Biden says there are 150,000 troops and they remain very much in a threatening position. Russia is denying it wants a war in Europe but has shared concern over a growing military strength around its territory. Irish MEP Barry Andrews says the mixed messaging from Moscow is worrying. A lot of the intelligence that's been shared by the EU member states would indicate that there is a massive build-up both in Belarus and in Crimea and in Ukraine. So there are mixed signals, obviously everybody hopes that diplomacy will prevail in these circumstances because this is an unprecedented threat to the security of Ukraine and to its future economic prosperity. Base masks could soon be optional in shops, schools and on public transport. Now it's to meet tomorrow to review the remaining pandemic restrictions including rules around mask wearing in the settings. Senior government figures are said to be expecting a recommendation to ease the emergency measure and replace it with guidance. Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson is calling for an end to tax advantages gifted to investment funds. Donnie Gall-Deputy Pierce Doherty moved a motion on the matter in the door last evening with an aim of protecting renters and home buyers. The motion also calls on the government to bring forward measures to empower local authorities and build sustainable communities where workers and families can rent or buy at affordable prices. Deputy Doherty told finance minister Pascal Donahue the change is needed. This motion calls on the government once again to end the tax advantage that they deliberately gift to the investment funds in the housing market and instead fund and empower local authorities and home buyers to purchase homes that can be bought or rented at affordable prices. That is what a Sinn Féin government do and even at this late stage, that is what Fiona Fwell and Finlay Gale should do, roll up the red carpet and stop allowing these funds to pay no tax. And a number of motorists were caught for various offences inside Mills yesterday. Police monitored traffic through the village following concerns expressed by the local community. Police spoke to a sizable number of drivers regarding what they have described as minor motoring infractions. However, they also detected a number of more serious offences. These included a motorist using a mobile phone while driving through the village. Two motorists who thought the 50 km per hour and 50 mile per hour were the same thing and a motorist detected driving with excess alcohol. The first three motorists received points and a fine while the fourth will be forfeiting his license when he appears before the courts. Whether or not becoming very windy today, shiery outbreaks of heavy rain will extend from the west during the morning, tracking eastwards, bringing a risk of spot flooding, highest temperatures in the afternoon of 9 to 11 degrees. That's it for now. We're back with more 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. You have one new message. Hi Claire, Auntie Dee here. I just wanted to say a big thank you for skipping my party. We had a great night and everyone was so happy you didn't come. Now you take care, I hope to see you soon. Bye. No one will thank you for turning up to work or anything else when you're sick. Stay at home and get a test to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. From the HSE, For Us All. The night or noon show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, offering low rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello. Good morning and you're very welcome along to the 9 to noon show, four minutes past nine on this Wednesday, the 16th of February 2022. How are you all keeping? It was a windy one last night, apparently worse to come over the next few days. Hopefully everyone stays safe and stays indoors when necessary. Anyway, the lines are open for this show this morning. Caroline is taking calls right now and 07491 25,000. That's 07491 25,000. You watch apps and texts to 08 660 25,000. Lots of you to have an opinion on, but if you want to raise your own issues, raise your own concerns, share a story, good or bad, the same number of supply. And if you've never texted into a radio show before, let today be the first day. It's always great to see our regulars texting, but also those texting in for the first time as well. If you want to email, by the way, it's comments at HighlandRadio.com and feel free to watch and engage with us on social media. You can watch the program now by going to our website, HighlandRadio.com. You'll see the links for watch live. You can watch on your browser or if you prefer, you can go straight to YouTube, HighlandRadio Ireland, or on Facebook, HighlandRadio and watch us there, right? Starting with the Finn Valley voice this morning and the Minister of State with Responsibility for Disability and Rabbit has said she is seeking an external independent review into services provided by the Health Service Executive in the Northwest region. She said there is a pattern of failure to protect residents with disabilities in community health care organization one in the region. Her call for a review follows the release two months ago of the 11 page executive summary of the Brandon report into sustained sexual abuse of intellectually disabled residents at HSE Run, I'd green your court and the Sean O'Hare unit strunaller.  And the initial times this morning, Carr and Donner requires proactive rather than reactive policing, according to a local county councillor speaking to the initial times following several instances of antisocial behavior in the market town at the weekend. Councillor Albert Doherty said it was less than ideal that guard stationed outside Carr and Donner had had to be called in to deal with the situation. Councillor Doherty said there were no guard on the beat in Carr and Donner on Saturday night into Sunday morning to deal with the antisocial behavior. The Donegal Post reports on huge sadness at the death of a much loved teacher. There's been a huge outpouring of sadness across South Donegal in the LGFA, GEA community following the death of Donner Boyle, Ney Dunyan, a native of Barnesmore, Donegal Tan. Ms Boyle had been living in Kentucky, our draw. She passed away in the Donegal Hospice following a long illness bravely born. She'll be greatly missed by all who knew her, especially her husband, Brendan, children Owen and Evelyn, parents Danny and Marion brothers, Barry and Donal and her extended family and wide circle of friends. Ms Boyle was a popular teacher having spent much of her career teaching in Frost's national school when she rest in peace and all the strength that is possible to her partner and family. The Irish Independent tells us today that the end is insight for masks in schools, shops and on public transport and I think this will be widely welcome, not universally, but wildly widely in any case. Laws requiring masks to be worn in shops and on public transport are expected to be dropped and replaced with guidance urging people to continue the wearing of face-cothering said to protect against COVID. It will be interesting to see once the law is lifted how many people will choose to, I'd say many people will choose to. The government is also expecting the requirement for pupils to wear masks in primary and secondary schools to end after neph it meets this week. However, passengers flying abroad will still be required to wear masks while on aeroplanes as those rules are based on EU directives. The requirement to wear masks in shops and on trains and buses is among the final COVID-19 restrictions remaining after the government announced a major easing of emergency measures last month and neph it will meet tomorrow to review the remaining restrictions which include the mask mandate and other measures related to schools. These measures have already been lifted in Northern Ireland. We'll speak to someone from the north to see how it's been welcomed there, what difference it's made and interestingly perhaps how many still choose to wear a mask even though they may not be compelled to and the same will apply down here of course. On to the Irish times now and for those of you who may be quite proudly avoid paying the licence fee or opposed to it, this is the television licence fee and maybe have managed to avoid paying it for quite some time while those days may well be coming to an end. What do you think about this? The revenue commissioner would be asked to collect the television licence fee in the future under a proposal to be considered later this month by ministers. Now it is hard to circumvent revenue. The move aims to bolster funding for public service broadcasting which is RTE by the way not us or Newstalk or today FM it's only RTE and reduce the numbers not paying the charge with the rate of evasion estimated to be running at around 15%. The government's expected to reject a recommendation from the future of media commission that the 160 euro annual fee be scrapped totally and be replaced with direct exchequer funding for RTE according to senior figures with knowledge of the discussions that have taken place on the issue. Instead sources expect that the revenue commissioners would in future be asked to collect the charge. RTE estimates that it loses out on some 50 million euro a year in revenue because of non-payment of the fee. It's hoped that transferring responsibility to the revenue commissioners for collecting it will dramatically reduce evasion rates. So what do you think about that? You will be compelled to if you have a television, consume TV from wherever it is have to pay or you will face stiff fines a thousand euro or two thousand for subsequent offenses. Right now on to the the Daily Stars what we have here and Andrew Windsor will never find a way back to public life despite planning to offer to work with sex victims charities in an attempt to salvage his battered reputation royal sources have said. Now this is the person who stated that well firstly there was some underhand tactics in his defence but also said he was going to go and offer a defence to the accusations against him. An innocent person would be likely to do that of course that's what he said he was going to do. I'm not questioning his innocence but now he's decided to pay off his the person who alleged to be his victim. But friends of the Duke class tonight suggested he's piercing together a plan to revive his public image after making a multimillion settlement to his sex abuse accuser Virginia Guffrey who Andrew says he has no recollection of ever meeting so imagine paying money to someone that you can't even recall meeting he's 61 will attempt to reinvent himself believing he still has a lot to offer in public service but other commentators said there was no way back with one branding him reputationally toast now I think although the conclusion although that agreement will be private I think if I were a British citizen and a taxpayer over there I'd be saying to myself well where is this money coming from who is paying it you know does he have those resources to hand if not is he getting it from his mother and if he's getting this from his mother where's he getting it you know is it really the responsibility of the British public to pay for his problems to go away I imagine that will be the conversation over there over the next few days anyway the Irish Daily Mill Mirror tells us that labour has introduced a bill to ban single-sex schools within 15 years now believe a few of the single-sex schools in this county are already sort of moving in that direction do you think it's something that should be sped up and right across the board but the opposition party believes it's unacceptable for the state to be funding the gender equality situation of girls or boys only schools the bill would see all state funding removed from any school that doesn't comply with mixed admissions it would have major implications for the country's private schools sector the vast majority of which are single gender but all of which get the basic salaries of teachers paid by the state so can these schools continue to fund themselves only and remain single sex or is it time that pupils are all of all genders are taught in the one place finally in the sun now I was on I was under the naive impression that the Tato company built a theme park I thought that's what they did and they put Mr. Potato and all that stuff in there but apparently they didn't build it at all it's my ignorance by the way Tato Park will have a new name from next year officials have announced the popular theme park will undergo transformation and will have a new identity from January 2023 it's due to Tato snacks ending their title sponsorship with the attraction from December 31st 2022 however it's not currently known what the park located in Ashburn County Meath will be renamed Tato Park founder Raymond Cole said the name will better reflect the exciting rides attraction and zoo he said our partnership with Tato snacks has helped to create one of our own's most popular tourist attractions in little over 12 years but they want to expand and they want to rename maybe Tato were involved in this building I don't know it's not something I took the time to research anyway that was a look at the newspapers this morning just one more reminder another reminder for you off the contact details for us if you wish to get in touch you can comment on our social medias or you can text a whatsapp 08 660 25,000 or call us an 07491 25,000 the 9 till 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 the newspapers are courtesy of Kelly centra mountaintop letter Kenny for great fuel deals contact Gortley sales and hire large sacks and trailer loads of logs also briquettes coal kindling and gas with free delivery locally contact Gortley sales and hire in letter Kenny on 9126276 a public interest message from Donegal County Council water flowing onto roads damages the road and may cause an accident when it freezes or leaves mod and stones lying about Donegal County Council reminds land owners and occupiers of land that they're responsible for ensuring water is prevented from flowing onto roads from their land checking and fixing drains on your property and ensuring you complete works on your planning permission will help you comply with your responsibilities Donegal County Council would like to thank the many members of the public who have already carried out this work Donegal County Council protecting our communities and environment getting ready for the football season ahead visit Brian McCormick sports and leisure Main Street letter Kenny Adidas Copa sense football boots and soft ground and firm ground from only 80 euro Adidas classics Copa Mondial World Cup and Kaiser Cup SG just arrived the new Predator Edge point one FG in black football boots gloves shorts and socks in store or online click and collect on BMC sports.ie The new League of Ireland Premier Division season kicks off this Friday night for Finn Harps. 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Good morning Jonathan. Good morning Greg. How are you? I am good. I'm good. Right. I suppose you never know. People say well listen I didn't know the first one was on. I'll go to this one or we can't let this slide will turn up. You never know until it hits eight o'clock in the central and you had a good turn out. Greg yeah we had a we had a brilliant turn out. We have to say you know from quarter to the start arriving and we'll let the meeting last night all guns blazing and willing to do whatever it takes to keep the parade. Like we the parade is going to go ahead. March 17th at three p.m. and don't need all time. We're going full steam ahead of this. Brilliant stuff and I mean did you sort of find out maybe why there wasn't such a big turn out the time before did everyone think someone else was going to do it and sort of what really triggered the interest for last night's meeting I suppose. Well I suppose the interest I guess it's always been kind of you know somebody else is going to do it but I suppose with the interest it was created last week online and on the airways with yourselves. It created people and give them maybe a bit of a boost that they needed to get involved in the community. What we did find this night was there was a whole lot of new people from that just moved into the area. Maybe they didn't have an avenue to get involved with the community. And so it wasn't 28 Kennedys and two others then no. No no no not this time no. We were selling a good representation but there was a lot of new members. And you know what what was great last night was there was there was four gentlemen that lived in the town for years or for as long as I can remember and they have volunteered. Their trailers their vans they're going to take care of all the barriers and the cones and care of the insurance and other kind of group they said we did take care of the bookings and the other ones are happy to do March and some people can only do the morning. Some people can do the afternoon. You know it's brilliant to get people there that were interested in providing sort of logistic solutions. That's fantastic. That's a lot of the work over the next month. So Greg you know because when it's as I said before work it's an awful lot of work for a few people but it's not a lot of work for a lot of people. And a few people in there now that say well you know I'm big and tidy well they're going to look after the booking system. But you know and as I think all town isn't unique in the way that the you know you're crying for help you know and I would say there's people listening there today you know contact your local your parade committee their own Facebook there must somebody must know some and get involved you know and two or three people make an awful lot of different small committee. We have 30 year now and if we you know we get them turned up on the day it's going to be a lovely day. It's going to be a great day for us to say that we have the help we know that the marshals are in place we know that the jobs have been done instead of worrying weeks and you know going leading up to it that's done as I thought you know that and everybody put their hand up signed the form we have a grave all their phone numbers now so we just have to allocate the work now and it's going to be so it's brilliant and I'm hoping that this is just the starting points you know for for the whole town you know to say well I'll be very biased and say we're one of the top towns in the Northwest and I know you probably get a lot of text to say are you definitely well a lot of people land down there a lot of people land there for the weekend if they're not living there so I think yeah you're right yeah and we've always been there you know putting on a showcase in the Diamond's food festival with whatever's going on there's always an atmosphere in the whole town and the visitors do love common to it and with the Wild and Landy way of Kennedy the first Portugal in the Northwest when a Bundor might have a Bundor might have a ride with you on that one but you're away with it now when we stick we'll stick our flag up on me but we we we we we always had the atmosphere and people love coming into the town so hopefully this is the start of people getting involved in their community and I say if everybody does a wee bit it makes it so much easier and you can achieve so much you know going forward so we're hoping to build on this here and it's positive you like you say you'll always get the ones that say we're telling us how it should be done but yet not turning up to do it so we have we have a group here now and hopefully that work will be done and it makes it so much easier for everybody else and we live we're going to build 2019 was our biggest grade to date and we're hoping to build on that there and now we're it's open out to the schools to the businesses and all and on clubs to get involved now to make this as colourful as possible we provide the platform for you we provide it as safe the routes as possible and it's up to you now to get put in the work now and get involved yeah and I think sometimes for those for people who want to the barrier is is that is it a closed shop and I always said this is your last week but I think it's worth re-emphasising will my skillset help what have I got to offer I'd like to get involved but I think too with what you did on social media and speaking public as well as there's no listen the more people the more ideas come get involved and it's not too late either I presume Jonathan for people to to offer any help or to get involved as you say could be the first first experience of sort of working you know within and for the community that and I think that's what we that was our goal all along get new people in get new blood get new ideas you know a committee of it's doing the same thing repetitively all over it can get very stagnant and people get all caught you know and you lose that you lose the traction we're all been moving forward like if we had hope to build on a weekend with the long weekend you know with the Thursday, Friday, Saturday it's probably not going to happen this year but we we will be definitely building on a on a sympathetic festival weekend and moving forward from here if we get the enthusiasm that we got last night and they stay with us and they see that it's not it's not like we have a couple of meetings leading up to the sympathetic state you've got the parade on the day and you have probably a final meeting maybe the week after make sure everything's sorted out you've nothing to worry about until you know that 11 months later so it's not a huge commitment for that committee you know so it's but listen there's other things can be done at other times of the year as well you know if you get the right people I know the stuff happens anyway but you know there should be multiple events you know not parades but if we can get people coming in to help out on the tidy town you know get the the town spruced up for the summer and then that's the way of our summer festival and then please God that the highly successful successful return you know that's what it we're all anticipating with the regulations that that will go ahead and everybody's just mad for that there so I mean as I say people listening you know they're saying well like you said I'd like to get involved you know contact with the Facebook groups there everybody's on Facebook or somebody knows somebody or contacts or councillor or contact some member of the public and say what committee is that there and just offer a day say I'll definitely do a day or I'll definitely do that there and it and it makes it so much easier for the committee and for the benefit of the community at the end of the day it's all about community and that's what we're all here for brilliant it's great to have a conversation on a much more positive tone and it's all steam ahead now for the 17th three o'clock three o'clock we're going to go three o'clock that's what we're going to stick with yet any businesses in and around if they want to get involved maybe power hose the power hose the equipment for the four that once a year power hose and paint yeah and they if they haven't done it before who did he contact do you have a contact this point or Dunnegal time parade that gmail.com and you have my phone number you give it I don't mind and anybody we're all on Facebook we're all through the Dunnegal community chamber and Dunnegal time business focus group they're all there as well in the phone okay I don't have them no no we'll get them we'll get them we can pass them on and all as well listen well done thanks Jonathan great to hear take care of yourself bye bye right okay from one beautiful time to another our draw good morning to you Tracy Whedon watching us in our draw on social media and we have Audrey with us and Annie as well and many others thank you very much for joining us in that on that platform as well right we are going to go to our next guest now and it is Councillor Albert Daherty and just teasing out more of that story in the in the in the paper this morning the the Innistimes isn't it Innistimes paper this morning about a lack of guardie in Karn to deal with anti-social behaviour before we get into that Councillor Albert Daherty good morning to you how extensive is the problem of anti-social behaviour in Karn Dunne is it was it a one weekend thing or is it an ongoing problem good morning to yourself and listeners unfortunately we have had sporadic but consistent incidents of on really behaviour anti-social behaviour be that a young people to clean with their cars in the public car park be that entry into unoccupied buildings and recently we've had fire in a building in the main street bridge street and at the weekend where there were a number of social outlets who were entertaining issues led to incidents requiring guard a response and the issue for Karn Dunne is that we see that the guard our response has to be reactive and the business sector and the people would prefer to be proactive and in 2018 Chief Superintendent McGinn contacted all the consulates and shown asked for views in relation to policing in Karn Dunne and indicated that the reality was that the guard a station was not fit for purpose and we all agree with that but what's the response the response was guard a policing of Karn Dunne from Bunkrana or from Mani and locally that is what is irking the local business and local community what what is the response time what is before we talk about what the positive impact of a guard of presence would be what is the response time currently about you know if there's an incident in Karn Dunne how long would it or a report of anti-social behaviour say for example and obviously no one is delayed how long does it take to get to Karn to get to Karn Dunne occasionally quite prompt be it from Klan Mani where you can have 15 or 20 minutes in the guard you're in your town Bunkrana might be half an hour depending where patrol cars are however we have also had occasions where patrol cars were not available to the guard a personnel and therefore the guard himself herself were isolated in their station and the incident unfolding could not be responded to quickly now you you meet with the guard so you know better my understanding was is that in any of the stations that are actually open the guards aren't necessarily just sitting in there in the evening they're out in the patrol cars that they're mobile they're moving around is that not the style of policing we have now I mean or you or do you want Guardi sitting in the Karn Dunne Guardi station I understand Greg that has to be because our guard a personnel are asked to serve Karn Dunne and North Anishone so you're not going to go in the beat around North Anishone but what I've highlighted is the issues that have been raised by our Traders Council the issues that I have raised as a JPC member and now that my colleagues have raised in relation to providing visible community available access guarda in the area that is something that the townspeople find lacking and it's assuring for local communities that they know their guarda and it's assuring for Guardi when they know who is living in their local community do you think that is practically achievable for every population centre the size of Karn Dunne in Dunnegola along the country do you think it's realistic to have a a guard of the area who knows what's going on is a visible face of the force on the level that you require do you believe that that is actually achievable in all towns villages of similar size to Karn Dunne right across the county for example a very quick response no right okay but but so it's not a realistic call though is it it's popular it's popular but it's not realistic no it's not but let's look at Karn Dunne it's hosting the municipal council it's the core education centre for North Anishoan with close to a thousand pupils plus at CCS and sixth primary school it hosts the Anishoan livestock mart it hosts the Anishoan cooperative cooperative it's one of the few Anishoan towns that has a banking system active the banks located significant business outlets and a guard present not visible not available so that's where I have appealed to superintendent Sheridan and I've acknowledged to chief superintendent again that this issue needs attention okay so what would be a realistic solution are you saying at least one guard in the Karn Dunne station 24-7 are you suggesting that you know there should be regular patrols through Karn Dunne particularly at the weekends or evenings if that isn't already the case like what precisely are you calling on the chiefs to provide for Karn Dunne I first of all I want a commitment that in the guard capital investment program now unfolding that commitment to restore a fit for purpose station in Karn Dunne must be put on the road map and that's not something that a councillor Albert Daherty or my colleagues will do that's something that the guard and the minister and the government must commit to and may as well add in a restoration of court services would be welcome for North Anishoan too but what I'm looking for and what I'm asking what I'm representing the community for is that they want a visible guard of presence 24-7 are you on about are you on about guardie based in Karn Dunne or are you on about yes I am two or three guardie presumably you're looking at yeah once upon a time Greg a 24 hour service was promised and for the North Anishoan in the Karn Dunne area listen the community has to respond to we have dereliction we have unoccupied buildings we need to be working together but the local people are saying guardie we want to know you we want to work with you and we want to see you yeah and you will be meeting with the guardie to make these calls presumably you're going to take it up at the next JPC are you just seeking a meeting outside of that yes it will be raised in the next JPC and I await Superintendent Sheridan's reply who has been more than assisting for us in the past and just as it relates to that 2018 commitment from the Chief Super of the time has that been followed through on at all? to my knowledge we have and Dunnegal Council has assisted the guardie they have explored potential sites in the Karn Dunne and it's time to move on from the exploration period okay to the enforcement not the enforcement for the application okay listen thank you very much indeed Councillor Albert Doherty 08 660 25000 if you're in the Karn Dunne area do you back those calls? I presume anyone most people would they not want to see if there is instances of anti-social behaviour guardie around right age is just a number okay I was reading this study it's kind of worrying I hope it don't upset anyone but when are you old when do you when do you think you would be classed as old? I think it's up to each individual I think a lot of people feel much younger than they are it depends on how your health is though but is age just a number well age is just a number then how old is a person when they're officially considered old a new study has revealed that old age now doesn't start until we hit 76 okay so you're not old or into old age until you're after 76 according to this but I know there are people listening to this programme well into their 80s perhaps who would want to give me a slap for even suggesting such a thing well this is just this research apparently the research also found that 38% said old age doesn't begin until you're over 80 well my dad was well over 80 and if I had said he was of old age I would have got a well I wouldn't have got a slap but you know what I mean he certainly wouldn't have spoke to me for quite some time anyway 46% this is what people think though 38% of people think old age doesn't begin until you're over 80 while 46% insist they feel more able than they're parented at the same age researchers also found 40% insist that 60 is the new 40 and 1 in 10 believe they've got more energy than their children the study also revealed the top 10 things that make you look old while using well I'll read them okay these are the things that make you look old skinny jeans isn't on the list but perhaps it should be using cash putting a hanky up your sleeve now I'm young people in my life do that getting bills through the post having pot cutlery for special occasions is that something that makes you look old writing lists with a pen and paper smoking describing a tune is banging okay ringing for a taxi instead of using an app although that option doesn't really work too well for us up this part of the world voting leave so clearly this is a UK audience here or actually watching scheduled television those are the things that make you look old so when does old age begin I think it's up to each individual I've met people who are eight they're like come across as old people and then met people who are 98 and they are like teenagers okay I'll wait 60, 25,000 if you have a view on that the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102127 I'm conducting a study of human untidiness one bedroom at a time Sheila, housekeeper I figure out that yes you do have room for dessert Ryan, waiter I love to see you when you've been out led Nigel, night porter they've all been explaining their jobs in their own words on behalf of Northern Ireland's tourism and hospitality industries discover hundreds of amazing opportunities in tourism and hospitality right now when you search careerscope.uk.net forward slash ni explain them any way you want the two we live happy sale is here with thousands of free child places this summer splashing, sorted savings of up to 250 euro per booking plus low booking deposits 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to buy it why would you pay a settlement if you're innocent says Patrick in Donegal OK now Nefert are going to meet tomorrow they are going to remove the mandate to wear masks in schools which is the most important thing the shops and stuff I don't really I'm in a shop I'm in and out of a shop it doesn't put me up or down one way or other but I do know that young people it's difficult for them to wear a mask all day especially if they're not changing it and they're not wearing it correctly all remaining legal COVID-19 restrictions lifted have been lifted in Northern Ireland already and we'll see what the crack is up there or over there or in there if you're listening from there Declan Jordan general manager of Rosie Joe's bar and nightclub in Derry how are you getting on hey, how are you? Good morning I'm all right I'm all right do you call very popular songs in your nightclub bangers because that is a sign that you're old if you do you know right sometimes yeah well no, no, no, no if you put maniac 2000 goes on you can't call it a banger all right I'll try come here what's the situation in Northern Ireland the restrictions were lifted on on the 14th of February what was compliance ahead of ahead of the mandate being lifted and what difference have you seen since Declan so it's no longer a requirement to wear face masks and social distancing within the bar now it's a big relief anyway for more customers and staff just to make sure we're doing everything right it was getting very confusing at this stage that because of the restrictions were probably changing nearly every week and it was just very hard to keep up with and just making sure we were doing things right you know you're always worried of an inspection from council or police and right to social because even down here Declan you know dependent where you are in the county no one wore a mask in a restaurant environment walking in and out of it and if you did you would feel a bit of an idiot right and then you go to another part and everyone is you know so it can it can vary from area to area and also it's going to vary from customer to customer so confusion what is the law what do you have to do in terms of enforcing it and is someone going to land in and slap you with a fine or something if you don't have everything exactly right yeah confusion was a big thing is just making sure we were doing it completely completely right just keeping in contact with hospital the Ulster and things like that just to keep you up to date on things like that and as you say everyone's very different in regards some people wear a mask and some people weren't and especially in an environment that we are in the alcohol field it's just very difficult to control at times so we're glad to see the back of it it's only a couple of short days since has there been much of a change in a night club set it's a lot easier you know we would have a bar downstairs and like music venue and upstairs more of a late night venue so last night we had you know it's a student night so students were able to come in without having to wear masks you know so but it's a relief for them it's a relief for us because we don't want to be nagging people to be wearing masks all the time and they don't want us to be nagging them so it's good we're just happy to see the back of it now that we don't have to do that anymore yeah do staff still have to wear masks or is there guidance in that regard that's what I haven't actually not sure of myself but we do you know we're very much aware that the pandemic isn't over we do encourage people to still wear masks or staff wearing masks last night so we will continue to push it you know we do we are aware that this isn't the end of it but it's definitely the beginning of the end yeah but it feels like great news it feels like you know the final hurdle has been leaked because of course it's also an incredibly divisive issue I are outside of this chair well firstly it's up to individuals to do what they want to do that's always been my philosophy we'll talk about what the official public health guidelines are but whatever anyone wants to do is up to them and I certainly wouldn't have a debate with anyone outside of this room because people are free to do whatever they want and make their own decisions but it removes it removes maybe particularly with the COVID passes you know one of the last bits of division you know you know what I'm talking about where we don't want to talk about it we don't want to be spending our time socially pointing fingers at each other or arguing or having differences of opinion do we very much so yeah it's better when the COVID passports did come in that they were a lot later than the south to bring in the COVID passports and people did find it difficult to adapt to because they brought it in just in the month of christmas you know and we were very different in the six code days regarding the restrictions you know when it was eight o'clock here we were still functioning properly in the six counties and in dairy and rosy jewels so we we were finding that very you know device in general for people coming across the border and trying to keep in top of the COVID passports so that it was just it was brought in probably too late yeah and it's a very you know it's a very very busy environment in any case uh you know what I'm on about everyone's rushed off their feet then to be sort of doing you know something like you would see an airport as part of your your your night's service is it's an awful lot to ask and it's an awful lot to implement especially with the fear of someone coming in with a clipboard and pointing in an all different direction saying what he is at not that same not saying for justin that happened with yous but that's a you know potential possibility like yep 100% and it's an extra staff member too that you can be using during your period your busy periods that you have to lose um to be to be looking after COVID passports and and keep in top of the masks and the social distance with people that are opposed to it exactly everybody has different opinions at all times and especially with the COVID passports that was probably the most difficult part the mask the social distance and everybody had to do it when they were inside but when you're at the front door asking for a pass before you can enter that was the difficult part and as I say it probably came in far too late in the north it should have been in before at the same time as this house basically taking people to get the grasp of it but it's it's over now thank god yeah and and we'll focus on the positive just in your own opinion chatting to people and and being in and around people do you think we could ever go backwards on this you know say heading in towards next winter there's no conversation about that at this point and I don't want to even sort of uh but I just wonder do you think we've people feel right we did everything we were asked we're not going back there again um Declan or do you think if you know if the circumstances were such people might I've been in the hospitality trade all my life and I was here during from the start of COVID and hopefully now this is the end and this is the first time during the whole pandemic that I've been 100% sure I don't think we'll ever go back to any sort of restrictions what happened at Christmas as we all seen there was a massive COVID outbreak everywhere and if we didn't start closing then and more pressure put on us than there was previous I don't think we'll ever go backwards on it now that we we wait we we rode the wave as you say and we got through it and if they didn't do anything regarding restrictions then I don't think we'll see anything ever again I think this is the end of it and I'm I'm I'm happy enough to say I'm 100% sure in that okay uh Declan the best luck with everything um uh to Rosie Jones bar nightclub in Derry uh he's still seeing a lot of people coming across the border you'd have seen more maybe when there was a difference with with restrictions but there's always going to be it was absolutely massive the amount of people coming across at Christmas time you know it was you know and that was me seeing the first hand for the first time that people coming across um I don't see it much now uh everything that's backed to normal so that should have been the thing from the start but not as much now but definitely over Christmas all right interesting insight thank you very much as always that's Declan Jordan there the general manager of Rosie Jones bar and nightclub in Derry a caller says I have reported a number of incidents of drink driving to a number of garter stations in a shone the car was driven for 10 miles after I witnessed the 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or a new build because that's not going to happen until after the next census a caller says Greg you're so old you didn't know letter Kenny cabs have an app for over four years right now listener i want you to sit down because i've got some shocking news for you there's other places outside letter Kenny that don't that would not maybe have the app or maybe they do but fair play to daddy Kenny cabs but not every part of the northwest can you book a cab using an app the only time someone is old now is when they enter a medical hospital as many in nursing homes often up to do so for company and safe secure living so you feel those kind of comments in your chest it's sad to to think that that could be the case another caller says i feel i'm getting older 50 plus because my arthritis makes me rest a lot okay that's sad to hear so delighted to see that the donkey which had been living in terrible conditions along the road i travel every day since last summer has been moved especially with these two big storms coming Greg rare rewind warning do you think we'll have schools closed up here i don't think so because it's a red weather warning will close schools there's mock exams ongoing i think it's orange isn't it for the northwest they won't close the schools unless it's red and as i say there's no indications that's going to happen as of yet because by the time tomorrow morning comes the worst of it will be behind us so if it were to be read it would probably be read overnight so i would say i would say schools will be open tomorrow scheduled but we'll keep you up to date by the way don't take that as fact a caller says you're old when you are no longer able to look after yourself well i wouldn't say that too because there are people that we all know that may have cares with them and they would give out to you severely if you says that you were they were old caller says there were two confirmed cases in my daughter's class but as long as my child tested negative they were still allowed to go back to schools so i'm sure it has the same for all schools there's a slight difference between a close contact in the school setting and the caller we had at the start of the week their close contact would probably have been outside the school setting according to the the regulations they were following my daughter was a close contact she's doing her mocks as well so we tested her every morning before school and she was negative so i sent her on maybe i didn't do the right thing on this but the guidelines are not straightforward and i thought there was no close contact as i know a school were ringing home to take your child home to test them if negative send them back to school if positive keep them at home again it depends if they're a close household contact or a school close contact Greg i was going to text you on the mock exam i have family teaching and i just mentioned to them schools sent the papers home spoke with parents and students to make sure that maybe someone supervised although the student agreed not to copy went well all students didn't feel left out it's very subjective dependent on the the children too there's no one-size-fits-all in that matter but thank you very much for your feedback and doing a bit of research for you for us sorry re Andrew Windsor his payout is similar to the compensation paid to in ardent to victims of clerical abuse both ultimately financed by joe public by taxpayers and church plate collections no matter how it is dressed up as otherwise another caller says if a shop puts up a notice to say regardless of the guidelines by the government reinforcing face mask wearing would this be our legal choice and right for our business um it's a shop is a private space i can't imagine i think it'd be a comp at a competent competitive disadvantage in doing so to be honest with you i think there is a a momentum of direction and i think if a shop were to do an individual system like that they might find themselves disadvantaged you can't i'm not sure if the legal stunning i mean have you the right to refuse people as is if you have presumably that could be extended to mask wearing i don't know the private buildings but i can't see there being a huge appetite for that another report this is as it relates to the latest scandal of face facing uh don egall another report one thing proven of over 100 years of the finnegale finnefoil administration is they love reports and reviews but rarely learn from them i'm just waiting the next scandal to pop up uh of competence uh incompetence corruptional poor management oversight and structures hi greg um the lady had on the program is talking nonsense yesterday if people are put in a position of trust uh this presume is as it relates to the minister if people are put in a position of trust you would think they would have qualifications to do so she's saying they don't uh what they should be doing they don't know what they should be doing well if that's the 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air online and on the Highland radio app this is Highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal cavern at the news desk the laws mandating face masks to be worn in shops public transport and schools are expected to be dropped nephers will meet tomorrow and is expected to replace the rules with guidance urging people to continue to wear face coverings western honor GP dr. Dennis mccolley chairs the Irish medical organization's GP committee he believes this move would be premature masks prevent you getting disease so i think that i think there's this debate whether it should be mandatory or whether it should be manners i think it should it should remain mandatory for a bit longer and then after a while we can just be manners to wear to wear one but i think we're still in the winter a woman in her 40s has died after an incident involving a vehicle in county sligo last night it happened on the n15 at moneygold grange at round about quarter past 10 she was pronounced dead at the scene traffic diversions remain in place this morning and gar thee are appealing for witnesses fissure michael martin says a scoping exercise is being prepared to address concerns over safeguards in hsc residential centers for disabled people in the northwest it's after the health watchdog hickwood noted a very serious incident regarding the online behavior of resident at one such center in the region which is believed to relate to the viewing of child sexual exploitation material in the doll the shin fane president maryle mcdonnell says once again a question mark has been put over the hsc's ability to safely provide services she called for the fast tracking of safeguarding legislation while responding the t-shirt says this is being addressed by the relevant bodies the department of health is now preparing the terms of reference for the scoping exercise to strengthen safeguarding practice and for the work and meetings ought to take place between the minister and the department in respect of that in terms of legislation i'll come back to the deputy the 2022 santa patrick state parade in donninggold town has been given the green light the festivities had been thrown into doubt in recent weeks after a poor turnout at an initial planning meeting just six people attended three of them from the same family there was a much bigger attendance at a further meeting last night the event is due to take place at three o'clock on march 17th one of the organizers jonathan kennedy says they're still interested in hearing from people who may want to help out people listening you know is there a saying well i would like you said i'd like to get involved everybody's on facebook or somebody knows somebody or contact your counselor or contact some member of the public and say what committee is that there and just offer a day say i'll definitely do a day or i'll definitely do that there and it makes it so much easier for the committee and for the benefit of the community at the end of the day it's all about community and that's what we're all here for storm dudley will bring long spells of rain spot flooding and very strong winds over the next 24 hours a status yellow wind warning is coming into effect at midday for the entire country that will last nationwide until the same time tomorrow however in donninggold it'll be upgraded to an orange warning tonight gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour are forecast for exposed coasts and also on higher ground where preparations are being coordinated by the state's weather response team which is due to meet again this afternoon met air and forecaster jerry murphy says that one study is over storm unis is following hot on its heels on through the latter part of thursday night and friday we have another storm depression moving very close to us storm unis and that is the potential to bring very strong winds mainly to the south of the country but as well as that as it tracks over there is a significant chance of some snow over much of the country through thursday night and friday the highest amount of snowfall is most likely to be over central and northern parts and looking looking at the weather forecast for today becoming very windy with patchy rain and drizzle sherry outbreaks of rain moving right across the region this morning west to southwest winds increasing strong and very gusty hitting gale force or strong gale force on exposed coasts with some coastal flooding highest temperatures today of 8 to 12 degrees celsius but it'll turn cooler in the early afternoon as the rain clears the blustery showers continuing very windy tonight but the winds will start to ease toward morning however remember there is an orange warning in place for donninggold tonight so the winds could get very strong in places lowest overnight temperatures zero to three coldest in early morning a windy start to tomorrow thursday morning but west to southwest winds will decrease moderate to fresh and gusty through the day good sunny spells developing with some scattered showers of rain heel heel sleet and snow highest temperatures tomorrow five to eight degrees celsius that's had in video news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning the obituary notices for wednesday morning the 16th of february the death has occurred in australia of joseph galleher formally of aardlaan clohen brother of sheamus and eugene galleher funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has occurred in perth scotland of eileen ward formally of bonawillan kinkashle her remains are arriving at her home tomorrow going to st mary's church kinkashle for approximately half past five where she will repose overnight funeral mass on friday morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in belkrich cemetery the death has taken place of jimmy bradley less karna house karna mogga letter kenny and formally listillion letter kenny jimmy's remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there on friday morning at quarter past 10 going to st eugene's cathedral letter kenny for 11 o'clock recovery and mass which can be viewed live on church services dot tv interment afterwards in conwall cemetery letter kenny family flowers only please donations and lua flowers if desired to the donnie galle hospice care of any family member family and close friends are welcome between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. the death has occurred of mooring temple tear callan sternorla her remains are reposing at her home from two o'clock today funeral leaving her home on friday morning at half past 10 for recovery and mass in the church of mary immaculate sternorla at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in drumbo cemetery family time please on the morning of the funeral the recovery and mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of rosaline green green bank quigley's point rosaline's remains will repose in st columbus church drone from four o'clock this afternoon funeral mass will take place tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the funeral mass can be viewed live on st columbus drone dot net the death has taken place of marcus mclochland 58 milbrae bon crana his remains are reposing at mclochland's funeral home bon crana with viewing from six until nine o'clock this evening funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past nine going to st mary's oratory for 10 o'clock recovery and mass burial afterwards in cockle cemetery the funeral can be viewed online on church services dot tv the death has taken place of joseph mcgill three st michael's terrace creasley and formerly of glasgoe his remains are reposing at his late residence wake from 12 noon to 10 p.m today friends and neighbors welcome family time on the morning of the funeral please funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in st michael's church creasley burial afterwards in doe cemetery the mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia dot tv family flowers only please donations if desired to simpson to paul creasley and the dialysis unit letter kenny university hospital care of any family member or james harkin funeral director the death has occurred of margaret hannigan knee farley woodhill ar dry her remains are reposing at her late residence at woodhill funeral from there tomorrow morning at 20 to 11 going to the church of the holy family ar dry for requiem mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of donna boy knee donyan kentucky ar dry and formerly of barnsmore donnie gall time her remains are reposing at her late residence the house is strictly private but will be open to the public from 12 noon today funeral from there on friday morning at half past 10 to the church of the holy family ar dry for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 p.m to 12 noon and the death has taken place of robert james boyd 42 crano park strathfoy funeral leaving his late home at half past one tomorrow afternoon for two o'clock service in glendermat presbyterian church followed by burial in ballion cemetery family flowers only please donations in lieu if wished to the foil hospice for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes or funerals please go to highland radio dot com all children aged five and over are being 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shopping in dunny all free parking and shopping all under one roof letterkenny shopping center bringing you the time at okay 16 minutes past 10 we welcome on to the program political correspondent shone the fog good morning to you shone how are you not too bad thanks to you i'm doing i'm doing good i'm doing good right neph it a meeting tomorrow but the cat seems to be already out of the bag it's a fate of complies it face masks for shops public transport and schools are to be a thing of the past for the time being at least certainly looks like it's always one of the strange ones where never have not met and never haven't made any recommendations or actually decided anything but the politicians who speak to neph it and who talks to each other behind the scenes for this to happen some ministers and officials that spoke over the last few days all pretty confident that things are going well at the minute that there hasn't been a big spike in cases and we might have thought that would be when everyone started socialising again and the last lot of restrictions were eased and that it's safe to go ahead with the next phase of the opening which would be getting rid of face masks on shops and public transport and in schools as well so neph it meeting tomorrow but very much politically there they're expected to give that recommendation and then i saw the decision whether the politicians act this week i think the teacher could do to be in brosles for an informal european summer tomorrow and friday so it may well be next week before and actually announced our decision is made and when that's going to be lifted um you know there are those opposed say for instance the face masking schools are very vocal in their opposition but there perhaps is an equal if not larger group perhaps less vocal who believe they should be retained in that environment but if they're going in schools sorry if they're going in shops and on public transport they're going to go in schools as well then are there i think so yeah but like still a bit of a discussion a bit of thought that maybe there would be another phased element to this that you might get rid of them in shops for example but keep them on public transport or keep them on schools the schools one is kind of an interesting case because i think if you talk to a lot of people they'll say uh you know it feels the pandemic is over a certain the ending and then if you talk to teachers and parents in particular they are no actually it's not because there's still quite a lot of cases in schools and quite a lot of people out and then we know we've really figured this morning actually today there's been the five to eleven year old age group for example only a quarter of those children have registered for a vaccine and about a hundred thousand of course covid over the christmas period and have some immunity to that particular method if you like or if i didn't have been caught so it is one where i mean most of us thankfully don't have to wear a mask for the full day you know a lot of our jobs now is wanted to wear walking around or wear it in certain environments but not for the full day whereas they do in schools and it is still spreading so there's obviously a big question mark there but it seems to be that nephatism is going to come down on the side that look it is spreading but it didn't disappear yeah but if you look at the official stats you know that there's no covid in schools that's what history will reflect because the i think the latest figure showed very little if any cases in schools yet we all know that that's happening so i suppose it depends on if you count in the cases or not and you make your public health advice based on the on the figures yeah but the figures in schools have always been counted wrong it's been a real glaring hole and it's been this sort of thing that you know you talk to the politicians and say oh no schools have to find that that shows stuff but we're not counting the data in the right way for it to show us that a lot of the cases that were in schools were counted as community transmission but there's a there's no way of ever being able to tell that how do you know if the child caught the virus in school or caught the virus at home either way they brought it into school with them so the stats at that point of view were a little bit of a joke i think what you're going to see really from the government over the next while is that they will strongly recommend that they're warring schools i wouldn't be massively surprised if there was kind of a little bit of a fight a little bit of a tale back here to keep them on in schools but i think the unions maybe might go in a sort of a different direction but there certainly will be a big campaign and the teacher is probably going to lead it because he said he will keep wearing his own mask and that the advice would be look if you don't feel comfortable or even just keep all the people who will say wear your mask but it's not going to be a legal requirement and Sean just remind us what you suspect the timeline might be i mean obviously he could do it overnight if they wish but you believe never will make the recommendations tomorrow and the t-shirt might wait till the following week to make an announcement it's a difficult one because t-shirt goes away from tomorrow afternoon but this i don't think would need a full cabinet approval to do the health minister could do it on his own so it's entirely in the rounds possibility that after an effort letter arrives maybe tomorrow evening the teacher could be in Brussels it'll obviously be leaked because these things are always leaked and then on Friday there may be an incorporeal or there will be a chance for a t-shirt to phone into a cabinet subcommittee meeting or something like that so the page recently has been to to get these things done in time for the weekend because the information is out there anyway but if they want to do a big formal set piece then i imagine they may have to wait till next week all right listen Sean thank you as always Sean Defoe their political correspondent so that's the direction of traffic but there's a few people standing in the middle of the road with a stop sign perhaps amongst them is Dr Dennis McCauley chair of the Irish medical organisation GP committee good morning to you Dennis thanks for joining us good morning how are you i'm good well you see the thing is right if you're in in society now i mean you do see most people wearing them shops but in pubs the pubs are packed knowns wearing masks the restaurants are packed the nightclubs are wedged teen nightclubs are are running absolutely wedged and then we have this rule where children sitting in the classroom have to wear masks what is the the reasoning for you thinking that a lifting of this mandate is a bit premature i i think that the when you look at children particularly the the uptake in the vaccination of the over 12s has been very good but not not it hasn't been full from the from the uptake of the of the vaccine from 5 to 11 is good it's sort of 25 percent which is fine so we're they're not a fully vaccinated group and they are more likely to um to spread it because they're at school they're not they're not they're not they're not vaccinated so i think it's quite a simple measure my my view is that winter isn't over um winter is over i would always say the end the end of march so the choice is really there's a choice between whether a mask should be mandatory or whether it should be manners and i think that even when they're when it isn't mandatory an awful lot of people will continue to wear masks just out of respect for others so for the sake of an extra month when covid is still as opposed to the great important thing is covid is still here it's a very much an extra community um disease now but if you look at the numbers in the in the hospital there's over 600 people still in in hospital we were quite happy when it was 500 before before christmas there's still quite a lot of sick people there a lot of vulnerable people if they get sick they will end up going into hospital um the number in icu is dropping but there's another subtle number there's 164 people who are not in icu but who are invasive event ventilation so there's there's covid is still here winter is still here the spreading of viruses will continue on to the end of march so for the sake of keeping mask mandatory for another month i'm not i agree it's it's beyond i was asked my opinion about it this morning i actually gave it i think that that mandatory element does add that a small percentage more of people who will wear wear their masks and will decrease the spread but just and you're the medical professional and i respect your opinion but you know i think there's a general acceptance right that that the vaccine doesn't stop you spreading it that's why moderna are about to start you know trialing in the uk the next vaccine okay that's different to this um the adult population 95 plus vaccinated the adult population getting on with their lives speaking in in in nightclubs and talking to each other's ears kissing each other having the fun and everything and yet we have a cohort of of young people wearing the same cloth mask that probably should be changing numerous times every day anyway touching it pulling it down above the nose rising it up i mean is there is there any real medical argument for them to be the only ones effectively now wearing masks especially if they're not being worn as they really should be to be you know effective yeah listen i i think it is it is a marginal call i agree with you i think that the from the point of view of like i i if it if it changes if necro agrees with it if they feel from a clinical point of view i think that's fine they would know more more than i but today we think that's a good idea you know we think that this this this group which are generally not as vaccinated as the general public who are spending numerous hours in in in classrooms together spreading it and we are aware of a lot of schools that are still a lot of people absent but actually because of that so if wearing a mask an extra month is is mandated and allows the child to stay in in school longer so he won't lose he won't actually have further disruption to his education remember that they reckon they feel that there's with 450 thousand school children 100,000 may have got armacron 200,000 would have got delta but unfortunately they can get armacron again unfortunately so for the sake of their education for the sake of then this very marginal effect we know that if we can readjust the spread in children the general spread throughout the throughout the general public lessons also yeah there's there's been a slight in increase in covid this last couple of weeks because of the in the increase mixing i agree with that i think it's time to actually do this but i think the numbers are still significant and if a small if an extra month of man of mandating the masks sort of mix the tail of this disease continue to stabilize and and go down i think i think it's a sensible case though you talked about it is it essential no is it a good idea yeah okay you talked about it being a marginal decision right um when you factor in though not just uh the the the spread of of the disease but when you factor in their ability to smile at each other to laugh at each other to sit in a classroom and to feel normal to maybe even in their advantage to pick up other germs that are knocking around okay does that not tip it in favor of the removal of this for this small if you get into that sort of level then what happens i agree with you that's good but what happens then the guy that what happens because it's not man bandit the student who decides to wear it because he's a wee bit nervous he's now isolated he will be in a way that has a negative you're going to go into that granular i would hope that though i would hope a five or six year old is not going in school feeling nervous about covid i mean they i think things should have been explained no but if he is a medical condition i don't have to wear a mask he will he has potential because it's not man bandit what's wrong with you why are you wearing a mask and that can do you go down to that granular detail i can go down to that i understand that but i'd hope you know i hope that there are people in classrooms that are different for all different reasons and i will hope that our school system is as mature to the point whereby we know how to handle that in a school setting regardless of how they might be a little bit different from others i think i i agree i will be delighted when winter is over i'll be delighted when the figures are down i'll be delighted to see children not having masks around their their their chin at at at lunchtime i would be delighted but just the numbers are not are stable gradually going going down they went up a little bit with the relaxation that's acceptable i think that if you remove the mask there will be another in increase again you know on top of the the the graph going going down i think for an extra it's always a month isn't it but i think we always think as doctors winter is over at the end of march that's it just i said it is it is a sensible thing to think about if nephid decide otherwise i won't lose sleep over it but i do think that um i know if you ask my opinion on it that would be my and i did and i respected it and i actually gave it and i'm quite and i'm quite and i'm quite comfortable to be overruled by how long are you going to be chair of the Irish medical organization i would say you unfortunately for another year okay i hadn't done an interview for a month it was class and now it was before this morning so i think i'll just keep my eyes shut no no no listen hey you're speaking to and we this is the one thing that in any issue we talk about you're speaking to and on behalf of an awful lot of people that share your point of view worried parents people with vulnerable people in the house you know we have to respect all people's views uh and and have us you know and you know represent those people that have that fear as well and that child that you talk of that person exists and they've got worried moms and dads and be worried too about how it would affect them emotionally being the only one in the class and i understand that uh Dennis and i hope you know i understand that and i appreciate you coming on that's good thank you so much take care of yourself all right that's Dr Dennis McCauley chair of the Irish Medical Organization GP committee as i say is not a topic we discuss extensively on this program uh much um but obviously when a big decision is going to be made that affects a lot of people tomorrow it's one that you can't ignore i call it says you know you get an old when you have more toes than teeth okay right or i have one tooth missing we don't have two teeth missing i've you have two teeth are the grand tooth that one that costs apparently about a thousand euro to get replaced it's called the grand tooth um but currently more teeth than toes as it stands isn't it great to see even a member of the royal family being scrutinized and challenged publicly whereas in Ireland the establishment and Misia close ranks whenever one of their own strays i understand the point you're trying to make i think they've closed ranks over there um no one is speaking about it you know no member of uh certain media and no certainly members of the British royal family are speaking on it at all playing it down what's gone on is absolutely shocking uh hi Greg regarding uh older people my father was 79 we wanted him to go to the day center twice a week where older people meet and have dinner and play cards but he said and told us that was only for old ones so probably depends how you feel it does indeed uh it does indeed hi Greg i'm seriously thinking of looking into the possibility of trying to get the broadcasting law which under pins the tv license struck down this wouldn't abolish the license but would make it voluntary just like sky virgin tv now packages this decision has nothing to do with politics religion or prejudice but with the fact we can't buy a piece of electronic equipment without paying a penalty subvention to an entity that i may never engage with i agree i neither can access or watch rte it's not a it's not a big deal right i don't watch much scheduled tv anymore uh you know and if i want to watch a lot of the programs on rte i can watch them on itv2 or three or four uh so uh or wait and watch them on on netflix or whatever likes of love hate or or you know what the other shows i don't need to watch i can't sit down and watch scheduled tv my life doesn't uh operate that way but i have to pay 160 euro to fund it and the problem i don't mind that but it's the wages too you know the wages 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to me it's crazy but people seem okay with it right okay marina says that well don greg in calling out the farce of mask masking children all day at school every day whilst everyone else socializes in pub nightclubs hugging and kissing if they're lucky enough i suppose marina uh good morning to you magella watching with marina as is eugene magiever who's watching us from britain i believe he's predicting a windy day tomorrow and friday right we're going to take a quick break and we'll come back with a piece of music after these messages stay right where you are the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union nutritious milk replace a range which includes nutree start and nutree start plus offers the best start to your calves this spring season with 23 percent and 25 percent crude proteins ideal for calf to beef and heifer 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retained in certain settings there's more covid now in my teenager's school than there has ever been another we're not out of this yet lots of pupils from my son's school contacted covid-19 while out at the weekend lots of his classmates off school yesterday and just before music Roy and betty betty and castle fin a very happy wedding wedding anniversary to you that comes in from your mom katie okay that is the run-outs there and be my baby gregg give the esp workers a mention after returning the power and current on a yesterday get they get a little thanks for being out in all kinds of weather and no doubt will be out lots this evening well we hope we give them plenty of shout outs on this program but i take your point and they will be busy this evening and for the next few days no doubt okay i'm joined in the studio now by brona burk a very good morning to brona good morning thank you very much for joining us how are you not too bad not too bad um you've been through a very difficult time brona um do you want to tell us what what happened um so i've been on a kind of grief journey if you want to say for the past seven years nearly seven years now in the 27th of february 2015 where i lost my daddy suddenly uh through cardiac arrest and life was um you know picture perfect to be honest with uh up until that point um that so that was ready to start of my kind of your first real experience with grief and i'll wait you know there'll be aunts and uncles that sadly pass away or budge that was your first sort of experience of grief yeah it's like a wrecking ball doesn't it especially yeah definitely that guy was very fortunate you know they hadn't really lost anybody significant really in my life um but my daddy was um you know the pain of losing my daddy was just absolutely horrendous um going forward then for um over a specific in five years then um i was just happily got married i had a set of twins adam nifa um life was kind of kind of going back again you know it's kind of is that picture perfect life as you know we all try and have and you know life was good um then on um April 23rd of April 2020 um my husband died suddenly where a cardiac arrest as well same situation as my daddy he was a very young man he was he was 29 mm-hmm he was a big footballer he uh one stage to play for dairy you know he was he had his cap when orphan Ireland um you know he played for balamina yeah balamina united and you know he's a big athlete you know and when you're thinking of and it would be inevitable after going through the loss of your father you know well maybe you might be different but i you wouldn't think who's next to such if you know what i mean but you'd be sort of preparing yourself that right i suppose this is a reality when you hit a certain age the last person on that list through a major medical event that you probably thought you would lose would be your big strong healthy husband 100% like you know i thought we lose my daddy that you know hopefully i'll not get no more huts for you know until old age or you know my husband's name is thomas but i call him and always have us call them burkey um so burkey he had there was no somethings there was no warnings there was nothing you know and the same of my daddy to his well do you know um nothing to prepare you or to indicate you know there was nothing at all and uh should i call him burkey as well i call him burkey i burkey died in your presence is that correct yeah that's right which is makes it even more um i'd imagine makes it even or maybe it depends how you deal with it but yeah you're trying to save his life yeah are you comfortable talking about yeah i can go on did about yeah um you know um as i said i wasn't there when my daddy passed um but i was there for the aftermath afterwards you know my daddy ended up going to um you know uh my marriage estate department went on the resus um they tried to save him but he was gone um burkeys was you know burkey was we were in the midst of lockdown we were just locked down in the march 2020 so we were petrified we didn't know you know it was the unknown really you know that kind of way we didn't know what was kind of going to happen i was work we both worked in the health service i was working night duty burkey was working day duty we were you know just trying our best and to say that burkey was we went out and got her groceries that day you know we went on a walk with twins that are exercise um i'd have my exercise and then burkey that house exercise later on that afternoon um as normal as the way it always beats burkey came home then and instantly said it wasn't feeling well um but burkey would have been the type of person where he would have trained when he trained he pushed himself to his absolute limits so i wasn't alarmed at that stage drink some water or something yeah exactly what i actually said him was a couple of jelly babies you'll be all right get some sugar in you know you know that was a norm we have he would have came on and said oh my god i really pushed myself or whatever so no one was alarming to me at that stage um i said go up and get yourself a shower and which he'd add adam and ifa we were all in the kitchen adam and ifa my twins they were sitting eating their dinner they were watching the tv burkey came back down he had his dinner everything was okay and you know again it was saying i really don't feel well but at this stage he looked different um my mom he's a staff nurse so i rang my mom and i said mommy he's saying he's not feeling well and he's shouting in the background to me i'm grand i'm grand i'm all right you know i'm all right just topical man you know just like you know i'm all right don't be don't be fussing about me you know that can't away so that's what he did and you know that was the last words that burkey spoke uh burkey then went and then anston kurt agarist adam and ifa were both there um i had to perform 13 minutes of cpr and it was just really traumatic um but adam and ifa were superheroes at the age you know i told them they run out the street they call for an ambulance uh they call the ambulance down we were in a brand new new bald estate too as well at that stage so um we don't have many neighbors around us um you know and then banged in the neighbors' door you know they were they were by my side the full time they were only three and a half when when that when it happened um but they really really were the superheroes that day um when i was on the phone to my mama they tell her to come down before i rang 999 um my mama came down and she'd had the last two minutes of cpr and then the next thing we're back in resource again uh obviously he i mean was it a massive cardiac arrest it was both the exact same right really yeah okay and they're not related obviously no they're not related no but you know it was the you know we both started and they're they're right arteries too as well and it's it's hard to believe do you know um you know it's you know then we're sitting here now you're with this and all our loss do you know how do we you know after that we were in the height of a global pandemic and you know grieving through a pandemic was probably and is one of the most loneliest times of my life and also how do you you know obviously how do you deal with it in terms of you know two really important people taken from you you know what do you find did you find or do you find yourself saying well what's next i mean if life can throw that at me well really i can't allow myself not to be waiting on bad news all of the time absolutely do you know you but you know some days i be cropped up with the unknown cropped up with a fear do you know um but i've learned now to deal with that in a better way because you know we have to you know we have to you know we don't know what life we're going to be truly given but equally do you find yourself then worrying about your own health oh of course absolutely because now i'm the only parent do you know i'm a sole parent now do you know to you are i'm a fan that terrifies me do you know it really really does you have to break up to your emotional time or your actual time with making sure you're okay and making sure they're okay because you have to be okay for them to be okay 100% absolutely do you know and at times you know as i said there it does it does cripple you but you know you just have to learn to adjust this new bizarre new normal and in terms of this happening during the pandemic and you described how it was a such a lonely space what did the pandemic take from you you know that if it was outside of pandemic would have been different was it people calling around was it a funeral was it i don't know like why did it feel so lonely particularly i think to be honest we well we i said we were in the height of a global pandemic everybody was absolutely petrified we there was such the unknown you know there was no talks at this state at the very very start of you know getting your jags and whatever so really was the unknown burkey's funeral was very very different the way what us irish people normally have wakes and funnels we were counted 10 under the chapel do you know burkey was wild burkey was what coffin was wild he was never allowed to be you know as family members were never allowed to love them i mean even in the sports world the people that would have wanted to be there and give him a certain and even the laughter and that sense of pride to you as well that you know that was that was savaged away from him and with a shock like this and we're going to talk about your podcast which is proved incredibly popular and i can understand why um in terms of actually coming to terms with it's actually happened is that how long did that take or did that happen instantly because it's no the actual passing of burkey then it's actually that actually happened i'll be really honestly i still think he's going to come through that door that i do you know it has not helped me like i it took me five years to accept the loss of my father um what was a really rocky road which burkey would have helped you oh and i leaned on burkey for that burkey seen the strikes of anger the emotions the sadness the pain burkey seen all that um and you know burkey seen a lot behind closed doors and not anybody ever else would have seen um but that was in february 2020 where i actually accepted the loss of my father um and then two months later i'm sitting you know the loss of burkey so i'm being honest with it hasn't helped me do you know it hasn't at all do you know i feel like i'm in that and people who who know about who have lost a love on three grief you do you and be in that grief train sometimes and you have to decide how you talk about him to your children absolutely do you talk in the past tense do you talk like he's ever present do you you know what i mean that's the kind of stuff that you have to work to be honest with you know you're trying to the adamly for now either five and a half you know we're nearly two years under this now and you know you're trying to talk them a child-friendly way to as well but also giving the reality that their daddy's not coming back um so it has been a really rocky road worth that to as well um and normalizing that this you know all their feelings and it's okay they feel sad and it's okay they laugh about a moment that you have with your daddy and do you know um and those little moments when they come back from school and one of their classmates been talking about something they did with the dad and they can't follow process why they can't have that experience even though they know exactly what's happening oh definitely like even like so adamly friend are in primary two and they're learning how to read and some of the books if if came home way is talking about dads and adamly if it could be very frustrated a lot of times but it's just learning you know you know they you know it's a it's a it's not it's not in any way funny but it's a strange one but coca melons on an awful lot yes in our in our house and some of the songs is my mommy is the best or my daddy is the best yeah or they're lucky to have two or three siblings and i'm not saying for any second it should be cancelled or whatever but it does put your mind of what that might be like then for a child it doesn't explain absolutely like that's not the real that's not a hundred percent that's not the reality to me to be honest with you know that picture perfect life is not the reality of it you know that people there's you know could have lost of a sublin you know of a of a parent whatever this is the reality you know and i think that shouldn't be sugar coated either do you know it's also the reality that an awful lot of people experience and this podcast that you've started the timing's interesting because you've an awful lot way to go yet so if you ever get there but you also want to help other people going through the same thing and your first guest is your mom and i find that fascinating i want to talk about that but i want to talk about why you decided to start this podcast which is to say it's got loads of traction already memory of me it's called by the way you can get it on spotify and we'll tell you where else why why did you start the podcast i think to be honest with you um so when after burkey pass my thing was then that i just went to instagram um and i just spoke openly and honestly and people related to that people related to the fauna baldy they were related to the wrongness of that too as well and they get it you know people it might not have lost of a husband or a wife but you know there was people who would have lost of a of a muskyard you know a divorce whatever type forms of grief it was you know people really related to me through that um and it got this stage where the the messages were coming in you know thick and fast and you know people were just constantly you know just want to express their story and say their story and stuff like that or you know what would you do or things like that so um i just had some type of light bulb moment in november and i was like why not make a sunday podcast why not let people say their truth why don't people say the reality of their loss and honor that person or do you know or if not even alone that like i actually uh an episode came live there this morning that's not about grief it is about grief but it's about a love and grief it's about a separation of a marriage do you know in the grief that's a love and grief in itself so there's all different forms of grief that people have related to me so i just thought you know why not yeah i've spoken to people separated who describe themselves as a widow yeah a hundred percent you know the person is lost they might not be gone but they're they're they feel like they're a widow um and also too this is in society you know people don't have an awful lot of space for other people's emotions yeah pull yourself together be strong for the kids yeah life goes on yeah you'll find someone else all that kind of stuff yeah uh so what happens is people retreat into their grief don't they yeah a hundred percent like i've i've seen them words as you said like i've had some of them do you know i've i've had times where even the likes of when i was uh burying my father like i had and people have a mental malice on it at all whatsoever but you know i was about to bury my father people are saying don't you be crying now don't you be getting upset you know this is you know but that was the old school ways but i never met i had you know i wasn't annoyed or at anybody for saying that because do you know that was the old school ways of grief is do you know what you get on with things this is that do you know that person's dad now um you know just get on with your life do you know that kind of way so your first guest uh brona we're talking to brona burk by the way uh she is responsible for memory for me it's a podcast your first guest was your mother yeah your mommy as you call your mom who you've lost your dad she's lost her husband she's lost her son in law you've lost your partner yeah uh it's an interesting dynamic it does because did you learn stuff about each other's grief in that conversation absolutely there was you know there was moments where you know my mommy my mommy was very honest and very outpouring in her and you can get it as well on youtube and you know what Spotify but she got very emotional at times it was very heartfelt they thanked you know at times i was talking back because i was like oh god we might not say these things each day to each other but you know this is what we're going through and i think it was giving people the reality of do you know what this is what we're dealing with daily and there's not a much cancelling to it as well as well as therapy it's complete therapy it's free therapy it's it literally is you know and um my mommy really um my mommy felt the love this week it's we've been unintended we messaged myself and my mommy and you know it's it's all positive and you know i think that people are just enjoying the the reality of this is what what i'm we're dealing with each day um and the co-parenting side of things too um and when you lost your dad your mom had to be deal with her grief and be strong for you as well yeah presumably that puts a lot of pressure on for her would you grant your your children wouldn't have been born at that point but anybody else that's in the family you know what i mean so did she talk much about that i didn't get a chance she did yeah she did she spoke very openly and very honestly because i'll be honest be part of me has died too and my mommy has lost a lot of that too as well um so she has so you know she was she was very honest about it she spoke openly about now her co-parenting you know she's never going to be burky nor do we ever want her to be but she's now become the next parent yeah do you know and there's another adult figure in there she is and she's a huge part like i've i've been honest i can't do this on my own i i find i struggle with just being you know the one parent so i do rely on my mama a lot for do you know what helped me out with stuff um and and stuff like that there but you know and she's getting something from that as well absolutely and it's just the reality of that too as well so your first guest you see mommy you talked about your your next guest um they're talking about a separation how far will this go because i think you know when you recognize that grief doesn't have to be a death yes it opens it up it does very very wide so i mean did you realize it would be so popular obviously you're it had quite a bit of traction with your lack of sugarcoating of the reality on on instagram so you probably knew the audience was there where are you going to go with this do you think i don't know to be honest with at the start i was originally i think it's going to record five episodes uh then i said oh i'll do seven now i'm setting on i've recorded 10 um i'm probably going to stretch it to 12 um but you know i really don't know to be honest with this was a form healing for me um i never went to any form of therapy i haven't been offered anything as of yet i'm on a witness of my long and that's not going to do with the health service it's the fact of the global pandemic and everything else going on with so i wanted to relate to people and i wanted to know that it's okay to feel these feelings and you know it's about building a community that we're that it's okay to whatever feelings comes and goes it's the waves that we have to go through and how we we talk about it yeah absolutely and you mentioned you know a loss of a baby a miscarriage you know we still haven't really figured out how people can talk about no 100 percent still haven't really figured out why you don't tell anyone you pregnant clear three months yeah why don't you exactly a hundred percent absolutely because there is this thing that we can't discuss potentially if it's a lot you know there's so much in there oh definitely i never got my head around that why do we have to wait for three months for that and then the pressure it puts on you know people who might lose a pregnancy later on and yeah there's a whole probably a podcast in that in and of itself but anyway um right okay so there's a facebook page it's called memory of me what's your style what what is your presenting style like do you just as you just treat it as a as a chat at the kitchen table or i will that's what i interview or you're conversing i know we just either you know people come to myself you know i have signed up as well with a guy down in swords down in double primal pro dan and um so i would record some episodes down there down in beside doblin um and if i'm not doing there you know i have a guy in dairy who is on the road with me too as well and we just wherever you want like one of my episodes was recorded down in boncrona beach like james cordon you know but i would just went with a flow with that you know um sounds brilliant sounds like you know it sounds like it's a great thing to be part of as well listen we wish you all the success in the world with it it's called memory of me it's dedicated to anyone who's ever felt pain or loss of any form and it's how they feel it's not how society says what is pain and what is loss it's how they feel um and it is its presenter is brona burg you can watch some of them on youtube or the audio on youtube they're all on youtube on memory of me youtube channel and so you can watch now the my mommy's episode episode one and a guy called mary kewell's episode now is live this morning at nine a.m and how often you're releasing them every wednesday every subscribe as well to those platforms and everything all right listen thank you very much thank you so much it's been lovely speaking to you oh brother thank you so much thank you okay still another hour to come on the nine till noon show stay right where you are but at eleven o'clock we cross over to the newsroom now and it's good morning to kathryn gaffney hi kathryn hi greg good morning regulations requiring face masks to be worn in shops public transport and schools are expected to be dropped naff it will meet tomorrow with the current rules set to be replaced with guidance urging people to continue wearing face coverings serious concern has been raised over what's been described as a lack of guard thee to deal with antisocial behavior in carrandona it's understood there were several instances in the town over the weekend and guard thee from elsewhere had to be called in to deal with the situation he shock me how martin says a scoping exercise is being prepared to address concerns over safeguards and hsc residential centers for disabled people in the northwest it's after the health watchdog noted a very serious incident regarding the online behavior of a resident at one center a woman in her forties has died after being hit by a vehicle in county slago last night the crash happened on the end 15 at monnie golden grange at around quarter past 10 traffic diversions are in place and guard thee are appealing for witnesses the country's largest public sector union is warning there will be significant implications for public services and industrial relations if the government does not open public sector pay talks by may at the latest or say the current agreement which was first agreed in december of 2020 at the height of the pandemic has not kept pace with inflation storm dodley will bring long spells of rain spot flooding and very strong winds over the next 24 hours a status yellow wind warning comes into effect at midday for the entire country and is due to last until the same time tomorrow in donnie gall however that will be upgraded to an orange weather warning tonight on the st 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in the afternoon of nine to eleven degrees now of course this wind and storm that's coming at us is coming at us too while the tides are quite high so that might leave an element of extra vulnerability to parts of our northwest coastline gary martins director of emergency services with donagall candid council gary thank you for holding good morning to you morning greg right so in terms of preparedness or what to expect what what is the council's position at the moment this morning yeah we we've been preparing i suppose over the last few days greg looking at i suppose that they they've all been rather situations where you know we have two storms coming in one named dudley which is effectively the first vestiges of what we're seeing two windows this morning and that'll have the the greatest unpack tonight and tomorrow and then uh thursday and the friday then a second storm called unis the first storm i suppose is very much uh revolving around one than possibly high tidal conditions uh and obviously in a donagall context we're quite concerned uh in areas that are prone to coastal flooding when you have large volumes of rainfall in the in the rivers uh strong storm surges high tide conditions and then strong prevailing one so that's the biggest concern that we have and we've been working with the national director for fire and emergency management in dublin who have uh been advising us on i suppose on across a range of different areas and we've responded i suppose by taking some precautions we've advanced deployed sandbags an area that are prone to flooding and locations around donagall town uh we have our fire services and road services i suppose an advanced state of readiness in the event of having to respond to localized flooding or local issues that might arise and we also have civil defense on advanced state of readiness as well so we're we're reasonably well tuned for the first one that's coming in as i say as i look out the wonder year in donagall town at the moment it's teeming at the at the at the moment and we will see quite extensive rain over the next number of days as well which which what it could potentially exacerbate the situation yeah and in terms of fallen trees which uh if they cross the roads i presume there's some responsibility there with the council but in terms of sort of fallen power lines or broadband lines whatever it might be to their repair might be complicated then as well as the team's work and we know they work excellently with the arrival then of of the second storm because we can't send people out in dangerous conditions that that's a worst-case scenario let's hope it doesn't pan out like that but that has to be forming sort of part of our preparations to the most important thing obviously is the preservation of of life and really what we want to do first and foremost is for people just urge caution in relation to the weather events we're seeing you know if you absolutely have to travel give yourself some additional time you know don't be forced into having to drive maybe a little bit faster than you should be in the condition so you know really really urge just be just be cautious while you're out on the road and on the roads this morning thankfully i think we're going to see the worst of it overnight but that means the school drive or the commute or whatever it might be in the morning you never know what's around the corner that's right be aware of the risk of debris you know down trees you know down branches and so on support and obviously there's always the risk of power lines being down so just you know at these times you just have to apply an extra degree of caution as you go about your as you go about your business any car park closures or anything like that happening no no no thankfully we have nothing nothing along those lanes we have a further meeting this afternoon a nice little director of fire emergency management and we'd have a further severe weather assessment team get together after that and we'll respond in accordingly i suppose the biggest the biggest challenge as we have today it's a combination of green and one the concern for storm units which is coming on thursday night into friday is quite strong ones as well but probably more concentrated in the south of the country in the northern part of the continent northwest there is a risk of additional precipitation possibly sleet and snow conditions but again it was a little bit far out when we were getting the detailed forecast yesterday so we'll be issuing further advisories today and tomorrow in relation to that as well all right now some people contacting us concerned that potential flooding in the burn foot area is that on on the radar for the council as well you mentioned donnie galtan yeah there's nothing there's nothing presenting at the moment in relation to potential flooding there as i said it's a conference event of events normally gets raised to these issues the height height the direction of the onshore one the large volumes of rainfall and the catchment and so on and so forth and i suppose when all of those come together we're really really concerned but obviously at the moment we're just observing it more so than anything else and if it's seen to escalate then we will respond accordingly in the areas where the risk is greatest all right thank you very much indeed gary martin director of emergency services we've done a gold counter council personally for me i wouldn't be parking in a a couple of the car parks on the coast overnight uh in any case but anyway uh storm already brewing up here in beautiful ardera okay all right stay safe if you can uh no stay safe for goddess if you can of course unless you have to be outdoors um it might pass over and not be quite as significant as uh it might not be quite as significant as we fear right bron