from 9 to 12. It's a 9 to 1 show, but we used to do another show between 10 and 1. It was called the 10 to 1 show. Yeah, I'll tell you, I'll give you, I'll give you an A for originality. Yeah, well, we'll give you that. God loves a trier. Absolutely. All right, see you Saturday. We'll talk soon. Thanks very much, Roy. It is, in fact, 9 o'clock. Time for news update. Good morning, Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The new defective blocks bill passed through the door last night as dozens of amendments were voted down by government. Colonel Sean O'Freel confirmed the decision just before 8 o'clock. Taw 74, Neil 69, there were no abstentions and the bill is carried and will now be sent to the Shannon. Well, this means our present foundations will not be included in the scheme. IS465 will remain as the standard and there is no facility to increase the cost cap outside of the minister choosing to do so once a year. The government was roundly attacked by the opposition. The housing minister Dara O'Brien continued to insist that the scheme is greatly enhanced and does offer 100% redress. That was rejected by Deputy Thomas Pringle. I just want to respond to what the minister said there. And the minister's element of this is a well improved scheme and where everybody should accept it and that they're on that basis. There's no, I don't think anybody's argued here that this isn't an improved scheme on the previous scheme. But the problem is that it's not improved enough. And the problem is that families are going to have to wait and go through for the third iteration of this to come around to actually get redress and to be able to rebuild their homes. And that's what's wrong with this scheme. Well done ago Deputy, Joe McHugh resigned the Finnegale whip last night and voted against the government in the debate. He told the Dahl he had to follow his gut because he does not believe the scheme meets the needs of the people. This is not over. It's not over for the people and we still have to figure out a way of trying to make it better for people. And I'm talking in particular about the people who are my generation and a bit older, people who are going to find it hard to get a 30,000 or 40,000 loan up front even to get engineering fees at second stage to get demolition. Where does that money come from? There's a lot of shortcomings. There's a lot of work still needed to be done on this. My gut is telling me that this second scheme is falling short for too many people, and in particular for constituents in my own county. In the UK the Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to hold on to power the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, the latest minister to leave the cabinet this morning. The number of resignations from government has now topped over 40. Former Conservative Government Advisor Laura Evert says Boris Johnson continues to try to hold on but she believes his time is now limited. A, it seems like he'll hang on to the bitter end. B, it seems like there will be more resignations today, and where that puts us is in some really very dangerous territory because the work of government can't go on. There are bill committees being cancelled today because there are no ministers to appear before them. And where it gets really dangerous is Liz Truss is heavily involved in the NATO accession talks. The Transport Secretary has an imminent rail strike. With the forecast it'll be quite cloudy today with most areas staying dry but some patchy drizzle at times, top temperatures 16 to 20 degrees Celsius, warmest toward the south-east, north-westerly breezes, light to moderate in strength. Tonight it'll be largely cloudy. Some patchy light rain, lowest overnight temperatures 12 to 14, again light west to north-west breezes. And that's Helen Reilly on the news. You can, by the way, watch last night's proceedings from the details on our website, HelenReilly.com. Attention all staff, clean up on aisle four, please. That's a clean up on aisle four. And Jacob, who's popped in for a pint of milk as diabetes. We don't always know who's at risk from COVID-19 and other viruses, but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask, let fresh air in, get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell. From the HSC, for us all. It's time for the talk of the north-west, The 9th and Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, a very good morning. You're very welcome along to the 9th and Noon Show here on Highland Radio. It's just about to turn four minutes past nine on this Thursday, the 7th of July. Much of the first hour of this program is going to be reacting to that vote in the door last night. And the reason for that being, and I'm sure most of you are aware, is it was perhaps one of the most significant votes, I think, and we keep saying that politically in this county. We've invited all the main players. We, of course, had independent Deputy Thomas Pringle on the show yesterday, and we have his views on record and heard from on the news there. Deputy John McHugh will be joining us to outline his rationale for the decision he made and what's next. We will also be speaking to who else have we got on. Podreg McLaughlin will be joining us to discuss it from his party's perspective. Michael Daherty will be joining us to tell us what's next, what is next from a Micah Action Group perspective. And we've extended an invite to Minister Charlie McConnelogue, who voted with the government last evening and had to a couple of times to find out what he believes or to explain his rationale for his decision. So we have, or we've invited some of the main players on what is, no doubt, one of the biggest political stories, but particularly from my perspective and the way that I view it, human stories in this county's history. All right, let's run through the papers this morning. The Chicano Tribune Council is back Micah campaign despite pressure in Fina Falls. The decision by Donagall's Micah Action Group to establish a political party will cause much soul searching among the local grassroots where Fina Fall and Fina Gale face a battle to retain their dull seats that was long before the new party was formed. John McHugh Tear writes, Micah campaigners wrapped up political pressure or ramped it up over the weekend with Donagall's 37 county councillors giving an ultimatum. Show your support for the affected homeowners and pot the people before the party. Eventually all 37 voted to support the campaign. It's reported that pressure to back the party was strongest in Fina Fall, but the advice put forward was flatly rejected according to political sources and you can read much more on that and the rest of the news on the front of an inside the Chicano Tribune. The Dairy People Donagall news tells us that a man killed in a car crash outside letter Kenny on Tuesday night has been named as Mervyn McClure. Mr. McClure who was in his 70s died when three cars collided on the main end 13, Newton, Cunningham to Leicester, Kenny Road at 10.50pm. A man in his 40s was also hospitalized in the fatal collision. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The end 13 remained closed for much of yesterday as forensic investigators tried to piece together what happened. It has of course since reopened. On to the Donagall Democrat now. They're a top story today. Freedom of London, Mayor Honour for Frost's Man. A Frost's native has been awarded the prestigious Freedom of the City of London at a special ceremony at the City's Guild Hall on Monday. Tim Kelly, who is the chair of the Wembley-based Kelly group, was presented with the Freedom of the City of London by Tiffan Labien, Deputy Clerk to the Chamberlain's Court in recognition of his success as a businessman and his charitable works. The Derry News is top story today, Life for a Life. The family of a Derry murder victim, Edward Meenan, have hit out at the length of jail sentences, handed down to his killers. They were speaking after three men were jailed this week for the killing of the father of nine, whose badly beaten body was discovered in a laneway at the rear of Cregan Street in the city in the early hours of November 25th, 2018. On to the broadsheets now, and their focus on yesterday's, and this is probably what part of the problem is, is their focus on yesterday's ongoing, ongoings in the Dall, is really firstly that the government loses its majority, which it doesn't really, it's got a quite a healthy working majority and a couple of members who had a whip withdrawn from them will be back in the fold very quickly. And also the fact that Joe McHugh voted against this Michael legislation, that's the, you know, the approach they're taking. It's not on the front page, but anyway, this is the problem I think campaigners have faced. Finnegal TD Joe McHugh has voted against government legislation underpinning the 2.7 billion micro redress scheme, weakening the coalition's position in the Dall, the Donagall TD and former Minister for Education opposed the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks bill 2022. Mr McHugh then resigned as the Finnegal party whip, which means the government loses its majority of 80 reduced to just 79 of the 159 TDs. The bill was passed by 74 votes to 69. It'll now go on to the Shannon. The legislation seeks to establish a scheme to provide grants to homeowners in Donagall, Mayo and other counties to repair defects caused by mica, which has led building blocks to crumble. However, campaigners have said the legislation is flawed, excludes numerous properties and that many affected people would still have to put thousands of euro towards rebuilding their homes. On to the Irish independent now their front page and not surprising really is the fact that Leo Veradkar will not face any charges. The DPP has found him, has found that he was engaged in no wrongdoing. Leo Veradkar is on course to return to the office of the T shock in five months time after a guard investigation into his leaking of confidential GP contracts cleared him of any wrongdoing. The emboldened tornester is now free to reshuffle his cabinet in December without the fear of the long running investigation hanging over his head as he appoints ministers. The outcome of the leaks probe also means Mr Veradkar will not have to worry about his coalition colleagues voting against him becoming T shock when a dull vote is called in December. In a statement last night, the Finnegal leader insisted he always maintained the allegations made against him were false. On to the Irish Daily Mail now and a breakaway group of Fina Fallback Ventures met in secret yesterday hours before a wounded government lost its dull majority. In a turbulent day at Lentster House, Finnegal TD for Donegal Joe McHugh voted against the government over the redress scheme for home owners impacted by defective mica blocks. The loss of the majority poses no immediate threat with several independent TDs to rely on to ensure they can continue to pass legislation and this is uh I'm not sure what this means really or how good this is for uh you know independent politics either uh obviously we have independence that voted against the government but when you have independence that gather as a group and votes with the government and perhaps do so with a little bit of persuasion shall we say it does make you wonder what a vote for certain independence actually means you might as well vote with the government or whichever parties are likely to form that government aren't they but they do have a wish list and sometimes little things are ticked off that wish list uh for pairing arrangements for example uh or for votes like this uh will separately Guardie and Ernst Honestor and Fina Galida Leo Veradko will not be prosecuted by the DPP there um I didn't hear or I'm not aware was uh Mark McSharry uh in the doll yesterday how did he vote um I heard his name being called I didn't hear a a yay or nay so to speak uh but I'm not 100% sure if he did vote or not or why he wasn't there of course he is one of those that said that he would leave the party and vote against the government um if uh if uh campaigners weren't happy with the uh the the the review of this scheme uh but I don't know if he did vote or not I suspect he wasn't there but I don't want to say he wasn't there because I don't want to misrepresent him either I'm sure somebody out there uh might know why uh and perhaps maybe what we might make inquiries is if he was or not and and why he wasn't and what way might he voted uh the Irish Farmers Journal this morning Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConnelogue and Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan squared up on agriculture's carbon emissions targets this week direct negotiations took place between the two ministers with Minister Ryan pushing for a deal to be done before the dull summer recess on the 14th of July it's understood that he was met with stiff resistance on an upper target from Minister McConnelogue and uh his officials uh I just want to mention actually as well the front page of the Finn Valley voice this week uh just to jump back to the locals for a second have it here with me uh third lead story is sad farewell to uh Michael O Boyle they called him the bear for his impressive physique spanning five decades the old Finn Valley coach day uh college days to the present century Michael O Boyle was the heart and soul of Saint Columbus College and you can read the tribute to him on the front often inside that paper today uh Boris Johnson remarkably unless something's changed in the last five minutes remains in power this is a guy who cannot actually really function or his government can't function because there aren't the people currently left to make it function so many have resigned even his most ardent supporters have turned their back on him but he is remarkably uh refusing to back down um but I mean these days numbered it's just whether or not he goes himself uh or um the 22 19 22 committee find a way to get him out but Boris Johnson dramatically sacked cabinet rival Michael Gove last night and rejected calls to quit to support for his leadership collapsed at Westminster the prime minister met ministers uh in number 10 yesterday evening where he was told he had lost the confidence of the Tory party and could not continue in office former ally Michael uh Gove was he an ally well I think he wouldn't be really classed as a a true ally but anyway he was thought to have told the prime minister yesterday morning that it was time for him to quit and I presume Boris Johnson uh believes that uh the people gave him the mandate not his party and uh it's Trump-esque almost in some elements of uh the way he's going on um the son today rescue chiefs have issued an alert to parents after dealing with several instances of babies trapped in cars officials warned that leaving kids in vehicles even if only popping into the shop puts them at risk of heat stroke or dehydration victor shine of cork city fire brigade said it could leave stricken children needing medical treatment he added when an infant or small child starts crying in a car after being left alone things tend to get very dramatic very quickly oftentimes we will have to be uh do a forced entry using specialized equipment to break the windows of the car officer shine urged anyone who sees a child trapped in a car to call the emergency services rather than trying to intervene themselves um he says that uh the windows will often be closed the bystander is sometimes frustrated knowing that uh what trouble they could get into if they try to gain access to the vehicle to help uh the children themselves no i've never seen a situation like that i'm not sure how widespread it is but i suppose as soon as there is the uh as soon as there is the potential for some warmer weather we do often hear those types of warnings uh finally for now in the Irish Daily Mirror uh the fourth of July massacre suspect as admitted to police he carried out the shooting the details emerged as Robert Cremo appeared in court for the first time yesterday over Monday's attack in which seven people were killed at an Independence Day parade in the U.S. Assistant State's Attorney Ben Dillion told a judge that the 21 year old rapper as he's described here had made a voluntary statement confessing to his actions after he was denied bail officials revealed uh Cremo had intended to carry out another mass shooting shortly after his first as he had bullets left over and the family in that community that's just with them for absolutely forever now um seven people killed over 40 shots are injured shot uninjured or injured in a scramble it's just absolutely a horrific story and it was one of two mass shootings in America on that particular day right okay our first guests join us in a second the 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folks that's center stage with Jimmy Stafford and guest Danny Michael Henney this Thursday from 8 p.m. okay just a bit of breaking news from Britain Boris Johnson has said he will resign as the conservative leader today he will continue on as prime minister though until the autumn a conservative leadership race will take place this summer and a new prime minister will be in place in time for the Tory party conference so he has been able to unable to resist the pressure no more okay let's return to more important issues for us closer to home and that was the decision taken yesterday in the doll that well two hours was given to discuss 80 amendments I'm not sure how much of that work was gotten through but in the end the bill was passed voting against the government was deputy Joe McHugh who joins us now Joe thanks for taking the time out this morning I appreciate it no no problem and thanks for thanks for inviting me on great right okay I'm I presume you had a conversation with the party leader Leo for Adcar in advance of your vote yesterday yeah I did a number of conversations with Leo throughout yesterday and the night before and I also had a couple conversations with Dara O'Brien yesterday so I I suppose just to give the the backdrop as to why I didn't vote for on the issue of the order of business on Tuesday I didn't want to vote against the government on Tuesday because I still believed that I could get a few last minute changes through but obviously that that failed and when I when I wasn't able to get the issues that I wanted resolved be the issue of downsizing and the issue with foundation and a number of other issues I just felt I not that I had no choice you always have a choice as a person as an individual but I felt I felt the right choice was to was to vote against the scheme because I do believe that it that people will be excluded and I just felt the same the felt the same feeling as I felt in the aftermath of the first scheme that there were changes made in the last six weeks that have made the scheme too complicated right you you obviously look these people in the eye or maybe spoke to them on the phone I don't know which you're on the ground you know the facts you're the representative down there you know people affected by this so they know they can trust your view how could they ignore what you had to say to them and in doing so how did they how did they ignore what were what excuses or what possible excuse could they have given for not trusting you on your word I think I think the biggest reason for not being able to make the change was a was a limited time even even if there were government decisions made next week in the shannot during second stage to bring it bring forward amendments if those amendments were were accepted by the shannot they would have to come back into the doll the following week and the doll wouldn't be sitting that week so look well I was one that advocated for just out of interesting relation to that because there's two ways to look at that right and and you can see in the ICCL has done a lot of work on this the government has a habit of jamming through legislation just before the summer reset this president here was it a case of trying to rush through this flawed scheme to suit themselves for the break for the summer recess this might be done previously or do you think their actual intention was no we need to get this done to get families back into rebuilt homes what do you think their motivation for ramming this through before the recess was honestly I think from speaking to Dara O'Brien personally and look is he echoed it publicly as well he he wants the scheme started he wants to get houses built he wants to get people to move on with their lives like there's no question about the bond a few days but it goes back again to the detail and the detail is going to exclude people and and that that's the issue that's the issue I had and what I did do over the last week was reach out to a lot of people that have been in touch with me over the years and and it was more of a sense of lack of hope to want of a better expression there was everybody I spoke to that I didn't feel that they were getting that hope or sense of sense of green light on the scheme because I felt that they wouldn't be able to access it so that was the issue and I think the foundation issue created a very very negative narrative because people even people who are not associated people couldn't understand the fundamentals of not ensuring that you check your phones before you build a house was part of your discussion with leo faradkar the optics of this in other words what you would do on this vote how you would vote with the government in the future and the manner in which you would no longer have the finigale whip was that agreed in advance that you would be allowed to resign the zip rip sorry as whip but at the same time you gave him a commitment that you would continue to support the government in any other votes no because it was the last minute it was very close to to the actual legislation because I was out of courtesy out of trying to be fair by by the people who try to put this game together to give them the time so the conversation we had was very limited at the end of the conversation I just said to leo I'd be resigning the whip and voting against this legislation and obviously I'm in a new place now since 1999 I've always had a signed up the party pledge I think it was in the mulford old mulford hotel in 1999 I don't have that whip anymore it's a new departure I'm going to have to make in choices as an individual now in relation to in relation to votes but my so you haven't you haven't given any assurances that you will support the government going forward or have you stated that you will be voting now in a case by case basis which which isn't yeah well I mean look I'll be I'll be looking at vote but my motivation yesterday was on the vote on the mic legislation and obviously I had an issue with it I had a moral dilemma with it and I wanted to do the right thing on behalf of my constituents I mean overnight I don't become an opposition advocate I think you know already may feel like I haven't been critical of the opposition for all these years to all of a sudden overnight to be voting with what's the opposition so like what I love to do now is as come come every vote is going to I'm going to have to look at them I'm going to have to look at them as to how the benefit my own constituents and my own constituency yeah but we're going to say to you respectfully that in in terms of how this is this is working out you have taken a stand but you're still a member of finnegale and you know as you say your allegiance is still with them and that's fine and people might respect that but some might say you know if you're serious about this that you quit the party altogether that you know if you'd have made that statement it would have carried far more weight perhaps within your party and certainly on a national scale I mean I'm not sure if you voted later in the door last evening and which way you voted but you know you could have gone further than you had in standing with the people some might feel well if you listened to my contribution in the door last night when I said to Dara Brown that this issue isn't finished the mic issue it's very much live and I know the campaigners are going to keep campaigning so it's up to me now to use my position in the best way possible I mean I've I've suffered the consequences of losing the party work on this vote to make a statement to the government that while for the remainder of the time that I'm going to be in politics and I'm I've no skin in the game Greg I'm not running the next time there's no electoral advantage no electoral gain my motivation now is to use my time and the doll to to advocate on behalf of the homeowners on a scheme which is is effectively replicating the first scheme in terms of of the detail I mean when I voted and agreed to the first game I believed in the bona fides that it was going to be a 9010 scheme and I think if even if you speak to the campaigner six weeks ago this scheme was looking good wasn't a good place but whatever happened in the intervening time that's where the problem lay and I'm going to use my voice to be to be strong strong on this issue right stay with me for a moment if you don't mind deputy podrick McLaughlin obviously you as John McHugh did spoke out against this I mean for the reasons few are obvious of course I imagine I know I welcome what Joe did last night I think it was an important stand in solidarity with the homeowners I think it vindicates the position of people like Michael Doherty and we would have looked up at Michael in the public gallery last night I found it heartbreaking really heartbreaking to see somebody who gave his heart and soul but so much into negotiations absolutely honorable all the way and to see his face last night was heartbreaking I'll never forget it but my determination absolute determination is to make the scheme right to get it right last night was a setback but we cannot we just can't let down the people don't evolve I'm just not sure how how many more setbacks the people affected by this can take you know because a lot of emotion and energy would have been for a lot of people holding themselves together with the view that this would be enough and and you I'm sure Deputy Joe McHugh and Michael Doherty or Jonas in a moment have all received the same type of messages I have people that literally have nothing left to give to keep going to wait for this to be gotten right at some point last night was a horrible night and to look at the the traumatized homeowners up in the gallery when they made that protest we went out and spoke to some of them who were there again outside the gates last night and then of course I was in community with people right through last night and this morning and our job now all of us Greg whatever form of life we're whether in political life or public life whatever we do in Donegal is to get behind the homeowners to give them strength and we have to fight on because if you just recap the big things in this scheme imagine you don't allow them a pathway towards 100% because the rates are just too low so they don't get 100% and then when they offer to downsize their houses you don't allow them to do that you have that issue then you have the issue of you're not testing the foundations you're not actually making sure that the blocks and foundations are being tested for the full range of these deleterious materials including as you know peritite which is now becoming the main offender based on lab tests that again and again so the science you can't trust you don't have the right money you can't downsize these are the fundamental issues and I just can't I genuinely am shocked that they didn't agree to those changes I know it was understood a number of weeks ago that they were going to do that and we'd have a scheme that that was at least workable I'd give people a pathway to 100% even if it wasn't perfect so it was a horrible night last night but my job my job Greg and your job too as a leader in the county is to try and give people strength and fight on that's what we have to do. Michael to RT I appreciate like all of our guests everyone's time is short here but I know yours as well I mean you can react as well to last evening but I think what a lot of people know is what next you know what what happens next down well I think first of all we can't just move off without acknowledging like I came home earlier to the morning there was no sleep really so I grew up and I wrote a few words down which I've never done before but the way I saw it was how Anna was there and we all felt it and I wrote we start in the gallery filled with anger and tears watching every affected homeowner get sentenced and fined tens of thousands of euros the rest of their lives but no one could tell us what we've done wrong yeah I think that sums it up there's no answer to that and that's it and where do we go next we need to regroup we need to re gather our thoughts and efforts on this and see where we point us to what we do know is simple things like the process was a real eye opener for us you know what we basically ended up with was they produced an unfit bill in the first place that was way way way off the mark to the point that needed 80 amendments they give us three days to scrutinize it and have the amendments tibbled and submitted all 80 of them that's how far off the mark this bill was they were then given two hours to present them and get the votes done on them which was never ever going to work they ruled out of order what they don't want talked about for example the down free sizing even though it doesn't cost the state an extra penny and that should have been the grounds for a ruling out of order it was the minister was asked on three or four occasions by Michael McNamara and others why never was answered and then we'd say they'll line up a few independents then to make sure that they won the votes in the end and they ran me through that's the process that's how laws are built and made in this weak country of ours and I have to say I was probably quite naive to an extent coming in as what I would count an honest broker that process and it would be on belief yeah I think it's no easier today it's no easier today than it was last night no I think too for the political process we'd need to have an understanding of what was in it for you know independence to vote with the government yeah these are people who lose them in the game right other than they'll get a wee job done down in their own counties that's how this stuff works they get a wee job done in their own county and it's blood money as far as I'm concerned the other part being completely ignored here is that defective concrete blocks are still being manufactured today still be manufactured today that's so on record that's so on record from engineers Ireland by Aiden O'Connell still happening today and there's nobody paying any attention to that or addressing that it's not even been talked about we've got national standards authority of Ireland and the people that are going to be reviewing that are the people that are big big businesses in this country the the the concrete federation of Ireland there's several quarries mentioned in there this is turkey's voting for christmas stuff and emigrate talked about in the day we have one of the said companies that's responsible down the west coast forecasted profit of 5.25 billion euro for this year and they haven't been asked for one red cent by government why would they do that yet they'll peddle an art of taxpayers are used happy to cough up this money this is a completely loaded dice and there's no place for honest people in this process yeah and I suppose it's a case of just drawing breath now and you know recharging batteries and and sticking together and and moving forward Michael but I just know and you know and I can see it and I can hear it in your voice this is this is just it's a devastating warning for for so many people I just really fear what impact this could have I don't know what we can do in terms of programming or whatever it is to try and support people to get you know because the spirits are just going to be as low as they can and not just in mood I want about how the very negative impact you can have on someone's mental and physical health and I don't know what the next the summer the next few months and into the winter is going to hold but we have to find something to do to support people if that makes sense that that was absolutely appropriate every amendment that could ruled out last night or you know or got turned down I could see somebody's face against that we'll take about 20 calls a week people with different scenarios the amendments that we tilled were to cover these people with different scenarios and we didn't even get talking to the vast majority of them just because of how the system was loaded it was loaded that we had to rule stuff out in order to get the more important stuff but we were very aware every time we moved into something that was more important we were leaving people behind phone calls and faces that had issues that could have been addressed in this bill but weren't addressed in this bill and this statement about some much better bill than before compared to what compared to an absolutely useless bill that was never ever going to work so we had over 100,000 as an average now we're down to probably 50 or 60 but if you go to a bank and you haven't got a means of borrowing it doesn't matter if it's 50 60 or 60 or 100,000 you just don't have the means to do it so this was an opportunity to get it right this time all the creativity came from the homeowners the solutions came from the homeowners I will be publishing minutes very very shortly because I've nothing to lose at this stage of the meetings that took place between John O'Connor, Kevin Dillon and myself and Martina Higgory and Michael Carr and that tabled the progress that was being made so much of this was so nearly over the line and it could have been a good scheme and I said I would personally go to Dublin I would stand shoulder to shoulder with the minister and endorse the scheme but we needed these certain things over the lines Joe knows what they are Podrick knows what they are we tabled them as a TD Prom sheet he's aware of it there was nothing in there that wasn't doable and the things that were seen as about too much at this stage we said at least get that tabled in for the revision in three years time there was a pathway for everybody on what we had proposed where progress was being made and then the 11th hour we saw all that withdrawn and we got the same bowl that we basically had all in the sliding scale of November last year completely let down and a complete waste of six months of our lives that we'll never get back that we indulged in good faith and also I just never meant to work and I just also noticed too and it was inevitable that you're going to have people critical of what happened here and maybe even critical of those involved in this process but this is a process I had to be had to be engaged with to this very end to find out if it could be used with all the negotiations with all the efforts with all the backing if the system was such that democratically it could be influenced on a decision like this and it had to be gone through right to this very very point pulling out of it four months ago pulling out of a year ago pulling out of it it would have achieved absolutely nothing except the blame being lumped on homeowners and them all in the same position so we you not we but we I suppose we've been covering it as well everyone this process had to be gotten through to this stage to expose precisely how things maybe can't be achieved when you try and do it right and you try and do it with a peaceful process protest and you try and do it with lobbying and persuasion and strong arguments I think that is 100 right and that's my only response really in terms of you still were brought up with a sense of right and wrong a sense of justice and injustice we had to take people through the process the people that we were engaging with we engage with good faith and we didn't do it completely naively we did it with a very very strong view of what was needed based on an already failed scheme it was actually you know not that difficult for us to come up with the creative solutions we were quite surprised that you know departments couldn't have brought them together themselves but nevertheless we could pass that we worked with them we had to get to the difficult night that we had last night to say that we left no stone unturned as a campaign to try and get the right thing done the right way we had to do that in a way in a way and it is no comfort yeah in a way and I presume it's no comfort but of all of your efforts I've been successful they haven't been successful in getting the outcome that that was wanted but you couldn't have done anything else I don't believe you could have done anything else so in terms of what can be achieved with an incredibly well organized campaign with incredible contacts with amazing PR all the stuff that is required it was a success but it couldn't succeed in the system it does that make sense if you can draw any comfort from that yeah I think so I think so but you know that you know we you know remember we're still strong 100 liquor wounds for probably 24 hours here yeah I don't and we and and and we'll get back get back on the wagon we'll get back on the wagon and what we have to acknowledge is that it is a better scheme there's no doubt about that I've never argued that it's not it is a better scheme but there's an opportunity here to put the misery behind us that we're not campaigning endlessly year on year to give up people's lives you know but we will table what we've got and we will table us yet to be gone and that's the work ahead of us that will still be on the plan all right there's other questions for another day but I know you like all of our guests you're busy this morning so thank you for your time and I want to come back to you Padra because I haven't heard a lot from you but I just want to put one question to Joe McHugh because Joe of course you know you are a lot of these people that voted this way they're your friends you know they're family people you know but they're party people too of course why did that why the human element of this why was this not enough you've saw it in Michael's face there you heard it in the voice how could people vote against what would have made this conversation so different today that people would have had hope people had had something to listen to lives would not be lost relationships would not be lost children will not be going into the teenage and adult years scarred by a crisis like this like how can people vote the way they did knowing the human impact this has on people I think a big part is the is the understanding and number one you have to live it for example late last night I got an email from a mother of four children whose husband self-employed wanted to go to Dublin to protest but couldn't give up a day's pay she was having a tough day yesterday she was watching the whole proceedings live their mobile their mobile caravan or mobile home arrived on on site yesterday as this was happening and she still believes that she can't access can't access the scheme under the current condition so that's at one level that that understanding and I suppose for the likes of the take part in myself and politicians and councillors and done it all we have that understanding because we we can see it firsthand but there's a second thing as well a lot of the a lot of the top line things are are are the messages and you know cap of 420 throw out the the billions the total 3.4 billion or whatever they're going to come up with eventually be a lot more at the very end so these are all the top line that the politicians that that are not living or understanding us but it's the detail the devil is always in the detail the issue I have like I have to be really really careful with my my comments here because I don't want people to misconstrue them but what is happening in Ukraine at the moment is absolutely devastating what the Russians are doing is completely unacceptable but me on Martin yesterday while this vote was taken there's pictures of him in the papers today walking amongst the rubble over there and and rightly so our leader the leader of a country should be over there and of course it's reported about how emotional the experience was for him and the honor is not brought that up is because you talked about what what what the politicians don't get they might not get the emotion from it but we could have me on Martin walk through the rubble of homes in Donagol as well and we could have we could talk to him about the devastating impact this is having actually on people's lives people that aren't with us because they couldn't take any more and we could lay a teddy bear for the awful impact this is happening on children's lives here and I hope politicians would come up and cry the same up here as well because for the people up here it's relative it's devastating their houses are destroyed and their families are destroyed and to some extent parts of their children are lost as well and this is as I say not in any way to take away from the horror of Ukraine but as he walked through that rubble yesterday I was thinking there's a lot of rubble in North Innochone as well and and just the way he chose his words over there you talk about how maybe they don't get the emotional element of it they can seem to get the emotional element of it I'm not asking you to defend Mike Michael Martin or whatever but they seem to get the able to get the emotional element of it when the time's right like I mean it all comes back to it all comes back to the real life scenario of life's on hold and as somebody said to me last last week life stuck my my first photograph this morning uh was a photograph of a back door a man leaving his house to go to work he spends a lot a lot of time in a lorry driving through Europe he's missed a lot out in a lot of his family time and basically he's he's got to start again he's at the end it was rolled in terms of his own mortgage he's at this particular stage of his life so it's it's the starting again is the hard but so what do we have to do now and and even listening to Michael Aaron you could hear the emotion in his voice but he's we still have to give people hope that we can do we can make this scheme better and it's going to be difficult it's going to be difficult Greg there's no point uh calling for something that that that that is not not achievable but at the same time I'm going to use my position in terms of all the relationships I've built up with officials and there are good officials in the different departments that want wanted a better scheme but there are constraints as well and something something happened on the scheme and it made it too restrictive okay definitely John McHugh thanks for your time this morning part of McLaughlin you know in the recent it's it's for a reason I've kind of held back and speaking to you in that I think a lot of people listening to this today affected will not feel that this current government or who advises or who makes the decisions who's actually going to come through on this so I suspect I suspect their next target to get to of hope of something would be your party getting into government next time round and actually following through in full and in a timely manner to its commitments that's what I think a lot of people's hopes might be because I think any hope they have of of this current government for right or wrong I'm not making a judgment call on that is gone so there's a lot of I think there's got a lot of weight and expectation being looking forward to what might happen under the stewardship of the next government just your point about Ukraine is actually a powerful one Greg and I occurred to me on money occasion and has been said to me that the government's complained we're complaining about having to spend billions to help their own people and utter distress whose lives have collapsed buildings collapse and around them in Donegal and the western they were complaining and the same government were almost boasting to the world about spending billions and rightly to help out that's our place in the world we help out refugees every country does that around the world but they were complaining doing the same for their own people and I think that stayed on a lot of minds and hearts and it goes to the core of what's wrong with the approach of this government that their own people are in distress and they don't have the same urgency and passion for them there was a report and we have to always check ourselves as best we can with the the government have a report which shows that anti-refugee sentiments going to grow in this country and the reason is is that people and I was chatting to one yesterday who's very much involved in the local community they've welcomed in families and support them and do but then there are those who whose houses have been condemned and they don't have anywhere to go now because these houses have been given over to refugees it would be you could not I don't know if anyone has the capacity to say well that's okay then do you know what I'm on about so but it's it's not that people have an issue it's that they've been shoehorned into having to make a decision whose children are more important my children or refugees children do you get me like so that's why I want to be really careful with my comments here because it's not an anti-refugee sentiment I don't want to stoke it and I want to do anything I can to avoid it but this is the way people are being shoehorned into thinking they're being forced to talk to me about your commitment your party's commitment because whatever about anything been able to take it up until now I think if your party is to end something government and doesn't follow through it it's committed to you know this would be multiplied exponentially yeah I mean owner Brynn has been on your show a number of times in the last number of weeks and he's made it very very clear where we stand and what we want is a hundred percent redress but we need all the buildings eventually dealt with it starts of course with the primary homeowner those who have a roof over their head tonight whether you're in your own home or you're renting that's your that's your top priority to get that sorted first but it must move through all the buildings anybody who has found themselves where they have to rebuild or repair their homes because of the utter failure regulation Michael talked about the National Standards Authority of Ireland right now are reviewing IS465 which is a standard in which we're rebuilding the homes in Dunningall and the West of Ireland on the panel are the very industry representatives who brought the disaster to our people what you don't have on the panel are the likes of Dr. Andreas Lehman who's been on your show the international expert um you know we don't have the Petrolab people who are testing the blocks in Britain so you don't have the very people who are pointing up what needs to be done for change so I'm very very clear from Mary Lou McDonald's visit last year we have the I think the next t-shirt of this country and pierced a hearty with the next Minister for Finance and owned a Britain with the next Minister for Housing and I am saying today the people at Dunningall that's we are absolutely committed to righting this wrong to the bottom of our hearts absolutely committed but the problem is the next election could be two years away and that's what breaks my heart is that we're going to have to fight on Michael Daherty's going to have to find the strength again all the other campaigners and fight on people need it now they can't wait till the next election but if it has to come to that I want to say to people today we will absolutely do what's right when the time comes okay thanks for all of your time this morning again I do appreciate it as I do the time of Michael Daherty and Deputy Joe Mekew one voice that you may have wanted to hear from this morning was that of Minister Charlie McConaughey voted with the government we extended an invite to him he says he's unable to chat to us due to a family commitment okay 08 660 25 000 that's the whatsapp syntax 08 660 25 000 give us a call on 07 491 25 000 we'll be back after these Dunfanny Golf Club on the word Atlantic Way open week starts the 14th of July through to Sunday the 24th of July 2022 three ball better ball open ladies and gents stroke and stableford and the popular four ball better ball and classic just some of the daily competitions you can enjoy hit the fairways enjoy the crack then sample the fabulous food served daily at 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with some of the longest parts and letter kenny and supposing every every town in this county but then the antisocial behaviors go on the night team you get up in the morning the the parks are full of glass bottles tons they don't even lift their rubbish behind them and this is all as it happened overnight this is not happening during the this doesn't happen during the day um and there has been conversations previously about security companies doing occasional you know scouts around these areas do you know of anything like that yeah it's happening nothing nothing ever done about it Greg has been all said and done there's more said than done Greg and nothing's ever done that didn't take a more action to protect the parks protect the young people you know it's nice to have a nice place to go to walk talk walk about you know but there's nobody there to manage to make laws but nobody does them you know so you're looking for an increase in security cameras longer security yeah the year 2022 a camera should be installed in all them parks even that uh there's a very large park there like they said band lesion and stuff that's going on there you know even with a deterrent even the cameras there you know i mean there are systems that can be employed you know that that i even have an audio element to it that can say you know people aren't allowed to congregate in this area or this park's closed please move on or we'll have to call the authorities you know there are means and ways if there's a will there's definitely there's definitely something down here the same about it Greg and with information up the next Tuesday meeting so please go if someone happens okay right okay we'll follow with interest thank you very much that's cancer uh kevin bradley there some of your comments just before we take a break for the news at 10 a cover a call that says the government are willing to spend nine billion plus on one metro line in Dublin but are not willing to help the mica families 100 big shiny train versus homeless families and they say and you know what even and this is not in any way to dilute your point by the way because it stands and it stands very well there but we heard last week of the fact that it would cost 320 million to build a rail link from dairy to letter Kenny so let's just say that this money was ring fenced only for public transport nine billion plus and when you say nine billion plus it's actually nine point five billion and that five point five billion would be enough to build a link between letter Kenny and dairy by rail it's a rounding up figure in terms of a of a so i mean if this government were also committed to the northwest wouldn't you think they'd be providing us some alternatives okay anyway i hope you don't mind me jumping on the back of your point but it's something i meant to mention yesterday and didn't get around to um unless all mica pirate tight homeowners cease making mortgage mortgage payments that will not be given the required attention by the government but that won't happen so there'll not be any solution for those who cannot afford to even apply for the current mica redress scheme now not paying your mortgage has huge ramifications in every aspect of your life and there's no proof that it actually would have the desired effect you talk of um but i understand that we're trying to come up with solutions i just think people would struggle even to get a mobile phone contract and probably still be sitting in a house and receiving all these horrible warning letters that can come through the door but i understand exactly where you're coming from okay let's take a break for the news obituary notices and then we'll come back with more including after 11 o'clock taking your gardening questions so if you have any questions for paul get them in nice and early since she got her free hearing aids with her prsi at spec savers roshine is a changed one music has never sounded better and that makes her dance and 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highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal kavana at the highland radio news desk the new defective blocks bill passed through the door last night has dozens of amendments were either ruled out of order or voted down by the government just before eight the kyan korla made this announcement tall 74 nil 69 there were no extensions and the bill is carried and will now be sent to the shannad that means that present foundations will not be included in the scheme is 465 remains the standard and there is no facility to increase the cost cap outside of the minister potentially choosing to do so once a year while housing minister daryl o brian told the doll that the scheme is still greatly enhanced and he claimed the cost cap won't be a barrier to 100 redress however that was rejected by debbie thomas bringle just want to respond about what the minister said there and the minister's element that this is a well improved scheme and everybody should accept it and that they're on that basis uh there's no i don't think anybody's argued here that this isn't an approved scheme on the previous scheme but the problem is that it's not improved enough and the problem is that families are going to have to wait and go through for the third iteration of this to come around to actually get redress and to be able to rebuild their homes and that's what's wrong with this scheme the micah action group at pio roe michael dorready was one of a large number of homeowners in the public gallery for last night's debate a short time ago on the lens of nuncio he shared a reflection he wrote after arriving home in the early hours of this morning he said the campaigners will now regroup was starting the gallery filled with anger and tears watching every affected homeowner get sentenced and fined tens of thousands of euros the rest of their lives but no one could tell us what we're doing wrong and that's it and where do we go next we need to regroup we need to regather our thoughts and efforts on this michael dorready speaking on the nine till noon show this morning well done i go to the geomic queue resigned the party whip last night eliminating the government's doll majority in the process he told the doll that ultimately he couldn't bring himself to back the new defective blocks bill because he said it simply doesn't meet the needs of the people this is not over it's not over for the people and we still have to figure out a way of trying to make it better for people and i'm talking in particular about the people who are my generation and a bit older um people who are going to find it hard to get a 30 or 40 000 loan up front even to get engineering fees at second stage to get demolition where does that money come from there's a lot of shortcomings there's a lot of work still needed to be done in this my gut is telling me that the second same scheme is falling short for for too many people and in particular for constituents in in my own county other news and in the uk boris johnson is expected to step down as tordy party leader today but he will remain on as prime minister until a new leader is elected more than 50 members of the british government have now resigned in the space of two days piling further pressure on johnson northern island secretary brandon louis was among the latest to go this morning he said government isn't upholding values of honesty integrity and respect the former chief medical officer dr tonny hulahan is taking up a new role in ucd he's becoming an adjunct full professor of public health at the college of health and agricultural sciences the job isn't a salary to position he had been due to take up a position at trinity college in dublin but decided not to after controversy over the department of health funding for what would have been an open-ended secondment police were in attendance at the scene of a road traffic collision on the glenshane road in dromahoe outside dairy part of the road is closed a diversion is in place on the dromahoe road glenshawne shane road junction drivers are being urged to follow direct versions or if possible take alternative routes and donnie gall county council and dairy city and straband district council has launched a new talent mapping program for the northwest city region the aim is to help businesses drive investment into donnie gall dairy and straband with more here's daniel brennan the cross-border collaborative project between donnie gall county council and the dairy city and straband district council will see businesses identify skill and talent needs that are required by local businesses the project entitled northwest city region talent solutions will work with employers to identify skills needs in the northwest and will also highlight to the public how they can use their expertise to showcase the wealth of talent already available in the region businesses and employees are being asked to complete online skills surveys to help map the skills that already exist here and to identify skills employers may need for investment in the future the skills mapping platform has been developed by project partners abdu using their geonastics innovative technology by having real-time data intelligence on skills skills clusters and gaps can be identified to enable both local authorities to make the right decisions to meet industry educational and people's needs much more on today's stories of course on our website howlandradio.com and if you'd like to watch last night's dull debate on the new defective blocks bill you can do so via the iraq this website there's a little um tutorial on our own website howlandradio.com that'll just outline how you can do that should you wish to do so well the forecast quite cloudy today with most areas staying dry some patchy drizzle at times in highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees celsius north westerly breezes light to moderate in strength some light rain or drizzle tonight it'll stay quite cloudy staying quite warm tonight though with top temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees and that's how the radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notices for this thursday morning the 7th of july the death house taken place of mary daugherty upper main street dunigold town formerly of karak mahan and tveni bans klahan mary's remains are opposing at her niece joanne middlin's home at finamons barnesmore dunigold town removal tomorrow morning at half past 10 for a queer mass in st patrick's church dunigold town at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery glenn finne the death has occurred of dinny grant upper belly liven klahan mani his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral arrangements will be confirmed later family time please from 11 p.m to 10 a.m the death has occurred of kathleen wilson drum gorman mount charles her remains will arrive at st john's church inver this evening at approximately seven o'clock to repose overnight funeral service tomorrow friday at two o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining churchyard family fires only please donations in lieu of desired to st john's church inver or dunigold community hospital patients comfort fund care of garter's funeral home at mount charles the house is private please the death has occurred of mervyn mcclure lurgy letter kenny mervyn's remains will repose at his brother derrick and sister-in-law janice's residence at knock brach letter kenny from 12 noon until 10 o'clock today funeral from there tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock traveling via the lurgy road to right presbyterian church manor cunningham for two o'clock funeral service of thanksgiving with interment afterwards in the adjoining graveyard family fires only please donations in lieu of desired to the emergency department letter kenny university hospital care of any family member the death has occurred of brian dolti boil kincashla his remains will repose at his home from 11 o'clock this morning with rosary nightly at 9 o'clock funeral mass on saturday morning at 11 in st mary's church kincashla with interment afterwards in bill critch cemetery family fires only please donations of desired to don low community hospital care of any family member the death has taken place of clear trainer nae divine 256 a les narrow road donna mana formerly of 93 holy hill road glenn morning funeral from her home this morning at 22 12 for rick wi amass in st mary's church or her brach at 12 noon interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in louis floris please to the ms society care of quickly funeral directors family time please from 11 o'clock tonight rick wi amass can be viewed live via the donna hilly parish channel on youtube and the death has taken place of patrick patsy keeney leads england and formerly of kill rain glentes patsy will be received into a maculet heart of mary church leads on this day week thursday july 14th at quarter to seven to repose overnight rick wi amass on friday july 15th at 12 noon followed by burial in killing beck cemetery family fires only please donations of desired to st jemez hospice leads funeral mass will be streamed online for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com okay you're very welcome back to the program or good morning if you're joining us for the first time we give over the first hour for the most part to yesterday's passing of the next stage of the defective concrete blocks blocks bill the general consensus here in donna gaughan on a presuming other affected counties is that it was a missed opportunity and it is just simply repackaging albeit slightly better than the so-called 9010 scheme let's get to some of your comments here which were coming in thick and fast throughout the hour what a disgrace this government is well done to you michael darty and everyone who's fighting for justice uh shivan says the government is bullying its own citizens you can't hand out to one and leave others without another it just goes to show up me home art and thinks of us up here in donna gaughan while he thinks of mica he'll be some help to the people of the ukraine is about as useful as a fork trying to hold back the tide another caller says this country taking in refugees it's all about image and our own people cannot get homes uh or the homes are falling down i've nothing against refugees but we need to look after our own first before we take others in and i'm sorry to labor this point but it really for me i feel it to be an important one if there was not one single ukrainian or any refugee of from any other country in this country right now do you believe a different uh mica redress scheme would have been passed yesterday in the door if the answer is yes you think they would have well then i i i i get your point fully i get your point but they wouldn't have it would have been the exact same bill whether or not there was one single refugee housed in this country uh or not the people of donna gaughan need to get uh to gather sign a petition to have a no confidence vote in charlie mcconnellote to have him removed he lives in a community worst affected in the country by mikey yet votes against the very people who voted him in there fair to use to joe mcque for taking a principled stand with the homeowner shaman minister mcconnellote he showed his true colors sorry his true feelings to the people who voted for him who were the independence that voted with the government we can try and dig that out um non-local um but there's a group there that have a wish list and uh if they help the government out uh they get something for their area a caller says he knows as a whip he'll vote uh as his party tells him it's an illusion of him having his own vote he knew he wouldn't be allowed back to donna gaughan if he didn't make the right choice well we can only take him on his word and hold him to it he said that he will vote with his conscience or his beliefs into the future another caller says it just feels like too little far too late it's disheartening it is disheartening but look at we'll have to regroup and see where we go from here another caller says it's harder on charlie mcconnellote if he voted against he'd lose the party whip when he couldn't bring anything to the county then he couldn't bring anything to the county yep there there there is that of course i mean i think a lot of people you know it's we'll feel it's that there's sometimes there's a choice that's so stark right that that has huge personal consequences or even consequences for for for other things there comes a point where you you make a decision and you have to say right well what way do i want to remember it on this subject or not and charlie mcconnellote and he's perfectly entitled to his made his decision on that um but there is there was a choice and you know people have a choice um john mcqueen made his choice charlie mcconnellote made his choice and uh the people decide what the implications of that are but there's it's not like one didn't have a choice fair play to john mcqueen at least we know now he has a mind of his own and cares for the people who voted him for him in donna gall that's what that listener believes um let me see here uh why didn't john mcqueen withdraw from government years ago when mica first came to light and not when he finished when he was finished with them his argument would be and he made it there so i'm not speaking on his behalf is that perhaps he thought that right up until the last minute uh that um he possibly could have influenced the decision and when that was clear he couldn't that's when he was made a decision to lose the whip uh strong words greg regarding me hall martin and ukraine but so very true his uh they he's a false human being is what they uh describing as this is uh great to see uh petrol prices diesel prices have dropped below two two euro around the county about the time the prices have started to go down hopefully this is the start of them dropping everywhere i'm sure your listeners will be glad to see it i think it depends on how much diesel and petrol they buy in and how much they shift uh it seems they were able to buy it at a lower rate and in a number of places now it is below two euro which we're kind of glad to see but remember when we were breaking it because it was about to hit 190 it's amazing how we can be conditioned as humans isn't it to accept accept a terrible situation even though but simply because we've lived through a slightly more terrible situation shortly before we forget where we're at but look at um it's good to see it uh hi greg i'm appealing for information about youth homelessness services there's an 18 year old girl who's been left without anywhere to stay i'm waiting to hear back from the svp and the northwest simon community any info at all would be great did you go to the council uh because the council have systems and mechanisms in place that at least should be able uh to get that person uh somewhere to stay in the short term because i've done it before uh in terms of the conversation i would definitely try the council um anyone any ideas uh an 18 year old girl left without anywhere to stay the call has already made contact with svp in the northwest simon community uh in an emergency accommodation situation isn't it the council that she might have a bit of success in seeing there uh as i say that's the way i've been directed in the past um okay let's take a break for the bingo numbers good luck if you are playing today i hope you win it's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio it's thursday the 7th of july jackpot day you're playing a pink color cheat the reference number is s14 it's game number 27 today's jackpot is 8400 euro today's jackpot number is 40 the numbers are the number nine 64 20 11 16 81 42 86 28 and 38 phone your claim to 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with top tips for boosting fodder reserves and saving and fertilizer fears of a ration prices for next winter ease and we report in the first of the autumn wheeling sales plus don't miss your free guide to next week's farm machinery show inside this week's irish farmers journal you cannot afford to miss it the wait is over chris norman the original voice of smoky plays lennon festival remelton on the 9th of july here chris and his band playing all the hits oh carol mexican girl don't play your rock and roll to me alice plus many more hits tickets on sale from universe dot com and local lightlets for full details follow lennon festival remelton on facebook that's chris norman and his band presented by joe gala her entertainment okay you're welcome back to the nine klanoon show and i can't believe really i have to say this but i think i do after i'm not give sake give out this information after our conversation the first hour of the show um that that maybe people are feeling particularly low today uh that there is there is help out there and there's numbers out there for you to ring uh one of them being the samaritans on one eight hundred two four seven two four two as i say it's an incredibly difficult morning for a lot of people and it could have been so different um sorry i beg your pardon samaritans is one one six one two three one one six one two three um piata is one eight hundred two four seven two four two and can you believe that we put into position that um we as a people in the county whereby you feel um such is the decision a vote taken in government and i just wonder if the tds get this because it's important that they should that i feel that i have to read out helpline numbers for for people that might wake up this morning or never slept this morning and are at such a low web but that's the reality that is the reality of the decision that people took last night that we i feel personally that i need to give out these numbers for samaritans one one six one two three uh piata one eight hundred two four seven two four two frank joins us on the program now hi frank no i'm that's ragdrick um how are you i'm all right frank you've been kind of reacting to the the news from last evening in the conversation this morning what's your view uh well it was just something i saw on the internet yesterday i just texted them to the show there um on the aries times website yesterday there was an article where like yesterday's all day uh simon cogey and an interview with aries times told them that ukraine we will be adapting an area in ukraine to rebuild it and these are adapting areas or whatever around ukraine to rebuild them after work but i no wonder those mica families i don't have mica thanks pretty god hi but they must be no wonder they feel so betrayed hi this government is like it's a problem i know you know but that's just personally my my feeling like that's that the timing of it yesterday whilst you know the sentiment might be okay it's the timing of it it's the wording of it you think it's adding insult to injury to those whose homes around them are crumbling it is of course it is um and like well there's enough like what do we want to do do we want ireland to save the world we can't save the world you know we've enough problems in this country ourselves you know and and i i know people they like to feel that we can save the world but we we can't we've enough like them people first priority should be sorting out those people you know with their houses crumbling down around them like yesterday in rt news there was me and martin going over around ukraine and i told you i don't know i think they struggled to find bouldins that were badly damaged there was two bouldins they're kind of burned out but uh and beside them there was bouldins and first team condition yeah well i i know where you're coming from but unfortunately the the russian missiles as such as they are able to destroy buildings and the outskirts of of uh give are destroyed and hundreds and hundreds of just regular people like you and me frank were gone down by uh those acting on behalf of putin i don't know if it benefits us by questioning that element of it though but i understand where you're coming from frank and i'm not trying to change your view or contradict you but you know yourself it's just a conversation uh no no that's that's fine like even the the way the ukraine thing has been pushed you know and there's other well they're kind of like independent journalists on on the internet and they're sure that a lot of us thing is kind of what would you call it like a what do they call that false flag a lot of the damages the only thing i'd say about frank is as as much as you know like say for instance and it's well grounded that you have a distrust of say for instance what michael martin might say or what a newspaper might say or what r t or what we might say um you know and i can understand that because we're all very frustrated and it's getting worse now particularly with the squeeze that's on us all money wise and stuff we also have to remember that you know a lot of the independent journalists that you talk of they make a lot of money pushing their narrative they're often backed by bigger organizations you know what i mean it's always good to check their independence as well because they've got a uh oftentimes they have a a horse in the race so to speak you know what i mean so i think it's not even going to i think it's good if we look at today today is about to make a family yeah honestly that was the reason i like i was saying to your gary your receptionist or whatever they're just that i don't i didn't even want to come on i say this because you get one of the families to come on she says well just so but i i don't have make i feel so sorry for those people but that that uh story and the iris times yesterday i thought my god you know there they are they want to rebuild ukraine but they can't start it the people are gonna go and frank the reason we invited you on by the way and i'm pleased you did by the way and let me say that like thank you for coming on is because your point comes better from you rather than me reading it so that's why we try and get you on and then you can you can um you can express as you wish frank so that's why i appreciate you taking the invite all right thank you all right good man frank take care of yourself all right thanks very much indeed uh right a caller say so it wasn't a caller actually someone contacted me um a few people actually contact me on different issues here on social media overnight hi gregs uh i just want to get past the this stuff here i just want to rant about something that must affect a lot of parents but not sure it has been highlighted okay and a lot of you out there are affected by this and we'll be able to help this listener so if you could listen up if you've had someone just turning 18 it's a question about uh children's allowance and college and stuff right so let's see if we can help this person i just want to rant about something that must affect a lot of parents but not sure it's been highlighted my son completed his leaving cert in june and is not 18 until november he has applied to ceo and hopefully will attend third level college in the upcoming academic year today though i was expecting children's allowance for him as normal as citizens advice the advice it's paid until a child is 18 and in full-time education i received no correspondence to say he's no longer eligible or i would have to apply once he finished second level education now um as i related back to this listener they normally send you a letter stating that you know the the eligibility is changing and you can normally fill out some information or provide some evidence to keep going i just wonder maybe if the gap here is that that letter wasn't received but anyway her son is not 18 until november but the children's allowance didn't go in this month and they're wondering what's going on what are the entitled to if you can help us there 08 660 25 000 or call 07 4 9125 thousand now an act of kindness another message that was sent into us now i'm delighted to share with you it's from a listener it's from linda and tegan uh my granddaughter and i were in dunlow on wednesday we went to caprini's restaurants for lunch it was around 3 30 we sat at the table and gave our order while waiting for our food the young couple in the next table to us got up and left the waitress brought us our food and asked if i knew the couple that was at the table next to us i said no she said they paid for our meal and said it was their act of kindness for the day i would like to say thank you both so much as our trip to dunlow was to purchase a look-alike dog statue from my granddaughter's little friend and companion bears grave he passed away a few weeks ago thank you both i hope you hear this it was a much appreciated it brightened our day coming in from lee linda and tegan isn't that nice uh they were in caprini's restaurant a couple next to them just as they were sitting down were getting up and they went up and their act of kindness was to pay for linda and tegan's lunch and it fitted in nice because they run a nice little trip together uh in uh going to purchase the statue uh for her companion bears grave okay so isn't that nice well done to that couple wherever you are hopefully you're listening and just to know that your act of kindness made someone else's day a caller says i don't have mica i feel so sorry though for these people how much more can they take in this terrible situation another there has to be peace agreement brokered and war destruction stopped before any real building to be bombed again yeah well listen no one knows vladimir putin's intentions or motivations uh and uh it's certainly not something i wouldn't bother rebuilding just yet anyway uh charlotte mcconnell did not vote for the mica people so we must rise above that now i agree with you greg making the excuse that the government has to help the refugees it's ludicrous it would not have made any difference it's very wrong what the government has done we're all behind the fight for the mica people in their homes so much hard work from michael daherty and the team it's disgraceful the way they and donagall have been treated uh greg how competitive diesel prices are coming down but not heating oil good question i was uh because obviously i go home and have all these same conversations ourselves but we were you know pricing home heating oil and uh it's crazy like 750 for 500 liters it used to be about 325300 and you're wondering do you buy it now do you wait till the winter can we can you get the money together to buy it now um so i don't know but i was having the same conversation yesterday uh so uh if someone can explain that to us it's different it's about supply and demand it's about the price of the u.s dollar it's a price of a barrel of oil there's lots going into it i don't know but good to see uh the local retailers putting that discount on that they've obviously received um a bon crana man says the responsibility lies with the people who voted for the government this past 100 years okay it's not very sympathetic to the what they're going through but i understand your point of view all right you're the listener um who had their children's allowance cut off even though the young person is not 18 till uh no september november uh this caller says you need to wait until september to reapply and get the college to fill it in and get the children's allowance backdated till july but it will not happen until the form is filled in by the college okay so isn't that encouraging uh it's uh no good for the moment because you don't have the money at the moment but this caller says if you wait till september you reapply for children's allowance then you get the college to fill uh in the details and the children's allowance will be backdated till july all right well done thanks for that hopefully that's encouraging for our listener because i know exactly what that listener is going through even though it seems like a situation that happens to a lot of people you go onto the likes of citizen information or the department of department's website it's actually really quite hard to find that type of information something specific to you uh but lots and lots of people are in the same boat why is there calls for a new footpath out by the aura balamakul area there already is a footpath there this is just certain councillors blowing their own trumpet and wasting public money my understanding is uh from listeners and you know whatever about councillors is uh the concerns they have there is it's too narrow uh and secondly um they have concerns about the crossing there the the lines of sight it can be quite dangerous we've covered that a few times i haven't um uh heard from a councillor on that but it must 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brought to you by sulless and the etbs an initiative of the government of ireland for me it started with the specially selected parma ham from aldi so silky so melt in the mouth you'll speak italian after it what about the specially selected sourdough cob irish so you'll still sound irish after eating that and don't even get me started on the line basil amandren hand and body lotion shame you can't smell it over the radio all this choice starts with aldi every day amazing hi there this is danny macklehenney singing with the band sulless irish male and sully music columnist and proud livered man i'm delighted to say that i will be on the jimmy stafford show in highland video this thursday night i'll be picking my favorite irish songs of all time and chatting the jimmy as well keep listening to highland radio folks that's center stage with jimmy stafford and guest danny macklehenney this thursday from 8 p.m. all right uh edward grant is the new atu student union president good morning to you edward how are you keeping congratulations by the way i think i'll keep well good stuff now you are the union president for l white former l y it that or or do you take presidency over the the broad or uh campus so to speak so at the moment i'm the student union president for dunna garland i've got two other counterparts based in slago and garland brilliant stuff right okay um now why did you want to take on this role by the way because you've enough to be out studying bio and analytic science so i decided to take a year's sabbatical this role because um last year in welfare i felt there was a lot of stuff policy making that needed changed and i felt the union going into the merger really needed strong leadership to bring it into any negotiations that are happening right i mean and we've already been covering it at the moment and we did last year um i mean obviously it's great to see the atu established great to see university status great to see how it might grow but the problem facing students and their families right now is where are they going to stay you might look at that or kenny and go right now that is that's the the place for me but where are you going to stay the prices are going through the roof i think we spoke to a lady last week and it went from 80 year old two years ago to 100 year old last year and now that the accommodation they're looking at 130 that's if you can get it so that's going to be one of the biggest challenges i think edward yesterday i had multiple calls from students as one of our largest accommodation providers um decided they're not taking on students this year a lot of students had their security deposit prepaid and we're hopefully just going to be walking in the doors in september can i talk a little bit more about that um obviously we won't mention the company because i don't know the ins and outs but yeah but when you say one of the largest uh how many rooms uh are off the market now and did they give you a reason for the decision um so it's it's an excess of 20 anyway um they the reason and was uh they believe that renovations have to be done uh wouldn't be fit for students for the next eight months now again i i don't know the ins and outs of the situation but i just know that students have paid their security deposits and i thought they were in the clear now i struggle and try and find alternate accommodation for the year okay we might get the name of that company off there just to make our own inquiries edward a little later on if that's okay um and in terms of you know last year uh there was less people sort of offering rooms and those appeals put out on this program and others i'm sure um do we know in terms of the housing stock that's out there is it up down or stagnant on last year so as of currently i have our new welfare officer by brezlin and compiling our list and there is a lot of a lot of houses that are taken off the list either because they're keeping students on from last year or there's a couple running the new green ins or converting their houses to the private rental this is kind of the same situation we were at the start of last year but we're hoping though that if we put out the appeals again early and kind of brand on the idea that we're now a universally town and we need to kind of expand our reach hopefully we'll be able to get our numbers back up to last year if not more yeah and a medium to long term obviously presumably would be the atu borrowing money and building its own accommodation but that is a medium to long term plan there are going to be pressures on accommodation this year and potentially next in the year after yeah um one of the solutions we're looking at is trying to expand the the current boundaries that we would have had yeah so trying to put on public transport and trying to lobby to see if we have a cluster of houses out and say kill my crime and that we might be able to put a boster down to take students that might otherwise be able to avail of it but as i said it's all like create a solution to the thing yeah of course and the work starts now because this is where the anxiety starts to build as well also a couple of priorities for you other than that inclusion and equality where are the where are the improvements required in that area as far as you can see Edward so um i don't know of you we recovered as i said with Simon Harris and i said 12 million budget this year for accessible in the third level and i know that a lot of colleges are starting to look at the model that trend that is using down in their intellectual disability department it's really really brilliant and it's about making sure that people with intellectual disabilities not only get the chance to enter third level but get the opportunities to strive on it and achieve and i think from a union perspective it's making sure that the campus is open to ensure that they get to experience all the plethora of activities outside your main educational course all right and anything else that you're going to be focused on i mean obviously there's the day-to-day stuff Edward and there's only you know there's only a certain amount of time you have and you have enough and you plate there but what else do you think needs addressing um so mainly this year it's going to be talking with the other colleges and slag going all the way to make sure that next year we have a joint team and we have proper procedures in place that something can be tackled with the union wide level because at the moment we are still operating the three separate entities thankfully we've got a really good team this year here with Anna McDermott staying on again as our education officer and Barry Breslin taking over my position in welfare so they'll take a lot of the load off in the day-to-day casework all right good stuff well listen we'll chat over the course of the year i'm sure keep the lines of communication open uh Edward thank you that's not a little good take care of yourself Edward grant the new atu student union president i don't know what's going on but uh there's some amount of westlife tickets available on social media a lot of people have to have the are you changing your plans maybe with the covid i don't know uh but a lot of people uh selling on their westlife tickets but nonetheless thousands of you uh will be down there uh cheering on the boys primarily from sligo let's get you in the mood all right that's for the westlife fans uh heading down to wherever they're playing is that three anyway okay uh councilor michael mcclaff he joins us now good morning michael go on great for you sorry for putting you through that right okay uh we were just talking about the lack of accommodation as it relates to atu donnie gall what's what's your view well i think my view just my view would be there as as a view of other students who brought to my attention to be there as well as not my it's my view as well but it's not my idea the students only idea may add from western ego here that come up their conversation both for sniting other days here that's why great can the powers that be not sit down and be realistic about things of a huge care park there reasonably big care park and either across the way there's need to you and could the not they come up with uh come up with a plan utilize that and build student build student accommodation there you could for example you could do a multi-story care park there you still have the same amount of parking or more parking is needed and also have accommodation then above it all you know a few levels whatever many stories would sort the whole thing out and it would relieve the president also people that can't get houses can't get flat etc but it gets very common there do you think well i don't know grega but that i mean that's obviously something needs to be teased out going forward but i mean until the start talking about it no or bring it forward to the planners who knows like something we don't know i don't know off hand if they want to get planning or not but i would like to see it going forward the powers to be the atu whoever wish no those relevant people in the procession to do it bring it forward i suppose you have another atu sorry go with your example because i think because this is like today in these these phone lines go with that example so i think we're trying to make that point twice councillor yeah well for example now like we have we have um we have one or two students alone from dunig all here traveling to golly every day to college on the reverse side of that then i'm aware as well i believe it's forward possibly traveling from dublin to dunig all every day to go to the university college this is the kind of sacrifices that students are making that's behind the scenes that people the public are not aware of i mean perhaps off to these these five six students that are doing this and that's only one that i know off to be once well all through the daughter all through the company at various experiences because simply because it can't get accommodation great okay and if you're determined enough yeah you're all you're only left then with that option let's get up in the early hours of the morning get whatever task that you can or maybe then to get to your place i say golly uh for some here for one here at least from dunig all and then dublin then let's believe there's four or five then from dublin then to let the kenny early morning butters through the night over the case maybe okay and the home of maybe goodness crazy crazy stuff over accommodation and it's not going to get any better going forward yeah definitely what the the thing is is though um and hopefully there's improvements made in the budget and what's regrettable what what makes me sad and it genuinely does uh is that families you know with with with young people that probably could go on and do really quite well and um they're not able to do so they simply can't afford to it to do so so you know your income and your status and where you're at determines um determines what you can do for your children obviously in terms of their education that's that's an awful pressure and stress on families uh you know um there was one uh parent message just the other day and i think their accommodation bill was 200 a week i think it was 800 euro can you imagine trying to find an extra 800 euro a month sorry uh that that'd be on most people that i think maybe it's just the people i hang around with but there's very few polite people i know that could take on 800 euro a month extra just for accommodation very very few great to be fair it's not just we really hang around that's just reality for many many people throughout the air and throughout the new gullard the county and throughout the whole airland this is a sad reality of it like we are going back the way instead of forward here in many instances like i know myself growing up we had it no more than anybody else around this area here it's like you're in the family so on very every town land at the time back in the eighties early nineties it was hellish tight for our parents to get us going um like they managed to put a struggle and i won't say that for every parent around the place it was a struggle for example ourselves here i know like we had to sell animals we were both one of the lucky ones we had a bit of a fire on that and thankfully dad there's some sheep and cattle and so on and he's depending on selling lambs and selling calves towards the end of the year great to get us going and it was at a time you could make some money off it as well well the time you could make some money off it but that's the way it was and that's not just ours that repetition all across across the company probably at the time especially in the rural areas okay and as you touch down there for the less well off and we're back at that situation again and maybe for some people worse off again because the price of everything now has got so serious and that's where i make the point it's like to the atu and places like it that have these these possible uh they're able to borrow now um they're able to tap into a pool of funds there they will build accommodation hopefully it's how quickly it comes online and where it'll be located but i presume that's very much part of the the the positives of of having university status now we'll see over time if we're still both about take care thanks michael thank you great take care bye bye uh great coverage by highland radio on mica pretty national airwaves don't show the same michael doherty in the micro action group uh and 100 percent redress group hold their heads up high it'll be 50 years before the truth about yesterday comes out but the smirk on leo for our car's face will always be remembered thanks highland for highlighting the mental anguish that's coming in from patrick i just wish and i hope there's more i could do through this program to to try and ease that other than to say that we you know we as a county for the most part are still united and uh we generally find a way and uh it's just a case of uh maybe taking a breather recharging the batteries and see what's next uh john wikew has nothing to lose now by voting the way he did uh believes the caller um right back to our listener who uh was in that situation with third level fees and we can understand uh but i love our listeners uh uh because they help each other and that's what's fantastic about it uh and many of you texting in with the same response which is really encouraging uh when the sun gets its place in third level you send in evidence and you usually get back paid then for the month's past another caller says you register children's allowance same thing happened to me sorry re children's allowance same thing happened to me as your child is not in full-time education till september they will not get children's allowance but once they start third level education you will get it back dated till the child turns 18 right that's good news isn't it just want to say too this place is selling petrol for under two euro litre why is this not the case across the board well you see it depends on what they bought it in us so if you get a garage that sells an awful lot of petrol and diesel they fill the tanks and they get it in for 190 a litre sorry they get it in for yeah 190 litre i don't know what the frame uh phrase is uh and then they add on whatever profit they make and it's at 205 right but then their neighbor their tanks emptied they buy the next lot of petrol diesel they get it for 180 and they put on whatever profit margin they have and then they sell it for 199 and then the next crew who were uh bought it at the more expensive price their tanks are emptied they get a new delivery at the lower price and then their price comes down with it that's the way it's works that's the way it's supposed to work and that might explain the discrepancies that you 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general queries corner lentils and specialist fabrications call for a quote on 0749153 181 visit oakfield park this thursday the 7th and enjoy the first teddy bear picnic since 2019 this famous event is one of oakfield park's most popular and you can join in anytime between 12 and 5 bring your teddy and meet the oakfield bears peppa pig when he the poo tigger and friends visit the teddy bears hospital and have your bear scanned and receive an oakfield health cert he'll be outdoor games crafts gummy bear hunts nature walks and train rides all day long no booking fee no pre-booking is necessary and normal gate fees apply see you for the teddy bear's picnic this thursday at oakfield park will fall a little bit of uh i suppose it could you call it break in use um it's been reported this morning that shin fane now is to table a motion of no confidence in the government next week uh and i presume the idea being that it will pot the minority government's command of the door to the test that being said the government had a vote last night they passed it comfortably comfortably a lot good look at the headlines but i suspect it's a waste of time and energy and perhaps money because the numbers are there i think they had what is it 68 69 to 65 last evening on a second vote uh so it's a waste of time really but anyway they're doing it to test the minority not test the majority there's no majority right okay priests are set to be recognized for multiple parishes in ireland's largest catholic diocese due to the declining number of clergy uh let's take doblin for example the doblin diocese has been described as critical by one parish priest uh father doffy says 34 priests have died in the diocese since february 2020 and just one has been ordained uh now this is that's obviously a very extreme example in doblin but i think it's uh being felt uh across the country and what impact that might they have on on services such as funeral services mary knif is from the irish association of funeral directors and joins us now good morning mary good morning great right okay um what is the concerns that your association has and and i presume it's not i mean it's obviously going to be worse in doblin but it's not confined to doblin no great unfortunately it's not confined to doblin it's it's it's across the country and as you said there the lead in retirements are outstripping vocations and um where we have a population of aging priests who are working well beyond the retirement age and uh sometimes they're brought back from retirement uh to assist in parishes where a vacancy has occurred and and and they're asked to to minister there until such time as a social replacement is found so um it's it's it's becoming a problem really in so far as um when a family wants to arrange a funeral now we're talking about funeral services um i i'm i'm really um talking about funeral services here when when a family has a bereavement and they they want to arrange a funeral director and um and we we we take on the role of contacting the priest to make the arrangements for the funeral that priest is likely to have at least three or four hours work involved involvement with that family and um that involves meeting the family discussing the liturgy conducting the funeral service and then maybe traveling a couple of miles to a cemetery or a crematorium conducting the committal service and then driving back so it is it it is a very demanding role and um the priests you know they don't have the backup and they don't have that significantly less resources available yeah so there's there are across more parishes parishes there's less of them and uh they have a certain amount of of time and and of course a really important part of it uh following a bereavement as well is the spiritual support a priest wants to offer uh as well and they give very generously of their time uh have you seen the situation across your membership worsening particularly recently or has this just been a slow a slow building problem mary it has been a slow building problem and it's getting to you know families that we have families have to get used to the fact that they are going to have to wait a little longer for their services and that's becoming more evident now and you know back some years ago you could really predict that the funeral is going to be on Wednesday at 10 o'clock let's say or Thursday at 11 o'clock but we cannot that cannot happen now because we have to um engage with the priest see what the availability is like see if we have a priest for a start and then see what their availability is like and and try and fit into their diary as to where and when the mass can happen and now there's other factors leading into that as well but but we are generally we will never that our members they will never make an arrangement to have a funeral on a certain day at a certain time without contacting the parish priest or the parish office what what do you see is the alternative i wonder mary because i've been giving lay people more responsibility i think sort of recruitment and retention is obviously going to be a challenge going forward to some extent it's completely out of your hands you're having to deal with what's there but have you any ideas as to what might help well i we we're seeing now more involvement of deacons and and maybe in parishes where they still have an evening removal maybe the deacon will receive in the remains at the church and possibly going on then to do the graveside prayers or the commitment service in the crematorium and our parish teams our funeral ministry teams are getting more involved in the service and now they won't be conducting the mass part but they will be able to do the the other parts of the service like prayers at the wake or in a funeral home and then proceeding to the the cemetery or the crematorium to to do the commitment prayers and the brief will probably have no choice with what we're talking about here but do you think the sort of things you're suggesting would be acceptable to families i think they will yes yeah i mean my role here certainly and families are very accepting and accommodating and they do accept the fact that you know the priest isn't available and that you know they are quite accepting of a deacon our funeral ministry team to to continue on with with the rest of the service they have no problem with that once it's explained to them i mean like and the priest has other duties and they're oftentimes administrators they have that means they're on the school management team they they have like saying man for man june communion's confirmations they take up a large part of their time yeah they also need a day off in the weekend so i mean they need to have their day off too it's not a sunday it's not a sunday happy a sunday so i mean they are very okay uh mary we've lost that link to you there that's mary kniff from the irish association of funeral dector directors but thankfully we got all of her points clearly there yesterday we're giving you advice about how to trim your hair today we're going to be advising you how to trim your hedge if you want a question put to poll from balak der garden center get it into us now and oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand or call oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand right eleven o'clock uh not much happening in the world of politics across this country or across britain so don't might struggle to come up with a few headlines for us anyway let's see how he does good morning donal kavanaugh thank you great good morning we'll find something believe me a special meeting of dunigol county council will take place on monday next to discuss the findings of an external review of the acquisition of five houses at uncranilla estate in boncran by the authority it's understood the review which was circulated to staff and members yesterday finds the council acted properly and there was no impropriety in the transaction the acquisition has come under scrutiny because some of the houses were so quickly found to have mica as you've been hearing on the program the new defective blocks bill passed through the door last night with dozens of amendments sought by homeowners voted down by the government on the show with greg this morning the mica action groups pure oh michael doherty shared a reflection he wrote after arriving home in the early hours of this morning he said that the campaigners had been sentenced and fined and still do not know what they have done he said they will now regroup i mean well dunigol did he join me q has resigned the finniguel party whip eliminating the government's dull majority he said ultimately he couldn't bring himself to back the new bill because it does not meet the needs of the people across the water in the uk boris johnson is expected to step down later today as conservative leader he'll remain on as british prime minister until a new leader is elected more than 50 members of the uk government have now resigned over two days piling for their pressure on the embattled prime minister northern arland secretary brandon louis one of the latest to go this morning he said government isn't upholding values of honesty integrity and respect former chief medical officer dr tony hulahan is taking up a new role in ucd he's becoming an adjunct full professor of public health at the college of health and agricultural sciences the job is in the salaried position ucd says it welcomes dr hulahan as someone of very high caliber with experience in public health police and dairy have been attempting the scene of a road traffic collision on the glenshane road at dromahoe outside the city part of the road closed with a diversion in place at the dromahoe road glenshane road junction and it's believed rising interest rates where the european central bank will help settle inflation the central bank of ireland is making the claim as it anticipates inflation could peak at over 10 percent this year fall to 7.8 percent in later all in the year and then fall to 4.2 percent next year and there are the headlines we're back with headlines again at 12 noon okay donal thank you very much indeed for that okay christopher are you there still christopher yeah i'm still here yeah my apologies christopher i thought it was a common to not a call but thank you so much for your patience we were talking about the aging population of priests a lot of them retiring and sadly some of them passing on and it's not a unique Dublin issue or or a city no i think it's a it's it's a nationwide problem and we've known about it for a long time um if you go to mass on sunday often hear the priests talking about it or should i say priests talking about it there's so few of them and i i had the opportunity one time when when bishop higgity was a friend of the family died and his funeral was in day we attended the funeral and it took a unique opportunity to see how bad the situation was because on the altar there was about 110 clergy i counted them as they went down the aisle carrying the coffin and it was a perfect opportunity to see the situation in real time so of the 110 clergy i counted five of them under the age of 60 um and um yeah exactly what do you it's just an observation christopher or do you do you see a solution well i had an opportunity one time in dublin i was at a conference where i met a student of pope benedic so he actually knew pope benedic quite well so i thought this was a perfect opportunity to try and reach into the higher excellence of the church and just voice my opinion and at the time what i told him was a story about uh steve jobs and and apple the company apple you know you're probably familiar with the films that were made about it but steve jobs founded apple and then apple he basically got fired from apple and because it's running these pioneering projects that nearly bankrupted the company but they later on in the career of of steve jobs asked him to come back to apple to continue on because they realized the ceo that they'd taken on from pepsi didn't have a vision and that's essentially what i see with the church at the moment it doesn't have a vision it's lost its vision i mean steve jobs made a very good point before he died he said if you want to be the leader in any industry the decision that you take every day has to be one that either propels the organization forward or closes it down it's you know that's the price of being at the forefront you have to be willing to take the big risks um so the church don't seem to take on outside opinion from the laity and that's that's the problem i think we see you know do you think also there was an element of because of the sort of the reputational damage that the church suffered for a while that it kept its head down do you know in terms of recruitment or putting itself out there and maybe now is the time that it can start doing that so more that start i mean i can't remember the last time we would have been asked to speak to anyone talking about you know becoming a priest or an honor or whatever it might be being a viable option for someone do you know what i mean it's not like anyone saying you know no one's dry you know not using the media for example like us to to sort of say look have you thought about maybe that's not the way it's done or maybe that would be an appropriate christopher but i just wonder is it time now for the church to get out there and start actively trying to you know recruit people or give people the option of this way of life yeah it's no ominous i mean the media have obviously been very heavy on the church over the last 40 50 years my death in the last 30 years because of the scandals within the church and that certainly didn't help like we know similar scandals happen in civilian life as well you know so to say that it was isolated to that one industry was wrong you know so they've been vilified as a result in such the extent that certain priests have said they couldn't walk down the streets wearing the collar you know being spat at and and none sit in the same way um i i just i just see a need now for the church to start listening to the laity asking the laity what do they what do they what vision do they see for the church going forward you know can you think about changes christopher that might help like when you talk of listening to the laity what do you think the laity are saying well i i don't think you and i would agree on the kind of ideas i have but i'll say them anyway i just think the church should be more vociferous on on current affairs i mean take for example and not that it should be not that it's probably appropriate to bring it up but in the case of repeal of the eighth there the catholic church is utterly opposed to abortion but they were quite silent on it and many priests did you have ring into highland radio to defend the unborn child um very few if any at all well they don't really make take play much of her role in that debate at all but but listen that's a everyone's entitled to the point of view um christopher and it's you know i try and tease things out it's not that i agree i disagree but i've spoken to people in the past maybe you were among them i don't know who would be content with a consolidation even if it means the church gets smaller but that it chooses its positions on certain issues stands by them and is quite strict in saying well look at this is you know this is what we believe and if you want to be part of this club and you want to get confirmations and communions and all and what have you well then you kind of really need to be an active member of it so it might lead to a a more uh as i say consolidated smaller church but a lot of people would be okay with that they say well listen that's it we can't be all things to all people and and we're trying to be and it's leading to the church losing its identity the catholic church there's nothing that the devout catholics would like more than a closed small intimate audience with a priest but that's not the way the church is supposed to behave you know it's supposed to be reaching out and capturing everybody um it's not a private club um the church will never thrive in an affluent society the church grows in times of distress and we're heading into those times now with inflation being at all-time highs unemployment going to be soon very high businesses closing we're heading into tough tough times in Ireland if you want to look at where the highest ordinations are in the world look to Africa that's where they're getting the huge ordinations we have a priest here at the moment who came over from Africa that i i know um haven't spoken to him over and over again called father innocent sunnu he's a priest in Nigeria he's been taken out of Nigeria and placed in Irela