace in terms of fairness and pay for a long long time and it's come down to this but the hsc don't want to talk or they do want to talk they can't talk because this is all tied into a national pay deal as well and it's very hard to negotiate with one cohort of workers within that frame that's what the the stumbling block seems to be but where there is a will i'm sure there is a way medical scientists will strike for two more days this week in a move that will cause disruptions to the health service the workers who process lab tests in hospitals are taking industrial action to try and get better paying conditions the first walk out last week which led to some hospital procedures being canceled and other treatment delays the scientists will go on strike today and tomorrow from 8 a.m to 8 p.m with picket lines outside hospitals and if you drive pass letter kind of university hospital i'm sure you'll see them out there this morning all right 08 660 25000 that's the whatsapp line that's the text line what do you think about nuclear power as an option to meet the power needs of ireland as you would know currently the moment we're paying through the teeth through electricity we are looking at ways to generate power renewably but i don't know it seems up and down with the way our wind goes and the talk about solar and wind energy and not not much seems to be coming from that so maybe nuclear is the way to go all right we're going to be talking to two guests having that debate we want you involved in it though 08 660 25000 that's coming up for you after we take a commercial break stay right where you are the newspapers are 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option rather than pushing ahead with you know continued continued expansion of wind generation power through wind you know wave technology solar panels why do you think we should be having a serious conversation about nuclear power sure well the first thing i'd say is i'm a huge fan and supporter of renewable energy and we've made great strides in ireland over the last decade or more in building out renewable power grid i'm looking forward to seeing us going offshore in the next decade i'm really getting serious about it however probably the most that any grid to remain stable can handle at a given time of renewable energy which of course is a variable energy source is about 80 percent at the moment our grid is managing about 40 percent now air grid who who manage these things they reckon we can put 80 percent on on the grid in ireland which by the way would be a fantastic result however that still leaves us with roughly a fifth of our energy needing our electrical energy needing to be provided by fossil sources so this would be typically gas or could be worse it could be coal could be oil but the problem is that's what's called baseline so you have to have a baseline basically to keep the whole to underpin the grid now my suggestion or thought is that what we we're in a climate emergency i think we can all agree that now in a climate emergency the objective everybody's objective is to get to zero carbon as quickly as possible now if we continue to allow gas for example on the grid for decades to come we're not going to get to zero carbon so i'm open-minded that's the best way i can ask a question just in relation to that john because as soon as people we mentioned wind generation people will text in and we really welcome them texting they'll say wind generation is you know we're being sold a pop here that by the time you construct them maybe put them in bogs the concrete and the amount of gas that it's used to actually run them this is this is and i've read a little bit about this not as enough as i probably should that they're not really a green energy at all now of course someone who's uh you know very active in this area is there any truth to that none at all no every energy source has has a cost implication right as they say you can't you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs so yes there's concrete just as other resources used in wind but wind energy and solar for that matter offer what's called an energy return on investment right which is excellent ireland has the best sustained wind speeds in northern europe right any other country would be leaping forward into wind energy so the myths that you've described there but that's all they are it's it's just nonsense it's people for example who for whatever reason don't like the look of wind turbines i get that and that's why i think offshore wind is going to help us with this because we've had a very irrational debate but the interesting thing is when you look at the surveys when you ask the general public how do you feel about wind on your grid the answer overwhelmingly is that they supported if it's not it's not in my backyard is it's a little bit of a the problem with it and i understand that because i do too and i also say the folks who feel that way tend to be very vocal and believe me i've come across a few of them over the year but the odd thing is it's a very small very vocal group of people you stop a regular person in the street and you ask them well would you like to buy saudi arabian or maybe russian oil to have spewing out of your car in the form of fuel or would you rather move to domestically produced clean energy and most people will say actually i'll have the domestically produced clean energy any day but i mean at the end of the day too though before we get on to the nuclear thing if the planning process appeared completely clear if the messaging was completely clear you know maybe there would be a better acceptance of this rather than people feeling that you know these developments are railroaded in their areas and there's a lack of communication a lack of a lack of consultation so i think you know people can be justified in in how they feel in that regard as well but in terms of you're looking at nuclear power as being an option now before i bring michael in you aren't always of that view no i would describe myself as a traditional uh i guess irish person by by which i mean you know i grew up with with the background of chernobyl and and even the background of nuclear war this idea that there's something really scary about nuclear energy i would take that as a given i'll even give you another one uh the simpsons right which we've been running for over 30 years the big corrupt power in the town of course is the local nuclear power plant and should the fish have three eyes it is badly run it's corrupt and basically nuclear power is everything we should be afraid of right so that is a sort of a cultural meme that has been out there for some time so as a journalist particularly a journalist concerned deeply concerned about the climate emergency i looked into the numbers and i say for example over the last 40 years if i was to ask you how many people would you think have died as a direct result of nuclear accidents now if i put this up as an online poll i would get results somewhere between a million people say and 10 000 people the actual number is 50 as in five zero in total maybe 40 people died as a result of the chernobyl nuclear accident of those most of them were in fact firefighters who went in risked their own lives to go in to contain the okay so this is a point you know we've produced huge amounts of the world's electricity over the last 40 years through nuclear in fact a study was done that said that number of deaths 1.7 million deaths have been avoided in the last 40 years as a result of the replacement of fossil fuels by nuclear now obviously if those fossil fuels had been replaced by renewables you'd get the same effect so this for me this is not an either or okay this isn't saying i'm in favor of nuclear therefore i i i disagree with with renewables quite the opposite i believe this is an and and the reason i believe that finally is because this is a climate emergency and in an emergency you do what you have to do right michael white chair of the green party you know there's a lot in there a strong argument what say you um firstly a lot of really respected people do argue for the use and benefit of nuclear power like james lovelock who's a famous english scientist and others and um i don't have any ideological issue with it but in terms of practicality the main arguments against it are costs and then just politically impractical in my view and by the way there isn't a stated green party Ireland's policy on this so this is a personal view is that not quite remarkable that your party doesn't actually have a policy on on nuclear energy we have policies on everything greg it's not except nuclear except nuclear energy of course but um no the reason there isn't a policy is it's been being a topic for discussion but it's not really it hasn't been that divisive in Ireland and actually when we look at what's happening in the UK i guess that's where we would certainly would i take my guide so if we just look at the cost issue there's three main costs is the cost of building the plants the cost of decommissioning them and the cost of handling handling the waste disposal so if you look at england's boris johnson's kicked off that hinkley i think it's hinkley c um project it was initially estimated to cost 18 billion sterling but it's now being revised up to 26 billion sterling and it's running a bit late they are also decommissioning seven old plants and the cost of decommissioning those old plants is going to come in again 23 billion but that's expected to go up but does that not i'm sorry to i don't want you think i'm cutting across to you when i didn't john but you know just taking those costs you know without factoring in uh you know the impact on the environment the benefits you know we can't take those costs decommissioning costs for example in in isolation really it wouldn't give us a true picture we'd have to put it in to the to the to the wider conversation for those costing to be really having you know to be meaningful michael for me sorry um well there are no equivalent costs for things like renewables i mean one of the biggest costs i haven't mentioned is the cost of disposal so the uk are planning they estimate a cost of 53 billion to get rid to build an underground waste facility at the moment a lot of that waste and this is where it gets a bit emotive i know john's saying that there there's no provable massive amounts of casualties due to to nuclear power and that's in my view is correct as well but you have facilities like cellar field which is a big maze of nuclear waste come back to the 1950s and it's hard to predict the relative risk of having that stuff dumped there whereas if we focus all our time and attention on offshore winds we're we're not going to have an issue you know we don't have to decommission or get rid of waste from a wind farm yeah just on that point john you know i mean you know burying uh in in the earth burying this this toxic waste which we don't really know you know what the future holds i mean that that doesn't really feel very environmental to me and i'm not you know particularly swayed one way or other but that doesn't it almost as if it's like you know covering our eyes and i'm thinking no one can see us yeah i think as i try to be pragmatic about this so let's take for example the lifetime electrical power requirements of a family in france okay now and let's say that all their at the moment they're getting about 70% of electricity from nuclear power which they have by the way for the last 45 years and you've never heard of of the 56 french nuclear power plants because they go about the business very quietly and unfossilty and they don't blow up so if you had to contain and deal with the waste product of that family's lifetime use of nuclear power the nuclear waste would be about two kilograms so about the size of a coke can okay now okay it is toxic waste you're absolutely right now in ireland the average person is responsible for as in we're we're we're accounting for the equivalent of 12 tons of carbon waste dumped carelessly into the atmosphere every year now that carbon waste will continue to heat up our atmosphere for centuries yeah but i mean i mean i know you gave that family example but the reality is is you know i think the data centers here would leave us you know probably disproportionately producing more waste you know slightly more but it's a question of right like you know when you burn fossil energy and by the way we're all agreeing here that renewables are an excellent option my argument is a variant of that which says we know that renewables can't get us to 100 so we know they can get us to 80 if we do everything right how do we fill the gap between 80 and 100 well Michael i'll put that question to you it's a simple one you know i presume it's a green party you don't want to get 80 percent towards the line how do you get over that last 20 percent over the last 20 percent yeah there's just a couple of i'll answer that question i was saying there's two other points i'd make though that politically i don't think it'd be possible there's nowhere in Ireland it'd be politically possible to build a nuclear generation plant at the moment you've seen that the difficulty we have and trying to get to smokeless coal that's right so but i'm on your point um how do we get to the the the remaining 20 percent um so there's offshore wind energy is um going to be a significant part of getting us there the remainder now one of the options is to import some of that power and the other options would include trying to use further offshore wind energy then to as part of a hydrogen-based storage where we could use hydrogen at times when the wind isn't isn't blowing so that'd be one possibility i mean i think we're going to have to import energy in any case as we do at the moment and some of that energy is likely we've just had the interconnected agree with France and that's going to so we'll be effectively using nuclear energy from France but even on that it's forecast JP Morgan produced a report on the cost of nuclear energy and they expect that even France would reduce its nuclear energy as a percentage of the total so JP Morgan did this big report and they're just saying that the cost of nuclear energy are beginning to make it less likely yeah they can meet their demands in the other direction i mean they've got very good coverage with nuclear presumably and they can reduce that as as the green goes up well interesting go ahead yeah because because they're investing in nuclear the French don't really have much of a renewable and it's something they're beginning to to look at now to maybe switch switch over to renewable because they found they did a big audit of their costs in 2012 and a new one then a few years later and they found that they underestimated the total costs when they brought in things like the cost of capital and the cost of construction they turned out they seriously underestimated the lifetime cost of their nuclear and i'll bring John back to that but Michael it just seems like interesting to me in that you know that the arguments that you're making for us not doing as much as we can to protect the environment at a the costs you know and be public opinion you know i thought we were in such a situation that the world's on fire you know the the the ice melting and i just i find it interesting that you from a green party perspective your actual arguments are a what people might think and and be the costs it just if that's it well no i mean what weird what we as a party are doing is concentrating on where we're most likely to be able to deliver the things that are going to save the country so we got the marine area planning bill through there's a huge focus of getting the the rest of the legislative framework in place this year the money that's required to get in to build these offshore plants we're doing all the practical things if we look at nuclear so we can get offshore wind energy in place rapidly enough to have a big impact on the national emissions if we started to look at nuclear the they say it takes 10 years to commission a new do you think it'll be distraction at this time then it's not just that it's a distraction it won't be there in time to make a difference and it'll cause loads of grief you know we've seen we can't even get a national maternity hospital bills you know that's dragged on i just i'm just i'm just using enough failure is some uh the fact that we're crap at doing stuff as a reason it's not like it's glory yeah okay no i get you i get you this is not even on this issue it's just if this is why we don't do stuff because we can't do stuff it's i just want to be clarifying i don't mean the green party suggests lots of things that are unpopular as you know and we do it because we think the best for the future of the climate and for the country but there are certain things if you've got a choice of three things you're not nuclear wouldn't be my first choice of the battle we would have there are other areas where we can have greater impact and generate greater success than if we started to advocate a new nuclear energy plant in Ireland for example right some strong points that uh John Gibbons though in terms of the time frame you know and and the fact that we're focused in other areas just pick out from that which you wish to respond to sure i'll start with the time frames um our offshore wind sector i was actually listening to a program about this last night and with all the planning issues with the offshore marine legislation and with various objections we'd be very lucky we're also looking at a 10-year time frame now interestingly as well at china you know the way we always when whenever we don't want to do something in our land we complain about china right china is currently commissioning 150 i repeat 150 nuclear power plants and they're planning to get these from the plans to producing power in under 10 years that's as quick as we can do it in terms of deploying renewables now one of the reasons by the way just so people understand why has nuclear become so expensive in the western world first of all we've lost expertise 40 years ago we were producing lots of nuclear power plants then the political wind shifted and the number of nuclear engineers who retired and weren't replaced because people basically left the industry but guess where they went most of them didn't go off to build wind turbines most of them went off to work in the fossil fuel industry right now we need a new generation of engineers of technologists working on renewable energy and in my book on nuclear energy and so when you see china deploying 150 new nuclear power plants by the way total costs are that they estimate $450 billion now it sounds like a lot of money but that's coming in at about three billion dollars per facility so the point is they do what the chinese do they build it at scale they get the expertise up and they're able to deploy it quickly because they focus on it the problem in in in europe has been we're not building enough of them we've lost the expertise and of course you have people objecting and and the very thing that mitral said about public opinion and i will say public opinion it doesn't happen by itself it's also stoked by people maybe floating kites or flying kites in relation to the the alleged dangers now i guess i have looked at these as i say what i'm far more animated not so much by the possible dangers of nuclear but by the absolute dangers of continuing to run our fossil fuel plants as they say you know in in order to be extremely dangerous the fossil fuel plant only has to do has to operate correctly it is not a fault but a fossil fuel plant emits dangerous pollution and climate altering emissions now i'm of the view that we need to be very careful for example about saying well we can't do this because people don't like it we can't do this because it's too expensive now the reason often things become expensive is because people don't like them so in ireland for example if you all the way back to 1968 the government at that time proposed the nuclear power plant for ireland it was due to happen in current sort point in the late 70s and of course the the anti-nuclear movement from which by the way the genesis of the ireish green party it was a kind of a foundation moment for the organization was in people objecting to nuclear so i understand that the green party in ireland is was almost the anti-nuclear party it's it's it's in the dna and by the way i've spoken to many people in the green party and we've had a good laugh about this that it is that foundation kind of myth almost of the organization so if you turn around as a green party person and say well actually i've had a rethink 40 years later because the climate emergency you know it it it doesn't go down well and i know that and i understand that however there are other green party green parties in norway and finland they've actually changed their position on this particularly around what are called smrs these are small nuclear reactors now these basically allow us to deploy a kind of modular nuclear in smaller scale down to hundreds of megawatts rather than gigawatts now you might say well that sounds like dangerous new technology has it been tried we've had nuclear powered icebreakers submarines and aircraft carriers for 50 60 70 years now these are basically floating nuclear power plants operating in battle conditions and not one of them has ever exploded all right michael as if you soften to these proposals at all no there's a couple of points i'd make one of the reasons china is able to bang out so many nuclear power stations is that there's very little strength in civil society that people can't object they can they can the central government can do as they please and i'm glad that's not possible in europe secondly while local people object local people often object for good reasons so my mother would be involved in an objections to an incineration plant and dairy back in the 1980s and that those were they were for justifiable reasons so i think it's good that we have a strong civil society here that will tell politicians to clear off if they're trying to build something they don't like i think that's a really healthy thing does the planet have the time though i mean we say like i think i think if we go hammering tongs at the renewables like we're sitting in the middle of the atlantic we've got winds blowing here all the bloody time we should be able to make a shot of it we can't get wind energy working here you can't get it working anywhere so i think that would be sufficient and i think in my view the nuclear would be an expensive distraction that would cause public opposition wouldn't benefit as quickly as doubling down on wind energy all right okay listen both of you thank you very much it's been a an interesting conversation i really appreciate your time john gibbons thank you thank you very much have a good day take care of yourself and also last but not least michael white chair of the green party good morning to you thank you great okay your views to 08 660 25000 you heard both sides of the argument there i mean michael white is sympathetic to the notion but the practicalities of it the cost where would you where would you locate this plant where could you possibly without having to railroad it through lots of comments coming in on this i'll get those to you now after these the 9 till noon show with letter kenny 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affected because testing can't be done in the hospital these are all the arguments being made by the head of the hsc in the celta area uh cathleen kings a medical scientists and member of the mlsa and he's on the picket line at the moment and joins us from it good morning to you cathleen good morning greg how are you i'm doing good i'm doing good right i mean when you hear the likes of mr canaphan out speaking on the media is this do you believe this is a bit of a public relations exercise on behalf of the hsc or or do you accept that i suppose they have to come out and let people know what impact this type of action might have on patients oh no absolutely mr canavan is right to explain the impact of patients and to explain the impact you know that withdrawn or services actually has um within the hospital and within the community itself i think you know we're sort of quite a hidden um you know uh members of the healthcare profession and maybe people don't understand that you know 70 of all clinicals like noses is based on our work so it's very very good that he did explain the impact of patients the impact of services but it is regrettable not one of us want to be standing out here this morning not one of us want to be standing out there last week we don't want to be standing here tomorrow the hsc and the department of health have not engaged in meaningful talks for their union the mlsa and this is regrettable this is what we really really need to happen we care for patients as much as any other healthcare profession there are two and a half thousand of us 2100 in the union and we are the ones who are sort of working night now in the morning to get accurate test results out i myself finished at eight o'clock this morning but yet i'm here in the package to support my colleagues as well so the hope would be if we don't have impact we'll lock it anywhere no and i get that kathleen unfortunately though that the hsc seem to be digging their feet in in saying that we want to talk but really are their hands are tied because you know they can't undo the national pay agreement that that's about to be negotiated and there's just no room within that those confines to to have this discussion so how do we come up with a solution when obviously you know medical scientists are have had enough but the hsc are they have that stand that standpoint yeah well funny enough greg in 21 years ago the hsc actually agreed to this pay party they agreed to pay us the same pay as their clinical biochemist colleagues because we do the same work but unfortunately that agreement was never honoured and we've kept our heads down for 20 years we've kept working we've kept going ahead we've kept bringing in improvements we kept expanding the service like letter county hospital we're doing 20% more work this year than we were last year it's extremely busy we've kept our heads down we work through covid we work through the cyber attack you know it's not too much to ask for the hsc in the Department of Health to engage in meaningful talks to honour what was approved 20 years ago like nobody wants a strike all right in terms of what derogation what work is going on at letter Kenny that's fine yeah so so in letter Kenny we have medical scientists in and we're rostered in out all day today and to provide emergency cover and certain patients have been given derogation and that was being at the discretion and discussion of our union and also with the hospital management team as well too and I believe both sides were happy with the list of derogations and again you know we provide you know as much cover as we possibly can while still maintaining the terms and agreements of our industrial action I want to bring Des Sweeney in here who's Donegal representative on the medical laboratory scientists association Des good morning to you can you for those of us because I think you know what's happened certainly over the last couple of weeks people the general public have learned the important role that you guys do and it was interesting that it's took to now for the maybe the hsc to actually recognize the important you know it's almost like the beating heart of the health service but Des can you give us sort of a a typical scenario that explains why we found ourselves in this situation you know a person in a working environment compared to maybe people that that theoretically you know work under them can you sort of explain to us a real-case scenario absolutely good morning Greg it's it is it is as simple as that Kathleen's done a very good job of explaining it there but it's as simple as that it's it's the way I describe it is there's two people digging a ditch for the last 20 years and one person is getting paid eight percent more than the other and they're working shoulder to shoulder it's as simple as that now what terms was the the person employed employed under that leaves them so much better off like how is this situation presented itself it's sort of a historical thing the clinical biochemists 30 40 50 years ago were were responsible for creating tests and and running running tests on a it's a really historical thing but that's all automated now so now the clinical chemists and the medical scientists work together doing exactly the same job so it's it's just a it really is an historical thing anomaly but it was decided by the HSE and agreed by everybody including the Minister for Health who's now the Tisha that that the everybody they're doing the same job they should get the same pay it's it really is that simple a whole or not of the situation does but it kind of feels like it that the public will accept anything you know obviously through through covid everyone had to accept there may have been a better better way of working but we had to accept that if you were waiting for a procedure it was to be delayed and all of that right the HSE seemed to be able to just say to the public on the local and national airways that because of this action this is going to happen and nothing you know no one kicks up a stink nothing really comes from it are you concerned really that that the HSE can do that nowadays that in other words this type of action it should bring people kicking and screaming to the table but they can just say you know you're used to this there's more delays there's you know and there you go yeah Greg I think that's exactly the situation covid has numbed the public into an acceptance of a situation with HSE you can pretty much get away with it um the canceling appointments now is just routine and it's it's a disgrace really but the HSE is the state that they're in right now but uh hopefully we carry on this and hopefully people start realizing that it's just not acceptable anymore yeah because I was looking through every paper that's available to me this morning and it's buried inside a couple of them but I mean where you have a situation that tens of thousands of procedures not going ahead delays at emergency departments you know potential worse outcomes for for people in hospital in terms of diagnostics and tracking their well-being discharges I mean you would imagine this would just be a big massive black headline in the front of every newspaper but it's not yeah I mean as you as you remember when the nurses went out and strike it was it was banner headlines all over every station all over all papers but we with the with a team of you know there's 2100 of us as opposed to tens of thousands of nurses we create the same situation we're effectively shutting down the hospitals apart from critical care like I want to I want to emphasize that fact life or limb will not be risked at this action we we are providing critical care for all patients um but yeah somehow the the media or government have somehow stitled or smothered the the information getting out yeah I mean Kathleen I'd expect our phone lines to be lit up we covered this last week you know covering it this week by people uh you know saying something has to be done but I think I agree with Desi I just think people have been numbed to delays and and problems with the with the health service if this doesn't get the point across Kathleen if three days next week doesn't get the point across what is next from the mlsa's perspective I think the mlsa is going to have to pull their members together and also you know sort of see what we can do after this like an all-out walkout you know if that's what's on the cards we won't know until we sit down and discuss that but as you know and as Des has explained you know as medical scientists we can't just all walk out we do have to provide that emergency cover and we're asking for the goodwill of our colleagues you know in the hospital here and also within the community to abide by the strike regulations and not to frontload or backload work um but again we'll have to take our needs from the mlsa on further progress on that and as you know I'm not suggesting that anyone currently is engaged in a pr war uh but you know there are going to be failings that are currently there in the health service that have got nothing to do with medical laboratory scientists and you you just can't help but feel uh Des that this kind of action might be used as a as a smoke screen to cover other failings in the health service well absolutely right I mean yeah I understand what you're saying but um there's not much we can do about that we just have to we just have to do what we're doing and like I said this was agreed 20 years ago this isn't something that we're we're putting our hands out and asking for more we're just asking for what they've already accepted was was completely reasonable you know they just never actually do you believe the health minister's been vocal enough on this because we saw a similar issue and I'm not I'm not comparing them directly but say for instance school secretaries uh there was you know there was uh strange pay differences there for little and no reason and an education minister took control of that situation right and says look we have to do something do you believe the health minister is doing enough or he should he say right I'm I'm in charge of all of this this is seriously impacting the well-being of people potentially we need to crack our heads together I believe there's a consensus among government just to just to keep quiet and hope we can write it out same as the same as the people going down to Dublin arguing about mica you know it's just like just the hope it'll blow over but this I mean for example there's been no engagement despite what everybody said there's been no engagement from the government with the MLSA since our last strike on Tuesday of last week they didn't discuss anything with us there's no no discussions so yeah I mean that's worry and Kathleen in that you know there should be some discussions at any level of all to see is there any common ground or anything that could even defer this action to not engage at all but say you know we're open for discussions what our hands are tied I mean it's very worrying Kathleen isn't it that that's that's the approach being taken absolutely Greg and you know certainly it's pretty called into question again to you know do the department of health and the HSE assume that because we are health care professionals so we're just going to suck this up for another few years you know health care professionals are often described as picking a vocation this isn't a vocation this is a job we're employed we're paid okay the problem is here but we're not paid the same as our colleagues this is very dispute you know we can't be expected to suck this up and without talk without any sort of discussion this you know I can't see this going any further all right listen Kathleen King medical scientist a member of the MLSA thanks for speaking to us from the picket line I appreciate your time this morning I really do and I hope for everyone's sake there is a 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sunday and thursday with ryanair ireland west airport you're flying all right sunny spells and scattered showers a few heavy the evening cloud will increase with raining drizzle moving in from the west early tonight temperatures 13 or 14 degrees kerry joins us now medical scientist a member of the mlsa out on the picket line last place though i imagine kerry that you'd want to be you want to be in doing the the the valuable work that you're normally doing good morning me and my colleagues that are on the picket line here at the minute we would so much rather be in doing the patient-centered quality-driven care that we're used to are you surprised that there's been no movement no middle ground found a landing zone is the popular phrase at the moment between your union its members and and the hsc on this issue i don't know if i'm surprised i told from the nature of all controversies i said it does take a while to think it's all but we are willing to engage in this process but the hsc department of health don't seem to be ready to meet us which is very disappointing more than surprised yeah there seems to be an acceptance listening to the likes of tony canophan that this is going to cause huge upheaval this week even more so next week but we're not looking at solutions here is there too much of an acceptance do you think from the hsc that they're going to have to ride this out yes i do think so i think what we're trying to achieve with this action is to make them see the important role that we play within the hospital you know we the whole hospital is in its entirety and we play a vital role while i'm standing here i have cancer that is going on diagnosed in our lab you know that's kind of the bottom line of where we're at at the moment all right listen kerry thanks for your time this morning we'll go to charlie bar another medical scientist a member of the mlsa charlie i mean this is obviously the last resort but if it's not working what next well greg we just have to keep chipping away that um i would think we are very professional organization very professional body and i would assume the hsc are equally professional and i'm hoping for the sake of patients and for the future not only of our profession but the future of medical care in ireland and ultimately the progression of patient care that both sides can come to in arrangement and this as katin said to you earlier um this pay party was agreed 21 years ago it was never honored and was never implemented and it's taken us 21 years to put space and they come to this that's the source and you pointed out actually might use an interesting word one which i didn't mention with our previous guests that's retention you know staff retention that the best people uh doing this work they're going to look at not even retention recruitment is the recruitment and retention yeah i've been over 30 years in the profession so i'm at the latter end of it um but the students and the future medical scientists coming to us now are very bright very motivated individuals i want to make sure that the profession that i leave for them is one that they can thrive in and ultimately if they can thrive in that and develop it and move it forward then patients will benefit hospitals will benefit and a hse will benefit as well and we can't retain staff we can't recruit unless the pay skills are adequate unless kids with good qualifications see it as a worthwhile profession that they can stay in all right okay charlie listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it charlie bar there and kerry both speaking to us from the picket line there as that action continues today it'll run until tomorrow unfortunately many of you out there today who were due to have a procedure on may well have received a phone call by the way go ahead and don't take any action unless you've been notified by the hospital by the way but you might be going to your gp and they may be telling you that blood tests might be delayed or can't be done and that's going to run into next week and who's know what might happen thereafter all right that's the first hour of the program in the bag we'll be back with more on the nine till noon show after the news and obituary notices live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm akilah clark with the news at 10 o'clock a senior medical scientist at letter kennedy university hospital says no medical scientist wants to be on the picket line today up to 30 000 hospital procedures will be cancelled due to 2 000 medical scientists striking over the next two days they're refusing to carry out routine lab services from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow kathleen king is a senior medical scientist at letter kennedy university hospital and a spokesperson for mlsa union speaking to highland radio news on the picket line this morning she says a number of issues have led to the dispute here we are strawberry broke the camel's back covid the cyber attack the increase in workload our own hospital we have a 20 percent increase in workload summer departments but again too we're looking at the very basics here we can't fill 20 percent of the advertised and approved posts and we also don't have pay parity and that's one of the things that has led to the difficulties in filling these posts as well a public consultation event held in boncrona last night has been healed a success hundreds of people were in attendance to view plans for a new leisure center for the time and the major 20 million year repiring boncrona initiative that will see the town's shorefront developed plans are also in place to purchase the old garter station to pave the way for office space ke her log often ago county council council jack murray says the potential for boncrona is vast advised by the council's economic development unit that some 50 percent of queries that are now coming into the legal county council with regards to the foreign direct investment or job creation or people looking to invest in commercial facilities are for the town of boncrona so that just shows the potential that the town has part of the public meeting last night was too but the local area plan and we begin looking to identify more areas for economic development because i think there's huge potential for job creationist protests are taking place in dairy belfast in london today against the british government's troubles amnesty it will coincide with the debate on the legacy bill in the house of commons the uk is proposing an amnesty for those who cooperate with a panel that investigates at troubles deaths john tiger's father danie was killed in the bali murphy massacre in 1971 he says for families it's traumatizing anybody that hasn't talked to are devastated absolutely devastated and they're retraumatized the feedback and i'm getting from the second family is it's just their loved ones life wasn't worth anything it's a crime if you feel littered and straight you'd have to answer legal requirements and somebody who murders your loved one will be getting an amnesty and an amnesty without any comeback or compelability a seminar on donnie gall's caravan camping and campervan sector is taking place today the findings and recommendations of a study into this sector in the county and how they're being implemented will be presented at the event at the silver tassie hotel at 11 o'clock donnie gall county council is currently administering a grant scheme in a bid to increase overnight facilities a code of conduct is also being progressed and the communications campaign being developed to urge campers to plan and book ahead an international conference discussing the impact of the rare disease amyloidosis often referred to as donnie gall amy will be taking place in gedore later this week the conference called emerging from the shadows will host a number of international experts on the disease showing their experiences and knowledge donna brennan has more the emerging from the shadows conference will host several experts on the serious rare disease where a number of topics regarding its treatment will be discussed the disease currently has no known cure but there are a number of treatment methods available to lessen its impact among the topics to be discussed at the conference will be the need for early diagnosis and speedy access to ATTR specific treatments the prevalence of the version of amyloidosis most commonly present in donnie gall as well as discussing new treatments and clinical trials now available to treat the disease the conference takes place in the anchor chotel in gedore the saturday may 28th from 9 30 a.m to 4 30 p.m weather night today will bring sunny spells and scattered shards a few of them heavy this evening cloud will increase with rain and drizzle moving in and highest temperatures of 13 or 14 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock 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public might be able to help and then they disseminate some information which may be useful for you in terms of your safety or protecting you from crime that's every single tuesday by the time so i want to get to be ahead of the bingo numbers i want to get to some of your comments on nuclear by the time we would build a nuclear plant the technology will have moved on to nuclear fusion and it will be immediately outdated and besides that the disaster we are building things the way we are building things the children's hospital was supposed to cost 500 million initially it would be the biggest sinkhole for taxpayers money another we have no marine protection areas offshore turbines will kill marine animals and affect fishing but the greens don't care greg small modular reactors smrs and nuclear fission reactors that are smaller than conventional nuclear reactors and typically have an electrical power output of less than 300 megawatts the thermal power output of less than a thousand megawatts which is a fraction of the cost of our traditional nuclear power plant i think john referenced those that you talk of i have no problems with nuclear power says this listener this listener but the irish building and operating a nuclear plant come on the whole of europe will be running for the bonkers seriously we're terrible at putting ourselves down aren't we i think we shouldn't forget that we the irish both here but particularly abroad are responsible for some of the most amazing construction we've built cities we've built we've built rail lines we've built underground infrastructure and so much more besides you know we lead the way i think in terms of our ability to get things done so i don't know we've enough people running us down and making jokes about us without it doing to ourselves i think but listen i appreciate your view what about hydro power we used to have two plants can i ask you views on it i presume you mean i'll listen to our guests but unfortunately i got that a little bit late nuclear is not clean what's the half life of nuclear waste asks a caller another we under no circumstances should we have nuclear power if someone plants a bomb and blew the nuclear power it's too much of a threat to the irish people no to nuclear power i think in terms of the containment and we've seen that in ukraine but the containment of the the negative elements of the negative elements of a nuclear disaster a lot has been learned by shinobal this caller references shinobal though what about all the babies born with defects due to the shinobal disaster don't forget the cancer and other health problems then many had to leave their homes forever we don't want nuclear we the people deserve better but is our proximity to the likes of some of britain's nuclear plants does that i mean would we not feel the effects of a nuclear disaster because one is on one could happen on the island next to us i don't know people in irish cities don't have to look at turbines how is gas backed turbines clean energy such nonsense is john getting paid to spout this well he's a hard line activist and journalist and he's of the view that that's a myth tell michael white to enjoy his fame because it'll be history after the next election unfortunately michael white's not elected he did stand for election but wasn't elected he is a chairperson of the green party and not subject at this point to de-selection greg so all we go and stop important power from the uk is they produce 30 percent of their power from nuclear plants and the plans for interconnection from france who produce 80 percent of their power from nuclear fuel so it's okay for countries to build nuclear plants and produce power and frost to bite in other words it's someone else's problem yet that's pretty much where we're at yep we don't mind doing that nuclear power definitely the way to go believes a texture another nuclear waste is a disaster and no one knows how to get rid of it our main problem right now is letting massive data centers devour our power and water supplies wave technology for the Atlantic and bladeless technologies are the future for us another we're already using nuclear power from scotland via the interconnector and onboard planologist granted permission for an interconnector to france so we can buy nuclear power from france it's hypocrisy not to discuss it but the government seems intent on destroying every hill and bug in our land first there's no such thing as renewable electricity they say now on our social media some comments there yes nuclear energy should be considered another we can't get to zero carbon these people are delusional the ice is melting because it's been melting since the ice age ended we shouldn't have ice caps and that's a fact okay but you know i just think we're slightly i i respect your view there but when we see what's happening now at the moment in countries around the world already it's very hard to deny i mean are we denying that the changing climate is having such a negative impact on certain parts of the world and inevitably us as well and it's very i don't think that can that can be really argued strongly that what's happening now is the climate is changing and it is changing to a point whereby swathes of Australia are going to be unlivable according to scientists and the new leader in Australia seems to accept that we've seen what's happening in in Spain for example okay that might be a quirk but in other parts of the world India elsewhere people literally struggling to live because of the weather and the changes to the weather and then we can't surely if we accept that not accept that particularly since the industrialization that we are not contributing to it and what is our role to try and limit that damage we're doing i think are we not already at that point now that we accept that oh wait six 60 25 000 whatsapps and texts i'll call 07491 25 000 good luck if you're playing the bingo today it's time for NCBI 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for the public's assistance in relation to a dairy bag rtc yeah this was a collision that occurred in dairy bag between a silver forward focus and a black volkswagen gulf this happened on tuesday the 17th of may shortly after 10 p.m unfortunately four males and three females were taken to letter candy hospital for medical assessment uh non-life threatening injuries thank goodness but two of the occupants remain in hospital so it's quite a serious collision uh the guards in uh in bondage are asking me to appeal for witnesses who for people that may have seen this in the glacia area uh so on tuesday the 17th of may after 10 p.m please make contact with the guards in milford who will then pass on any details uh to investigate in guards and the milford guards can be reached on<PHONE_NUMBER> okay and also an appeal of as it relates to a burglary and convoy yeah a burglary and convoy between saturday the 21st of may at 8 p.m and sunday the 22nd of may at 8 a.m so uh during the night of saturday past the lock on the roller door of a garage was damaged an entry was gained to it a dripper impact gun and a dwalt spray gun were stolen from the garage um and anybody that may have been maybe offered these items for sale or has seen any suspicious activity over that time period please contact the guards in letter candy nine one six seven one hundred suppose anybody you know when we any burglary is bad but i hate saying greg when a man's tools have been taken you know because it's it's it's a lot more cost livelihood to exactly yeah yeah so you know anybody can contact any guard a station in relation to any of these appeals uh because obviously we're all linked through computers and emails and stuff like that or indeed uh you know you don't have to give your name or or details you can ring the guard a confidential line on 1800 travel six travel one indeed for any appeals yeah not talking specifically to this case of course as i have no knowledge of of the circumstances but i do know i wonder sometimes um generally speaking in general society our garage doors are weak link the locks can seem a little bit flimsy at times you know um from from my experience and you know we could have an alarm system in the house but not have a sensor routed out to an outdoor space i suppose it's something if we can we should be considering yeah but unfortunately no we shouldn't have to do these things yeah of course you know we are wherever you know you you see us coming in here every week and and we're making these types of appeals you know so it's it's unfortunate that we we have to lock everything down and nail everything down but i suppose that's just the world we're living in greg yeah all right now the next appeal is criminal damage in letter kenny yeah again attacking a man's livelihood greg um this man owns a fast food van people will be very familiar with it on the pierced road this happened on wednesday night between nine p.m and ten a.m the next morning when it was discovered damage was caused to various parts of the van i don't know exactly what greg but uh entry was not gained to the van so anybody that has observed anything suspicious around this mobile food van please contact the garrison letter kenny nine one six seven one hundred you'd imagine someone who saw something it's just getting that person with that information in contact with the guard yeah absolutely and i don't have any more details than that greg about the type of property or the what the type of damage was but it should be covered by cctv i would think as well you know okay part of the investigation of course right criminal damage now in downings yeah at croc namurlog downings between friday the 20th of may at 10 p.m and saturday the 21st of may at 9 30 a.m two doors at the front of a house and that area were smashed between those times no entry was gained to the house and nothing was stolen so it appears to be just random criminal damage so any residents in the area croc namurlog that observed anything on friday night the 20th of may please contact the garrison millford nine one five three zero six zero or indeed any guard station all right kill me current and road knock criminal damage there yeah stick on with the theme of smashing things up greg st. connell's hospital day center window was broken there between 4 p.m and saturday the 14th and it was discovered then on monday morning at 8 30 a.m a window was damaged at the center between those times again the call my colleagues in the letter can a can be reached on nine one six seven one hundred right now we are appealing as it relates to now a road traffic collision at kill ross yeah finally me last appeal greg for information is this collision that occurred at kill ross convoy people way familiar with that junction there the the main road on the letter can a to convoy and stern or the road a many of us was traveling from the convoy directions towards turn order when it was struck by a black bmw that had been traveling in the opposite direction unfortunately the driver the black bmw did not remain at the scene and i took off so anybody that has any information or dash cam that would cover that incident please contact the guards again on the letter can a nine one six seven one hundred so anybody traveling on the between convoy stern order at the kill ross junction between 6 45 a.m and 7 15 a.m quite early in the morning please contact the guards in letter can a okay i'm not sure the damage not one great but you can only presume that maybe a wing mirror or something like that so or i'm not sure how heavy the damage was but anybody mechanics whatever that's been asked to replace the driver side damage to a bmw maybe we can get in touch with us as well yeah okay right now in important recognition today in terms of the history of ungodly chicana yeah i don't know important to you perhaps i don't know but it's not not well i'm suppose i'm yeah it's not something that would float my boat Greg but the the guard of commissioner is hosting a discussion on the establishment of the the the guard of chicana to take over from the royal house constabulary which happened 100 years ago and this has been live streamed on facebook after 7 p.m so you'll get that through the guard don't call guard of facebook page or indeed the guard of facebook page suppose it's a nice thing Greg but i know you do have several historians here and done it all maybe interested in that yeah okay there's a full panel discussion there and you can watch it if that is your thing it's going to be live streamed as now said on the guard of facebook page after 7 p.m if you wish to tune in right relay for life takes place this weekend this time of year Greg yeah relay for life 2022 has taken place this weekend Saturday the 28th again at the newly named eglantic technological university formerly the la t letter kinny uh people i'm sure are very familiar with this event it's a 24-hour fun-filled event which honors all cancer survivors and gives us all a chance to remember those who maybe we have lost to cancer or suffering or or recover from cancer at the moment my colleagues and and donnie gall will have a stand at the relay for life event and indeed they're taking part as well and over the course of 24 hours so i just want to wish everybody best of luck in this event very worthwhile cause Greg yeah indeed and everyone's invited to go along this good park and but it's like everything it's not really a garden matter um that all works if we follow the follow the directions and then park where we're supposed to park and so on and so forth uh guard out now mcguire thank you very much for your time this morning thank you great we appreciate it greatly that was the community guard information item here in hindland radio it'll be back with you uh on the show after the 10 o'clock news next tuesday the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 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north and south of ireland um i'm i'm looking at a map here um that um shows us the first seven families identified it's in a 1987 medical paper yes and it's not a region of the world it's not a continent it's not a county in ireland it's really quite specific to a north west ish corner of dunagall is there an explanation for that no there's no explanation for that and as you as you would know greg it has traveled the world with the irish diaspora so people in australia america all over the world all have ancestors from that particular region now my aunt was one of the first people to be diagnosed with the condition and on the map it shows burt as an area where this disease originates but what happened there was my great grandmother mother was from the northwest of dunagall and moved to the burt newton cunningham area we believe through the hiring fairs but we are so determined to raise awareness in this particular area of the country because as you will see from the map it's burtonport bunbeg dairybeg carry gart gordon atraw it's really a 15 mile ribbon of coastline from where this disease originates right so is it to do with uh an area is it local pollutants or something or is it genetics or do we actually know at this point they don't actually know all we know at this stage is that it's genetic so it is yeah okay yeah and it passes from one generation to the next so really every generation has a number of people affected in each generation and the trouble is for people that might have early symptoms they're not aware that this condition is in their midst because over the years it was misdiagnosed it might have been put down to angina or something else and the the figures indicate that about 40 percent of people are not aware of a family history so we would be asking people if they do have health problems and nobody seems to know what's going on to have a think back about their family history to see if there could be any connection right okay and um the more people traveled obviously then the links get broken or it spreads out doesn't i presume there was a time whereby you know it would be easy to identify you know everyone that may or may not be affected by this but as you've already outlined with people traveling emigrating whatever it might be the links get broken in time so do we think that the nucleus of it is here in the northwest of donagol and that every case that might pop up wherever it might be and you think for someone who may be adopted or something and become ill in in north america you know and they're going well i have nothing to base this on do you think if we could get this back to the beginning it starts in in donagol well it'd be fabulous to get it back to the beginning i would need to be clear to say that there are a number of different types of hereditary amyloidosis our type is known as t60a it's called irish amy or donagol amy throughout the world but for this particular type it everybody needs to have an ancestor from this from this area while it's a rare disease it's all the more unusual in that it has a geographically specific point of origin that's that's unheard of and we do know that there is a common founder which is quite interesting it would be fabulous if somebody wanted to do a documentary to try and try and find out who that common ancestor was right so let's talk about symptoms then that people need to look at for it is incredibly rare and you but i think knowledge is param at least it's something you can mention to your gp and they might rightfully or wrongfully hopefully not dismiss it but i think just if people have got something that they're struggling to say we're being told it's not this but i just don't feel it's that so talk to me about you know typically if there is a typical example of how this develops what are the first signs what happens next yeah there would be some typical symptoms and i and i have to say greg we are becoming increasingly aware that there is there are a significant number of dunnigol gps who are aware of this and have it on their radar and we're ever so grateful for that we obviously want more people to know about it particularly in the different counties um throughout throughout ireland there will usually be a cluster of symptoms so it can affect the heart people may have breathlessness it may affect the the nervous system where people have numbness or tingling and their extremities or feet there could be bowel problems there could be stomach problems if people have a little cluster the cluster causes problems because somebody could be going to a cardiologist for their heart and a neurologist for their polyneuropathy we need people to join the dots for this particular illness to to pull the specialties together i mean you could be referred to a cardiologist in dublin right and they go down and they do whatever they do you might not even mention oh and by the way i also have a bowel issue or what have you then you come back up and you know with the best will in the world you're probably no further on in terms of diagnosis you would be you would be no further on and that's why we're trying to educate the medical professionals and the patients and people that are involved so is there a typical age that these symptoms to start start to manifest yes for my particular condition the 50s and the 60s is when it starts so if people we would recommend particularly for people that have a family history that round about the age of 50 that they start to seriously consider genetic testing for this and does that have to be done privately no no it can be done through your GP and it's a very straightforward process it's either blood tests or saliva tests and we also have the benefit of doctors referring people over to the national amyloidosis centre in London which is the centre of excellence but we do have medical professionals north and south of Ireland who are becoming increasingly involved in this field okay in terms of treatments i seem to recall from the last time i spoke about this there are treatments that are effective for at least some but it's where they're available is a is a problem yes well the last time we spoke to you Greg we were campaigning for my drug which is patizaran to be made available in the republic of Ireland it has been available in the republic of Ireland from the first of October 2022 very recently we had 2021 is that 20 it's not available yet is it oh no it was available from last October 2021 okay yeah sorry no no no it's fine you're perfectly fine so um very recently we had our first patient in Donegal who had her infusion treatment in her Donegal home at this stage for new patients they get the first three treatments in Tallahospital in Dublin and then they have it at home i have also been on patizaran which is administered every 21 days it's a gene silencing treatment it's a four hour infusion every 21 days which helps to slow down the progression does it reverse any of the the problems associated with this disease i'm not entirely sure about the reversal some studies suggest that there are slight reversals but the important thing is if people are diagnosed really really early i have to say i am incredibly fortunate for somebody with this condition i have an excellent quality of life that's lovely to hear and i was diagnosed two years earlier than most because because my family has lived with this for 40 years i knew my family history and i was very aware of the of the early symptoms right so someone wants to know is what would be the difference and maybe it's obvious or not between amyloidosis and molten urine disease well there are two completely different diseases they're they're and i wouldn't really know very much about modern urine disease they would they would be similar in that they are both progressive and ultimately fatal so in terms of amyloidosis and um then the donagol amy variant or if that's strain or whatever the correct terminology might be what what's the percent like is is amyloidosis generally speaking rare or is it the donagol strain we'll call it that particularly rare no hereditary amyloidosis is rare anyway okay so there are 50 000 cases worldwide of hereditary amyloidosis and donagol amy is the third most prevalent understood now to be able to all organize a conference right and to be able to attract such expertise in uh this is kind of a strange question but there are incredibly rare conditions or diseases right that don't get the research that don't get the drug development or perhaps don't get the attention of such highly highly qualified people is there a particular reason that this has caught the attention of of the medical world compared to um other conditions say for instance like Lyme disease which many people believe does not even exist you know what i mean is there a particular reason why uh you can organize such a big conference about something that is really relatively rare i hope you understand the nature of that question yes i do and i can't comment on Lyme disease no but it was just to give the one example of something that was in the back of my head yeah well we were very fortunate in that donagol amy was first identified in america and it really caught people's attention that's what i'm getting at yeah the fact that it was geographically specific and then we were so fortunate that there were a team of researchers at the national amyloidosis center it caught their interest and they have dedicated 25 years plus in seeing what they can do and that answers the question i thought it must be something like that that there's a curiosity there about this that would that would drive on sort of that level of research and what yes it it really did and we are so we are so fortunate to have benefited from their their intellect and compassion that they have found solutions for where they're used to be to be any the the fabulous thing about my cousin is on crisper which is crisper trial which is the gene editing the other reason i think that we attracted interest is that we are small enough in number that we are an excellent control group for experimentation but if the crisper proves to be successful greg it will in time roll out across every genetic disease so it's absolutely fabulous as it's the stuff of dreams yeah so success in this field could daisy chain to to to others okay and as you say maybe you say it's a good control group to to develop yes right so the emerging from the shadows it's the ATTR amyloidosis conference 2022 is it all in person isn't yes you managed to attract all of these people to your persuasive qualities must be quite impressive we do have persuasive qualities i mean i have to say a number of these people we've had relationships with over the years for example professor mary riley who's coming over to the conference a world-renowned expert she was one of the people who came and spent two years traveling back and forward from england and donnie gall to research this condition she's looking forward to meeting me in person i'm family d in her medical paper professor julian gilmore we were we have been blown away by the response of people wanting to come and if i could just say in the very early days a number of people that are more experienced than us said you can't hold a major conference in you know the wilds of donnie gall and we had a very strong gut feeling that that's exactly where we needed to hold it it's the place where gene's geography and genealogy collide it's the only place it could have been hosting it's the only place it could have been well that's that's that's what we felt and there's there's a sense of you know as i say my aunt was was four decades ago so after 40 years in the wilderness there's a sense that we're we're bringing donnie gall amy home okay so it's saturday the 28th of May it's from 9 30 a.m to 4 30 p.m in uncurched hotel in health club guidore um you can reserve your seat now at ameloydice dosis dot arland at gmail dot com what kind of a turnip would there be for this because do you know what i mean the the numbers are relatively small and you know obviously it might not be easy for everyone to travel here so what's the expectation in terms of uh the crowd that might be there yeah well we've had a huge response it's for doctors and patients and at this stage we have over 170 people attending amazing in person we've a few seats left if people still want to reserve but the response has been phenomenal it's gonna be a little bit too like a medical thinking i wonder yeah it could well not for the public but you know sort of accidentally you know off the scenes behind the scenes yeah it's the top people in the field and we also have people we have um other ameloydosis groups traveling over from the uk we have canada coming we have the european alliance for patient access and we have ameloydosis international coming so it's it's an historic international conference of that of the highest caliber i think it's gonna go it is certainly gonna be uh referenced in the future i would think so just a word then to what what do you think we need to say just because obviously we're here to talk about the conference and the work that's been ongoing but to people who are living some sort of a medical nightmare uh you know that they feel they're that what they have no one can tell them what it is or they're suffering in silence so they're googling it and they putting it down to this that the other or maybe they might just say well it's my age this is what happens they're living alone maybe they were adopted i don't know whatever it might be so what what is your message to people out there today who may have this the sooner they come forward hopefully the sooner they can get on some sort of a a treatment because i just the thought if we could maybe stop one person's nightmare all of this would be so so worth it wouldn't it absolutely it is anyway but i think you know what i'm saying yeah absolutely greg and you know sometimes people ask us what the driving force is and i can only say that we have seen this up close and and personal it's i'm not saying that other diseases are any gentler but this one is particularly savage and we have come across people who've been told that their symptoms were all in their head we understand most of the problems that people might experience what i would say to people is if you have any suspicions at all or if you are completely unclear please make contact with us we will speak to you without a team of seven one of us will speak to you privately confidentially we will go through your symptoms we will have those discussions with you and try to steer you in the right direction we are experts when it comes to this disease and we will know from speaking to people if there's a strong suspicion that that's what they may be dealing with and if you get the right signposting it's a relatively simple test we'll tell you one way or other well the the genetic test will tell you if you carry the gene and then that will be a good indicator and then there will be a battery of tests to see if the disease has actually started some people may carry the gene and not go on to develop the the illness figures suggest that 80 percent of people do and one of the medical papers that we've already referenced Greg has indicated that they believe that one percent of the population over the age of 45 in Donegal may be affected by my type of hereditary amyloidosis so the numbers we do believe are larger than we know at the minute i'm absolutely convinced that's one and a half thousand odd people it is yeah yeah we're absolutely convinced that people are struggling with this and not dealing with it and if i can say in recent months we've come across a few families that have lost a loved one to this and didn't even know it was that it was in the family okay right well rosie hopefully we've reached those people also to just to mention already a huge amount of people have registered for this conference on saturday with all the experts really that you'd want associated with this disease present if you want to reserve your seed give us a ring here because i have said about seven different pronunciations or pronunciations of amyloidosis uh so in terms of spelling get in contact with us and caroline or don emory we'll spell it over the phone but if you know the spelling amyloidosis.arland at gmail.com to reserve your seat but you need to get in quick because there's already been a huge response to that as you can well imagine all right roseline calhan i'm great to hear that i'm delighted to hear that you're feeling good um and i just hope that we've reached people today that might be able to follow this up in in their lives and either prevent or help to treat this this condition for themselves lovely thank you very much for your time i really appreciate it back with more after uh the break 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and i'm sorry for repeat myself but the weather supposed to get pleasant for friday saturday and sunday at least so that's nice if you're off at the weekend so many of us though here in donagall don't have weekends off but a lot of people do the continental shifts they could be working a lot of people work in hospitality or in retail and i think if i were one of they and everyone talks about oh lovely the weather's great and saturday trust i do understand that not everyone is um off but hopefully you get away early and you can enjoy the weather maybe a barbecue wouldn't that be nice uh right yesterday we read a comment as it relates to the amount of uh ukrainian refugees who are on arin morisland someone mentioned a figure and like there was some sort of a mass exodus but we like to deal in truth here so we had a look into that situation the reality is this 14 uh ukrainians were located on arinmore island um for medical and family reasons within one family 10 left okay there was a 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of both cars four meals and three females were taken to letter kenny university hospital for medical assessment and treatment for injury sustained none of which are believed to be life threatening meanwhile guardian appealing to mechanics he may have been asked to repair a black bmw involved in a crash in the kill ross convoy area on sunday to come forward at approximately 6 50 a.m and many boss was traveling from the convoy direction towards to norler when it was struck by a black bmw that had been traveling in the opposite direction the driver of the bmw failed to remain at the scene a senior medical scientist at letter kenny university hospital says no medical scientist wants to be on the picket line today up to 30 000 hospital procedures will be cancelled due to 2 000 100 medical scientists striking over the next two days guardian letter kenny are investigating an incident of criminal damage to a fast food van in letter kenny last week between 9 p.m on thursday last and 10 a.m on thursday morning damage was caused to various parts of the van parked on the pier shroad entry was not gained a fina fall senator says the processing time for a child's passport is too long for many families Lisa chambers is one of a large number of mothers around the country who have had to wait over three months for the vital document for their child new figures released today show almost 200 000 people are waiting for their passports ahead of a busy summer season a public consultation event held in boncrona last night has been healed a success hundreds of people were in attendance to view plans for a new leisure center for the town and the major 20 million year repiring boncrona initiative that will see the town's surefront developed and three men arrested by detectives as part of their investigation into an aggravated burglary at a house in cathedere glass month have been released on veal pending further inquiries detectives continue to appeal for information about the incident which occurred on april the 5th shortly after 6 p.m when a number of masked men armed with weapons including a sledgehammer forced entry to a house in the dromna bay park area those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon thank you very much indeed mikaela our manager's gotta bring down the government we're going to change the world smashing it to disney plus pistol a brand new original drama as singer is fully insane our base player starts fights for last this is punk come to us pie we're awful ladies and gentlemen sex pistols from director danny boyle pistol streaming soon exclusively on disney plus 18 plus subscription required t's and c's apply okay your comments here there was a full generation who didn't drink it was due to a rise in the drug scene this is the reason why alcohol is cheaper in the north i'm not saying anything to back that up but it's an opinion thank you i think that red bowl should be banned from nightclubs mixing a depressant alcohol with a stimulant is incredibly bad for you and a caller says what about the drug issue in donningall now at the nightclubs our youth are changing from drinking to drugs that's a very big issue i think all needs talked about great show coming in from silvia thank you very much indeed uh silvia uh greg afterlaw for the amount of people who complain about the price of petrol per liter but not a word about the price of alcohol per liter interesting so many can find the money for alcohol but complain about the cost of everything else well i mean you know you need petrol to get to work and just get the children to school and to get to the doctors and stuff alcohol for most people would be something that you choose to do not for everyone though and that's part of the conversation we were having on the program yesterday right okay now it is time to welcome on to the program dr anthony brezlin he's director of public health with the hsc good morning anthony good morning thanks for joining us right okay i mean obviously we used to speak to you quite regularly in the past there was a big push on on the vaccine uptake the booster uptake now what we're hearing is you know the occasional lad on the radio or the odd interview here and there but there is a strong push presumably from you and your your colleagues to get those who would benefit from a fourth a fourth injection to get it is that great is it fourth or fifth it's fourth isn't it anybody who who should get a vaccine should should be getting it if they haven't had it at all if they haven't had a full course if they haven't had the first booster if they haven't had the second booster so we're saying people who haven't should get the vaccine haven't got to go and get it and particularly those over 65 and also immunosuppressional for some reason and where can you get it now you can get it for your gp and you can get it from some pharmacies and there are still some hsc one clinics as well now there are a couple of strains doing the rounds at one found in arland i heard some of the media coverage saying the reason you know there's a bit of concern here is it can can evade you know some of the effects of a vaccine particularly if you had it some time ago and also if you've had covid before some might listen to that and go well if it's a can evade the vaccine what's the point in me getting the booster well because it's not the dominant circulating strain at the moment the others are still dominating this will pick up those and even though it may not provide 100 protection as it were against the new variants which are small in numbers at the moment it would provide some protection so it's better to get the vaccine than not to get the vaccine and we don't know what's around the corner what other variants as well we've seen i mean i'm sure people have given up trying to keep track of all the variants there are and we could get another variant that could be very very responsive to the vaccine so it's a good vaccine it's a safe vaccine at work so it's worthwhile getting it all right what about how much covid is around at the moment can you get a gauge of that uh with the level of testing that's ongoing uh we can get a rough gauge between that the the antigen tester reported the pcr tests that are being done and the numbers are very small thankfully and we can also see the number of admissions and also at the number of outpicks they're very very small uh thankfully so we hope it continues uh obviously as i said we don't know what's around the corner in terms of variants and obviously uh in the autumn winter when people start getting indoors again we don't know what will happen then but we're hoping that the vaccine will be very very useful to then preventing serious infection and outbreaks do we know yet what the situation will be as it relates to an annual situation no we don't know yes because we don't know we're going to get a changing picture all the time or will it go to some steady picture whatever uh that's been looked at big time but we can't give an answer at this stage okay so we don't know if it's going to become a seasonal sort of an event whereby we will manufacture a vaccine what we do with the flu we just don't know that yet okay right so people feel right at least at the very least we've a respite from from covid and now the headlines the main story is monkeypox now my read of what seems to be there is obviously medical professionals like yourself need to get the message out there but cases seem rare that doesn't seem a huge concern that this could be something that leads to mass outbreaks and i don't think we've had any cases here in in arland yet and in terms of outcomes i think two of all cases so far have had to be hospitalized but that's my reading of it what's the medical reality from from the professional's perspective um it is um we haven't got cases in arland yet probably will with the spread around the world in europe etc while um it is uh sort of a moderate self-limiting disease in the vast majority people it can become a serious infection um those are immunosuppressed and also in children i've seen media reports of a child being admitted in the uk but i haven't seen anything official about that uh we don't want to get to that situation where uh we have uh close contacts isolating for 21 days and small outbreaks happening on over and it's enough cases out there that it gets to um children and it gets to immunocompromised we don't want to go with them that's why we're trying to control us so it does not become an issue so that in a couple of weeks time we stop we can stop talking about it okay so you know you're in the business of public health and getting the message out there thankless at times uh dr brezen as you know yourself and i didn't know myself uh you know when we were trying to share the information about gov and a lot of people wanted it we're interested in it a lot of people would would like oh no not greg and anthy again right so with that in mind do you think there's a responsibility on the media to be measured in their response to things in other words like i'm not saying they have right but you know when it comes around to when we need really important strong messaging do you think maybe we need to be measured in how we cover things like monkeypox because we could find ourselves with the situation where the boy cries wolf you know and and bad news cells do you think the media needs to say and i think particularly the national media say right we need to think about wh