It is over to Catherine Gaffney. Good morning Catherine. Good morning Greg. Donagall County Councillor Asadi is prepared to go to jail over the proposed turf ban. The ban on the sale and distribution of turf has made headlines in recent weeks with conflicting statements from Ministers. While the ban does not appear to be a blanket one, Councillor Michael McClaffery says he has been inundated with calls from concerned members of the public over the issue. Councillor McClaffery is also calling on Minister Ayman Ryan and other government ministers to visit Donagall to get a sense of the feeling on the ground. New satellite images appear to show evidence of mass graves near the city of Mariupol in Ukraine. When similar reports have emerged previously, Moscow has always insisted that its troops never attack civilians. The southeastern city has been under attack for weeks, with Russia finally claiming victory there yesterday, apart from one area still holding out. Meanwhile, President Zelensky says Russia rejected a proposal for a truce over Orthodox Easter this weekend. This demonstrates how the leaders of this state actually relate to the Christian faith, to one of the most joyful and important holidays. But we hope, hope for peace, her that life will conquer death. And a 400-monthly payment could be made to those who take in Ukrainian refugees. The Irish independence says the 400-euro payment is viewed by government to entice people to offer accommodation and a way to alleviate the costs incurred in doing so. It comes amid warnings there will be a shortage of accommodation by the end of next week. Peshok Mihal Martin ruled out a cap on the number of refugees Ireland will house. We're looking at this on a number of levels in terms of both the immediate short-term possibilities, in terms of bigger facilities, but also then in terms of what can we construct in a more medium-term frame? What buildings can we reconfigure? There's been a former group of former local authority public servants have come together and they're examining a whole range of buildings to see can we reconfigure those to make them suitable for refugees. Weather now today will be a generally dry day with a mix of cloud and hazy sunny spells, top temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees. We're back with more 10 o'clock, until then, good morning. Disney Plus, more than you'd ever imagine. Now streaming, all for $8.99 a month. 18 plus subscription required. Teas and seas apply. The Nine Till Noon Show is brought to you in association with Floret Letter Kenny, celebrating five years in business, offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value. Visit floret.ie. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, very good morning. Four minutes past nine this Friday, the 22nd of April. I do hope you're well. You're very welcome along to The Nine Till Noon Show. Lots coming up in the program, including a great giveaway thanks to our friends at Floret. If you've entered that competition, you could be winning a little later on. We'll give you an opportunity to enter as well before this hour ends. Michael and Finula will be joining us later and so much more besides. We are though being joined right now by our Friday panel, which I'm delighted to say consists of former principal and community campaigner, Doreen Sheridan Kennedy. Good morning to you, Doreen. How are you? I'm great. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. Great to see you. It's great to have you back on the program. We're also joined by director of Friends of Vatican University Hospital, Paddy Rooney. Paddy, good to see you. How are you, Greg? How are you? I'm doing fantastic. And last but not least, independent councillor Kevin Bradley. How are you, Kevin? Good morning, Greg. Good morning to all your listeners and a happy birthday, Greg. Thank you very much, Kevin. First of many over the course of the three hours, I'm anticipating, Kevin. Good man, Greg. Good man. Another year older, year wiser. A none the wiser. Listen, thanks very much nonetheless. Right, quick one, motorists experiencing huge delays going into or traveling through Letterkenny yesterday with Guardi attributing the problem to the scheduled works on the four lanes project in Letterkenny. I wonder is it a case if you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs or do they need to look at the traffic management plan? Traffic, not so bad this morning, but it can be generally quieter on a Friday, particularly when schools are out. From your perspective, councillor, I don't think the businesses or the people, particularly for appointments and what have you, could tolerate this for very long if the delays are going to be anything like what they were yesterday? No, definitely not, Greg. Well, the talk was to have it Easter week and we got it deferred to the week after Easter when the schools are out there now, Greg, but as you say, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. It'll be great you having the whole thing to finish, but it's just at the present. We just have to put up with it for the end of next week and the thing will be opened up again, please God and everything passes peacefully. Right, is that the time frame? So this week and next week? No, Friday week. Right, okay. And then it returns to the way it was previously. Yeah, yeah. Right, okay. As I say, it's not so bad today, but you know, we don't want, we can't have a situation where people are avoiding letter Kenny because you can cost that. It costs businesses. I'll put it briefly to both of you again, Paddy Rooney. I mean, obviously, I don't know if you travelled through letter Kenny yesterday, but huge delays, not so bad today, but the councillor they're saying it hopefully will only last to the end of next week. Yeah, no, I wasn't in letter Kenny yesterday, but that road I suppose is the main artery east and heading east and heading north. I mean, the people don't have any other choice but to cross the Port Bridge and how that direction. I suppose there's never a good time to do it and there's never a bad time to do it. You know, it looks like the people are going to have to suffer the pain for a period of time until we get this job done. I don't know how many weeks or months or years, but it's nearly come to a conclusion now, I think, is that so. Yeah, well, we shall see. We shall see. Dorn, if you have an opinion on this. Yeah, I think it's great, as the councillor has said, councillor Bradley, that there's work going on and, you know, that to me is the most wonderful part of it all, that our roads are going to be safer, it's going to be better structure and hopefully that traffic will move a bit easier. There's a lot of road works as well, fair play to the council going on, you know, where I live in the ran side of town, so that that road's there along the old town and the road out to Craves. So great repairs going on. And, you know, this time last year, we were in the middle of a pandemic and we were able to go nowhere. So I really think we have to draw our breath here, be patient, get into the traffic and go where we're going. But let's give ourselves a bit of time on the road and just be careful and a bit more mindful, I think, maybe of others when we're on the road. And it's great that we're able to get out and about. Well, this is why I never really took on too much concern as it relates to people at the airport, you know, giving out, having to wait for three hours, should we delay it all the time and most of them are jetting off on their hollybabs. So, you know, are we becoming terribly impatient, Doreen? Oh, very much so. And I'm not sure whether that's a gender thing or whether it's... Well, it's nothing to do with gender. Well, I'm just making a comment, is that okay? And I just sometimes, you know, people want to get from A to B as quick as they can, but just give ourselves time and enjoy wherever we're going. That's the one, you know. And it's not great to see that at Kenny Busy again. It's fantastic. It's a great time. Love it to see businesses open. Love it to see hotels busy again in our restaurants and people able to go in and enjoy it. And to see money coming from the council to make our facilities better. That's amazing, one, you know. Paddy's patience a gender issue? I don't think it is. I don't think it is. I think the big problem with people at the airport, though, is that they were concerned about missing their flights. If it takes you a long period of time to get in and out of Lettuce County, it's one thing that I suppose when the airport people were missing their flights, that's why they were so... But a lot of the pushback was when they were... Talk about it. Yeah, but a lot of the pushback was when they were told, being told to arrive three and a half hours earlier. But I take your point. I think you joined on phone audio, Paddy. I'm not sure if it's easy for you to switch. It's just, it sounds like you're on a telephone there. Right, okay. Moving on to our next issue here. And householders that we learned yesterday are expected to be paid up to €400 a month to help with the cost of housing Ukrainian refugees under plans being discussed by government. Discussions have been taking place between the secretary's general of a number of our government departments. €400 is the figure being proposed. The payment, which could be announced next week, would aim to cover costs such as extra utility bills associated with housing, those fleeing the war. Now, obviously, a lot of people committed to, not committed to, but suggested that they would allow the property to be made available. But when it came to it, most of them withdrew it or simply didn't answer the phone. Is €400 a month enough?  It seems a little low to me considering the cost of fuel, electricity and so on and so forth. What do you think? I think it appears a bit low, but I think, you know, I know with three families who have offered their homes in Lederkinny area and the Red Cross haven't got back to them and these homes are fine places and they are available. So there is maybe more staffing as needed. I think a bit more thought is needed as well, because, you know, short term, we're doing the best we can in the country to cater for our European colleagues. But like what happened down in Cork yesterday down in Middletown, you know, it seems to be groups and families that are staying together in these facilities that are made available. And I think it's wonderful we're doing that and we have to do it. But we have to be very cautious as well, because we're into a whole lot of issues and a whole lot of areas that are going to cause a lot of concern for our ordinary Irish folk here in Ireland. And I suppose we've batted this out all week, maybe in relation to housing and relation to schooling and relation to healthcare and all those sort of issues. I think it's wonderful if people are able to accommodate a family. I'm not sure what the criteria would be, but you know, it's very new to us. It's not something that we did when our Syrian refugees or when other refugees came from town. There was a different sort of approach to it. And I'm not sure that we jump too quick too soon here. I think we need to be cautious. And I'm not sure that, I'm not sure if 400 per week or a month is it? Yeah, a month, 100 a week effectively. Yeah, I don't really think it's a financial matter at all. I think there's other areas that need to be looked at and scrutinized in relation to... I mean, but if they are to fix this problem, they are going to, I would imagine, have to take some of the Airbnb property off the market. Do you know what I mean? And I don't think 400 euros gone to go in that direction. I'm not sure that's their motivation, but you know, they'll exhaust the amount of available free houses very quickly. I mean, they're going to have to try and as I say, you know, try and acquire some of these Airbnb properties with more money. Well, there'll have to be a plan in place too, as regards to numbers that were taken in. And while, as I know, Meehill Martin did speak last night and said there would not be restrictions at the moment, but I think we have to be very realistic. And while, as we'd love to be doing it, but if we can't do it, especially we have to look after our own population, relation to housing and relation to other matters, there's big, big questions out there. So I just think we need to be very careful in that regard. All right, we'll go around clockwise. Paddy Rooney, what do you think? Well, Lorcan, sir, one of the lectures I think in Trinity College is on housing policy. He's been on fairly regularly on the radio and TV about housing stock in the country. And he's, you know, talked about all vacant holiday homes. He's not talking about the holiday homes that are infrequently used, but he's talking about the ones that are never used. And he's talking about the ghost of states around the country and things like vacant parochial houses. There is a huge amount of vacant properties around the country that could be made available to people. It would be nice if people would give up their property for free, but apparently that's not working out very well. And it would be nice if they would take 400 euro for it. But in terms of the free side of it though, I mean, it's never going to be free because, you know, someone has to pick up the bill for the electricity, you know, the broadband, the oil, and then no matter who you have in your property, once they move on, you know, you have to spend money to bring the property back up to the standard it was before the arrive. That's standard practice in rental. So it'd never be free for the homeowner. No, it'll never be free for the homeowner. And I suppose that the state is going to have to pick up some tab, but there is a huge amount of accommodation available and lying idle. It might not all be in Dublin, and it's scattered throughout the country. And maybe some of the people that are coming into the country might not like to live in the extremes of the west of Ireland and so on and so forth. But the property is there. With the government, what they're doing at the moment, Greg, is that they're trying to sort of deal with the low hanging fruit, the stuff that's readily available. But if they, you know, if we end up through the fall as the time getting 100,000 people coming into this country from Ukraine, that's the kind of figure that we're talking about now.  I mean, the people are going to have to be accommodated somewhere because there isn't enough hotel accommodation around the country to be able to take them. And it looks like that there aren't enough volunteers coming forward to house people. I mean, it would be fine if it was a short term thing. But I suppose the reality of all this, Greg, is that most of the people that are coming into the country will never go home again, that they're going to be here. Do you think that's the case though? It's going to be very difficult because we may talk later about what's going to happen in the war. Well, I want to bring Kevin in, but I just want to put one more question to you, though, in relation to this. There are people listening and you mentioned all of the vacant properties that is there or was there. And they might say more than happy for us to be helping the Ukrainians, but they might say, well, why didn't we utilize this property to try and deal with our homeless crisis, that there was ample property available to make sure no one really had to be classed as homeless. There's a big problem with homelessness in this county at the moment, where people are couchsurfing or in temporary accommodation or staying with family. You know, we never utilize the properties that you're talking of to try and alleviate that issue. That's true. But we're dealing with the humanitarian catastrophe here, Greg. And this country has been in this position twice before and we haven't actually covered ourselves in glory on either occasions. That was back in the late 1930s when people of the Jewish faith were fleeing from Europe trying to find accommodation and Ireland more or less closed their door and turned their back at them at the time. And when the war was over, I'd say the country was a bit embarrassed about the role that we played in that. And we repeated that then back in the 1970s when South Vietnam fell and there was people had to literally take, do you remember the Vietnamese? Both people, you're probably too young to remember that, but these were people that were listing in the seas and we didn't actually cover ourselves in glory then either. And this is our opportunity now to put some of that right. And we can take them in and we should do it and we must do it in fact. This is something that has to be done. I know that you can put forward the argument that we have our own problems and we have our own problems. But what is the answer to that though? Because it is a legitimate argument. So we're pointing out we have 300 homeless children in Ireland. We saw record numbers of homeless deaths or not record numbers, an increase in homeless deaths in Dublin, just that one county last year. How do you answer that question when someone poses that? Well, the answer to that is very simple and is that Europe in particular and Ireland is trying to deal with or respond to a humanitarian catastrophe. And that's what the answer to that is. I mean, people are being killed and murdered in Ukraine and they're literally walking thousands of kilometres along the road with nothing, only what they're carrying on their back and in their pockets and so on. I mean, thousands, literally thousands of people buried in one grave, being uncovered this week alone. Councillor Bradley, you know, you would be very much aware of the issue of people trying to get homes in and around Lederkenny and beyond and the struggle there and what's available. And you know, there's a wonder is a wee bit of an elephant in the room here too, in that there is a lot of people in temporary accommodation, hotel accommodation. I don't know what the story is there in terms of, you know, I imagine those rooms will be needed for tourists. And I think maybe the likes of Lederkenny would need those tourists in those rooms to sustain other businesses as well, because that's the way of the economy. So, you know, whether it's this month or in a couple of months in Lederkenny and elsewhere, but let's focus on Lederkenny for now, a lot of accommodation is going to be required. Is that going to be possible? I wonder to house everybody. I can't say I've been able to help everybody, great. But the first initial question is about the 400 euros. I don't think 400 euros will go very far. And as Dorian Sheridan said through his thing there, as Michael Martin said, they're not going to cap the numbers coming to Ireland. They have to cap the numbers. They can't sustain. How can we morally do that though? I mean, we would be turning people away. Yeah, this is the problem. The problem we're faced with now. But we're running out of accommodation. At the very beginning, people offered to give their houses and they're always good at the start. And then when they thought of it, they had to share their house with refugees. And they said the Ukrainians, the whole thing changed. But they're coming, as you asked, with the accommodation to the hotels as well. Airbnb, as you say, probably the next ones to get pulled up. And as for the tourists in the summer of this year, I don't know whether they're going to stay unless they have touring caravans and mobile homes and stuff like that. The town doesn't need that tourist industry. I mean, that's what helps support the economy. But there are areas in this country that does need them. If you head down the west the whole way down, there's every kind of town in Skaggert, Chrysler, Falkia, Bordeaux, that whole area. It's dependent on tourism. It's shown. Is a cap acceptable to you? I wonder, Paddy. Well, there's no point, I suppose, saying that the cap isn't acceptable because if the number goes up to 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, then it just would be beyond. Well, I don't think there'll be that demand in fairness. Well, we'll see. There's 44 million people in Ukraine. And the war, it seems to be heading west to there. So the number of refugees coming out of the country is not lessening. 100,000 is a lot of people to take in. That's a good part of the most of the population of Donegal. It's a very sizable amount of people. I mean, there's no point saying that the country can take a non-limited number because we can't do that. But, I mean, a special effort should be made to take what we can do, whatever that figure is. And I'm not exactly sure at this point in time, what is that number? There is a bit of an exploration, I think. I don't know the exact terminology, but Councillor Bradley, for community organisations, if they've got halls or something available for that to be commissioned as accommodation, could that be a possible solution in our country? I don't know. That's like putting 30 passengers in a 24-seater bus. Like, it's just, where do you go? Well, the people, that's just the problem, is there? Yeah. Okay. That was the voice of Councillor Kevin Bradley. You're also listening to Paddy Rooney and Doreen Sheridan Kennedy. Get your comments into us yourself, by the way. 0860 25,000. That's the WhatsApp text. We'll call 07491 25,000. And don't forget, if you want to watch the programme, you can watch it right now on our website, highlandradio.com. 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Okay, some of your comments so far. A lot of TD senators and councillors are property owners with second and third properties. They should now offer them all up to house the Ukrainian refugees and lead us all by example. Who's to say they are not? We simply don't know. Will the hotels get 400 a month when they are putting refugees in hotels at no cost? I'm not sure if they're doing it at no cost. I don't know the ins and outs of that currently. Why has Glenealy has not been made available? There's at least 15 bedrooms and a kitchen. Another, what about the people who already live in the northwest of Ireland who already do not have ideal transport and need to put their head in the pocket for taxis? Another, we've over 3,000 homeless in Ireland. How about we worry about them first? Donegal isn't even known to exist by the people making decisions in Dublin. Another, will the pets being brought into the country have to quarantine Ireland and the UK are rabies free? It is a concern for me especially as it could spread to livestock, but again, Paddy, is it a case that you know obviously given the humanitarian crisis, I mean I'm not sure about bringing pets to Ireland to be honest with you but given the humanitarian crisis is it sort of like you know we have to be flexible with the rules? Is that the situation? Yeah, I've seen in the news paper during the week was that there was over 600 pets was it came into the country already. It seems to be very excessive and there's no way and it's easier for me to say this now because I'm not a pet owner but it seems to me to be very extravagant you know to be if we have a difficulty accommodating human beings people. Yet we're taking in pets, it just seems a wee bit too much for me to tell you the truth. Yeah, I have to, I know it might be a headline grabber but Cancelor, I don't know what you think Cancelor Bradley but you know trying to accommodate 600 pets, I do think it's especially given you know how many of us rely on livestock and what have you, the pet side of it bringing 600 in, I don't know at what cost is that the right thing to do or should we focussing on humans I wonder? Don't know Greg, I'd like to think I was going somewhere else, I'd like to take my pet, let me see, that's the problem. Yeah it goes down that line and that's fair, that's fair, that's good, different views is good Kevin, I get you. Doreen I don't know if you love pets or not. No I wouldn't be mad but in saying that we have to remember the trauma that these families have come through and possibly for some of the especially the younger members of families to have a pet with them may help ease that trauma experience for them and to think that they've bought something from you know but you wouldn't like to think it's going to be the onset of anything happening, our own livestock or our own pets as well so there's a bit of caution there as well isn't there? Yeah for sure, I want to rather than jumping from one subject to another I want to talk more generally about the situation in Ukraine, we're still going to talk about reports that the LUH is facing the loss of angiogram services which is a very important story but just on the on the broad Ukrainian situation I'll stay with you Doreen obviously Biden committing another 800 million dollars of weapons to the Ukraine's, we know Maria Paul's a big hotspot at the moment, 2,000 odd Ukrainian soldiers encircled in a steel plant there and I just thought this I was hoping perhaps maybe that this was going to I don't know come to some sort of a natural conclusion but it's getting more and more horrific as the day wears on particularly as we learn of the as I mentioned earlier thousands of people many of them civilians buried in mass graves it's a very it continues to be a very worrying situation but strangely Doreen I don't know how to say this is sounding terrible but in a way you kind of get used to it being there every day if that makes sense well yes I don't know what you mean Greg I think we're very far removed from it I think we may see it on the news in the evening time but it actually is not on our doorstep and therefore you know are we really aware of how bad it really is and Joe McHugh TT has just returned from being in Moldova and being part of a delegation and being on the borders of Ukraine and really you know I've gathered from speaking to him that you know this is far from over Greg and you know we we could be facing a very lengthy war situation and I'm not sure I think we we think it may not impact on us but when you see America stepping up and offering that kind of money yesterday I did take a step back myself and I said it's a serious stuff but I mean it's a proxy it is a proxy Thrilled World War to some extent isn't it because you have effectively the Ukrainians fighting on behalf of the West in Ukraine? Well I don't know if I see them fighting on behalf of Europe I just feel they're fighting their own battles to be quite honest at the moment but I think the support from Europe has to be a big question I think that you know European funding and European the European market the European body as such the has to step up in relation to the leadership given and all of this you know but it's very it's quite terrifying actually I've never been part of a generation that witnessed war accept the war that we're done in Northern Ireland in relations of troubled times and that was close enough to us but it wasn't that it was a different type of war but maybe we were part of it maybe maybe we accepted that but I think it might be to do with the fact that if this were to grow outside of Ukraine the consequences could be catastrophic on a global on a global sense Patty I suppose the next couple I mean I've got that comment armchair generals ringing my ears but I mean look we all have a vested interest in this next couple of weeks going to be crucial does Vladimir Putin say I've got enough if he secures the east and pulls back or could we be heading into something that could go on for years and years on end that and your overview of you know the awful situation in Ukraine well I I think you've got it fairly well there in your introductory remarks Greg about this being a proxy world war because Russia isn't actually in this on their own because it looks like that they're getting some form of support either in either in principle or materially from China it looks like that India and Pakistan have are in the same boat they're certainly not on the Ukrainian side either and Russia have also mobilized their forces apparently on the up in Scandinavia as well on the Finnish border and because both Sweden and Finland have both made a comment to the fact that they would like to join NATO as well and a lot of people are making the case that there's many reasons I suppose Ukraine had aspirations to join the European Union and also become a member of NATO and they're supposed to be the two big reasons why Russia doesn't want all these nuclear weapons for NATO on their border this is not going to finish our end anytime soon I suspect because there is a lot of hate and division now on both sides here and who's going to back down how does wars never come to an end well I suppose there's one of three ways either one side subjuice either or they end up they like what happened in the first world war they end up in a stalemate or people like the Americans and the European Union decide that they're not able to take any and you know that they're not prepared to put any more into it or they're not able to endure the consequences of you know the availability of gas or the price of oil and and so on and so forth this is going to run for a while folks and I suspect that it's going to get worse before it gets better and for instance it's very hard to see Poland for instance I think there's something like two million refugees in Poland and they've taken a very partisan position this that they're very pro Ukrainian how you know did they might take a different role in all of this and it's you know one thing leads to another and it leads to another and suddenly you're in a full-scale battle here because I can't see the Russians backing down in any particular way here and Ukraine can't sustain this unless they get support from the from NATO Europe and America a combination of all those three and so many people have invested so much in it now that it's very difficult to back down because if you believe it's right is on your side and you're going to play this out to the very end well I suspect there's going to be a lot more people killed and I don't think it has indicated there's less it has indicated that you know they may have to negotiate about the eastern part of Ukraine and I think it was a senior senior politician or not politician but business person in from Russia that said you know the West needs to give a give Putin a way out of this you know and he has maybe there could be an argument that he has followed through in his warnings as it relates to NATO encroaching closer to his border I mean there are routes here if they want peace versus if they want this to keep rumbling on and on and on I mean that's maybe that's the optimistic point of view yeah I mean that's well said actually because in if anybody knows anything about negotiations or they were ever involved in any kind of negotiations whether it was something large or small or whatever it's a great tactic to have on your part if you're actually able to give your your the person that you're negotiating with if you're able to give them something or give them some way out that allows them to save face but you actually get what you want that's the trick in all this and that's very well maybe where we end up in all this but the problem is that there probably have to be another million people to be killed and a whole load of destruction taking place before we get to that point I think they call it an off ramp in America I mean we are feeling the impact of this Kevin I mean you know we are thought so with with what people are going through over there but I mean we are feeling this at the supermarkets and the petrol pumps and you know that's something that could could get worse before it gets better because let's not forget effectively Europe is funding this war by continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia but I mean it's hard to imagine isn't it something so far away is is already having this impact on us with the the warning of potentially worse to come Kevin certainly is great it certainly is but there's a part of just summed the whole thing up by a prudent got a way out maybe but there's no way is Russia going to back down but as you said as an import for the likes of petrol fuel even the likes of us for a week even when obviously in politics today we thought we were going to have no snow flour no no ingredients bacon stuff the price of stuff's gone through the roof I don't know where it's going to where this is going to end in what are you what are you doing in that situation Kevin um is it sourcing is it sourcing from elsewhere because they're making this in all different places at the moment and that's just the way that we're walking because I think that's where Ukraine got the name the bread basket isn't it because it's correct that's correct that's the biggest player and people don't realize how much the world is relying on Ukraine to know is there a sense that these other countries you mentioned can ramp up production not really at the minute no not really at the minute they're just as that's just slow what's coming I you know we walked I mean about two weeks before St. Patrick's Day and the public said one of the suppliers says we have no flour today after St. Patrick's Day and what are we supposed to do now never experienced anything like that before never experienced to get before now and then only for another crowd got it come out of Holland yeah that is going there it just goes to show and in diesel we were one we were one day away of of our diesel running out as well let's not forget all right stay where you are a caller says I worked as a counselor for years through severe distress caused by the loss of a pet in terms of a pet going missing or passing away please don't understand uh please people don't understand that pets are a part of the family and they cannot just leave them behind and I think that view is well represented in that you know we have pet lovers and others that aren't pet lovers and may be having a different approach in relation to that so I think that's understood and thank you for that would more trauma be caused by a rabies outbreak in the community than having to leave your pet behind says another again I think that just goes down almost pet ownership lines what do the panel think about aim and Ryan granting mining licenses in Donegal and Leecher it's one of the most environmentally damaging practices today this makes Ryan's position on tenable and makes a force of his policies I'm not sure if any of those licenses have actually been issued I don't know Danny if you want to come in on that or do we need that story to rumble on a bit longer I think there's yeah though they're being put out to talk about him and Ryan and relation to the church we're going to we're going to uh so I appreciate it I think you've got your gong cocked on that one have you well do you know what I don't want to delay it any further I'm going to take a break we'll be back for with more from Doreen Kevin and also patty after these messages stay right where you are the nine till noon show is brought to you in association with florid letter Kenny celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional value visit florid.ie is your water safe to drink if your water 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tribune as concerns emerge over the future of the cardiology services for angiograms at let it kind of university hospital the paper says that it's understood that after June the weekly visit of the mobile cath lab will cease the future service for don't go patients is expected to be provided from sliger university hospital that's according to sources at the same time a fixed cardiac radiology radiology unit that was donated by the friends of letter kennie university hospital to the hsc in 2018 has never been commissioned now this unit can also be used in angioplasty surgery and four years ago it was regarded as a major step forward for the hospital 750 000 euro was raised or or found in terms of funding for this piece of equipment i'll go straight to you that's okay paddy rooney director of friends of letter kennie university hospital i mean we don't want to see any diminish of services in our local hospital and we certainly don't want to see state of the art equipment going unused lifesaving equipment presumably yeah i i know that this was not a decision taken by the hsc it was taken by the private company that actually supplies the service to both letter kennie and sligo i think it's they've found that it's not economically viable to do it anymore and they're pulling out of the market uh so that's so could you spend that one more time sorry those are just a a wee bit of interference so this decision has been taken by yeah private provider cardinal health care who provide the mobile service to both sligo and letter kennie they're actually withdrawing from the market because it's not commercially viable for them to do it anymore um so it wasn't a decision taken by the hsc but what is a bit absurd i suppose then is the fact that all of the pieces of the jigsaw are in place almost all to have provide the service in the hospital um presumably cheaper as well of course the two cardiologists already employed in the hospital there are two cardiac nurse specialists the hsc built the facility the friends of the hospital bought the equipment for for three quarters of a million euros so it's no small thing so all the pieces of the jigsaw are there but um i suppose it's a policy decision then by uh salta i see uh where they're carrying out a review of cardiology services in the salta region um and uh there's very a big push uh in sligo hospital to have a fixed service there even though the fact that they have none of the pieces in place that letter kennie have you and i have spoken many times in your program uh greg about overcrowding in hospitals and waiting times and so on and so forth and the general clamor seems to be is to put more beds into the system and i told you on numerous occasions that additional beds in the system are going to be some of the solution but they're not actually going to solve anything and the reason being is that i've said before and want to say it again today hospitals up and down the country are full of people that are waiting for things they're waiting for access to diagnostics they're waiting for access to uh assessments by physiotherapists and dietitians and occupational therapists they're waiting for ambulance transport they're waiting for access to rehab they're waiting for access to convalescence they're waiting for access to home supports and stuff and people for some reason think the solution to that is put more beds into the system even though that's not where all the problem is i mean kevin as far as i can see here you're the only person that works in a business man and you're working in the private sector people in the private sector wouldn't act the way that decisions are being made so we have a diagnostic facility in the hospital that's one of the things that's slowing down processes in hospitals and the hsc are going to it's not their fault that has been taken away but the facility is there to reactivate it it might not be it might not be their fault it might not be their fault that it's taken away but it's within the hsc's gift presumably to commission this unit letter connoisseur so they are without blame here very quickly and at no great cost to what the old one is the resistance i mean have you had any information as to no but i i i what i can i'm i'm out of the place now for four years but the general drift i suppose in department of health and hsc policy is that they want to i suppose pit out around 18 or 19 hospitals in the country and have a lot of everything in these hospitals rather than have a bit of everything in most hospitals around the country if you know what i mean and it looks like because of the size of letter kenny and because of this geographic location it doesn't have the same bump as sligo has and gallway and limerick and water and cork these hospitals i suppose are serving bigger populations and they're higher up in the in the in the pecking order i think that's the thinking around it okay and just as it relates to this this this um mobile service uh being taken off the road is there a lead into that as far as you're aware and if it's been taken off the road that means the service isn't available in sligo as well no nothing yet the sligo it's actually the as far as i know the the first thursday in june is the last day so you're talking about what's this five weeks away five six weeks so we know it's going to stop and bolt hospitals on that day okay i mean this is worrying uh doreen isn't it you know i mean any loss of service however it's provided is a concern and this idea that we have all this equipment there just a few bits of the jigsaw required to have uh you know a state of the art service for for these patients in data can i mean and we know paddy's been at the call face there so uh you know he knows very clearly what he's talking about don't he does and it's great to have that explained paddy thank you because i agree yeah i'm not sure where it was all lying even though you do read it in papers but what appalls me is the fact that money has been raised publicly and that it's there's a facility there and that it hasn't been taken up and hasn't been opened yet so hopefully pressures will come from the powers that be from all sides that this is going to be open very soon and like you're right about the beds i i've seen that i've seen friends of mine who are waiting to go further within treatment but can't get it because on a particular day a cardiologist wasn't available to read a a thing that was done for their heart so therefore they couldn't get further treatment so you know that that's the services not necessarily the beds that are the big issue i'm not saying we don't need the beds but you know i just think when you look around the town and you see the planning that's gone in in recent years to education and the different development of different schools there isn't enough development in relation to hospital care in relation to primary care centers so we need to be looking to the governments to have much more funding and to be taken away the heavy load that's gone into the hospitals that's the issues that i'm hearing on the ground from people you know Kevin can i say respectfully like you know i think the council has a far bigger role than it currently undertakes in terms of pushing issues as it relates to health and backing organizations like the friends of letter kenny university hospital i know that these things do come up from time to time in in terms of motions but it does frustrate me sometimes that the council don't the counselors don't assert their their position to to push issues like the hospital more than more than they do and as i say that with respect and i'm open to correction on it to kevin we've been over a different different issues we've been bringing up all the time about the hospitals but i say we you're coming from all right now we were chatting about and they're all about all about beds and all about extra spaces we even chat about sinconals or something fine bulking there on the other side of just a tunnel sit across the road but it's partly limited there about have we got the facilities in once well there's seven seven hundred and fifty k towards that you know it's people that operate with the manpower is the biggest problem then from there down now you know i put out as in the castle if it's quite sort of just pushing all the pressure on all they can they're doing everything they can do but yeah i just see and i'm just to tease up point out a little bit more and i can see say for instance how the council holds emergency meetings as it relates to the micro issue and i understand that and that's very important and it's good to see the meetings going ahead so that they can but when you've got unions like the i nto i think not the i nto sorry the nurses union saying there's an emergency a letter can you let a kind of university hospital i can never understand why the council does not call an emergency meeting you know to back the public back the patients back the staff and put pressure on the hsc or whomever it might be to say look we as a unit as a council recognize there's an emergency there and something needs to be done i just don't recall that ever happening and i as i say with respect to game don't understand why that's never happened can i come in there yes of course dory i'm going back to the days and patty knows about this where they where they where we were talking about the northwestern health boards and the boards and the structures and there was more access for our public representatives to be in the structure and to have access to help and assist and bring up issues that were there and in fairness to the council you know i don't think uh we can be too critical in relation to you know because they may not have the power within their brief to be they could ask for help and support but they may not have access to it could ask it listen you know yourself dory and a lot of the motions go nowhere but what they did on the mic issue is stand with the people right there's the other thing that's more as important to people as their houses their health and i just never understand and i'm open to correction maybe emergency meetings have been held or whatever why the council has never called a meeting for all of them to stand with the public with the staff even with the management if it's a if they need some support and just treat as the emergency that it is yeah i know our council are very supportive in relation to help and relations right well i'm allowed by here patty unless you disagree with me as well i'm completely on my own yeah it's well i mean it's only it's only optics but it's important it is there seems to be a hierarchy too within the health service within about different specialities within the hospital for instance if we were talking about a service that dealt with symptomatic cancer service within the hospital i think that would be a huge clamour about this but for some reason medicine seems to be the correlation of surgery i mean the i think the number of people that are admitted to hospitals up and down the country with medical conditions and particular cardiac conditions that actually supersedes the amount of people with that suffer from cancer it's it's heart disease is very very prevalent within society but for some reason it doesn't get the same headlines it doesn't attack the it doesn't attach the same emotion or the same bite as symptomatic cancer services do i suppose the other point i want to make here is that you know this is the last now of the diagnostic service in both hospitals in the short term whatever's going to happen in the long term but if that service isn't renewed in some shape or form in letting Kenny there will come a time when it's inevitable it'll happen sometime i don't think it's going to happen soon but it'll happen sometime when one or both of the consultants retire the hospital has probably zero chance of recruiting a consultant cardiologist in the future to replace those if the candidates find out that they don't have any box of tricks to do their work they just won't come full stop so that's there's huge consequences for this over and above the the short term all right long term consequences as well again thanks for for your insight in that adonagall canter cancillor today said he's prepared to go to jail or walk the plank if they're proposed if there's a proposed turf ban the proposed ban on the sale and distribution of turf has made the headlines in recent weeks with conflicting statements from ministers i note that minister tronamon conalogue said that you know people should still be able to cut and burn turf i don't think that's in question at the moment what the concern is is that you know people may be able to not be able to cut and sell turf or even to gift turf and that seems to be a big priority of minister amen ryan at the moment your views doring well i i think i can't say he's away with the fairies i'll say he's away with the birds with the best way to describe you know in fairness to the greens they have lots of very good ideas in relation to how we have to do this for our house for energy do this for our cars and to bring down the carbon footprint and all but this is a massive move been done far too quick and to me it's a huge urban uh rural divide i wouldn't imagine that up around castle knock that they're burning a lot of turf i wouldn't mind doubt a bit cork there in montanotte i'm sure turf isn't on the agenda but up here in johnny hall and i know um it was uh mentioned that our glendies electoral area last week were huge concerns by our people in the west of the country and why this is gone to the states that it's gone to so i know myself that both john mcqueen and chair mcconnell have been and people have been in contact with them and i've gone back with issues in relation to what is going on here and what are they trying to do you know what i mean it's it's gone far too far and it's it's causing huge upset especially for maybe an area that may turf may be the only port of call when it comes to having fuel and there's also a cultural element to it as well i mean it you know it's not just a practical practical uh situations in terms of heating your home it's a cultural element to it as well yeah well i was referred to this week billy over at here where he said you know it was like taking wine out of france or taking past out of italy but the public needed clear message so there's no point leo speaking to one group of people and aim and speaking to another i mean they're in government together they haven't even discussed it officially at government level and i'm running around with like well that's that's well i'm sorry even ryan is not here even ryan needs to pull his horns and and he needs to go out and he needs to meet and he needs to come and i i congratulate our councillor this morning on the news who did say that that there are huge issues out there and they need to see the reality of it and that's what's happened uh the people end up with haven't seen the reality of this turf man and don't know and are we talking about because of the smoke is that why it's not it's they're asking us yeah well that and cutting it but anyway what do you think uh in the last couple of minutes we have kevin uh i think it would need to be deferred only for two years to decide what they're going to do with the price of fuel going up people's cut torque for generations and generations but the box is left from power dishonest generations and all of a sudden they're going to come on and you can't give your neighbor a bag of co I think they're a bag of turf is ridiculous like i'm not that would involve you in it yeah what do you think this morning but you have to i know i have to work with an environment but in range not talking about urban no no thinking to the whole situation at all just just ban torque by yeah not a tree not a tree not a tree in the early era boss and don't know and that's what we were left with last last last word to you yeah I don't think it's fair you know to throw all this on into aim and Ryan's lap it's as if something he wants but I mean I was brought up in the in the countryside and cutting and burning of tough was part and parcel of life but look at if we accept the science around climate change and around the fact the impact it's going to have on the environment and the fact that burning fossil fuels is the major cause of all this and that it's the four of us it's going to be our grandchildren that's going to have to be a just transition though Paddy there has to be viable alternatives you can't you know what I mean it's fine in Dublin you've got all the options in the last two years 80% of houses are heated by electricity not turf coal or oil or gas but there has to be options you know we we are aware of it but what do we do as an alternative what sure now Greg you're trying to tell me that every single house down there from Donegal down to Kerry's is is heated by turf that's not true now there's really a small percentage of them I have great sympathy for all of this now by the way you know I'm not trying to I'm just trying to put forward an alternative argument here and it's not fair to blame I mean every political party now in this country should surely they've bought they've bought into the whole business about climate change and we have to for the agreement and so on gradually this is but it's like the smoking ban that me hallmark was trying to to bring in in 2004 and he faced all the same levels of criticism do you know what he done he stuck at it and he he kept going with it and he done it and eventually we all think it's a bit now don't we yeah paddy listen thank you for your time this morning and your insight I really appreciate it paddy Rooney director of friends of ledic University Hospital good morning to you and thanks again okay I appreciate your time Kevin thank you very much for joining us and good to see you in here from you thanks for all right take care of yourself thank you very much indeed and last and certainly not least and unfortunately I've lost Doreen I wanted to say goodbye to Doreen last but not least of course a big thank you to former principal and community campaigner Doreen Sheridan Kennedy all three of you thank you very much indeed okay we'll be getting to your comments and everything else coming up in the program after we take a break and also we'll come back with the weather then the news the nine till noon show is brought to you in association with florid letter Kenny celebrating five years in business offering quality wooden floors at exceptional visit florid break free from the same old same old join a community where people can grow and be at their best join zinc works and develop software for the biggest companies in the world working with 5g and financial services we value learning we want you 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Highland radio news thanks Greg new satellite images appear to show evidence of mass graves near the city of Mariupol in Ukraine when similar reports have emerged previously Moscow has always insisted that its troops never attack civilians the southeastern city has been under attack for weeks with Russia finally claiming victory there yesterday apart from one area still holding out meanwhile president Zelensky says Russia rejected a proposal for a truce over orthodox Easter this weekend this demonstrates how the leaders of this state actually relate to the christian faith to one of the most joyful and important holidays but we hope hope for peace her that life will conquer death the government is finalizing plans to pay households 400 euro per month if they take in refugees from Ukraine it comes amid concerns that accommodation options for those fleeing the war will dry up by the end of next week the payment will be viewed as expenses rather than income for tax purposes political correspondent with the Irish independent Hugh O'Connell says there are two aims to the plan to take account of the fact that there are costs utility bills groceries and so on and so forth will be increasing if they're taking in Ukrainian refugees so this is partly ended to frame those costs but it's also ended acting as somewhat of an incentive to households to open up to open up their doors to housing Ukrainian refugees if they can do so adoni god county councillor has said he is prepared to go to jail over the proposed turf ban the proposed ban on the sale and distribution of turf has made headlines in recent weeks with conflicting statements from ministers while the ban does not appear to be a blanket one councillor michael mclafferty says he has been inundated with calls from concerned members of the public over the issue councillor mclafferty is also calling on minister aamon ryan and other government ministers to visit donnie gall to get a sense of the feeling on the ground i want to start with the plan to be left and if need be i'll go to jail cast and over i'll walk the plank if need be to protest the whole thing if the push comes to go because the boys and doblon are not really they're not they're not seeing the heart the anguish the anger was been on here in donnie gall because they don't realize and they will not come down they're refused to come down to meet with us i am inviting them down to come to donnie gall to see what's going on and hear the people people are seriously going to suffer coming less than coming one thirty thousands when i do in donnie gall if not freeze and that's what's going to happen motor is traveling in and around letter canny will have to endure a week of potential traffic disruption over works on one of the main arteries into the town the resurfacing works are currently taking place between the pole star and dry arch roundabouts with the road reduced to one lane yesterday areas leading off the pole star roundabout were in gridlock as a result the work is set to continue until this day week april the 29th speaking on the nine till noon show local councillor kevin bradley says the long-term result will be worth it well the talk the talk was to have an Easter week and we've got to defer to the week after Easter when the schools are there now but as you say you can't make an omelette breaking eggs it'll be great you have the whole thing finished but it's just at the present we just have to put up with it for the to the end of next week and the thing we opened up again and a post mortem examination is taking place this morning on the body of russell ford who died after a serious assault in slagotown guard they believe he was the victim of a daytime attack at rock mime parade on Tuesday the 39 year old suffered a head injury and later died in bowmount hospital in dublin he lived in crownmore in slagotown and local councillor gino oboyl says he knew him well russell was a very likable person he was very like very mannerly you know so a lot of people who would have spoke to him definitely his community is shocked there's a lot of sadness because he's very nice and i suppose the circumstances around his death has a lot of people definitely between shocked and still trying to worry whether now today will be generally dry with the mix of cloud and hazy sunny spells and top temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees that's it for now we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this friday morning april the 22nd the death has taken place in county clare of marge mcfadden nace weenie of proclish fulcara and renmore county gallway her remains will repose at her cousin charlie boil's house in lower kill old fulcara tomorrow evening from six o'clock funeral mass in christ the king church gore to hork on sunday afternoon at one o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjacent cemetery the death has taken place of daniel hagin ford steward remelton remains will repose at his home from four o'clock this afternoon funeral arrangements to be confirmed family flowers only donations of desire to the dunagull hospice care of any family member house private from 11 p.m. until 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of rebecca mclintock tolly annan carrigans her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral leaving from there tomorrow afternoon at half past one for two o'clock funeral service in monray presbyterian church followed by burial afterwards in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only place donations and lead to the dunagull hospice care of terns mclintock funeral director the death has taken place of francis mcginnis ne higgarty late of tarahouse at green castle road moville and formerly of pines street carndonna her remains are reposing at her home funeral from there to more morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in sympias the 10th church mobile followed by burial in ballybrack graveyard funeral mass can be viewed live on mobile parish dot com family time please from 10 p.m. until 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only place donations if desired to bun crana community hospital patients comfort fund care of any family member and the death has occurred of william james jim johnston number three ray mohi height monar conning him jim is reposing at his late residence wake is private police to family and close friends and private on the morning of the funeral funeral service at his late residence this afternoon at half past one with burial afterwards in gortley cemetery letter kenny family flowers only please donations and leave desired to the johnny goll hospice letter kenny care of any family member or kelly's a funeral directors for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the night and noon show on the highland radio and you are very welcome back to the second hour of this friday's night until noon show it's eight minutes past ten already hope your morning is going well it's good to see the brighter weather isn't it it's going to last well into next week apparently still a wee bit chilly but still it's nice when you wake up and it's dry right some of your comments here the green party is talking about the carbon emissions from turf when there's coal being brought in from northern irish companies and being sold in the south the coal is evading the carbon tax is this not more of an issue when you see this is what happens when you live in a border though we should be well used to this at this stage be it minimum pricing units an alcohol coal oil covid whatever it might be they make the decisions in dublin they think of the masses who aren't assembled across along the border so we are in situations like this i don't know collateral damage but you know what i mean it's just part of part of life and why is the no protest organized regarding the removal of let it kind of services just like a hospital again it feels like all talk and no action it's very hard to get people on the streets as it relates to health i've attended protests in letter candy university hospital with the exception of the protest as it relates to this the stroke unit and the turnout is often quite low i think health is something that if you're directly affected by it you're very motivated if you're in good health it can be hard to get those people onto the streets i'm open to correction on that but that's just what i've observed from experience another nobody has mentioned that if you have turberry rights you can still cut turf for domestic use yep i said that literally in the preamble letter candy university hospital is serving over a hundred thousand people more than sligo in the last sense is the population of sligo was 66 000 donningall is much more sligo may be more efficient but it's serving less people i accept sligo tan is a bigger population than letter candy but our hospital services the entire county sligo doesn't well they would look at perhaps sligo as a central area for critical mass for certain services presumably people coming from donningall leech from ross common perhaps even maybe north ross common whatever and they calculate the population that way not necessarily county by county as far as i'm aware let me see the department of agriculture or the department of fisheries does not understand what compromise means repeats or anything else before the port bridge works traffic was horrendous in letter candy can you Greg ask why they haven't why haven't they built a slip road up onto the bridge from remelton road instead of forcing all traffic onto the roundabout another are they going to fix the other side of the road after they're finished with the road going out of tan the other side of the road is in bad shape well next friday week is it today week or next friday week anyway two weeks those works are to start donningall isn't even known to exist by the people making decisions in dublin say some other whilst another caller says will the pets being brought into the country have to quarantine island in the uk rabies free it's a concern for me especially as it could spread to livestock i think i read that one already uh cancelor irma garvey what's the panel's observations on the removal of the cardiology unit from letter candy hospital will it be replaced and what are national politicians going to do about it it's concerned the general public i can't talk to what the national politicians are going to do about it cancelor but you would have heard it and we were actually by coincidence very lucky to have paddy rooney on as a leading light in the friends of lu h in the same week that that story broke um what is the moral dilemma here we are a country with a small population that cannot look after their own people the one thing i'll say about that is i do understand that there are problems and there are problems in every country but i think generally speaking though we might not feel it island is seen as a wealthy country with uh you know capacity to help others not necessarily in terms of you know rooms uh but we aren't seen as some sort of a underprivileged uh rundown country we're we're seen as being a vibrant modern rich country believe it or not but i take your point they go on to say that we have people in micro homes who cannot get accommodation in hotels we've got people lying on trolleys in the hospital and we are unable to provide accommodation for students going back to college we can only do orbit i get what you're saying i just think in terms of mic i don't think housing uh people in massive buildings like they are in cork in intense would would be a solution to the mic issue i don't think putting people up in hotels uh for a year or two years would be a solution to the mic issue as well i don't you know maybe if they are in other accommodation that could be taken accommodation away from those that needed affected by mica but in terms of the emergency response i'm not sure that would be a solution to the mic issue either whenever the flights in the sky are limited i'll stop cutting turf in donnie gall my grandfather my father and myself all burnt turf i cut and burned turf all my life i will cut and burn turf for the rest of my life that comes in from rayman thanks ray most people were sent to Dublin or Galway for that to be done this is the the the services being lost to luh in private ambulances at a very high cost to the taxpayer uh there are reports in the media stating that there will be fuel rationing this year i think no one can rule it out um the germans are looking at that they're preparing their public for that as i say no one can really add i think there are countries that are less reliant on this gas and oil than others it depends on what they were 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mental health professionals the charity stated that it is able to reach people across rural island because all of its services are run through its website which is turn to me dot i e right okay so fiona omali is the ceo of turn to me and joins us on the program now fiona thanks for taking the call today good morning thank you for having me right okay so i mean this i i mean obviously not everyone could avail of it but there's 158 000 people in donnagoal as of the last set sensors how can you resource this so we are funded by the hsc and the national office of the suicide prevention and every month we release a certain amount of free one-to-one cancelling supports and people can go on to our platform and they can book it through the online platform on turn to me dot i e and some people might want or need the full six cancelling sessions and then we also have a free support groups which people might want to join instead of the one-to-one cancelling sessions and we also have something called a thought capture which is like an online mood diary where people can record how they're feeling and other people can respond and give positive uplifting messages so um we have three different services free services that people can avail of and depending on their needs and depending what what they think they need at that at that time and are you uh is this open to you know maybe people that just want to talk maybe they've resisted doing so in the past it might be a good opportunity to get them engaging maybe everything can't be resolved in in six sessions uh i presume that's uh one of the the targets but also people in a crisis situation a mental health crisis would you be directing them to this service as well or or or somewhere somewhere else set Fiona so we do operate um uh i suppose a triage system so if someone is in you know prior to out of the stress we will be able to um speak to them prioritize them um but if someone is having perhaps um suicidal thoughts to the point of being actively suicidal we would obviously encourage them to get one-to-one um cancelling support so we would encourage them uh to obviously well speak to their GP first um but we wouldn't be able to um i suppose that's one of the weaknesses and that we wouldn't be able to um support someone face to face but then one of the strengths on the flip side is that we can reach everyone across Ireland um and i suppose once you have a broadband um connection no matter where you're located that it doesn't expose space um and the journey of getting to cancelling uh support isn't uh isn't really an issue so um we would encourage people if they want to speak about issues that they've had or they've been experiencing or if they're feeling anxious if they're feeling anxious about anything whether it's exam stress or stress at work um issues in their relationships be it romantic or familiar relationships um or if they're having uh depressive thoughts they can go and book those uh sixth free cancelling sessions but we also have support groups for those issues as well as anxiety for grief for depression and for family um issues yeah and and you know a lot of people are fully aware of issues that they might have or mental health issues they might have i think a lot of people a lot of us walk around uh feeling it's normal to to to feel a burden of grief or anxiety that's just the way i am and an anxious person i mean that's not always the case and would you encourage people like that to look engage with one session see how it goes for you and people i don't think people need to be walking around saying well it's just me this is how i feel all the time yeah absolutely i totally agree people shouldn't um you know feel like that and if there is support there they should obviously avail of that support um and i support groups as i said are free as well they also deal with issues um such as grief anxiety depression um stresses and uh relationships and the good thing about support groups and also about one-to-one counseling sessions is obviously you can address the issues that you're you're having but you can um learn different ways that might um help the issues that you're having whether it's tips on how to deal with your anxiety or um tips on how to deal with with your depression that can be extremely helpful and empowering for the person who is experiencing these issues and once you're empowered to deal with the situation and that's that's a good step forward in tackling it yeah i just i'm also conscious though that there are an awful lot of older people i i just feel they're constantly being left behind they've had to endure the likes of you know rural isolation grief and loss for years and this is another service that might be difficult for them to access and this is no fault to you Fiona or turn to me but again it just it just feels like a huge cohort of people that need our help that that again we're talking about another initiative that may well leave them behind because if they're going to talk to a someone in their family to sort of maybe set this up for them you know they probably won't do that either that's that's just my concern Fiona yeah that's a very valid and a great concern and obviously there are people from every generation that aren't particularly tech savvy and that that do need to to i suppose be equipped to skills to embrace technology and to to move forward but our website is quite easy to use quite user friendly and we do have users from every age range we have people in their 70s and their 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s and we also have to go from the age of 12 to 17 so we are constantly updating our website making sure it's as user friendly as possible but i do agree with you there are a lot of services that would be available um to maybe people in more urban areas or people in certain from a certain demographic or a certain age group and we are constantly looking at ways to break down those barriers to be as inclusive as possible yeah now obviously you know it depends on on on the the demand but what do you expect from from registering to maybe having one of these sessions what's what's the hope to turn around there so when you register you can set up a free account on turn2me.ie and you can register for the support groups immediately and you can also use the call to capture immediately which is like an online mood diary and then at the set of the start of the month all of our therapy sessions are put up and if you want to book them you can book them then they're not as there wouldn't be the same i suppose immediately to to those kind of sessions because they do have to be booked in advance um but we do have two other really good support services um as i said the support groups a few sign up uh today you can join a support group this evening today as well um and then the tolls catcher is another service and what's interesting about the tolls catcher it's as i said an online mood diary but people can track their mental how they're how they're feeling on different days and hindsight is obviously a fantastic teacher so when we look back at things that might have been bothering us over the past couple of weeks or months and we're not entirely sure of what it is that's triggering these feelings of anxiety we can maybe then say oh well actually that was around the time but i was really stressed at work or that was the time that i was preparing for exams or that was the time i had that performance review so it is a good way of pinpointing what's triggering your anxiety and once you pinpoint that you can look at ways of addressing it and then obviously trying to alleviate those issues as well all right Fiona how finally how do people register and this is open to what from what age up sorry i know there's no upper age but from what age up yeah so people can register for our support groups and for our tolls catcher from the age of 12 to 17 and then anyone over the age of 18 can register for our free counselling sessions okay the very best of luck with it thank you very much indeed Fiona O'Malley CEO of Turin To Me you can go to their website for more information there okay let's take a quick break stay right where you are i don't forget coming up between 11 and 12 we will be joined in studio by Finula and Michael he's now ourselves into the weekend talking about all things entertainment cinema tv stage as well thankfully now we can talk about things like that not necessarily today but as the weeks wear on so if there's anything you are doing to entertain yourself over the weekend music concerts or whatever maybe the world's biggest edge here in fan let us know 08 660 25 000 whatsapp syntax get involved please or give us a call and 07491 25 000 it's that time of the year where unless they're going to talk about snooker i've not much else to talk about in terms of watching actually kind of watching the missing it's on netflix i think it was originally aired on the bbc i'm 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apply via their careers okay you're very welcome back to the program just ahead of music to play some birthday requests and special requests this is a little late but it's for grace and patsy old donnell convent road letter can he happy 65th wedding anniversary from their six children grandchildren and great-grandchildren and all the family i'm sorry if they missed it i think we were sort of late a little earlier but hopefully if they haven't heard it themselves people will let them know grace and patsy old donnell 65th wedding anniversary isn't that very very special hi could you please say a big happy birthday to my mom avril roulston lots of love from your son mark daughter-in-law shane and grandchildren ellie isaac evie and ismy thanks no problem or s me i beg your pardon it could be and a very special request for mary herrity as well who hopefully is listening to the program and this is her special day as well so a very happy birthday to you mary and thank you to all of you by the way particularly on the social media which i can see here in front of me uh that passed on your birthday wishes to me as well i really do appreciate it okay and it's not a big one too everyone keeps asking it's a big one it's not big it's it's in the middle somewhere right here's a piece of music from fontella bass okay there you have it rescue me on the ninth noon show hi greg i went through the double and told yesterday the price has gone up from 160 last year to two euro and no 40 cent isn't a large amount of money but considering the massive amount of traffic that passes through the tolls every day this is a very large profit that's going into these companies pockets indeed i i don't think um you know these are some of them are public private partnerships aren't they and uh i think the the roads themselves must have been well paid for at this stage yet the tolls persist and these companies continue to make money from them uh we were talking yesterday to uh dr kelly uh talking history and we were talking about red hue and uh a caller says there's uh excavations ongoing at the moment uh in spain i believe it is and a caller says if the remains of red hue are found should those remains be brought back to donna gall via rath mullen okay there's an argument there a caller says this is cam doing the rounds a lovely woman saying she's from vodafone okay so be careful out there and some of you might be noticing that you're experiencing you know a poor mobile service at the moment and maybe that could make you more inclined to fall for such a scam so be careful uh we were speaking to a lovely lady yesterday raising awareness of bowel cancer as part of bowel cancer month uh a caller says great to hear this young lady share her story wishing her and her family a bright future it's hard to recover from the loss of a loved one from cancer especially from a short time of diagnosis to when they've died still trying to come to terms with such a loss we appreciate your input there um we were talking about from a listener who uh had a young person in the life uh who is suffering from anxiety it's very debilitating i don't think people have have not suffered from anxiety don't understand how debilitating it can truly be in every element of your life and there's often no respite from it and especially for a young person when they should have you know when we get older there's you know life worries um that come along we have to kind of do with that but young people you would hope young people as much as possible should live free of that you know the stress and the worries but some don't in response to a request for help for a teenager experiencing anxiety there are several things that can they can do such as breathing exercises which i find actually can make me more anxious um because of conscious breathing but anyway it might work for others i'm sure it does in fact i know it does uh mindfulness or meditation can be very beneficial and they can learn what the triggers are for their anxiety uh what they are and learn ways to deal with these which makes a lot of sense calms and jigsaw are two organizations that work specifically with uh youth alternatively there are private counselors that work with young people including myself who is Kathy O'Connor strategic intervention practitioner uh thank you very much Kathy for your informed info i appreciate it uh O'Connor says the angiogram service is going to be a big loss to luh i can see the people of Donegal having to go to Galway especially when there's no equipment in Sligo uh to see them there yeah indeed uh O'Connor says i applied online for a visa for America the 14 dollar visa cost me 73 euro all my personal information is contained in that application is there anywhere can retract that information the bank says it cannot cancel a payment i'm not even sure if the visa will actually come can anyone help listen i hope you're in one of those situations that you uh you type in in google American visa and some of the top uh results there are actually legitimate companies but they charge way and above what it actually costs that there are some of the top return searches my uh understanding is that often you do you mean you do get your visa uh because that's how they operate if that's how you found their address well i don't have the info to my hand but you can you're supposed to there's a the official uh you know not a third party the official application portal you're only paying an administrative charge where for this you're paying someone a profit as well and that's why it's 73 euro so i hope it's not a scam um if you want to pass on the name of the company or the url we can try and check that out for you because i think really it's not the 73 euro at this point it's your info and whether or not you'll get the visa or not anyone any experience of that that can help that listener who i imagine and quite understandably is anxious about that situation on a number 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this has been organized a little bit different to feel maybe more representative more inclusive yeah absolutely i could i could i took on board that criticism that um you know the panels that i had put together even though we have amazing speakers and we're covering really important topics like menopause menstrual health eating disorders fertility you know really really key issues for women um you know i should have done a better job at having better i suppose representation of different minority groups on those panels as well so yeah i'm gonna be a bit pro i'm gonna be a bit parochial here because you don't say for instance with the traveler community we know the incredible high rate of suicide disproportionate and life expectancy and here in our county we've got uh the excellent senator eileen flinn that sits in the same house of you as you um you didn't invite her on i mean that beggars believe to me for example well actually eileen's been brilliant um i was talking to her yesterday and um the idea was to not have too many politicians on the panels but actually have women um you know from like medical backgrounds with lived experience of certain issues but um all iraq's members are are are invited to attend and also the event is being streamed live online so people don't need all and in mayo in my own constituency will be able to interact and watch the conference as well and it's a free event so it really was trying to make sure that everybody could get there um was talking to eileen yesterday and i've reached out to the national travel women's forum um to try and get their input and pave a point are also going to be speaking at at the conference as well and the reason i mean i was looking at it there's a bigger project to work here greg i've been working for the past six seven months on putting together a women's health policy for finafall and over the last number of months i've met with i think around 40 different organizations and individuals so you know like um like pave a point like the disability federation of ireland the union is students of ireland so i i did engage with all of those groups but i fully accept that i didn't have that representation on the panels for the conference but that was just one leg of a bigger project of work that i've been working on and all that being said it's an incredibly important event i think women have been terribly underserved historically and continue to be so unbelievably disproportionately affected uh it seems in in our response or our services or what have you so talk to me about some of the issues that are going to be discussed at this women's health conference and it's apolitical isn't it i mean it's got the finafall logo there but i presume you want engagement from from people from whatever political background and none absolutely and you know i'm not interested in um you know whether you're politically affiliated or not at the end of the day what matters to me is the issues and you're right greg a lot of these topics that we're discussing you know we've really only started to shake off the taboo and the the embarrassment of talking about some of these issues like menopause like menstrual health in the last couple of years so the conference isn't covering every area of women's health so for example i don't have a panel on cardiac disease or cancer to the biggest killers and what i wanted to do was was pick out some of those topics that we really still need to kind of become more open and honest about having these discussions that affect every single woman and i'm not being populist here but looking through the list there are problems that the problems that i don't think would exist if they're uniquely affected men you're probably i'm smiling you're probably right no because it's not it's hard thing to say and it's like oh well greg would say that but like looking through it i i think if these issues affected mostly men i think we'd have figured out a way to talk about it probably now or fix a lot of it as much as can be done yeah i think you know as a woman and even as a young girl you're definitely taught and conditioned to not talk about these things that you're supposed to keep at private you've got issues of menstrual health like it like a condition endometriosis affecting 10% of the female population really pain crippling pain painful condition um we're told not to really talk about these things that it's kind of you know it's on on feminine if i can put it that way and we're kind of shaking that off now and that's we're telling young girls and women actually we do need to talk about these things and if we don't we're not going to get the care that we need so i think menopause is a really good example um you know we've really opened the door on that the last couple of years and it's crazy to think that okay i think sorry i know you for call coming in there i think perhaps yeah go ahead pick up point that's all right so if you if you if you take menopause for example it was quite common for women to be prescribed um mental health medication because they were you know seen as being hysterical or over-emotional or you know um you know being overly sensitive if i can put it that way the same thing with endometriosis it's really quite common for girls to be misdiagnosed with a mental health condition as opposed to a chronic pain condition that's affecting their reproductive organs so that and take example as well of pain we have a doctor Lisa Cunningham who's a consultant in emergency medicine she's also the the Mayo ladies GA doctor here in in Mayo she will talk about the bias in in in medicine where women are under medication for pain we actually have more pain receptors than men so we do actually feel more pain but we're very often prescribed less pain medication um so there's a lot of there's a lot of biases there and part of that comes from you know up until the 1920s we didn't really have women in consultant posts we didn't really have women needing research and medicine and a lot of research on medicines and procedures and treatments were done by men for men um and we have different i suppose a different makeup physiologically so it is it just it's you know and today even we have i think it's in excess this is a crazy number but in excess of 36 000 women on a waiting list for a gynecology gynecology appointment and having spoken to the Institute of Gynae and obstetrics uh what they've said to me is that gynecology is after the poor relation that it very often gets bombed down the queue and not only that those a lot of those on that waiting list have uh because of of recent scandals have a distrust of it as well which uh as i say you know hopefully we're addressing that i think a very interesting panel all of it is as well eating disorders and body image as well because i i still kind of think particularly with the body body image element of it we generally as a broadly as a society have struggled how to discuss it because you've got you know a health positive body image and you know it's it's a it's a complicated area it is and you know it obviously it does affect men as well but it there's a disproportionate impact on women and young girls we've seen an increase in women and young girls presenting with Asian disorders from the pandemic because of the i suppose the the stresses of lockdown and maybe focusing too much on social media um there has been a lack of understanding and funding in that area as well and you know if you see what young girls are bombarded with not just magazines now it's all over social media these body perfect images that are unattainable and they're not reality um so but that's having an impact on our young girls because that's what they're looking at and they think that's what i need to be so it is about shifting the conversation away from weight away from size and back to about healthy eating healthy promotion um and looking after your well-being and it's not about whether you fit into a particular size but that is there is a particular pressure i think on girls and you know even you think of women um you know on their wedding day that that constant pressure to fit into a particular dress size and to lose weight before the big day this is ingrained in us from a very young age yeah i was flicking through some reels on on i think it was instagram or facebook whichever one of them started them recently and you know i mean if you were a young woman or a young man you know you're flicking through and a lot of the a lot of the topic it seems to be people talking about their image as well so there's a awareness of what's actually going on there and i think it would be difficult even if no one's happy with how they look so even if we may think they look perfect what's going on in their head but also if you don't feel perfect and you're watching them what's going on in your head you know i don't know how we get around that one but it's certainly something that needs to be addressed because i think it's actually getting i think younger people particularly are going to feel it under even more pressure as things go on i think tiktok and these reels have even ramped up the pressure uh on people definitely i mean i think thank god i didn't grow up as a teenager with social media i don't know how i would have coped with it you know you'd feel inferior unless you're super confident male or female you'd you'd have to come almost feel instantly not as good completely and like nobody's confident in feeling good every day we all of our bad days but what's really like getting out getting the message out to young girls and young boys as well that what you see online very often that's after 30 photographs that didn't look good and they picked out the best one then they altered it and edited it and you know it's not it's not reality and it's not real life but that's the that's the standard we're putting you know we're putting on top of young people and young girls in particular and then if they don't use filters they have to make new videos to prove they're not wearing filters that's using filters that's the how deep it goes another important topic is the fertility journey pregnancy miscarriage IVF and surrogacy and there's it's not all in the one and all you're not grouping all the one but there's so many sort of issues that need teasing out in each of those categories and then subcategories of that yeah look I mean that whole that whole topic around pregnancy and fertility IVF and surrogacy is huge and it'll be just we only be scratching the surface with that one panel debate on that day but it's something that I think we have to continue to talk about one in one in six couples and it could be even more than that are experiencing infertility issues today one in four pregnancies and in miscarriage most women through their journey to having their family will experience a miscarriage but yes that's not by you by the way but also society except that right but it doesn't talk to for some for most maybe the devastation of that the grief or the loss the grief and the loss and often women feel like they've failed which is so which is an awful feeling to have and it's not it's not logical but that's emotion and we're told I mean you're told don't tell anybody you're pregnant until you're three months gone because you know in case something happens we've discussed that in this program before why was that that doesn't and also how many times has that been thrown up in an argument I wonder you know someone saying to a woman I well sure you couldn't even carry a baby or something like that there you know and how devastating that must be to them I think we had a listener contact the show that had experienced that and it devastating words to hear like that that's heartbreaking and you know I think anyone on that journey you know we spent most of our teens in our 20s being told not to get pregnant and how to avoid getting pregnant nobody tells young girls that once you pass your 30 it becomes more difficult and it's not that easy actually to have a family and your listeners might be surprised to hear. Geriatric pregnancy I think over 30 is the actual medical reference. Well 35 which is my age. It's also for men as well I think by the way that's one thing we might share but I think that's the medical term for it. It is and fertility affects men as well. Fertility specialists will tell you that it can be one third the woman one third the man and one third they just don't know and for various issues but in most European countries I think actually all European countries offer some financial assistance to women and couples to have IVF cycles or other fertility treatment. We're an outlier we offer zero absolutely no help whatsoever so that means if you can't have children because of fertility issues it comes down to money. Right Lisa and I think another really important conversation is the future of women's healthcare where to next and that is I mean I think you could do three days on that in and of itself but in the time that we have just how do people register? Yeah so you can register for the event on event eventbrite.ie and just search for women's health conference. The ticket that the event actually sold out in a day but I'll be releasing more tickets on Monday and the event will also be live-streamed on Fianna Falls social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the website so no matter where you are in the country you can log in. That's next Thursday the 28th of April from 10 a.m and if anybody wants any further information they can of course contact me directly at lisa.chambers at heroxas.ie. Thanks for your time this morning appreciate it. Thanks Greg. All right take care of yourself we'll be back with the news after the break. 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A former assistant general manager at Letter Kenney University Hospital believes additional beds won't solve issues facing the facility in the long term. Paddy Rooney says wards are full of people waiting to access a variety of services which are catered for outside the hospital and the focus should be on facilitating more of them. A Dunnegal County councillor has said he is prepared to go to jail over the proposed turf ban. The proposed ban on the sale and distribution of turf has made headlines in recent weeks with conflicting statements from ministers. Motorists travelling in and around Letter Kenney will have to endure a week of potential traffic disruption over works on one of the main arteries into the town. The resurfacing works are taking place between the pole star and dry arch roundabouts with the road reduced to one lane. Yesterday areas leading off the pole star roundabout were in gridlock as a result. The Ombudsman for Children is to visit Dunnegal next week. Dr Neil Muldoon will be highlighting the rights of children and the work of the Ombudsman for Children's Office during his regional trip to the county and islands. And Dunnegal County Council is to receive a share of 551,000 euro in funding to support the development of creative industries. The creative coast will explore and identify an appropriate cluster model to position the creative sector in all future developments here in the county. That said for now we're back with another update for you at 12 noon. I couldn't really hear that I was like is that a mistake? Why are you leaving me Catherine? This is Catherine's last day by the way she's been here for eight years now isn't it? Yeah almost eight years yeah. It's really quite sad. I'm actually feeling genuinely sad. I know I know we joke but I am very sad. I'm sad too. Highland's been a big part of my life as you say for almost eight years and it's it's very sad to say goodbye. Yes but onto new challenges. What has been your highlight or what have you enjoyed most about working here? Not here because you know obviously it's the words in your mouth. Obviously the people, the colleagues, they're such a great team. It'll be difficult to say goodbye to those people obviously and you're putting me on the spot. You must have known I was going to do this to you though. I really didn't. I'll miss all the crack and the fun and yeah and everyone who I've interviewed and stuff around the county over the years a lot of people have been very accommodating and very good to me as well so I feel very blessed in a lot of different ways you know so yeah. Yes elections did you enjoy them? I did yeah sorry you're prompting me now but like I think I need the prompt. All good interviewers you know fill the gaps, fill the gaps but no I mean obviously in terms of work I've never worked with anyone better than you ever and I've done work in lots of different places not saying you're the best I'm saying I've never worked with anyone better than you. And also I mean obviously this building's just not going to be the same without you in it I think I can speak on behalf of everyone here that works with you every day. Oh gosh. No but it's true it is true you're a very good person and a really great worker and it's been a brilliant working with you. Thank you it just feels very surreal. I suppose after I told people I kind of settled down and I thought that I'd get through today without feeling emotional but I feel I feel the emotions now are heightened. It's exciting too it's exciting too. Yeah absolutely. It's been great to have you here for so long but it's also if it's good for you then it's good for everyone. Thank you. If you know what I mean it makes us feel good. At me I don't know I can't speak on behalf of everyone. I know you'll be missed by everyone but listen thanks so much you're back at 12. I am and then one. Hopefully. But this number half of all of us here me in particular as well as in the head of news role and everything else thank you and we're going to miss you really really much. Thank you I really appreciate it Greg. And enjoy you're going to Ocean isn't it. Yes I'm starting an Ocean FM on Monday so I can't get it up here. I don't even try. I don't have much time on your bulletins. If I see any lifting or anything like that there and I'll do the same Greg. All right then we'll hear from you 12 anyway but thanks very much Catherine. All right we'll be back with more on the Ninetal Noon Show after this break. 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