Hey, hello everybody and welcome back to the Think Tech Hawaii studio. We've got a fun episode of security matters today and I am sorry I have been offline most of October I was traveling. So I'm happy to be back here today. And Jenny vickers is with me out she is the CEO of zeperd law I'm going to let her do her intro as I normally do. But stick around we're going to have some fun talking about and I've got she's an international guest coming to us from New Zealand. So Jenny I appreciate you getting up early in the morning. It's a little bit earlier than it is here but it's already tomorrow there I believe as well. So anyway, thank you go ahead and let our audience know if they haven't read about you and I have set for your, your number one global influencer award, and your nomination to the best of the best award that we'll talk about. Give them give them a sense of the background you know we don't give it all away on social media today but as much as you care to share and let us know have at it. And thank you for joining me today. So hi Andrew, and good morning from New Zealand on Wednesday, and I'm delighted to be here and have this opportunity to have a bit of a chat so.  I've lived here for 25 years I emigrated here from the UK, and I still remember the emotional feeling I had going through citizenship ceremony and that sense of belonging in a place that also made reminded me of why don't we do citizenship ceremonies for people who are born somewhere so that they get that same sense of anchoring to the place but when I stepped off the plane 25 years ago. I knew that this was the place I was supposed to be. So, so it's a cool place I, I have a very unconventional career or I'm not sure that these days there's any such thing as a conventional one. It's the serial development and so often I describe to people that what I do is anything I find really interesting. And I'll go off in a different direction and over the last couple of weeks I was thinking about a number of the businesses I've developed, which are parked which had I done something with them 10 years ago, then I probably be a billionaire now but actually it was more important to move on to the next thing that got me excited and interested so. So, these days I run zepid law so it's my own law firm, and I'll tell you a little bit about the zepid in a second at the moment, I'm on one contract so my law firm's got one client, and I'm working with fortunate which I'm loving great company very strong ethical underpin fabulous products and so for my years as a lawyer, working in an ethical environment is so important. So it's a happy comfortable space to be. And so the zepid I should explain to people about the zepid so I was looking for. I was teaching mind mapping I stopped being a lawyer and said I've had enough of being a lawyer and discovered mind mapping and wanted to help lawyers be a bit more visionary with their thinking because often I was finding myself as the only person in a room who could see this while everybody else was pinned down on the page so I discovered mind mapping. This is a fabulous thing to do that I needed a brand name and the zepid appeared from a brainstorming session with a fabulous friend from Aussie and the two of us bounced ideas around and so we ended up with this hybrid of a zebra and a leopard. It was very interesting that it was the perfect for me or whole brain thinking you got to be a bit left you got to be a bit right. And then I started researching into zebras and leopards and love the fact that success comes from being able to be a team player to be an individual to be able to think differently to be able to work together people to collaborate and to influence that thinking So the zepid as my brand is the perfect encapsulation of me and the color I use orange which is a very strong powerful happy positive color so over the last. This is what led to the set global nomination over the last five to eight years I've been involved very closely with defense in both Australia and New Zealand very much working in the contract commercial management space and looking at how do we get government customers and industry working better together because there's far too many examples in the world of all that focus and again this is where we're back to the lawyers you have all this focus on getting a contract in place but unless you manage your behaviors and the relationship before the contract signed then the chance of making that relationship carry on afterwards is going to be tainted if you haven't got it right and and finally those examples take me back to practicing law in the UK and doing M&A transactions which I used to do and often I'd be acting for the selling business so maybe a baby boomer who was ready to sell their business to one of the big guys and I'd look after them and we'd do the contract but often you could see that anxiety and angst between the lawyers that by the time the contract was signed somebody wasn't even taught their parties but even talking to each other. Wow. Not the lawyer's job but in the zealousness to defend and risk and make sure that their client doesn't take on to risk the big picture and the long term relationships get lost so. So that's me and then defense sector is a fascinating sector in New Zealand it's particularly interesting because we spend an awful lot more here on domestic products on clothes on food. Then we do on anything that's at the big end and and so there's you know thousands of companies supply defense here and important for all of them to have a good relationship we want to see great. Good value purchasing by government we also need to see successful thriving local businesses so so being part of that mix and trying to make sure that we move everybody in the right direction together is really important so that's me. Wow. No I love it I love what I love about especially defense work right which is a sector I'm in in the US. So when you've got leopards who are pretty much singular right they've got their spots they hide out in the terrain but then you've got the zebras who all hide out together so that you know only the slow and the old get picked off right when they all have to run from as prey. So they kind of hide amongst their stripes so interesting when I was in New Zealand. I did observe and talk to a lot of folks who absolutely sort of self subsistence is almost a sense of a source of national pride there I think so much of what goes on in New Zealand is built in and around what New Zealand can make themselves and then supply to themselves there's not a lot of import maybe automobiles or something but they're you know they're very self sufficient is that sort of one of those things that that exists also in that defense space in your experience. So I think in theory yes in practice probably no so I think interestingly inside. I don't mean to beat up on procurement people but it often sounds like am but some of them deserve it some of them deserve it and the exemplars need to be encouraged but I think if you track through what's happened here has been very similar from around the world the government procurement and saving money cheapest price blah blah blah all of that good stuff that never worked was was a guide for a long time and so for over time more of this is right the way across the government. More and more products would be supplied from overseas because our local. You know we don't have the economies of scale that other countries have and so often our local suppliers would get beaten on because that lower price and so we had a change in procurement rules maybe. Maybe eight to 10 years ago where it became value for money but what we saw was people going blah blah blah value cheapest price and it was just you know it just became a new word to me chips price so we actually got nowhere with it over the past. And it's actually two years since they were launched. We've had this greater interest from government in broader outcomes and saying how do we actually make sure that more of our local businesses get to see the government spend because we should be able to do better but they are they needed to have a broader perspective now it's been a long slow process. Some of the articles I've written. It was when I wrote in line of defense magazine which was in there a couple of months ago and I did a report card on progress with broader outcomes. And I think I gave them a C must try harder but frankly to God it's when I wrote the article it said deep must try hard and then I thought. It's a bit too brutal because we do need to encourage the good ones so so I gave them a quick remark and put them up to see. But if you ask my mother sees not good enough so it's not good enough yet so so we are seeing some changes here but one of the other things which is really interesting is that we have all these amazing tech companies in New Zealand who only supply overseas. You know we're famous all over the place people here won't even know the names of the companies you know we have people employing 50 to 100 people who do no domestic work at all because they would create a new product. Talk to the world world would go yet we want this venture capital money come in from overseas and their entire focus has been outside now I guess for those guys a long term success would be actually getting. To be supplying to New Zealand as well. So then you get to COVID and so we've got broader outcomes running as a new concept before COVID hit, and that suddenly gave us the very compelling evidence for why having more local supply and strengthen supply chains with your local suppliers. They perfect sense but of course you can't fix it. The minute the borders close, it's not so easy, but there was some, there was some great examples so one of my favorites was the NZ sock company so, and one of the things they, they have our ballistic socks. And so they, they do remarkable work with New Zealand wall that they could make these high performance technologically advanced socks. So basically, I chatted to them early on in COVID they needed a bit of tooling done so that they could then switch their machines from socks to masks and. So, you know New Zealand business, the one we do have tooling expertise, but it's, you know the easy lazy thing is to send it to China. And some of the went started making masks now have spoken to them for ages but it was a that was a nice example of, we do have the expertise, but we actually need to make sure that we have procurement people who are enabled and able and willing to buy local. I think the US has seen that same reliance that we had I mean your vision for what needs to be done, you know long term for better outcomes the US got bit as well. A lot of our resourcing being done offshore chip sets in things that were selling to the defense sector to critical infrastructure sector now big problem. So we see Intel gearing up going to build new chip plants but all this stuff takes years to fix, you know that the pivot the pivot back to local consumption by local manufacturing keeping all the tax dollars here the earnings here, all that stuff. So, it isn't unknown but it's definitely a change of mindset that's been, you know offshore offshore offshore cheaper cheaper you know to your point. So, it, I think it's good vision on your part to continue to push that line and the CD grade, I think the US would have an F right now actually. So the CD grade is actually perhaps gentle, but you know don't stop pushing, it's all because you don't want to end up where we were. It's, it's, it's a difficult position, and especially defense which moves you know slowly right to big industry. So I did have an opportunity to visit with one of our security superstars that is big in New Zealand and around the world and that's Gallagher security down there in Hamilton I don't think too far away from you. Have you ever have you. Yeah, sir Williams a gentleman of one of he's a night, you know he's knighted now sir William so he's an amazing guy. Have you had an opportunity to interact with that group at all in your business dealings. Yes, no, I definitely do in my previous role with Defense Industry Association I went and visited Gallagher's and actually one of the things that struck me about them was that they did a tour of the whole factory in operations and one of the things that was so interesting was that they geared up for the whole spectrum from robot vacation and I was looking at the we're doing injection molding all robot driven and then they had people in other parts of the factory doing hand construction and artisan work because that particular product needed the artisan and another product needed the robot. And so they've got the ability to do the whole range and so William is delightful every time I get a chance to meet with him it's always a pleasure. I was when I got down there and it's been quite maybe a decade ago but it absolutely brilliant company I mean I thought from the way they were so internally resourced. You know here's a model that I wish we had available in the US for other security products that were sold in the US at the time. So it was a it was a refreshing and wonderful to see what they were doing. We have been chatting like already halfway three so let we're going to jump to a break real quick for one minute. So come we'll be back in a minute stick around we'll be talking with Jenny vickers when we get back. You know this is Howard wig, the proud host of hold green a sync tech Hawaii program. We air every other Monday from noon to 1230. And my guests are subject matter experts in bringing Hawaii to 100% clean energy by 2045. So we're naming not just at the electricity, but also at ground transportation, exciting stuff. Please join me. Hey thanks for hanging around we're talking with Jenny vickers she is live with us from New Zealand today. Jenny your background's been amazing and I know that you are now kind of working with Fortinet so let's give them a little bit of love. How's it been to enjoy a new relationship kind of during coven. I mean, I'm not sure if you're doing bd or says how that's working out but you know huge name in the industry I'm a fortinet user myself, a big fan of their products. What's it been like to engage with an organization like that and help them you know share their love during you know coven you know with the impacts to business down there. Yeah, so thank you and the fortinet is a great company. And I think I said at the very beginning that that highly ethical drive for a business is so important for me because I have in my career in the past been in a few places where you sit and look at the ethical dilemmas dilemmas and the behaviors of some people and so like no I don't want to be there again because it's a stressful and exhausting place to be and you can manage your own ethics you can't always manage those of other people. So, so great company so they've one of the things I've been looking at particularly was what the corporate social responsibility projects might look like so. Jay Garcia is very well known to people in us in the US and around the world so he's a former Marine and he heads up the veteran 40 that program for 40 net and so the there's a chronic shortage of cybersecurity professionals around the world. And we need to do something about it so for that has made a pledge to to contribute a million more people into the cyber workforce so I've been looking at what can we do here and spending a lot of time talking to Australia as well around how they're using the internet training to support veterans to go into industry so so that's taken a lot of my time. We're seeing a lot of change in New Zealand in the last couple of years in the way we look at tertiary education. So how do we make sure that we don't put people through university and then spit them out the other end with very high student loans and no jobs because they're not anchored to the workplace. Yeah so a massive transformation the tech sector here has done a great job of being part of that process. And one of the interesting findings from their recent research was that we have a skills mismatch in technology not necessarily a shortage of people. So we still have people and so and I've been looking recently about how many people are coming out of university with web design skills or with active element or some of the things where the demand is actually in security and you know security jobs are so broad and so wide. And I think area of I think of interest to you is is we need to get that better convergence between OT IT physical security and cyber security and I did notice I'm going to quick shout out to the fabulous Nairi Keller who is one of the global influences this year and she is an ASIS chairman here in New Zealand and I noticed the other day she was about to start studying that convergence of physical security and cyber security. So I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more in that space and it's it's an area that fortunately they're very passionate about. Yeah I love that commitment to train a million people you know Microsoft I think committed to 250,000 so if it's going for a million that's that's they're not on Microsoft scale that's for sure. So that's a really good and maybe it was 250 million I could be misquoting there but I think it was 250,000 but that's that is a worthwhile endeavor and we need it all across all across the planet. So I mean in Fortinet it's a global company right so they should be able to be an influencer there and all the market space and be able to help out that's that's incredible. So let's let's talk a little bit about I have sex so I have said global influencer you got the number one in your category. Congratulations, you know first of all for that it's a there were I think they were like 20 and each category so you know getting the number one wasn't easy this is a sort of an interesting and a difficult accomplishment. What, what does influencer what does that role sort of mean to you what do you think about it because you know we're talking off camera a little bit about that. It's not like a tick tock influencer per se. We're security influencers we feel passionately about protecting people protecting assets and you know national defense all these types of constructs so we're where I hope we're a different influencer than a tick tock influencer personally.  Yeah. So, um, so I mentioned before that I grew up in the UK my amazing fabulous mother was the headmistress of a school for handicapped children for a very long time and she did a whole number of firsts in her role as headmistress around supporting disabled children to give them better quality of life and I think one of the things I learned from her very early on is the pleasure you get personally from supporting other people and helping them so in her role long before social media her job was to connect the people with the money with the cause. And so I think I learned those skill sets from watching my mom and the benefits you get from being part of that supportive community but also being able to do that within the commercial world so for me influencing is really about helping connect people together. Um, so that the right people are talking because I'm so overall the conversations about silos and stove pipes and blah blah blah and it's really you know what can we do together although I must say a very quick story which I read in a post a number of years ago about silos and we talk about you know people in silos but actually somebody did the research and silos are designed with air holes to keep the grain fresh and therefore the whole point of the silos that's designed to let things flow. Ah, and so it's a bit like my zepid zepid the leopard never changes its spots is also the opposite of what is actually true and from where the story came from anyway that was a small diversion I needed to share but anyway so for me influencing is about connecting and making a difference to people because the more people I know that means that gives me the chance to amplify to more people but for their benefit not my so. So that's what influencing needs for me and that was what I got to do in my defense industry role was to connect into as many connect as many businesses in with defense as I possibly could. And a lot of my early successes were all around connecting businesses with businesses so we have some of the amazing tech companies amazing manufacturers, you know, government procurement cycles particularly in the defense sector along industry needs cash it needs money on the door. And so the company to company collaborations were those which we were starting to see and and now I'm not in the defense industry role anymore I'm still connected with all of those people and I'm daily delighted when I see that one of them's got a defense contract or they've moved on with the next stage. Because I would keep saying it's a long game. It's a long game and you need to be playing in there. I'm not going to team sport so I can't use any of those analogies but the fact is, you know, if you're playing a long game you need to be dancing in the background. While you're waiting. I think I think influencing is a team sport I mean obviously you're you're sort of in the middle of all those teams like oh do you know about this team over here did you know that they do that. And so that that putting together people is a is a it's a it's a really a critical function I think in any industry, whether it be national defense in the commercial in any geo environment you know cities towns. There's these folks that seem to kind of have their finger on the pulse at all different levels of things that are happening and they just happen to know people so you know tying those things you know up and down across those silos. You know three silos over from the bottom to the top and it's amazing what happens you know I am. I loved it I like introducing people and some watching them just have to do amazing things that I think that just helps us all, you know it's a good thing that you're doing down there is the is the community large so the, the influence reward is obviously prestigious have you gotten a lot of feedback from the communities that you work in down there that you know kind of now I'm sure buys online so they probably see it online but we're not able to get the benefit of being out in public with a big banner hanging behind just go a number one influencer you know and and drawing people to a venue you know a stage or whatever it may be. So how's how's the reaction been amongst your community there are probably larger more reaction amongst my global community rather than the local. Although the physical security community in New Zealand. You know this is that their space and so with the physical security guys, lots of attention in the defense and national security only gradual awareness of it but you know the awards have to become. They can go through their own transition so big in the world eventually it'll arrive in New Zealand so but it's been it's been a fabulous experience being named and for me the benefit of being named at that number one spot for thought leadership was how can I use that to support so and and that's the benefit that comes to me so one of one of the ones to watch winners from New Zealand was and keep the Dakar and she also by chance lives not far from Gallagher's and and so she and I have been been engaging quite a lot so and I'm introducing her to people. She's a cyber security ninja evangelist looking at helping younger people stay safe in the cyber community so absolutely somebody we need to be supporting. So if I get to use my influence to support younger people then that gives me really good. I love that isn't it even so much better it's even so much better I love I love your work I love what you're doing down there. It's a shame we're not going to get to meet in London but I'm definitely going to get back down to New Zealand soon so we can can meet in person have a cup of tea. The, so we've got a 30 seconds or so left just a closing thought maybe on on anything you'd like to say to share with our audience today. I think I would say by New Zealand by our products. Have a look at what we're doing. We have massive companies we also have tiny companies but for most of the things we make here and do here. We do it with love and with as much caring as we can possibly inject into a product so so I'd say by New Zealand products and help us get out of lockdown because it's a bit lonely. Your company is mannequins it's time to get out. I hope you get out soon I hope you guys get out of lockdown soon Jenny I truly appreciate you being with us today by New Zealand folks you heard it here today. Aloha everybody and take care out there.


Good evening, I am Destiny Mammo. This is news now. President Bolotino-Ruiz slashed expenditure on all official domestic and international travels of ministries, departments and agencies MDAs by 60%. Special advisor to the President on Media and Publicity, a jury Giorgale disclosed these while speaking to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Giorgale also revealed that every minister's entourage will be limited to not modern force staff to accompany them anywhere in the world, while only two staff are approved to accompany CEOs on foreign trips. His Excellency President Bolotino-Ruiz has by his most recent directive approved a massive cost-cutting exercise that will cut across the entire federal government of Nigeria and the offices of the President himself, the Vice President and the Office of the First Lady. It will be conducted in the following fashion. One, the official trips that will be undertaken within the country, that is when Mr. President or the Vice President travels to any state within the country, the massive bills that accrued due to allowances and ester code for security detail coming from Abuja going and traveling into those states will be massively cut due to the directive of the President that the security outfits within states, whether it be police, DSS or branches of the military, will frontline his protective detail when he travels to those states, a major cost-cutting initiative that will affect the Office of the Vice President as well as the Office of the First Lady. Additionally, when any international travel is being approved.


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It'll be for Adam All right another box in the books or first box in the books second box coming up another box coming up Good luck member as I said before To some more soccer we got another half case fresh case loaded up and we're doing the we're running the same promo on that break We're only selling 15 spots outright and giving away five spots to those 15 So if you buy a spot you got a chance to win a spot If you buy five spots There's a chance you could win five spots. That'd be a good return. Let's see when we're gonna Go our next Premier League match Start probably starts on Saturday Sunday Monday Yeah, Saturday. So this Saturday we got the early game For us anyway state-side Tottenham Wolverhampton are the early game then we got a handful of games are starting at the same time 7 a.m. Pacific Crystal Palace Villa home teams are first if you're not familiar with that Everton Nottingham Forest nearly promoted Nottingham Forest Fulham also newly promoted Brentford Leicester Southampton and Then Bournemouth Arsenal there's the sort of later game 9 30 a.m. Saturday night game on Sunday Fewer matches on Sunday, but Leeds at Chelsea Westham Brighton start right there Newcastle hosting Man City in the late game there. That's right. Tradiac and The match that I'm looking most looking forward to Liverpool with their second Monday night football match in a row man United hosting Liverpool 12 p.m. Pacific There's Sydney Raber again to 299 for Leipzig Ryan I don't know if this is any if this is worth anything extra, but I do like Zlatan and it's a refractors that goes to AC Milan So yeah, that Liverpool match 12 p.m. My time 3 p.m. East Coast time 8 p.m England time there's been chill. Well for Chelsea. That's Adam with this chill card Sure, you think it's you think it's a big game already Well, it's only the third match of the season. I don't know if there's that much Pressure on that. Maybe more pressure on on man United and There's prized footballers color blast Jack realish That looks pretty cool Or maybe just a parallel or is that a color blast? There is a blast of color behind a 28 out of 30 That's Martin man City last spot mojo. Oh, it's really sharp I like it finest futures Lucas in Mica and This is still buyer Munich's Robert Lewandowski 91 out of 125 And that's for buyer Munich And that will be for Martin Well, it's a fusion variation Martin saying and a refractor Erlen Holland This is still bruxa Dortmund edition. That's goes to canard and there see say Sandra 36 out of 50 For Bruce that'll be a combo team royal with that one I'm not panicking just yet. Tradiak. Not not from not not Liverpool anyway Man United though that might be a different A different thing though. There's Duvon Zapata for Atalanta That autographs going to a combo team, I believe No, that's by itself Ryan Lin. There's a Christiane Ronaldo refractor I'm not sure if he's terribly happy at man United right now That'll go to Ryan Lynn. He's looking for his autograph, of course, and there's Javi Simmons 99 out of 250 I thought it's gonna be a lower number. That's a cool-looking parallel though for Barry Saint-Germain That's a Brian the PSG you get that Neymar as well and Kyle Jorge Finest futures refractor For Juventus, and it'll be for a wheel All right box three of four or halfway through this half case break Another half in the store Tradiak saying Arsenal have looked phenomenal so far. It has to be said couldn't really challenge that The recent standard top two Liverpool and City Yeah, I think they've had a really nice start right some comfortable win I think they they beat Crystal Palace to an ill at Palace and then And for two to Leicester, and they've got a good squad pretty young squad to Arsenal I want to say right that's that I'm concerned about I don't know if the if the FA the English FA has really prepared for that You know that winter World Cup most of the Most of the other European leagues do have a winner break. I want to say But the festive fixtures have been such a Such a tradition in the UK Especially those boxing day fixtures. I don't think they were gonna you're gonna create a natural sort of rake there for the World Cup So we'll see I guess really it only affects The big clubs with those big names on their national that are gonna be playing national team footy so might be a chance for some of the The lower-table teams to pip some points from the from the big boys There's Brian Brobey for Leipzig Ryan Lin and there's another Sydney Raviger autograph for Leipzig for Ryan Lin rookie auto Yeah, exactly trading exactly the point. I was making yeah, Premier League They have they have those boxing day fixtures and then but Bundesliga. They've got a little extra break Yeah, we follow soccer here to trade act believe it or not. So so to 50 so so studio and so so for Sevilla Bill like he was a pretty hot prospect For for a little while there's Youssef Demir for Barcelona Adam Good Barça little photo, and there's Martin Satriano 69 out of 299 For inter Milan that's gonna be Alan and the autograph is gonna be a Weird one. What was Shola doing here? This is for man United Ink was running out, but he just kept going I guess he also looks like he was signing these autos the in a car and a moving vehicle The other one wasn't did we have another I thought we pulled another on maybe we didn't pull another autograph Maybe that's the first order anyways 15 out of 99 man United Ryan Lin, I guess guess he's a rookie. So Yeah, I don't know what he was doing with it. It looks like it or maybe he he dropped in in a spilled water on it or something like that That's Kai Havertz to 125 Kai Havertz goes to Chelsea That's for Adam What once again 109 out of 125 and then we got a Gonzalo in Nassio For For the Portuguese team here sporting Club de Portugal Final box coming up final two autos plus possible low parallels Again another half case break in the store half case from a fresh case and doing the same promo Given away at five spots. We're only selling 15 outright given away five spots to the 15 That's really good odds to land yourself Some extra spots Yeah, next year's boxes should be pretty nice, right? Holland, Erlen Holland and his man city gear Darwin Nunes for the Premier League boxes These cards are really nice, too They'll say right here these cards are actually made in Italy. So there's actually a different different feel to these finest cards and you would find in Normal finest finest baseball but even the Even the packs feel a little bit little bit thicker a little bit of a different quality a slightly better quality You can see that the the number stamping are different as well. You'll see right here 89 out of 250 so the numbers are stamped a little differently That's Charles day Calarra for bruce Old V for Roel Pedri We've got a on hell Gomez 205 out of 299 for the Lille or gomes and the autograph is for Iax That's Ryan Gravenberg That's for Roel and Iax 46 out of 99. There's new new Mendez PSG There's Eli Moriba to 117 out of 150 for the light zig and we've got a out of 50 Dominic I'm not too familiar with this guy Zaboze lie sob oh slide sob oh slide is what I'm going to go with price footballers and That is for lightsig. That's going to go to Ryan Lynn. Here's a price footballers refractor Erlen Holland bruce adornment canard. There's the rookie new new Mendez for PSG Brian What else do we have here and? We got Pietro Pellegrini for AC Milan Martin With AC Milan tried to trade couldn't trade mojo Yeah, those Hungarian names trip me up There's Duvon Zapata Atalanta four out of 50 and a Christian Polisic silver for Chelsea Refractor at the very end there and there you have it a nice little four box break of 2122 Tops finest you wave a champs league soccer four box random team number four. I'm Joe for jazby's case breaks calm Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us, and I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


ave caused them to neglect their teeth they're very very wary about going into a dentist what can i say to them i don't want to get told off this is a big deal for me and my recovery so they want to go into the dentist but and i think this will be important as part of the recovery but they're for one reason or another they maybe don't want to get scolded for neglecting their teeth or maybe there's a bit of anxiety in going into into the dentist so what's your message to them i would say it's important for them to to i would say maybe take it's not exactly a leap of faith but but what i would say is look first of all when you're making an appointment in most dental surgeries and you know i think ours is typical of most of your first point of contact is going to be the reception staff and typically those guys are so well trained they're so used to dealing with the public and if you just if this individual just says look you know opens their heart opens and look this is the situation i'd love to meet the dentist for a consultation these are my issues and and like the the the reception staff will typically make that note on the patients on their patients record so and and even let and let the dentist know look this is the situation this person is is uneasy about coming back to the dental environment you know we would like to you know a nice simple gentle consultation for visit one you know to talk about the issues and just so that the dentist then forewarned his forearms nose and i'd be very surprised like most dentists like we're not all school anymore don't tend to get told off uh or god at least i hope not um when they go to the dental surgery that you know if and if somebody says you know as i said earlier opens their hearts just look to the dentist you know these are these are the problems i have you know and i i want to try and fix this um you know what can we do because uh like doctor and patient dentists and patient it's it's a partnership and you're both working towards the same ends you're both working to for the dental health of that individual and also you're hoping to get an end result that the patient likes that they look when they look in the mirror they like what they see you know so to that listener uh you will get a sympathetic and understanding welcome from your dentist just tell the staff in advance they've heard it all before probably and they know how to deal with things there a few notes could be left on your file for the dentist and you can go in and continue that part of your journey which seems sort of from my reading of the texts sort of linked to the whole thing so hopefully that's helped is there any way i can get my filling subsidized can't claim it back on tax and i have a lot of work to get done there are some people depending on means testing would have medical cards medical card fillings are um are heavily subsidized in in any given calendar year the first two fillings you have done uh are free or or well rather they're not maybe they're not entirely free anymore but they are they're very very heavily subsidized uh that's for people on who have a medical card and not everybody does and then for people who don't have a medical card there isn't any particular government scheme or or or there are some dental insurance products on the on the market and i'm no i'm no expert now when it comes to are we still in that situation where we can get our take some people can get their teeth pulled for free but can't get their teeth cared for for free yeah unfortunately it's one of the shortcomings that you're referring there Greg to the to the medical cards scheme yeah it really is it's basically an emergency scheme it's it's to cover pain it very much just covers the basics it covers extractions um it covers a couple of fillings in any given year uh but you know dentures things like that it it doesn't cover an awful lot it's quite limited uh and outside of that that really you know dental care in in the country is is effectively is private there there's very little government put into it you know the government doesn't provide much towards it it's worth bearing in mind though um the vast bulk of the population anybody who's making or almost everyone who makes pure aside contributions uh isn't it can can gain or is entitled to a dental examination every year a couple of victories every year and a cleaning that's heavily subsidized it there's it only costs you know 10 or 15 euros to have the teeth clean once a year so so that does cover some preventative stuff and that's that's actually a much bigger portion of the population that people realize it's like a lot of people when they go to say to the opticians um you know are surprised to learn that they have a a free eye exam well dental care is the same anyone who can get get a free eye exam can can most likely get a free dental exam as well all right my child is three and a half she still doesn't have her upper lateral incisors they just never came down and she's got two gaps where they should be does she need to be seen by a dentist and sorry did the child was whole uh three and a half three and a half sometimes a lateral incisor it's what's called congenital eabs and it's just it just never formed uh when the baby was very very young and if that's the case it can often repeat itself when the adult teeth come through that would be my suspicion um in the three and a half year old because normally a three and a half year old will have all of their baby teeth normally all the baby teeth are through by about two ish by two two and a half so certainly by three and a half it expect them to be there if it isn't there i'm my guess is that they're probably just not there and if they're not there it's it's it's not a question of rushing off to the dentist because there's there's nothing to be done if you know what i mean uh if they're not there the you know you certainly don't make any adjustments or changes to a baby's teeth uh if the uh if the adult teeth are missing then it's a question in the future you know you might there might if there is resulting if there's some spacing at the front yeah you're thinking in terms of braces orthodontics to close those spaces perhaps all right my teeth and gums bleed at night can the dentist give any advice on a product called pro dentine and these are probably the words that fill you with fear i saw it advertised on the internet um pro dentine i'm not aware of that product there are a lot of products that people will be quite familiar with you know just normal you know tv or social media advertising things like corsetal is a brand and another brand called akin have a range of products which are you know pretty effective they all have an active ingredient in them called chlorhexidine which effectively is it's an antibacterial and it kills off a lot of the bugs that that cause inflammation of the gums and bleed and therefore bleeding in the gums that's it's a good it's a good starting point and then what the person might want to do is go and see their dentist or go and see their dental hygienists for a really a good effect of cleaning because if you've lots of plaque lots of bacteria in the mouth you know you you could be brushing till the cows come home you won't get it shifted properly yourself if and once you get rid of that you'd be surprised you'd be amazed a lot of that inflammation in the gums will effectively sort itself out but it's amazing how i can't i got something stuck in my gum a bit of food or something i didn't realize i had but in a matter of days there was swelling there was issues with you know it's astonishing how quickly uh i suppose it's dirty dirty teeth how quickly they can it can manifest itself into something yeah well that's something very actually you know things like um like uh like popcorn little popcorn or stuff stuff that can get stuck between the teeth stuck in your gums because our gums actually produce a fluid of their own and if the gum is blocked that fluid can't come out it's like it's like part of it's a con it's part of your saliva sweaty gums yeah yeah and if your gums cannot sweat they they do get blocked and therefore yeah quite suddenly you can get swelling and which is the beginning of an infection but then again on the flip side it's it's once you get that shifted it's easy to get rid of and it'll sort itself but yes just with that example you gave you will struggle uh with a toothbrush uh on cleaning a caller asks uh i don't know what the motivation for the question is uh is there a different is is there a different degrees to cleaning teeth in dentists like do you get what you pay for um i suppose it it's time uh if you go for a standard what's called a scale and polish and that's the type of thing that's covered under your annual pure side contributions you'll typically you'll have used what's called a profy paste which is in effect a gritty toothpaste it's a slightly abrasive toothpaste it gets rid of a lot of the stains and plaque and stuff that your own home brand toothpaste won't get rid of and on top of that you should receive um a cleaning with what's called an ultrasonic scaler now what that's actually for that's a finer instrument it gets into the areas that your toothbrush doesn't it gets into those nooks and crannies between the back teeth underneath your gums shifts a lot of what's called calculus that's the harder chalky deposit um and that's what's covered under a basic scale and polish now depending on some people it has been quite a while since they're at the dentist or some people develop huge amounts of plaque and tartar they need to be brought back for secondary or maybe even the tertiary cleaning whereby they just need a really deep cleaning done and that takes longer sometimes it even requires local anesthetic if they've got loads of uh deposits it's sort of under gum level so to answer the patient's question yeah so a dentist may well say uh because of the the situation in your mouth i'm gonna have to clean your teeth over a couple of consultations okay i'll get you uh i have an ongoing fight with my daughter who is whitening her teeth far too much how often is safe now we don't know what she's using to whiten them because there's no end the product's been advertised on tiktok and then there's the dental the dentist's um system as well so we don't know what she's using but can you overdo it uh if the product is safe well i was put it this way even if the product is safe you can probably overdo it yeah a little so long as they're using something that has a c mark is reputable like it's it's typically it's a carbamide peroxide or a hydrogen peroxide um normally any whitening product to do it for about a fortnight to start with and thereafter i would only say to my patients uh thereafter do it for you know a couple of nights per month that's really all you need to keep the result fresh i mean it's not something you should even be doing for a couple of nights per week and and these products they they they own they're they're very very safe but if you're using them constantly constantly i you i would be worried about the repercussions in the long run all right listen we're gonna have to try and squeeze in a couple more uh what age can you have issues with your wisdom teeth my husband's 40 4-0 uh and claims his wisdom tooth is killing him could it actually be a gum issue he's afraid of dentists and trying to get him to make an appointment is impossible can i say before you say one thing before you say uh your thing he's going to end up in a dentist that is a fact right well whether he goes now by choice or ends up having to go uh be dragged there kicking in screaming he's eventually going to have to go to a dentist i understand i can empathize with him but this guy's going to have to go anyway but but uh is it possible his wisdom tooth is playing him up at 40 a wonder dara it's possible great yeah um i wasn't typically no sign of them until uh 16 17 at the very earliest but more often we can be in our in our early 20s before they really start to make have an impact um on occasion if you say lose some other back teeth and that creates some space back there the wisdom teeth can come through much later on so it could be that that the wisdom tooth is starting to push through but typically when wisdom teeth cause trouble it it it is actually strictly speaking a gum issue because it's the gum that typically becomes infected around them uh but again course of antibiotics a good cleaning around that area was sorted out but if the wisdom tooth is trapped it could become a recurring issue and he may be well advised to have that wisdom tooth removed you know and in that case you'd most likely he would be referred to a specialist oral surgeon to have that but i think he needs advice from dr dara and not dr google yeah because i suspect his internet search history would be rich with i have a pain at the back of my mouth or i've discomfort um staying with gums i have gum disease and i'm going for a laser deep clean it's a hundred euro for the top and a hundred euro for the bottom would you recommend it um yeah well if it's a deep clean tone and it's uh normally yeah it's i'd have i'd have no issue with that um i'm not familiar with with with laser cleaning of the teeth per se uh normally we use as i said ultrasonic scalers but i would imagine the process is you know not dissimilar um but if if they've been to a reputable dentist or you know a hygienist and it's told they need a deep cleaning and you know if it's required then it's yeah go for it um math ulcers should i be going to the gp or to the dentist i think most oral issues your your your dentist is more much more familiar with them than your typical gp i mean there's no no harm going to your gp gps are you know very well trained very knowledgeable but usually intro oral oral issues your first protocol no harm going to your dentist because they're they're familiar with it what's going on in there my daughter's nine slow developing her adult teeth at what age should i be concerned they are there but are slow coming down um i think you're okay for time just yes uh if you get towards 11 or 12 and the some of those pre molars and molars still haven't come in you know it'll be no harm to to see well i would hope that they're seeing their dent as any of i mean if they if their child is getting you know an annual checkup you know their dentists again will be able to tell them if there's progress a lot of the time like teeth typically almost always come in with their own uh accord it's very rare that they don't uh and it's very rare that teeth are congenitally absent but it does happen but yeah okay is it true you can only get false teeth on the bottom row if you have front teeth missing is it true you can only get false teeth on the bottom row if you've got front teeth missing so you can get teeth in anywhere you can get teeth in anywhere i i think i know what they're saying um if their bottom front teeth are missing and they still have teeth further back yes the the short answer is yes it makes their life a little easier because their lower denture will sit and fit better whereas the more particularly in the lower jaw the more teeth you're missing the trickier it is to wear a lower denture um that should be good to go couple of callers saying they're having difficulty registering with dentists uh because they have because they're like accepting medical card holders is that something that we're seeing uh or is it just this individual's experience oh no i'd say they're not wrong um that is something that's even nationwide there are fewer and fewer dentists there there are fewer dentists opting into the into the medical car system i sort of this is a historical point and this has been happening gradually for years so i'd say it's just within the last couple of years so the patients are starting to notice that it's it's that bit trickier to find a dental practice that that uh that accepts new medical card patients an awful lot of dentists will have built up a large number of medical card patients over time and may may find that their their books are full and just can't accept any more perhaps it is probably some obligation to the private businesses i presume i'm not i'm not saying it's right or wrong but just so i have a clear understanding i mean these this a dentist practice is a private business they open it up and they choose uh if they want to do one or other or a mix i presume yeah most dentists to do exactly do a mix i know here in our practice we've got with four dentists and we've a mix so there's a most of the dentists see medical card patients one or two don't um and it's really a question of their their book how busy they are and how many you know is because they can only i suppose people list like you're going to your gp your gp can only absorb so many patients like this is a problem we've seen say in the uk for years where you people are even here familiar with the nhs where a lot of people in england uh uk scotland would have difficulty accessing an nhs dentist or doctor that's becoming the case sort of something similar here particularly in dentistry it's getting hard to get to a medical card dentist right look we could have done the hour easily with the amount of interest are but we really do appreciate your time we've got things to do and i know you've got things to do as well so thanks for taking your time out of your busy morning uh to answer those questions really appreciate it that's all Greg all's good to speak to you take care of yourself that is dr darry reynolds partner at erigal dental and that was wellness wednesday focusing on your dental health that item will be back with you uh wellness wednesday next wednesday of course but we'll get back to teeth uh in a not too distant future the nine till 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bowl of spaghetti and i think what he was saying is it's it's not quite that bad uh in fairness oh come on don't go ahead to cancel these pedestrian crossings we'll put in place practically overnight without consulting the local drivers or pedestrians like everything else we have to put up or shut up are betters no best dancing at the bonnigieg club in letter kenny is cancelled for tonight by the way in case you weren't aware uh we have a zebra crossing in manner and one of the lights have been out for about nine months have called the council and several counsellors and yet here i am nine months later with it still off right so a zebra crossing in manner one of the lights isn't working that sounds like it needs its bulb changed i'll get a step ladder and go and do it myself uh hopefully though the council will can't believe that all the schools are closed today again and probably tomorrow the snow is actually thawing and has been since last night what's the big problem just be careful when out there it should be no big problem unless you own your own lane or road is untreated is slipping we see uh i don't want to sound in any way patronizing a large proportion of the school and its staff by the way it's not just the students don't live on main roads they live on back roads i had incredible difficulty getting from my house on to the main road once on the main road no problem but incredible difficulty some of the roads are simply not possible a lot of students get to school via bosses the bus companies themselves have to decide whether or not they can drive on many occasions on back roads safely picking up their precious cargo to get them to school safely so a school presumably has to consider is it fair to ask its staff to try and get in on these dangerous back roads yes the main roads are gritted we get that and secondly bosses bosses boss companies can't run so many many many of the students can't get into school so i think it's understandable why schools are closed i get it but i fully respect your view but as i say there's a lot of people staff as well that couldn't get into school whatever happened to the bypass that was happening in balaba fe well it's uh it's it's one side of balaba fe then it's on the other side of balaba fe it's tied into the 10 t's isn't it um and it's on the long finger but um the consultation over its route is ongoing i believe uh i believe some um land and properties that would have to make way for it that that work is ongoing if i'm not mistaken i was in balaba fe friday last i tried to cross the road had to wait at least 15 minutes to get across balaba fe street i'd be very careful um if not i'd be run over i was at more than one of these so-called safe crossings trying and thankfully a lady and a young person finally showed the respect and stopped to let me safely across thanks to those drivers happy 2023 greg and all at highland radio a daily listener great to have you on board thank you i too greg was aghast at the balaba fe crossings the last time i drove through simply adding to the chaos of that road it's only a matter of time now before uh we have a fatality well let's please pray that that doesn't happen um they should take a wee look at stroban crossings lit up correctly donagore cat a counselor joke if it wasn't so serious it's the ti by the way it's not the council it is the council on some stuff on this occasion it's transport infrastructure arland because this is the main road if the council take any responsibility for the unfinished zebra crossings in the event of personal injury claims against drivers by pedestrians again i think it might be under the uh might be under the ti but if they've passed legislation presumably within that legislation there's a a bit of protection for them uh hi uh home help people should get free snow tires that would get them around to see their patience in some cases yeah i get you wow there's even more on these crossings this is unbelievable i'd say we have got more texts on this today and messages on social media then you might get actually in a public consultation process bank crossing is a disaster four words that's it they leave it at that hi greg be interested to see who voted in the poll because no one i know knew of a poll these crossings just appeared overnight there was no poll um i think maybe you're on about the consultation donagall drivers are ignorant of pedestrian crossings now in most con countries before pedestrians cross they put their hand up to to say they want to cross coming in from jackson's where the bank crossing is located leaves pedestrians in the blind spot for lorry so dangerous yeah indeed i uh i i can see where you're coming from only in arland that this can happen where incompetent people and people in jobs that they are fit to do every country i well apparently non pelican zebra crossings are common in other countries nine till noon show we need a round about at the finger post on the round from baller buffet to convoy where you take the left to letter kenny on your way from baller buffet tail backs at the finger posts across kill ross every morning and evening is totally unacceptable thanks for raising the issue i believe funding i have to do an awful lot of this off memory the older the get the older i get the less reliable that that seems to become i i i think funding has been allocated for um and someone will correct me if i'm wrong i believe funding has been allocated for what do you call it um a pre-plan uh to for the provision of a round about at kill ross i believe now i could be confusing that with the lahi junction but i think kill ross as well either there's calls for funding for a preliminary report whatever you might call it at kill ross it really really needs one you know it would it would make life so much easier for so many people uh but also i think there's some funding allocated for a round about that lahi was the stuff for i think kill ross as well if not we'll uh chase it up jared save me from my memory jared good morning to you good morning greg how are you i'm doing good right uh speed really is a problem you're speed is my issue i i love running the town about playing here in donald's street yeah last week two days ago i was nearly knocked down twice by carers driving up and down the street like the hammered blue hill it's unbelievable it was going on in this town and then the approach in the pedestrian crossings in and they're going too hard and someone i spoke around the garden last week about it i've also written to all the councillors as well too this is before this was highlighted today so where are you are you between are you between the bank and the lidler i'll do there or you further and i'm no no i'm i'm i'm i'm in between they're just yeah and okay um so that's where i'm at i mean i've born around in the town here and the changes in the fabric here is unbelievable what has happened now since the resurface the road is from the bottom of glories way down and to the town and the carers are traveling at high speed in it half seven in the morning they would drive over the top here half eight in the morning going to work going to school both ways headed on the gall town heading the letter kenny as someone is going to happen shortly like there's going to be somebody killed and i want this every day in this town day and night the pedestrian crosses an absolute disaster that's there you know and do you think pete will put the foot down once they cross those boxes as they head out the donnelly gall road or they fly in once they come around at the bank corner heading up the leg also is here a shoe to the board they don't lift on the same coming down and then there's a junction then up just above me here at lidler takes you down then to the cross road there what happens there's there's cars there but then there's cars coming down the inside driving at speed and is unbelievable as i say i just feel so passionate about this as if there's somebody going to be killed in this town and the sooner someone has to be sorted out earlier on general in them and touch on a bit the lightning the town the lightning is atrocious it's terrible and it's not all the drivers fault for them crosses as the blessers it works both ways but i'll say the speed is a major major issue in this town to us and someone has to be done about it yeah and you know we're not talking about just inconvenience and stuff well what this whole conversation is about is about making sure no one gets hurt or injured exactly i you know that's all we're talking about we're not we don't want you know everywhere pedestrianised and cars off the road this is just about trying to share this space but it to be safe and you need the backup of enforcement by the sounds of things george oh i've asked the councillors to get savings there's as you as you enter the village with a school in there there's a warning saying there i'll tell you exactly what speed you're doing and makes people aware on me and they slow down those signs are amazing yeah they're amazing because even if people have other things on their mind they flash there like if you had one as you sort of pass the turn off to the liddle there and it was flashing saying slow down and it was showing your speed say you were doing 55 or 45 it's overnight you would see traffic slowing down approaching that george yes it was yeah and then the whole thing comes in that's they're coming down then and to the at the pedestrian crossing at the bank you see they're coming in there at speed and to that you know and as they listen as that's actually waiting to happen and please god it not happened but someone needs to be done urgently about it and as they regarding the council i don't know what they were talking about yeah well i'll tell you there's very few we get a lot of reaction on this show jared but i'll tell you between social media and people texting and calling in there's not much we'll top this this year in terms of people having a say in overwhelmingly they don't want the baby thrown out with the bath water but they they need these things need further investigation or uh and the lights the lights need to be improved in ball of a feint strunner as well they're absolutely it functions to there see it at night there and you can turn there in front of all the rows along the main city so dark it is dark yeah i don't know if there's any and all that okay and all that needs needs to be at the rest and and the safer place isn't really for a high night dollars as well too but someone has to be done so we're all right listen well listen it's a beautiful part of the world beautiful people and uh very important to us here jared as you are so stay safe jared all right get back on to us you know what i mean don't don't oh no i will be i'm very very passionate i feel now is the time someone has to be done about we have to keep the pressure on for someone you don't know but don't asking signs i think are brilliant there's one coming into capri there as well um i think that's this maybe that's the same one you're on about uh you it's probably a bit further up from capri but you know i'm an outsider but though those are very effective because it just reminds a driver you you have to actively defy that you have to actively defy this the sign and most of us aren't conditioned to do that you see and that's why the word that's right yep all right all right thanks for a great job thank you very much thank you all right all right bye bye nice to have you on board by the way listening uh david morning to you morning greg how's things i'm good what's your view in it all david well greg i just heard the man speaking before me i think his name was jared about it's an accident wait to happen in 2020 my uncle was involved in a hit and run at that pedestrian crossing beside the bank um what happened what happened in the evening time that the the the parish involvement still was never found in terms of who committed to hit and run but i think that just exemplifies you know the kind of dangerous nature off that pedestrian crossing there at at the at the bank you know an accident has happened in 2020 which is three years ago now and it seems to be no remediation done in terms of improving the safety there at that pedestrian crossing you know so and they're coming in at awful speed and i do agree in terms of you know the the the hyper vigilance of drivers when they don't see flashing lights or they don't see something the cars are attention sometimes we're looking at drivers in a bit of a day and you're saying from litter kenny to donnie got time we'll say which is what's the long enough commute you know to keep that hyper vigilance throughout your full journey to look at every sign is very very difficult you know so i do think safety measures need to be improved there greg great you also want to raise the issue of pot holes david as well and listen thanks for your insight into that but you also have a concern about potholes as well whilst we're on the roads david yeah well it seems to be great we moved into convoy about a year and a half ago now and that the rural situation coming in and around convoy is absolutely unbelievable you wouldn't believe it once you leave convoy so the other can be rolled towards gamut plin that the potholes are probably the length of your arm into the road and that's no exaggeration and you've drivers swerving out of the way to miss the potholes trying to try and to increase damage to their cars they're pedestrian then walking on them roads then give another car that's approaching the car the swerving and at what miss since christmas i must have witnessed about nearly 10 missed accidents and then just shortly after christmas greg um across from the local uh community playgroup and convoy there was a pothole of enormous size there was an elderly man walking his dog there was a car in front of me it went down to the pothole the water went up over the elderly man soaked him from head to toe and he was in shock after i had to pull over the car and my friend was on the passenger with me and then we put we put a cone into the pothole now i contacted the lufford county council office and spoke to the receptionist who said she would pass the message on the potholes still remain today and it's the pure reason that you're right these are these are very dangerous potholes by the sounds of things uh in convoy village and on the letter kenny rode into convoy i don't think anyone in the council would purposely want them to be there so uh hopefully someone's listening and they can get out there and sort that out because put that poor gentleman out having a walk to it's a bit humiliating and inconvenient but you see we also used to word accident david and this is not correcting you but you know drivers are very quickly blamed for speeding and if you're speeding it's not an accident okay because there's a cause uh if your car's not worthy it's not really an accident because if your car was worthy maybe it could have been avoided but the roads and the road infrastructure if they're poor they're contributing to collision so it's not an accident because there's a cause and effect with things isn't there david and i think we're nct we're having to jump through every bloody hoop going we i think we can expect the roads to be at least middling yeah and and other other part of it greg as you said that we pay tax you pay insurance you pay nct i went away last year bought a hybrid car to do my bit for the environment that we're being pushed to do you know that's the economy's changing in terms of sustainable development and then you're driving the rail to do new care which you pay a lot of money for and through this infrastructure now the argument can be made that you go to the main road from convoy to balustrade to the kinney which is an extra 20 minutes on to your journey you know what i mean and which is chalk up up with traffic we know that at that junction called another kinney into balustrade that team junction from convoy to balustrade is is is chalk up up with traffic but i just also want to make the point where i heard someone on earlier like the consultation process between the council on that and then pedestrian crossing i really urge and really would urge the council to really rethink their consultation methods in terms of how they engage with the public you know to to to interview or to ask people that's using the pedestrian crossing it's not the majority ontarian view of what's going on in the community you know that's not really that's a random staple very enough okay and listen come here and you talked about your new car as well listen we we did as much as we can talk to experts and determine there's a high very very high pass rate in most of the nct centers in donagall and the only thing that's different here to other places is the condition of the roads maybe we have a slightly different attitude and we sort of get the test done and then fix what fails but the roads are a big part david lovely to chat to you happy motoring any buyers remorse with your hybrids any buyers remorse with your hybrids no it's all extremely well you know so a bit of a change but i think like you know when you want to rely on balustrade you're looking for and i think what's being pushed that way as well i think that's another conversation in terms of how we're getting on but yeah we're not we're not that kind of words with this close to 12 okay but definitely worth a chat again in the future happy motoring david great to start you bye bye thanks very much indeed business matters on the way business matters in association with the faculty of business at atu donagall looking for a career in financial services consider the level nine ma and governance and it in financial services take the next step in your career and contact the exec ed coordinator on nine one eight six two oh six email exec ed ex ec ed at atu.ie today all right uh kiran old donnell imagine why how are you kiran good morning great how are you what's the story that's that's wiped out there a slip eight is i saw you walking up out there did i you didn't risk the car your old back wheel drive no i'll get proud of that on your store to get on here i'm usually around the back i'm surprised you got up to the top of it let the drive away come here i was at a recent event in lochesk it was amazing the amount of money that's invested in there and i talked a little bit about maybe sometimes in we focus on it and and tech jobs and tech investment and it's loaded and it's fantastic but there's amazing investment going on in terms of hospitality and in terms of retail as well perfect example what's happening down at the lochesk castle hotel here yeah very well summed up greg lochesk castle hotel in donnelly gall town is to receive an investment of five million euro from hardcore developments and this will see the construction of a two-story development comprising 24 switch and four bedrooms so when this new extension is complete greg uh the team at lochesk is expected to increase to 235 so that emphasizes a infinity sauna or something as well they mentioned uh i'm not sure if it's part of this development or other developments because they've just done all the rooms as well right okay um that's great news uh bank of ireland's one million donation to cure no donnelly am i reading that correctly yeah i'll have it with you bank of ireland said to donate one million euro to organizations supporting those most at risk from the cost of living pressures the bank is making 500 000 available immediately to 12 organizations working with funnel the groups across the island of ireland and the second 500 000 will be divided among 50 smaller non-profit organizations in marge all right business information session taking place yeah donnelly gall local enterprise office will hold its next business information and grant aid workshop on friday january the 27th the two-hour session which runs from 10 a.m to 12 noon will be delivered via zoom so the donnelly gall local enterprise office greg is the first point of contact for those setting up business and donnelly gall and these multi sessions give an overview of the support and services available to smaller businesses and the county so well worth going along and making touch there there's contacting uh the office on you can get them on 07491 60735 or email info at leo.donnellygall.ie that's a very fancy shirt you've got on there are you going to the pulse if it's open you come along have you gone in the car and you do not have to ask me twice come here you can sort out a babysitter end of a banking year i mean to be honest it's been a it's like i've been a death by a thousand cuts for austral bank customers because certain services were being you know stripped back over the the course of the last couple of months but the familiar enough frontage is uh is bye bye yeah the doors of austral banks of montcran a balba fade donnelly gall town and kelly begs closed for the last time on friday now literally kenneth branch is remaining open to help customers to change providers and the plan is for all these branches to reopen as permanent tsb branches just come back to the the frontage greg is supposed to literally kenneth for a rolling sample here locally uh it was always a very sort of uh iconic part of the town and the mark of square there so if there's no more that's quite true indeed um north west in the city well donnelly gall town is different obviously because where the austral bank used to be there's now a pub here yeah wave it along and uh now um austral bank was moved further up the street and it's closing all right north west in the city event kiran what's this all about yeah as part of donnelly gall county councils focus on attracting talent back to 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straight to it what's on this week's podcast yeah i'm joined by the lirikini chamber of commerce chief executive officer tony forrester and the founder of pumpskins catherine divine last week lirikini chamber revealed that seals of shop lk carriage man you don't have to read very quick and we're trying time but i don't have excited for a million euro so while the letter tony says she was so much surprised that the increase of one million compared to the figure for 2021 i remember when uh way back in 2014 we reached 800 000 and we thought oh they'll never it'll go over a million but they'll never really do much more than that because you start thinking about the the population of letter kenny and the amount of businesses but it just just went on and um we we we work hard at it and we we put the brand out there a lot um but this million this year we definitely we had assumed in the office here that we might go up by maybe 10 15 percent um and then the government very helpfully announced that there was the incentive that businesses can can can get from the scheme was increasing from 500 to 1000 so that we thought oh yeah we'll go up a little bit more but definitely we didn't think a million i wonder what one of those features look like from your employer anyway cary what's i'm interested to hear more of that interview with tony as i am with kathryn so what are you talking to tell us a bit about kathryn yeah and 2021 greg local journalist kathryn divine decided to quit her role with the donagall news to invest all of her working time and her company pumpskins so pumpskins makes silicon gel covers for diabetes equipment such as insulin pumps and gluteus glucose monitoring systems kathryn has lived with type one diabetes since 2013 and has considerable insight into what people with the condition need pumpskins has distribution partnerships in 16 countries from south america across europe and the middle east and this week the donagall company will launch a new american platform so during our conversation greg i asked kathryn about her decision to leave her full-time position with the donagall news three years ago to concentrate full-time on her business wow what an amazing story it was a huge decision karen because i think there is safety in traditional employment there's safety in knowing that you're going into an office and that someone's going to be paying your wages at the end of the month but then you've got to balance that with the other side of you know trying to just look after your family um look after things at home my husband sure is a farmer i'm helping him on the farm so there was so much going on and at one point even though i knew that i wanted to work for myself i thought there's absolutely no way that i can leave this job because it would be completely irresponsible of me to take this leap of faith but i got support from shawn i've got support from people around me and i knew that this was something i could do another story of people taking a considered you know leap of faith and uh again i'm envious can't wait to hear more of kathryn diviner that's actually really a fascinating story as they generally all are full interviews with tourney forester and kathryn diviner available now on highlandradio.com or refer you get wherever you get your podcasts business matters on air kiran yeah usual time Greg uh just after six o'clock news on sunday evening and if people would like to get in touch with you feedback on the show suggested items all that kind of stuff kiran yeah businessbatters at highlandradio.com as the email thank you so much kiran i really do appreciate it it's always great to have you in uh the winner of our snowman competition the thing's about 48 feet tall it's amazing it's uh it was built by erin ruby amy ella and isabel and sophia um they've won it it's 12 foot one inch uh bit of thawing probably 11 foot nine today but anyway congratulations you've won that cob and we're going to post those images on 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