and Hages in the interest of CFD. He said I'd also want the refusal of some to cut Hages as it's having a knock-on effect on potential homeowners seeking planning. A sad situation with the DMD, that one young couple in particular cannot get their planning because a neighbour will not cut the hedge as refusing to allow the hedge to be cut and that's the reality of it. That couple in question cannot get a house because somebody will not cut the hedge and what's going to happen here now, they have no other choice to go to. They can't get volume along the end of the section if they want to go to a new site because it's not applicable for them and more than likely this couple will end up emigrating. Shin Fian says the TV licence fee is unfair and should be scrapped. The opposition party is leading a dull debate this evening calling for public service content to be funded from the exchequer. It also wants independent media outlets to receive state funding as well as RTE. Shin Fian TD Thomas Gold is calling for an amnesty for those who haven't paid the TV licence in the past. What we feel is that the licence fee is unfair. One of four people didn't pay it last year and we believe direct exchequer funding to a media fund that would support RTE, TG car and public sector content produced by the likes of Virgin, local radio stations, national stations and community is a better way to go and we would also give an amnesty then for anyone who's due on court for not paying the fee in previous years. Whether or not it will stay dry through the day with bright or sunny spells and highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Jack, everyone asks me if you're teething when you cry but can you be teething all the time? Maybe you're hungry or you're sad and need a little cuddle or maybe it's something else. 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We're across other social media platforms as well and we are of course broadcasting the show live on YouTube, on Highland Radio Ireland and also on our Facebook pages and you can see the show unfold in any Zoom conversations or studio guests. You can watch those on your various devices through whatever means you have of Chromecasting or watching directly or all this wonderful newfangled modern stuff that we didn't even think about vaguely existing when we were younger. We'll start as always with the papers this morning Irish and dependent nurse allowances in public sector pay deal sweeteners. Sweeteners for groups of public servants that include extra pay hikes and allowances in a proposed new national pay deal will cost an estimated 47 million euro. The fine print of the agreement reveals numerous government commitments to benefit some state employees on top of across the board pay rises. It includes a pledge to roll out three labor court recommendations that would mean significant benefits for nurses and pinwives, medical laboratory scientists and HSE managers. Also on the front of the Irish independent a very harrowing photograph of two women in Gaza. The banner lying under it horror in southern Gaza as 74 are killed including women and children during operation to save two hostages and if ever there was an entire news story summed up in one photograph and one sentence that's it. The Irish Times this morning HSE aims to cut 250 million euro spending on outside agency staff plans could increase risk of interruptions to key services especially next winter. The chief executive will have the number of top managers in switch to regionalization. Now this is an interesting one because on the one hand we do know that the HSE incur significant agency costs and we've seen reports in recent weeks indeed in the northwest and in letter Kenny of significant agency costs both at letter Kenny University Hospital and also in the community health sector right across Donegal each was like a cavern monahan etc as well and the on the one hand yes indeed you can say an awful lot of money is being spent if we stopped bringing in all these agency staff then we will save all that money and that's absolutely true however the other side of that coin is of course that the reason the agency staff are being brought in is to do a job and it's to work be the agency nurses working in the various wards or ED or whatever or be they agency physios or agency speech therapists or agency whatever's the fact is those being brought in on an agency basis are being brought in to do jobs that need doing if the agency staff aren't brought in and they don't hire sufficient staff to make the agency staff unnecessary then the work isn't going to get done so you have this dichotomy that the HSE is going to have to address do we go on a big money saving exercise to get within budget that's quite possible cutting agency absolutely will bring them closer to hitting their budget but in doing so it could stop countless operations stop countless procedures stop countless services being delivered and that is one of the many issues that the health minister and the new regional health bodies are going to be dealing with Tony Ganavan who currently heads up south is going to be the head of the new regional office serving the northwest surge in gar the applications after age cap is raised to 50 there's been a surge in the number of people expressing interest in joining on garbage your corner according to Connor Lally who is working in the writing in the Irish Times this morning of the total of 6381 applicants received under the latest recruitment round around 2300 are aged between 35 and 49 and that's 2300 that wouldn't have been eligible under previous recruitment drives so that's an interesting issue indeed are we going to see more older guard the appointed and that's an interesting one because it also means that if you have people joining on guard the she corner who are older you also have people joining on guard the she corner who have experience in other areas of life they may have worked in a bank they may have worked in retail they may have worked on a farm they may have worked in a hospital but you'll get people joining on guard the she corner who have experience elsewhere and whereas traditionally a lot of people would have left school or left college done the guard the exams gone to temple more gone out and you'll have people who perhaps have never done any other job in their life except be a member of on guard the she corner so if you have older people who have life experience in other areas now joining on guard the she corner perhaps 20 20 years experience in another job that will be interesting and may give them a new perspective and it'll be interesting to see how that changes things on the ground if at all Irish Daily Mail this morning now you've heard Cahill Gould on the news this morning already expressing his belief that Sinn Fein want to see a ex-checker program to replace the TV license and an amnesty for those who have not paid their license up to now and are potentially facing court proceedings well the main headline in the Irish Daily Mail Veradka rejects SF's stunt of TV license amnesty Leo says move is a slap in the face for those who have paid up a Sinn Fein amnesty would be a slap in the face to low abiding citizens the Taoiseach has said the opposition party will today table a dull motion calling on the government to abolish the license fee and replace it instead with direct funding from the ex-checker and that's going to be a very interesting debate to see how that one pans out because indeed I can see a situation develop where people go oh hang on a minute I have paid my license every year I have had my license talked in under my television every year for the past number of years and it's almost a prodigal son again you know why should I now be sidelined and people that didn't be told that's okay then on you go your grant it's it's going to be an interesting debate and that's going to give it a whole new dimension let's move on to the red tops and Irish Daily Mirror this morning ban the bullies dangerous dogs clamp down now I must be honest I am no expert on dogs I hadn't heard of XL bullies until a tragic case in the UK in in the past couple of weeks where a lady actually lost her life but Ireland should follow the UK in banging banning unpredictable XL bullies as they have the potential to kill Li Trum council veterinary officer James Madden added the breed is widespread here and many are in the hands of wrong owners um there's a picture now obviously pictures can be framed and crafted in such a way as to increase the menace but there's a dog on the front of the mirror this morning and certainly I wouldn't be patting it and if I saw that coming against me I would be bricking it as the man said Irish Daily Star this morning car thief jailed over death you left him to die on road a callous car thief who killed a vehicle owner by driving off with him on the bonnet has been jailed for nine and a half years Adam Murphy 22 left Ian McDonald 50 dying on the roadway as he fled a judge said yesterday he's been jailed for nine years and the four billion euro kiss every paper it seems today has a picture of Taylor Swift kissing is a Travis Kelsey is his name I think it's Travis Travis Kelsey or something he's a footballer with the Kansas City Chiefs and they won the Super Bowl in a dramatic um extra time touchdown on Sunday night stroke Monday morning Irish Sun Aussie Rockers in first ever Crocker gig highway to hill 16 Bally Bucking Black it's a pond fest on the Irish Sun this morning AC DC are to play in Croke Park and it'll clash with the electric picnic on the same weekend now I raised my eyebrows when I saw that actually because I always thought traditionally the electric picnic was on the first weekend in September and one of the reasons it was on the first weekend in September it was on sort of after schools went back with the intention of attracting a slightly older um clientele now mind you electric picnic started at the same time that oxygen was also with thing in fairy house and I think the idea was that electric picnic or punches down as it later became the electric picnic was was sort of intended to be almost a uh something different an alternative to oxygen where oxygen was seen as the festival where young people went and electric picnic was seen as the festival where adults went now if picnic has moved into mid august I presume they're sort of trying to go more in toward the mainstream um but I digress AC DC playing in croke park and that gig is on in august 17th as we said and the tickets go on sale on friday I don't know um maybe maybe not I was at the last two acdc gigs I saw them in the yviva some years ago and then I was in punchestown on a rainy teeming day where acdc played and it was a brilliant gig and I'll be honest the gig in the pouring rain out in the field in punchestown actually I thought was much better than the gig under the cover of a stand when it wasn't raining just it was and there was a there was a moment where angus got up on a cherry picker to do the solo for let there be rock in the middle of the crowd and the rain was teeming and there was a super trooper light just shining straight on him and you could just see angus and you could see the rain pouring down and he was just in another world ice glow schoolboy cap on just jamming out the solo to let there be rock it was just one of those iconic wonderful life moments absolutely loved it um if you haven't seen acdc it's well worth it they're they're they're a little past their prime let's be honest but still a great great band it sort of worries me when I think about it I was wanting to go see acdc when I was 17 in school that's how long they have been around now 16 minutes past nine we're going to take a short break coming back in a moment we'll be discussing a very important issue that of adult education and how those who provide adult education are paid but for now as I say we'll take a short break back after these the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letterkenny the 2022 c store national off license of the year the nine till noon show with letterkenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letterkenny credit union call us on<PHONE_NUMBER> or apply online via our app or in office today the way you eat a creme egg says everything about you if you eat yours with a teaspoon that means you like things just so you turn up the tv in even numbers 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highland radio after the news at 8 p.m to highland radio's nine till noon show on a tuesday morning adult education is very important service and is vital for very many people adult education tutors however are demanding parity with post primary colleagues they're calling for supporters to join them in a protest tomorrow february 14th on kildare street in dublin a letter making a number of points with regards to their pay and conditions has been sent to minister simon harris joined on zoom by james o'keef who is the chair of the adult education teachers organization james a very good morning to you good morning gray again good morning to your listeners james in terms of the situation that adult education tutors are in at the moment you have had a long discussion with government in may of last year you finally got the government to agreed a public service contract with an incremental pay scale but you're saying what was actually on the table from the government was to say the least ambiguous and it was ambiguous and there was a there was a good few aspects of that contract that would be unacceptable to us and the proposed contract you know went back to government and our union representatives and you know could see that it wouldn't be acceptable and so it went back for clarification on a few points and there was one major aspect of the contract that was a breach of employment law it was a breach of the part-time working act and which states that you know part-time workers will be treated no less favorably than their full-time counterparts and so our understanding is that that element of the contract proposal you know has been changed and but as far as we're concerned the the original proposal went it went no way really towards the kind of contract that we would want and that we would be happy with and and we don't we don't really think and we don't expect that the kind of drastic changes to that contract proposal and that that would make the the proposal acceptable to us are going to be forthcoming in terms of your membership how many would be working full-time how many would be working on a part-time basis at night or during the day oh good question um i don't have it at hand i'm afraid uh we we have carried out surveys um you know gleaning that kind of information but i don't have it at hand is there a perception perhaps a department level perhaps uh i won't say at ministerial level but you know a perception that maybe another education teacher is someone who does does a couple of hours down at the local college at night in their spare time and and it isn't necessarily regarded as a career it's regarded as a nice handy little learner or something to do with an evening in the winter yeah i think you've touched on something there yeah um there there is definitely that kind of perception um and you know like the vast majority of us don't really recognize that um we don't we don't recognize that um you know there are there are a number of people who do a few hours here and a few hours there but you know for the vast majority of people it's a career you know uh it's a career that they um that they treat with kind of professionalism and dedication and um and we want uh you know we just want a proper contract that will reflect that professionalism and that dedication from your point of view discussions as we say how have been ongoing uh you did reach that draft agreement per se in may but as you say there are issues with it that have yet to be addressed any indication coming from the department from the minister that that they're willing to get to grips with the issues that you have um no so um you know that we that is the adult education teachers organization uh we're made up of tv y members sift two members and non-union members i like you know we have no involvement in in those talks those discussions um there is a tendency amongst the trade union officials the trade union bureaucracy to um to to just kind of to to offer reassurance to their membership that you know we look after this you know you don't need to get involved and we're not happy with that and you know and we like our our protest tomorrow um there's that it's it's multifaceted and it hasn't it has a few different purposes one purpose is to put the government on notice and to say to the government uh you know we we're not happy with this um the the alignment that's being offered to us is to be aligned with uh youth youth reach resource persons the youth reach resource person contract and we're not saying that we're any better than youth youth reach resource persons we're saying that that was a bad deal for youth reach and it would be a bad deal for us and the next message for our protest of our protest tomorrow is to say to our union officials that you know we want you to be more ambitious we want you to be more optimistic about the the willingness of your membership to actually put up a fight um and uh you know we want you to um we want you know what we want is a fighting trade union movement um standing up for its members um and and like we have we have membership of about you know just under 400 um tutors um and this is it's a vibrant and enthusiastic and effective campaign and and you know we want our we want our union officials to look at that and say oh here's a here's a big cohort of workers who um that we would love to have um as as as members of our of our union so you know why are the union officials and not jumping in there and um uh you know offering something to those people who aren't already union members but maybe who've been made a bit cynical by um years of inaction by trade union bureaucracies you know why are they not offering something to those that would attract that would make union membership attractive to those people and the last thing Greg is um we're also we're also saying very clearly to um adult education tutors all over the country who aren't uh involved in our campaign that um that you know this contract is is coming down the line um we're we're not under any illusion that contracts outside or sorry that protests outside government house are going to change and are going to radically change that on on the other hand like it is our protests that have brought us to this point it was our protest that forced the government to finally offer us yeah that uh contract and pay scale even though it's not acceptable to us but we're saying to adult education tutors all around the country that if you really want to a decent contract that reflects properly truly reflects your work get involved in our campaign come to the protest tomorrow and um and and look at stepping up the campaign because that's really what we're going to need to do if we're going to win a contract that really reflects the work that we do rather than be tied to various unions and dependent on the unions be their tuab they sip to be the be they whoever rather than depend on them to negotiate on your behalf because with all the best within the world i mean i think the tuy is going to go out there and first and foremost the tuy is going to be fighting for full-time teachers who work in the secondary sector that's their bread and butter that's that's the bulk of their membership and that's what's going to be foremost on the tuy's mind uh i mean and with all due respect to that union i'm not sure how much thought the union is going to be given to adult education tutors in the in the course of the the minutiae of negotiations around the table when talking about a public sector pay agreement is it time for the adult education teachers organization to become a negotiating body in its own right and to actually negotiate in your own deal with the department of education and the government based on the fact that you have specific circumstances you have specific needs and you have specific issues that are not going to be addressed in a catch-all discussion um i think that would be a long way down the line you know we what we would encourage people to to join the existing unions um you know and and we really you know it's a fighter can be one you know we'd encourage people to to get in there get to their branch meetings get to their section meetings put in motions for congress put in motions to be to be adopted by their by their local branch um and you know and fight to turn the existing unions into um to become to become part of a fighting trade union movement which really this country is badly in need of i mean if we look at if we look up at the north even um and we look at the great um pretty much general public service strike that they had up there a couple of weeks back um you know that's the kind of that's the kind of examples that you know our trade union movement should be looking to uh it's been interesting certainly having this conversation james um i'm i'm minded i i recalled the long discussion and there was a long discussion in this county in particular uh with regards to school secretaries uh who were in in a situation where school secretaries employed directly by schools were on different contracts to others who were employed directly by the department of education and it took that was a long long campaign but they did eventually get the party they needed and i don't know are they two analogous situations but it was done through a mainstream union as well but they did have their own sort of organization as such would that be an analogous situation yeah sure a word a word yeah yeah i mean i don't think that um that many school secretaries were you know particularly happy with with the outcome of of that um i mean they did they they did win the you know i think their campaign was a victory but um it wasn't it didn't it didn't go as far i think as many school secretaries um yeah what would have wanted and and that's kind of the situation we find ourselves in as well you know we've we have we have we have scored a victory yeah and you know we forced the government to offer this contract and pay scale um and um you know but it's that's not enough for us you know we do want more um you know uh yeah we want parity you know we we we do the same work we have we have full-time um sorry post primary colleagues in further education training who do exactly the same work as us um you know we teach up to level five on the national framework of qualifications those courses are qq i accredited therefore state sanctioned you know it's the state that has decided that we are qualified and experienced enough to teach those courses the state has decided that you know so therefore we should be treated accordingly we should be treated the same as those people and there is precedence for this there are because you know there are numbers of there are there are probably many uh adult education tutors who don't have teaching qualifications um but that's not to say that there aren't many who are highly highly qualified many do have teaching qualifications but it's the state that has decided by employing us and putting us um in charge of courses that are that are um up to level five on the nfq and and our state sanctioned because they're qq i accredited um i just want i just want to make a point as well as i could just just a local issue something that's local to donnie gall but not but not unique not unique to donnie gall there's um there are a number of etbs and donnie gall is amongst them um that pay their tutors very poorly um so uh typically um i'm based in city of dublin etb um and uh donnie gall tutors would be paid uh around about 10 euros an hour less than than me and my colleagues in dublin um and uh and also donnie gall etb hasn't honored the um the building momentum uh pay agreement um and um so that's the public pay agreement and donnie gall haven't haven't honored that um so the the paying donnie gall not only is it very very poor and it's also not getting the increases which the government has says has said that they should get now the etbs those etbs who aren't paying the building momentum public pay agreement and they're saying that they need the department circular they need a circular from the department of education in order to pay those increases um and uh but yeah our position would be well you know you don't need a department circular to pay the lowest rate in the country you know you do that off your own but so you know you can very easily uh without a department circular pay the um pay the public pay agreement increases and the dealer seeking would see equal pay across the country and everyone be their donnie gall be their dublin be their limerick be their cork be their waterford everyone paid the same exactly exactly yes yeah yeah but our but our donnie gall colleagues who will be joining us tomorrow um down outside the Doyle um you know they'll also be demanding that those um that when those building momentum pay increases are implemented in donnie gall that they should be backdated right back to day one james o keith chair of the adult education teachers organization thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thanks greg thank you james uh that's uh james there speaking to us from dublin as you heard it's uh it's donal cavernas standing in for greg on the nine two noon show on this tuesday morning we're going to take a short break in a moment we'll be chatting to the kahiruk of the lyford strunauer municipal district who will be stepping down from donnie gall county council once we get to the local elections in june that conversation after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account join the homeland agri our draw team at our draw party center on tuesday 13th of february for their sheb event from 7 30 p.m. 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use the phone call us on 07491 25 000 003537 for 9125 000 if you're outside of the dining area now let's go to zoom because the career of the differed strontar municipal district announced last week that he would not be seeking re-election to dunagore county council as i was going to say that councillor liam doherty joins us on on zoom liam good morning it's an absolute pleasure to speak to you and we did speak on news recently about this and you were saying that you do believe it's time to bring some new blood into dunagore county council and and you believe you're you're stepping aside is going to facilitate that yes i want to be one of my main reasons just as a side that there's another members there and one of ones wanting to come on board and and see there's like to be a councillor and i have like i have 10 years done i feel it's just time to step aside i'm not i'm not getting no younger i maybe will go on and they can you know something else down the line for myself you know and just for the 10 years there's not a long enough stunt at the moment and you were always a very you were always a very hands-on member of council as we reflected last week you were never one for the speeches you were never one for for the big gesture you're always one for getting the sleeves rolled up in the hand starting yes still as as anyone knows me that's that's me and wasn't one far out to be heard on the radio or to be seen as such you know i was someone that done a lot of stuff behind behind the scenes and as other clients who would know the amount of work does go on behind the scenes of no one knows about or will ever know about you know personal stuff for people and stuff that's just i say that's that's me and you know sometimes the meetings you know would go on and on sometimes end up on the attack and shop and it just just wasn't me though as i say that the meetings it just you know you don't have to be heard to be to be doing the work you know but but no i'm glad it was i was there for 10 years and i'm happy that you know things went the way they did through the years for myself like i was looking and i'm here here at the moment there of all this to an ordered effort endy and i'm honored honored to have got that role and and has been great work on both all the other parties and our endy they're all seen the six of them they work we've worked very well together and we've got a lot of issues and things to the table and the same thing it's just time to to move on now and let someone else take the reins for for a while as as you said you've worked well with all the other parties but you are and remain a committed member of shin fame and you've made it quite clear that if anyone thinks that Liam Doherty is not going to be on the campaign trail on behalf of shin fame they've got another thing coming definitely i don't as i said even before the council was an active member there and i enjoy and i will enjoy going around and of course now again and i'm getting the sleeves rolled up as you said and getting stuff into it again i'm not going away i'll be there that i'm not changing my phone number i'm not disappeared into the into the mist and but now i look forward to the campaign and what's what's new members coming along what's new candidates coming up there i don't think the great to be alongside of them and helping them was you know as they go along you know it's going to be an interesting year in terms of elections because we know at some point within the next 10 months we do have local and european elections in june that set in stone but we know at some point over the next 12 months and possibly sooner rather than later we're going to have a general election as well i mean february 2025 is the absolute latest date it can be but i mean i think the general acceptance is the latest it's going to be is probably october of this year given the recent polls given shin fein's up and down performance in polls in the past while it's going to be an interesting couple of months for the party particularly as the party has made it quite clear this time it is going again for the three seats in donnie gall in hopes to take them yes no doubt don't and there's no reason why we can't take the three seats and we will get a fill for it on the doors now in the local elections of what what people's views are and i think the self people is angry at the moment and is you know and i don't know the way things is going at the moment nationally so i think i think they have a good chance and we have two great tds there at the moment we have the great councillors they're doing the work on the ground and hopefully after june we'll have more councillors on there and i can't say you know people people want chains and i think it's just time and i think people should give shin fein the chance when they have the caliber of the likes of pearsome product they are really is doing excellent work i'd like to thank them as well for further help throughout the time and the time on the council there was never a time that you didn't phone some of them if it was more of a bigger issue or a nice little issue there that had to be dealt with you know so now i look forward to the locals to get we'll get the food on the ground and then hit the ground rolling again with the general the lyford strunaller electoral area is an interesting one because all the other electoral areas have their own specific dedicated public services center lyford strunaller doesn't you use county house in lyford because that happens to be within the geographical area there was at one point a major discussion over whether strunaller should get a psc but it it didn't ever materialize and it's an interesting one in that respect because sometimes we get you know that you often hear talk about donnie gall being the forgotten county sometimes uh members within lyford strunaller seem to give the impression they believe that lyford strunaller can be the forgotten municipal district at times and some stages yes we have we have some offices upright and strunaller the other roads office and stuff yeah we have them up there but to me lyford lyford is the main the main spot the main the main office there and i don't see why you wish i think i think we're doing good i think we're okay in this in the the stern lyford in the yeah there's could be some things maybe to it here and there but we do we do you know it's no different people see different things around roads allocations for roads money and stuff for roads but you're you're you're dealing with this it's the uh it's doubling this it's the government that's you know they send the money down the road to us and it's up to us to fight to something they have fallen the likes of that but as far as offices i think i think lyford is is good enough for us in the first scenario it's our main town lyford no i think we're we're doing all right there as i say you're getting caught up there eventually i think there's no and the other thing of course is there is a very substantial part of the of the md is is is part of the border it backs on to uh right from the border at lyford stroban right down toward toward cladding beyond and and from that point of view the border always has a an impact on lyford strunner and border relations between lyford strunner and that part of to ron have always been important and have always been a factor in discussions yes like you have that there's a there's a bit of an issue to a certain extent but both are working with their own champagne colleagues and turn on like you know what's that's great as well like we're all alone and in the issues that's appearing to be a cross-border issue there we're in contact with them they'll deal with it on their side we'll deal with it on our side and we meet regularly and you know you can and you know what's going on there but yes in a way it does you know road stops at the draw line and the road gets better maybe on one side and the other and trying to try and deal with the two jurisdictions it isn't ideal something obviously that we'd like to see not there but to me we do was that's what what what we can the way we can what sort of colleagues over the over the fun you know so no i think it's yeah well i know you did have a a marathon meeting to to discuss the county development plan over the past two weeks i think that that finished yesterday that now goes back to public consultation with the idea that maybe the last plenary meeting before the elections will will ratify that development plan we'll see what happens in the meantime but um you know the meetings you'll be attending are drawing to a close and from your point of view that that that's going to be important but you know as as far as Liam Doherty is concerned you have made it quite clear you know you're going to be on the campaign trail you're going to be out there is it going to be a little bit easier on the campaign trail without it being yourself you're campaigning for the chicken you're going to be channeling your interest be it campaigning for Gary Doherty or be campaigning for whatever new candidates may crop up in a I believe there's a section convention in in two days time um so whatever happens you'll be you'll be out there yeah i'll be out there and i just said well i'm sure it will be a wee bit more a little bit more breathing space and it won't be the same pressure won't be there but the the excitement will be there i think and the drive will be there to to elect where we'll be running three candidates on the the md this time and the big push will be there to to get them three candidates in and as i say then we're we'll be heading into general excellence so that's exciting times more than anything and i think yes as you say i think the pressure won't be the same pressure on myself but at the same time you know what's as hard as well not you know not not a campaign for yourself as such you know but we look forward to it yeah we we wish you all the best i i would say happy retirement but i won't because i know the sorts you are and the sorts you are is you'll you'll be out there doing as much work i suspect after june as you've been doing before june it'll just be slightly different kind of work but i i've i've not i should be out there Liam thanks very much indeed and we wish you all the best no thanks you don't and i'll just i did take this opportunity also to thank that the my constituents that act to texas and the the messages and facebook and stuff there that the ken words from everyone and council staff as well and my team that the councillors there the ten of us in the council that was always a great great working with the ten of us work well together and i'd like to also thank them as well public executives you know Liam all the best thanks for much indeed thank you take a short break i'll capture these the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up 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importance of the plan and these discussions i'm joined on zoom by uh john McAteer the editor of the chair connell tribune john good to talk to you and to you don't know good morning to you and a very good morning to you uh i i didn't get to to livered for the discussion this time i was there for all the discussions on the uh the letter kenny plan and i was there for the initial discussions on the county development plan the meeting that took it took it started last week and finished yesterday i mean i'd say in total it was close to 16 17 hours of discussion in total on on the chief executives report now what's basically happened is a draft plan was published last year and it goes out to consultation members of the public locally will make comments there'll also be comments from people like antashka people like the chamber people like other bodies that may have an interest be the angling groups be they whatever will make rigman would make comments are local environmental groups and so on and then the office of the public regulator of the planning regulator the opr makes observations and all this goes into a report that the chief executive john mclaughlin puts together he presents his report and what's basically been discussed over the past two meetings has been that chief executives report it can be mind-numbingly boring at times because it gets into real minutiae and there can be long protracted discussion over two acres from what you saw of the proceedings online john or or whatever how do you think those those last two meetings went they were very busy meetings the very detailed meetings and then you said that the minutiae of it had to be hammered out and will continue to be hammered out because we covered this originally on the 7th of December when we highlighted the fact that the opr was going to curb rural housing and access on the n-56 now the n-56 stretches from the mountaintop on that again 80 kilobags it's 100 miles a access rose off that outside of main population centers a the opr is looking at the potential that if you're going to build a new cattle shed and you have three extra cows that if you if you bring them to the market or the factory or wherever it's going to cause traffic congestion it's it's one of those layers that stretch it away way back and you remember this quite well excuse me the the the the famous planning tribunals that were established to recommend on mid recommendations to to look at certain planning matters and payment and that was in 1997 it was initially the flood tribunal and it was the Mahon tribunal lasted for 12 years talking about a long meeting yesterday it cost over 300 million euro but I mean for the for the context of of this debate I think Liam Blaney put this thing into very strong context last week when he said that a express very serious concerns that the type of directives coming from the office of the planning regulator were going to make it virtually impossible for people to build houses in rural areas and he just warned that the council had to take a stand now or otherwise there would be no rural housing happening at all by 2030 and if you only sort of try and visualize that that rural Ireland which should be treated as our most vital asset and promoted as such is being handled in such a negative restrictive way more rules more plans and I mean who's putting out these things we have two elements here we have a government and Dublin trying to promote rural development and rural culture and all that goes with that and here now we are this extra layer on top of the planning laws which are pretty archaic at the moment because you could be waiting a very long time and god help any young couple trying to look for planning permission out in the countryside and and the point the point's been made that certainly there are parts of the N56 we're bringing new access on would cause congestion there are parts of the N56 we're bringing in access on would potentially be very dangerous but the reality is there are large parts of the N56 where that would not be the case and you know no one knows an area better than the local council and the local planning authority and really maybe the point that this was the point made by Martin Harley when we spoke to him between the two meetings when he said look yeah there are issues whether if where there are matters of road safety matters of congestion etc but there are areas where they're not and there needs to be more leeway there needs to be more autonomy given to the local planning authority and a catch-all ban right across the 100 km stretch of road is not the way to be going is that not a matter for transport and structure island it's tii it's the council it's a yeah it is tii but in terms of the council you have the planning permission on one layer of bureaucracy on top of the other the reality here is what we're talking about this morning can young people build houses anymore on the family farm this is effectively statement not because there's there's from my recollection of reading it before christmas time being a blood relative doesn't necessarily give you the right to build on the family farm i think it does i think everybody should have a right to build on the not on the family farm but in the rural countryside with the most basic of of minimum regulations to encourage those people to come to come back build a house live in rural island rare children keep the schools going because like if we're going to allow this here to happen as it now is schools going to be severely impacted health centers are going to be impacted community groups are going to be impacted the whole development of the area that let it be in construction let it be in housing let it let it be in any other aspect of a rural life there's going to be layer upon layer of bureaucracy you could paraphrase that it john healy the legendary john healy from of the erich times why in the hell is nobody shouting stop to all of this we carry on but john the reality is you and i would have been attending meetings in the 1990s where this exact discussion took place this um issue over people can't build on the local family farm and people can't live in their own areas and as a result there's a throwback on the local school and on the local g a club and on the local community that discussion was being held 30 years ago absolutely i mean we're talking about planning regulations being too slow 30 years ago they've probably got much worse ever since that because young people nightmares the face costs the face so much regulation and so much further information so it could it could be years before they could actually start building their house that would need to be removed instead of adding adding more chaos to it and this is where we're going and that is what's happening but i mean does it not reflect to a great extent that rural island you know bureaucracy is driving the whole heart out of rural island it's driving a stake right through the heart of any further development on the rural country side and you have the added fear as well now that because they're they're talking about the viability of local urban areas that the fear now is that what's going to become an issue is that you know um people are going to be told no you can't build on the family farm because there's room in the nearest town there's still capacity in the nearest town 10 km away and what we want to do is make sure that the nearest town 10 kilometers away is uh full before we start building in the country so that that's going to be another issue and that's coming in in the past while councils and the departments should be promoting rural development rather than entering it i mean why should people want to live in the nearest village 10 kilometers away what i mean i think that's absolutely preposterous because the reality is there's plenty wide open spaces right out in the heart of rural island i'm just looking out my window here in fanatis most wonderful morning and wonderful landscape and we could have more houses out there we could have more people living there and you know instead of opposing everything to do with rural island and one-off housing that should be treated as a positive thing and that should be promoted and that should be incentivized and that people should be should be given to go ahead within three to four months of applying for applying permission rather than waiting for maybe years and years and years in some cases rural island is going that way politics and officialdom has also gone that way just any issues that arise create another committee and another juggernaut amongst the hundreds of committees that are out there and official bodies i see this as highly detrimental and i would like to think that every council in dunagall county council will be totally opposed to it and we'll we'll state that when this comes back to the public consultation i do know that the first public consultation attracted i think about 286 a reserve or or complaints or observations call them what you like it's not half enough because the rural communities with their local organizations would be decimated if this goes through and that's the bottom line out you know well it's going to be back to the public consultation in the coming weeks with the idea of a decision made by may just before the local elections we'll be keeping an eye on this one with interest in the meantime john macketeer thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning and maybe it's time for people to start making submissions that aren't complaining but actually backing the council and backing the provisions particularly those which are going against the op or and it's going to be an interesting debate we watch with interest john macketeer is ever thank you very much indeed this is the 9 to noon show on highland radio news and a bit trees coming up with me get up the 9 to noon show with letter kenny credit union now 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concert met yesterday to consider the chief executive's report and recommendations from the office of the planning regulator members proposed and agreed a number of changes which mean elements of the plan will now be edited before the public will once again be asked to have their say the office of the planning regulator will too review the changes and make its own recommendations the kind of development plan must be agreed by may meanwhile the care look of the glendy's municipal district believes the new kind of development plan must include a policy to ensure more responsibility is put on private landowners to carry out age cutting cancer michael mclafferty says greater enforcement is a must to put more of an onus on landowners to maintain ages in the interest of growth safety he said i'd also add the refusal of some to cut ages as it's having a knock on effect on potential homeowners seeking planning a sad situation the deltie md that one one young couple in particular cannot get their planning because a neighbor will not cut the edge as refusing to allow the edge to be cut and that's the reality of it that that couple in question cannot get a house because somebody will not cut the edge and what's going to happen here now they have no other choice to go to they can't get volume along the end 56 if they want to go down applicable for them and more than likely this couple end up emigrating the t-shock says it's just wrong to call for an amnesty for those who haven't paid their tv license fee shin fian is tabling a motion in the doll later calling for the fee to be scrapped and replaced with x checker funding for public service media the party also wants an amnesty for those facing prosecution for not paying it believe rocker says that's not fair on those who pay the law i actually think for a lot of law abiding decent people who pay their bills who pay the tv license they'd be quite annoyed actually at the thought that people who don't pay their way don't obey the law would somehow get an amnesty from shin fian and i think that's just wrong and we'll be opposing it here in the doll in the vote on wednesday a contractor has been appointed to deliver the eat out outdoor dining infrastructure project in letter kenny works are due to commence next week outside angrenan theater to provide a sheltered communal outdoor dining space provisions are also being included to facilitate performances in the area ke herelock of the latter kenny millford municipal district concert kevin bradley says it will be a huge boost for the time it'll be great for the facility and the ball on the port road there to get that eat out and have it sheltered and the whole works down there at the angrenan theater it's a great spot we're delighted to see there's come on anything on the port road we're brilliant to see things happening on the main street so what's needed but a positive a new electric vehicle charging point has been rolled out in dunny gall esb said the facility at dunny gall service station bali buffet road can provide 100 kilometers of charge within six minutes the utility says innovative charging hubs will play a key role in supporting arland's ev transition whether night will stay dry throughout the day with bright or sunny spells and highest temperatures off seven or eight degrees that's all from highland video news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this tuesday morning february the 13th the death has taken place of mary doherty shawn summerhill moville removal from the eternal light chapel for us letter kenny this afternoon at two o'clock going to her late residence funeral leaving there on thursday morning at half past 10 going to sympires the 10th church moville for recreation mass at 11 o'clock for by burial afterwards in balkan cemetery caldaf mary's recreation mass can be viewed live on the parish webcam highest private pleas from 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock the death has occurred of john mccool 562 art mccool strunerler and formerly dairy city remains reposing at mccool's chapel of rest bally buffet today from seven o'clock to 10 o'clock and tomorrow from five o'clock to 10 o'clock rosary both nights at nine o'clock puny leaving from there on thursday morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock recreation mass in the church of mary mcclet strunerler interment in drum boat cemetery the recreation mass will be streamed live by the parish webcam the death has taken place of margo mcculgan sin jude's 20 dairy road struner funeral leaving quickly funeral home this evening at half past five to the sacred heart church at dairy road for recreation mass to more morning at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the recreation mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam the death has occurred of kathleen o'keen name mcdeed turner gashogue castle fin reposing at the family home funeral from the family home to more morning at half past 11 for recreation mass at 12 noon in syn clombas church donnie loop interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard family time please from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow morning flowers welcome donations if so desired to the alzheimer society of ardent donnie gall branch care of any family member and the death has occurred of brian anderson balne brine liftford formerly of ardent ganna crossroads killie gordon his remains are opposing at his daughter tracy's residence at balne brine liftford funeral leaving from there this morning at quarter past 10 for recreation mass at 11 o'clock in sympathics church murlock while by interment in st mary cemetery castle fin the recreation mass will be streamed live on mcm media dot tv family time before the funeral this morning for family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com this valentine's day let the one you love unwrap lindor irresistibly smooth melting 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premises on pierce road and they offer a fantastic service helping young people uh with you know their their mental health and jigsaw do a fantastic uh service and martin anderson makes damn good pancakes i have to say so um if you fancy a traditional vegan art gluten-free pancake you can uh get one in saundre and make a donation in support of the work of jigsaw um a message came in while i was talking to john about the county development plan just wondering what about the submission from the redress focus groups to the county plan regarding there being no mention of defective blocks anywhere in the draft plan and their proposals for a temporary accommodation for those displaced due to their defective concrete homes we will certainly put that query to donnie gall county council um yeah just a message from a radio center ireland and we we mentioned this at the top of the program today is world radio day celebrating radio as the medium that's closest to people's hearts and minds 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kilmakrennan national school double yellow lines outside there and he parking at the school is used by staff there is no word of any ramps or parking is our crossing assistance the speed of the cars is terrible the double yellow lines were only put in yesterday what our parents to do that's an interesting one um it's uh certainly a question that we will be asking uh coders is not sure if you want to highlight this but two uh euro for one friday that's madness five thirty for a plate a handful of chips that's that's absolute madness prices um yeah it certainly seems to me that if you're asked to pay two euro for a friday and five thirty for a handful of chips um i would be going elsewhere i don't know where the premises is i don't know what the context is but i certainly tell you i would not be in any way inclined to pay prices like that and um yep it certainly seems to be to be a heavy price uh there there are several uh premises out there and uh as they say you go where you feel most comfortable with the the prices the ambience and everything else um the taxpayers in dunigawl and north mail and liqra must be overjoyed at the opening of the new duncettle interchange with its seven bridge structures four roundabouts etc and infrastructure for pedestrians and cycles cyclists just in time for the general election uh the duncettle interchange um cork unless i'm very much mistaken i think yeah i think the duncettle interchanges is in cork um yeah it is and uh yep we'll leave that one uh we're told to expect delays on the main road just on the newton side of manor conningham past the picnic area there there's been a and um a collision there i'm not sure when that was um caller says i am so angry this morning i've been fighting to get respite care for my son we missed the last three because none were available as a family i kept thinking it was okay as we were banking them and we get them later in the year only to discover that in late january there was no banking we missed them and that's it now this morning i discovered they are offering children in cork our respite hours how is this even fair and i heard that story on the news i was i was driving up and mikaela was reading the news and i heard mikaela read that story on the news this morning and i have to confess that was the first thing that struck me was what because we have done so many stories on the show on the news about the lack of respite places right across the board and there are local authority members in this county who i'm sure are sick to death of us asking them questions about the availability of respite in the area and calling for respite centres to be closed and particularly in the aftermath of covid where a number of services were scaled down understandably over covid but somehow have never just quite materialized back again because of staffing pressures or whatever and to find and i must confess i did an absolute double take when when i heard that story myself this morning 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this is the community garden information slot on highland radio delighted to say we're joined in studio this morning by garden nyle maguire from milford garden station nyle good morning morning donal uh good to see you now um a number of items to to to look at on the program this morning and we're going to start with them something you don't get very often and that's a very very heavy uh stone crusher taken from the vicinity of castle finn yeah this was taken from right on the border um with toron at uh fern castle finn it's a blue pegson stone crusher and it weighs about 42 tons um it's like i say it's blue in color it's kind of like uh for everybody that doesn't know what stone crusher is it's using a quarry for basically breaking down rocks and stuff into uh multi-size different types of grades of stone um very substantial machine it's on tracks kind of like a digger track um now unfortunately this wasn't discovered until uh very recently and it was last seen in september it was in a very isolated rural area and the owner had it um um put away there for for various reasons and when he went to check on it there recently it was gone so it's an unusual one but it's uh again the proximity to the border would be very concerning there it would take um quite a big um lorry and low loader to to take this and somebody with experience to load this thing and take it away but um we're looking into cctv and that's available to us uh but it's a very specialized bit of equipment so the way this will be solved donal will be somebody in the business that has noticed one that wasn't there before so if somebody has seen a someone that has a blue pegs and 42 stone crusher now they may have bought it from somebody else innocently um so you know anytime from september last year to now well then maybe you could contact me colleagues in letter kenny who are investigating on zero seven four nine one six seven one hundred or indeed the garter confidential line one eight hundred treble six treble one and i spoke to grogna this morning and grogna d'Ordin letter kenny and she's going to put a picture of it up on the garter facebook page now the the usual line in cases like this is if you've been offered something like this for sale in suspicious circumstances but the reality is uh very few people are going to be offered this for sale i mean it the only people that would have used for this would be people with very specific needs in terms of quarrying etc so it shouldn't be too well one would have thought it would be as they say very obvious if one just appears somewhere um but it is it it's certainly a an interesting one and a very specific piece of equipment we'd obviously put that there picture up on our own social as well as soon as grogna gets there there is obviously it's quite a popular um type of crusher so there there will be other ones about so you know we're not going to be pointing the finger finger at anybody but yeah the particular one would have unique markings on it and you know a lot of them have a specific damage on it so the owner would be able to identify it immediately if he saw it you know and we'll be liaison with the owner and to to identify any ones that maybe maybe some of the listeners are my calling for us you know another theft and this is the theft of a vehicle in the vicinity of brigeant yeah this vehicle wasn't able to be driven so uh it had to be towed away um either towed or put on a trailer so it was taken from the ila business park in brigeant between wednesday the 31st of january and monday the 5th of january it's a black Volkswagen Passat and the partial registration number is f y 10 x f y 10 x a black Volkswagen Passat stolen from ila business park in brigeant so anybody that may be able to help my colleagues in boncran a police contact them on 0 7 4 9 3 2 0 5 4 0 theft of a boat this time from donnie galtown yeah this was only reported i think yesterday um drum kena donnie galtown between 9 a.m and monday the 5th and midnight on saturday the 10th of february a small white boat in color with the inscription angel betty along the side uh it had a mercury engine and it was on a little boat trailer i don't have any better description than that donal unfortunately uh again grogna said that she's contacted the the investigative guard and we're trying to get a photograph of that on our facebook page and my colleagues and bali shannon are investigating that and they can be contacted on 0 7 1 9 8 5 8 5 3 0 and i suppose really when when we're looking at this one there will be a lot of stuff on on trailers in houses be they boats be they even caravans other equipment and you know that that sort of thing can be susceptible to theft and and we we don't necessarily take all the security precautions we should be with things that are in in our driveways yeah like a boat on a trailer and an engine is a high-value item and you know we are a coastal community here in donnie gall and every year we have boats and trailers stolen and unfortunately it's the ones that are stolen are the ones that are easy stolen great or donal they're they're they're unsecured that they're not maybe locked away in in the uh with with maybe a camera or a light or a gate or something in front of it it's just somebody pulling up and hooking it on and sometimes can be just a chance crime that somebody's just um like a creeper burglary type thing donal and there's going to be more advice on on specific boat security that's going to be posted as you say on on the on the page a bit later on today as well just yeah so people who do have boats i mean and i'm sure there are specific measures people can be taking so a lot of that's going to be put up on the the god of the sheer corner donnie gall facebook page later today yeah because uh again boats are the kind of thing that you know some people store near the coast and then maybe over one of them then and their own maybe a house or shed or driver or whatever so yeah um there will be a specific advice on the donnie gall garda shake on a facebook page and encourage anybody just to um um subscribe to that page donal to show now and a number of incidents of a very similar nature that occurred uh on friday last yeah this is there's there's a gang of young fellas that um in the wee hours of the morning donal are going around and harassing people by throwing things at their houses in this situation they were throwing eggs now they may think this is funny or um that's not frightening to people that are living in houses but i can assure you donal if you're in your bed at two in the morning and you hear a bang in the window you don't know what it is um and it can be very frightening and it can be very disturbing for an elderly person but the details are as follows donal uh the first one occurred at uh just before 1 a.m on friday the 9th of february at tulnary area of carondona uh objects were thrown at the bedroom window and three male youths were captured on cctv and they were raised between 15 and 18 and we have that cctv i'm re-examined donal and comparing it to other cctv uh it transpired in the morning that eggs have been thrown at the windows and walls of the property and then later on in the morning at 1.50 a.m at donal park carondona a number of male youths uh were observed beside a car parked in the driveway uh the left when they were observed and the resident then discovered eggs and other food stuff on the doorstep and on his car and then further to that at drum do folding carondona uh a resident heard a bang at her downstairs bedroom window and again eggs have been thrown at the house so i'm appealing first of all to these young people to catch themselves on and also if anybody wants to give us the names of these young people uh they are welcome to call in tuban crannogarda station or make contact on telephone<PHONE_NUMBER> so we are particularly interested at any sightings or dash cam footage of a blue silver uh or silver jeep in the area uh so that's uh what we suspect these young ones are driving around in so yeah again catch yourselves on and uh if if we do happen to come across she you know you have been warned i could put some context on this because we had a call to the show yesterday and i was doing the show yesterday and a lady called uh to tell us that her mother at the weekend and i'm presuming it's the same incident we didn't give a location but that her mother at the weekend was in her home alone in the areas of the morning and eggs were thrown at the house and her mother got such a shock and was so scared afterwards that another member of the family has had to stay in the house with her because of of the state of agitation she was in since then and now she actually saw saw some people outside again vaguely fitting the description in in this one but reckon that some of them were even younger than 15 and there was a couple of young people outside throwing eggs at the house uh some of them at least were she believed younger than 15 um so i mean i'm presuming it's it's the same incident but i mean i say that's a lady okay eggs were thrown at the house as you say people they think wasn't that a great joke haha let's run away but since then since that happened there's been a lady an elderly lady who's had to have family members in the house with her because she's scared absolutely that's a good point you're making there you know i'm in here along with my colleagues every tuesday buying in the drum about burglaries and criminal damage and maybe arson attacks in houses you know you can't differentiate between an egg banging against a window or somebody breaking into your house or maybe pouring petal into your door you know so this causes causes there's a lot of victims and uh it can be very serious for somebody and i just again these young people need to stop that let's go to Dunlow and the the Kushlocka community centre there yeah it was broken into between six p.m and tuesday the 6th of february and a half nine in the morning and monday the 12th of february damage was caused to the lock on the front door of the centre and also to the key safe box so somebody obviously broke in and we're trying to get the internal keys and keys the different things within the centre if anybody observed anything suspicious in the activity or activity in the area of the centre in the Kushlocka community centre in Dunlow my colleagues in Milford are investigating and their number is zero seven four nine one five three zero six zero we don't very often get aron more island mentioned uh on on the slot but we do have a mention this morning yeah um at scrag on aron more island between tuesday the 6th of february at nine p.m and then lunchtime and wednesday the 7th of february it was discovered that a tesla car was parked at a house in a driveway and was badly damaged between those hours so if anybody is able to help us in relation to identifying what happened there um it's an unusual car for aron more you wouldn't see many teslas and aron more i wouldn't think but again the garage in milford looking after at zero seven four nine one five three zero six zero and a tesla is nothing nothing like an inexpensive car either i mean a tesla is one of the most expensive cars there's um substantial damage drawn into the thousands on that car donal yeah um one of the things that's often highlighted on on the slot is the marking of property and the importance of having and this maybe goes back to what we were saying about boats and trailers and that as well and there will be a property marking um function taking place in in the show and later this month that's correct donal um on saturday the 24th of february between 11 and 2 in the public car park at bunkrana garden station my colleagues will be there to assist in permanently marking trailers tools etc with your aircode the machine that we use as used can be used on all different types of surfaces including metal carbon fiber wood plastic and even glass it uses a pattern of dots to mark the property making it highly distinguishable and easy to return to the owner or the guards rendering it it's unattractive to thieves so you don't need any appointment just turn up at bunkrana garden station car park between 11 am and 2 p.m on saturday the 24th of february would be delighted to um mark your property for you and as you said i mean you know things can be painted things can be disguised things can be altered things can be taken away or added to but that's aircode stamp is going to stay there whatever happens yeah it's they're they're covertly and overtly marked you know they're we have a system in place um so that if whenever property is recovered by ourselves we have certain places that we tend to look for um possible markings that we've previously done a number of members of uh the force from the donagall division managed to avoid a freezing dip over christmas week because of weather but uh they didn't avoid it completely it was merely a postponement and uh it's coming around again the polar plunge takes place this coming weekend well let me tell you don't know a lot of us were phrasing over the winter all right now um because it was pretty cold there and we're doing a lot of checkpoints this year um but none of us jumped on the sea thank god but the polar plunge as you said is on february 17th and rithmolyn and they are especially in a big sireland um some of my colleagues and others um from other agencies will be there at two o'clock and we're hoping for a bit of support uh there's a few other activities that will take place at that day commencing it at midday some of the activities so wrap up and come out and support people that are raising money for special olympics island an important one indeed uh something in ogranja is very heavily involved in and that's the animal garden youth awards yeah this is uh definitely one one ogranjas babies um this is age for people aged between 13 and 21 years so out of county groanja is looking for people to be nominated um young people that have made a difference in their community during 2023 and we've all we've always had a very successful nomination process in dunigal and been very successful on on the the national stage when it comes to these dunigal or these youth awards all nominees will receive recognition on an event in the future um and we have a date to be decided and that winners and nominees will be notified of the details by the organizing committee there are four separate categories uh there's an individual award a group award a special achievement award and a community safety award forms nomination forms are available at the district headquarters which are letter kinny milford boncran or balie shannon or indeed you can get it on the gara facebook page or by emailing dunigar dunigal gara youth awards at gara.ie or indeed the council have have it on their website as well and you can post them in if you want or return it by email uh mark for the attention of garter grogna d'ordy and letter kinny garter station before thursday march the seventh nyle thank you very much indeed uh a busy one this morning and and some interesting food for thought there of course we'll put the whole of the slot back up on our website hide and video dot com it'll be up on the gar the sheikah on a facebook page as well and uh it'll be of course the whole show is is podcast and uh rebroadcast on facebook and on youtube so people can go back and listen to all the uh the bits we've discussed in the meantime nyle thank you very much indeed thank you the community garda information slot is brought to you by sheridan security systems protecting what you value most call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro sheridan security 91 26025 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine tone in show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan 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producing and taking your calls shannon taking your calls outside as well now a mental health and well-being conference is due to take place at the atu campus in letter kenny on friday 23 of february that's friday week it's taking place from 9 a.m on tail uh 2 p.m on that day the conference is to discuss research findings in relation to mental health and well-being uh following a study that took place and i am delighted to say that i'm joined in studio by dr louise mcbride who is head of department of nursing and health care at the atu also president of the nursery and midwifery the nursing excuse me and midwifery board of ireland and dr margaret mclaffordy a research assistant louise margaret you are both very welcome to the program this morning louise i want to go to yourself first um as as head of department it's important from your point of view that atu we seem to be hosting con conferences like this and it's important to that this sort of research is being done so good morning donal and thank you for having myself and margaret here this morning so absolutely conferences like this are so important and the theme of college students mental health and well-being as we well know is very contemporary not just since the post the pandemic but um from an academic point of view in the higher education in secondary and even indeed a primary level so mental health and well-being is of everybody's interest and for listeners even as a parent or somebody who has mental health or indeed somebody who is working in that area it's very very important margaret from the point of view of someone who is involved in in the research there was a an emphasis in particular on students living with adhd but it was looking at mental health right across the the student body i know the research results per se are going to be released on the day and you don't want to preempt that too much but um can you give us a broad park indication of sort of some of your findings yes of course um uh so i suppose while our recent research has focused on students with uh living with adhd um we've actually been working with ulster university as an atu and ulster university have been working together on a number of projects uh going right back actually to 2015 um so we've been conducting research in the general student population so i can give you some results from that in particular i supposed to start with so um in the student psychological intervention trial we find that um about a fifth of students are coming into university with either depression or anxiety or both and really really high rates of suicidal behavior now we had initially thought yes these rates are going to be high but they were a lot higher than we had ever really anticipated like 20 percent of students starting uh college are saying that they've engaged in self-harm and between seven and eight percent in the general student population um have said that they've attempted suicide prior to starting university people tend to think a lot of mental health problems start in the university setting but we're actually finding that the age of onset is between 15 or 16 so one of our studies from um the student psychological intervention trial was a was a paper focused on students living with adhd and that paper found that you know that the rates were much much higher which was why uh we then applied for funding to conduct research with students living with adhd and without giving too much away um the rates are really shocking like roughly around three times more likely than within the general student population um now when we say as students uh we talk about students living with adhd because one of the first things that we did uh was set up as student advisory group and initially i suppose we had thought you know of um engaging with people that had maybe a formal diagnosis but one of the first things the student says was look please include people with out of formal diagnosis because they're all waiting for so long on on get that so we did engage with uh anybody that was screening for probable adhd the inevitable question is going to be has covid had an impact on this because it was four years ago next month that the first lockdown came into being now a student who is 1920 now was 15 16 when covid started and i can't help wonder given that you know that was going to take such a lot out of their lives they were missing out on socialization they were missing out on school they were missing out on so much over the course of the lockdowns on off on off on off and you know i've often said it you know for people like myself late fifties married stable at home it wasn't i couldn't say covid was hard on me at all but for young people 15 16 17 18 what they lost yeah was immense and immeasurable and i can't help wonder are these high rates we're seeing now at least in part the legacy of covid yeah i mean i think definitely i mean we haven't um we haven't conducted any studies this current year um but the adhd study was after covid and definitely yes i think that played a huge role um what i would say is that this the student psychological intervention trial that um i mentioned earlier we had actually collected our baseline data in 2019 prior to the pandemic and we followed that cohort of students right across their time at university so we we um looked at them again in year two and year three and in their final year and depression went up immensely was actually anxiety came down initially but then it flipped back up as they went back into the university setting um i think a lot of that was to do with social anxiety um that wasn't because they weren't in the college setting but i mean definitely i mean if you look at this year's cohort of students that are doing the leave and start on the same last year they haven't done a state exam and you know so they're suddenly in the university setting and they like you know they're not used to an exam you know in person exams anymore so there's lots and lots of pressures on on young people and i'm sure too there are some who are going into to college now they're meeting new people and maybe they haven't developed the skills to actually interact with people because they've lost on so much i mean when i was when i was in fifth year when i was in sixth year i was going to a local youth club every friday night i was out with my friends i was meeting people regularly i was out and about a lot of people now haven't been and haven't been having those social interactions so in a sense they're you know for some people their lives will have almost i won't say stopped but their lives will have changed irrevocably when they were sort of 15 16 and now they're being thrown into this college setting where suddenly they're in this big huge building possibly in a strange town where there's thousands of people they don't know and they haven't necessarily actually built up the skills to deal with that on a day-to-day level coming back to yourself louise in terms of the challenge now to to atu and to every campus of atu from gullway right up to letter kenny there is a challenge i'm sure on you now to actually look at the findings of the research okay so it's research it's important it's found it's going to be presented it's going to be collated and presented in a digestible form the next challenge that's coming on you and your fellow heads of department and indeed right up to the atu president is to implement measures and strategies and plans within the atu campus to deal with these issues absolutely donal and as we know in december 2023 minister harris actually awarded five million in this space of mental health and support for students at college so this actually highlights the importance of research like this the research that we've collaborated previously with the university of ulster and indeed this dissemination that we're doing because we really need to have evidence based packages evidence based practices that we know work and the voice of the student is so important and that's why this research is really at the heart of what works for the student with adhd how can we enhance their mental health and well-being so this research whilst you know is very significant in adhd sphere it also highlights that it can actually be very supportive and apply to other vulnerable groups and as we know students coming to us at third level have a lot of challenges and you've outlined them post pandemic we don't deny that the pandemic has had an impact on it but it's so important that we now focus that funding that minister harris has given us and four hundred and thirty one thousand was actually awarded to atu and that's the highest in the country so with the president and our vps and as faculties we must make sure that we invest that money wisely in evidence-based practices and programs that the students will really benefit from and obviously this research is going to have a huge impact in terms of informing that decision-making process absolutely absolutely and i would like to highlight that the conference is very much about you know when we had when we opened up the invitation with regards to we had you know an immediate response so there's there's a huge interest in the space from stakeholders but we really wanted to draw on obviously the public those living with adhd living with mental health those working and particularly in in the whole area of further education higher education and as we've outlined not just primary and secondary levels so we're a huge you know interest in the area and we're delighted to share our findings and as well as having the presentations from the academics and and from the research from margaret and others in in term at that conference will there be students presenting as well with the voice of the student be heard directly on the day absolutely we have some of our students who are actually part of the research and we have recordings obviously some of the students have now moved on and they're working in their own relevant disciplines but we felt that was so important and so we have a comprehensive presentation that we've pre-recorded for the conference and it's just important to note Donal also we have a huge lineup of very expert advocates and champions in this space we've Professor Siobhan O'Neill we have Dr Ross Woods and from the HEA who's an expert in this area health and well-being we've also John Meehan who's a Donnie Gullman at Hearts Director of Mental Health Planning from the National Office of Suicide Prevention and Professor Gary Donahoe who's a clinical psychologist and also very much an expert and researching in this area so we've a huge lineup and we're really excited about the conference at ATU Donnie Gull and Dr Louise McBride who's Head of Department of Nursing and Healthcare at ATU and President of the Nursing and I mean we're free board of our onboard alchemy she must be easier you know the NNBI it would just say NNBI I think from now on NNBI yeah well well I think those colloquially referred to NIMBY but I much prefer onboard alchemy but as we know we had to rebrand it to take on board our midwives yes that's right indeed I have I have a personal interest in nursing well that could be a whole nother show I've been married to one for 33 years so well in very good company absolutely oh you believe you me I'm an expert on onboard alchemy now NNBI and all all the acronyms I know them all from the years and Dr Mark McMillafrey of course who is the research assistant that's been involved thank you to both of you for for coming and speaking to us about this conference taking place at the letter Kenny campus of ATU on Friday week that's the 23rd of February from 9 until 2 and we look forward with interest to examining those findings in more detail it's the 9 till noon she won a highland radio it's 11 minutes to 11 o'clock time for a short break back after these the 9 till noon show is brought to 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notrodame cathedral text or whatsapp your answer name and address to zero eight six sixty twenty five thousand irish construction workers living abroad are being encouraged to come back home to help address the housing crisis under a new government plan higher education minister simon harris has been given 750 000 euro to launch a campaign aimed at increasing the number of men and women working in the construction sector now we're joined on zoom this morning by justin maloy who's the director of the western midlands and northern region construction industry federation and if people are going to build all these houses that are being called for it's going to be largely justin's members who are doing it justin we're told at the moment that there isn't capacity in the construction sector in this country to meet the demand that exists for new builds is this initiative by simon harris and the government going to work well i suppose i challenge that i think uh the industry has always responded donald to um demand for you know to build we do we we we will build if the houses are needed to be built they'll be built to civil needs to be built they'll be built obviously we do need more people in construction we would encourage more people into construction industry and we would obviously encourage people to come back from abroad i mean simon harris's initiative here is it's kind of just one of 20 actions comes from the careers of construction report uh to encourage people to come back from overseas as someone involved with the cif in this region you'll be well aware of the defective blocks crisis that exists obviously in donnie gall but also areas like slago mayo and and also down toward parts of golly limited clear as well that's going to create an extra dimension to this because we have houses slated for demolition and rebuilding in donnie gall over and above the social housing need and the need for housing in the general market that does create an extra uh challenge in this particular region donald definitely does obviously just uh more people will be required to build these houses and i think we also have to probably embrace a bit more modern methods of construction or offsite construction whereby um uh we use alternative methods of construction such as timber frame yk steel precast concrete etc which are done in factories and uh brought out of the site and i think there's definitely you know the industry is is transitioning into offsite construction there's more and more of it happening but we need to facilitate mmc or what we call mmc modern methods of construction in this country we need more testing facilities in this country for materials and processes uh we need quicker certification of materials and processes to ensure that they're fit for purpose but that will be part and parcel of the solution as well i would suggest is there enough flexibility at government level and is there enough room to maneuver in irish planning and building regulations now obviously when we discuss planning and building regulations and no one more than the people of donnie gall knows that you've got to follow building regulations to the absolute letter but is there enough flexibility and as it were authority built into them to ensure that we can bring in these models in a timely fashion but also in a way that ensures that houses are safe houses are durable and we aren't going to have the sort of problems that we've seen in donnie gall and elsewhere over the past 10 years well i suppose this is what we'd be calling for is that there there are that this a lot of the mmc or modern medicine construction manufacturers in this country are probably exporting a significant amount of the product they're building overseas which we could probably use in this country um but they need a pipeline of work they need to continue to give work so if they're to set up their factory they have to know that they have a continuous pipeline of work for x number of years and standard standard design standard materials etc etc now the nsci stands as an authority of ireland due to certification for mmc modern medicine construction and we'd say look just that these would whatever resources are necessary will be put into the legs of the nsci and other organizations that could be testing the facilities in the south so a lot of materials say for mc have to go to either northern ireland or over to the uk to be tested so we suggest that they should be you know safe room testing facilities in this country when you talk about planning planning is probably uh the biggest problem we have i'd say at the moment from talking to a lot of our members um the planning process can be so arduous and so long and is very very costly and it's it's turned unfortunately sometimes uh to the building of houses we know on borb tanala is about to be overhauled and renamed in the coming months do you believe that that's going to be accompanied by sufficient change that will allow the level of flexibility that will speed up the construction process while at the same time and this is very important obviously not diluting the right of people to make valid objections or to make valid observations about a planning application or about a proposed development in an area yeah well the more resources that are put into borb tanala obviously the better because there had been delays significant delays for over a year and even longer some of this is two years trying to get decisions from borb tanala and that is always costly and timely and unfortunately it's the end user it's the person who ends up buying the house has to absorb all these costs so if it takes a year two years three years in some case five and six years to get a project to construction stage somebody has to pay for all of those and unfortunately it's the end user as regards uh making objections we've no problem people are obviously making objections if it was in time to make their observations and their objections but what we want is that to be done in a timely manner that it wouldn't take years to go you know if if it's people or borb tanala and then for better go to judicial review that takes even longer and there's a lot more costly and this just slows up and stops everything and it's not just for um residential events it's also critical infrastructure we need roads we need water we need wastewater we need rail we need a lot of infrastructure particularly in the dunagall northwest region which is you know has been started start of infrastructure for a long time so we need a planning process that can deliver that in a timely and cost effective manner because as i say at the end of the healing the people who paid for all these delays and all these costs unfortunately are the end user and it often means that projects never get to construction stage because developers just can't finance it or they can't get it through the planning system and it just exasperates the planning the 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perfect pancake and I suppose when you have one of the top chefs in the world from your county you may as well see if they're available gary ohanlan good morning morning how are you absolutely grand gary thank you very much indeed uh chef and consultant to ocelophans group paris and of course a remelton man as well gary great to talk to you um pancakes I suspect are as someone who's tried are one of those things which uh look deceptively easy to make and when you actually embark on the process it can be anything but yeah it's look you know I often talk about this about anything that's simple really I mean I'm useless at absolutely everything you know like apart from cook I can't hang a picture and to most people why aren't a plug or hanging a picture it's probably the simplest of diy tasks you know but like that there is the process to the pancake making you know and and I've narrowed it down to a really simple one and I suppose I could give you a wee quick recipe but it never ever fails to work you know and I call it the one mug recipe and um it's basically any household mug whatever it'll be whether it's a cup or a mug but you're better off using the mug because you just get a wee bit more mixture and you fill the mug with plain flour one mug of flour one mug of whole milk one egg one decent pinch of salt table salt and then one heat teaspoon of beck and powder now sometimes I might add two teaspoons of beck and powder because my kids like them a wee bit fluffy if you like them fluffier add maybe a tiny wee bit more of the beck and powder and you're going to whisk that and every single time done it's going to give you the perfect mixture for a fluffy pancake if you then would prefer it more crap like you can just cut it back with a little bit of milk you know add a little bit of milk and it'll thin it out slightly but the one mug method I've given you there will give you a lovely fluffy American style pancake and in terms of then the the flipping and the action of what I find is even if I even if I get the mixture right and if I get the batter right once we start to hit the pan that's when the fun starts am I using too much oil am I don't do I have enough oil I once tried it with one of those one cowl sprays that was a disaster you know that was a disaster because you you need a little bit of a cooking medium yeah so a couple of wee tips there is to go small you know get a heavy base frying pan ideally a non-stick one you know and you've got to have a little bit of heat in the frying pan before you add your pancake mix now you'll often have had maybe Martin Anderson on or Brian McDermott or myself over the years and we'll always be chatting about you know cooking a steak and a smoking hot pan you definitely don't want to go down that route you don't want to have it that it's absolutely sizzling whenever you add your mixture to it because it'll burn too quick but you certainly don't want it to be cold you want a nice little medium heat and then you're going to use vegetable oil don't use butter at that point in it because butter burns really quickly okay so use just the cheapest plainest vegetable oil you can get your hands on and just get enough on the frying pan that it's adding a decent little glaze you don't want the oil to be pulling but the spray that you mentioned there as well it's just not going to give you enough of a covering so you need a decent little glaze of the vegetable oil and then use a small ladle like you want to be able to drop about four pancakes if it's a large frying pan you can go one two three four and one in the middle my advice is to try and just do three or do four if you're a novice and just keep it small keep it easy to maintain and with that method I've given you with with the baking powder and that what that's going to do is when you're on a nice medium heat no higher than a medium heat you're going to start to see little bubbles appear on the top and that's going to give you an indication that the bottom is probably cooked enough get a spatula or an egg slice or a fish slice whatever it is that you call it underneath the pancake and then flip that if you want to just do one pancake one large pancake and a pan you can get into the flipping and all of that but if you've got more than one pancake and the pan you cannot do that you know you've got to turn it with a fish slice yeah and in terms of getting the shape right I mean would you recommend the use of you can buy sort of little molds for things like fried eggs and that would you recommend those or is it just a matter of putting enough on and let it pool naturally yeah I mean I would just use like and nearly everybody has a large serving spoon in the house you know for dishing out dinners or whatever have you or small ladle the key thing is whenever you're ladling it on that you go in decently high you tip it over and don't be moving your arm or don't be moving your hand let it all just come down and one steady pour right into the middle of where you want it to land in the pan and it'll naturally create if you've got a nice little bit of heat in the pan it'll start to seal the minute it hits the pan and it'll naturally give you a circular motion you know what I mean now look if you want to have the perfect sides you can have a couple of metal scone rings or something in there like sitting inside in the pan but all you're doing is adding torture and more cleanup and more wash up to your day it's not necessary just tip it out don't move your arm let it all fall in the same place and then you'll create a perfect little circular pancake no no no doubt about it when you're talking medium heat obviously it's not just a matter of putting on the pan turning the hob halfway up and then putting on the pancake straight away presumably what you'll do is put the pan on let it get hot and then turn it down rather than just put it straight off medium because yeah just make sure you have the sufficient heat in there absolutely let it get hot and the other thing as well as only add the oil when the pan is hot I find oil can get a little bit bitter get don't put on the pan and immediately hit it with the oil you want to get the pan on and then put on a drizzle of oil and the other thing is that if you put the oil on a cold pan you end up putting on fire too much when the pan is actually warm and it's hot yeah the oil will immediately start to spread out over the surface area of the frying pan you know so you're going to use a lot less of it you know after you flip the pancake as well and sometimes even even before you flip them I tend to just put a tiny as little drizzle of oil now look I'm a typical chef I have a wee squeezy bottle we chefs love squeezy bottles and I keep my a mixture of vegetable oil and olive oil and a little squeezy bottle in the house but if you just put it into like a little bowl and take a teaspoon to it just before you flip your pancakes lift out the oil in a spoon and just flick a little bit over the top of the pancake so that when you flip them for the first time there it's not just going to be pancake mix then hitting the pan because the the first part of cooking is going to soak up a wee bit of oil and then right whenever you think you're nearly ready about 30 seconds before the end you can drop in two or three little knobs of cold butter or just leaving it with the oil you don't really need the butter but sometimes people like the butter and it is nice to drop in two or three little diced cubes of cold butter and then spoon that over them a few times it's called basting you're basting the fluffy foamy b