indeed it is the 9th linoon show on the way but first we get a news update we cross over now to Donald Kavanaugh thank you Greg good morning Ireland has just over half the number of neurologists required to meet patients needs that's according to the Neurological Alliance it's launching the third phase of its patients deserve better campaign to provide support for the 800,000 people with neurological conditions nationwide in particular it's focusing on the need in the regions and calling for better services at the hospitals in letter Kenny, Bantry, Mayo, and Wexford the organization's executive director is Magdalene Rogers we have over 21,000 people waiting for an appointment to see a neurologist nearly 4,000 of those are waiting more than 18 months providing consultant neurology outpatient services in regional hospitals will not only have a positive impact on a patient's overall health but it's critical in reducing unnecessary admissions reducing length of stay and unnecessary tests for those patients the north's justice minister has told the storm at the assembly laws will be enacted that would deny parole to people convicted of murder who haven't disclosed where they disposed of the bodies of their victims Naomi Long was answering questions from West Tyrone MLA Melissa McHugh who raised the issue of the murder of Castle Durga teenager Arlene Arkinson last seen in august 1994 after a night out in Bondoran her body has never been found as Long says they're looking at enacting Charlotte's law named in honor of woman Charlotte Murphy who disappeared in 2012 her partner was subsequently convicted of her murder but has not yet disclosed the location of her body however Ms Long acknowledged this law may not help Arlene's family it is a very challenging space but we intend to bring forward Charlotte's law in this mandate and a very bespoke form of it which will allow us at each stage of the criminal justice system to apply more pressure on offenders in that space the difficulty of course is that my understanding my recollection is that in Arlene's case the individual who was ultimately thought to be responsible has now passed away over five million drink containers have been collected since the launch of the deposit return scheme the group behind it says it's gaining momentum after a slow start and lonely planets destinations editor has revealed an ongoing commitment to sustainability is what makes Donnie Gull stand out leading to the county being named the world's fourth best region to visit at a recent tourism seminar hosted by Donnie Gull County Council Amy Lynch labeled Donnie Gull as the wild child of Ireland with more here's me get a talk Amy Lynch destination editor for lonely planets shed light at the event and what makes Donnie Gull stand out in the global tourism landscape while the county is traditionally known for its friendly people scenic beauty and great craic she highlighted that it was the county's best in class sustainability credentials that made it stand out she says sustainability is something that is increasingly becoming a priority for global visitors miss Lynch says Donnie Gull's key sustainability initiatives are increasingly drawing global recognition on new visitors to the island such as slow tourism quality local food and a rate of walking and cycling trails and eco-friendly accommodation which were key in the county's inclusion in the best in travel list further solidifying its global appeal as a must visit destination mostly cloudy today with mist and scattered outbreaks of rainbow drizzle becoming breezy with a moderate to fresh southwest wind strong in the west top temperatures today 10 to 12 coastal flooding possible as a result of unusually high tides and that's highland video news we're back with news again at 10 check all of today's news of course on our website highlandvideo.com but for now from the news team good morning at the Irish independent we don't just cover sport we tell the stories written all over Ireland after all each struggle and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio hello good morning just approaching four minutes past nine and you're very welcome along to Tuesday's nine to noon show it is the 12th of March 2024 how are you all keeping out there I do hope you're very well wherever you're listening to us on air across the northwest and across the country in the world online just to remind you how you can stay in touch with us of course I'll wait six 60 25 000 that's if you want to comment on any of the issues or stories we're carrying or if indeed if you wish to make your own points or pass on your requests or dedications as well that's 08 660 25 000 if you want to voice note your comments as well feel free to do so all your hellos for that matter you can give us a call on the program 207 491 25 000 carline or is taking your calls and email comments at highlandradio.com if you want to watch the show we offer that service every single day you can watch on youtube on your smart tv or far stick at home just go into the app and type in Highland Radio Ireland and we're live right now or across facebook as well highland hope highland news and sport and we're streaming live on x so welcome everyone watching us on the x platform as well right our next guest will be with us shortly so we'll crack on with the newspapers this morning we'll start with the irish times and the government is struggling to contain fallout from the double referendum defeat after public divisions emerged between ministers over responsibility for the failed campaign in the further side of disarray after voters rejected two proposals to change the constitution anti-hspeak legislation for a minister for justice helen macinty came under attack within the coalition fina fall td willio d called for the proposed new laws to be scrapped criticizing the woke gallery and the out of touch green citing law and order issues mr od said and this will resonate actually with an awful lot of people out there the minister for justice should be focused more on that i.e. you know real issues not real issues but you know the big issues that people are familiar with issues should focus more on that and less on legislation such as preventing hate crime ms macinty in new york for st patrick's day did not comment but the disrising government skepticism about the draft law stalled in the shanard since june and i think a lot of this comes down to sort of middle arland you know what normal normal you know what i mean when i say that what your average joe and josephine thinks in arland not what the extreme left might think not what the extreme right might think but in the middle those are the people now everyone can claim responsibility for defeating the referenda to the blue in the face but it is arland middle arland that voted made up their minds made a decision and voted the way they voted and you would it would seem given the fact that most parties most parties actually campaign for yes yes that there is as i've mentioned many times on this program a detachment between you know middle arland and the powers that be the decision makers the finger is not as you might feel on the pulse well fina falls lisa chambers has attempted to distance herself from the catastrophic referendum results by claiming she wasn't involved in the failed yes yes campaign not fully true miss chambers picture show senator chambers canvassing in dublin for a yes yes vote on february 22 less than two weeks before the voters went to the polls yesterday hours after her party colleague willio d broke ranks and said he voted no to both miss chambers also said on national radio that she didn't really engage in the campaign or debates because i wasn't sure what was going on in it she said we've yet have any contact from any of the main parties in this county sort of pushing back on pushing back on the referenda such but anyway okay on to the arish and depend this morning holiday homes and airbnb rentals are putting houses in scenic areas beyond the reach of locals accounting for up to 20 percent of the housing stock in some areas i would say in some areas it's 80 percent rather than 20 percent if you go out of town a little bit this surge in the number of second homes in certain parts of the country is forcing young people to move away and is said to be having a terrible social consequence an irish independent analysis of recently released cso census data highlights arlands holiday home black spots which have been described as a blight on rural communities detractors say that holiday homes offer little to the rural economy and taxation could be the answer in certain areas you look at night time in winter and there is not a light on where there used to be a little shop that shop is gone where there used to be older people and families no longer there it's a barren landscape until the east of holiday so summer kicks in while leaving the pack in this trend are two areas in donnagoal glentes in milford where holiday homes account for 28 and 26 percent of the local housing stock respectively now if i was thinking and i'm very interested in your views on this i'm just reading this from the independent if i were looking for two hot spots where there's an awful lot of holiday homes would you have said glentes and milford led the pack 28 percent and 26 percent i think they're talking about districts here because this must be the glentes municipal district and the milford municipal district that would make more sense but they don't refer to it as that they must they must be looking at local election area figures and not actually identifying that because it's not the tans of glentes and milford well the trend extends to other regions as well no need for me to read those the cso defines holiday homes as dwellings that are only occasionally occupied nationally between 2016 and 2022 there was almost an 8 cent increase in the number so whilst the paper is not pointing to it and i think maybe this is someone dublin based that doesn't understand the local geography they must clearly be talking about local electoral areas because obviously glentes would encompass wouldn't it you know much of the west of the county and also milford would take in wouldn't it the likes of fanard dannings caragart those sort of holiday hot spots but anyway not a surprise would you like to see a tax to see more of those holiday homes those second homes go back into all year round use what do you think 08 660 25000 or is that people's property that's people's wealth and they're entitled to do with it what they wish what's your view 08 660 25000 should there be taxed out of it or should people be entitled to do what they want with their property even if it's lying empty for you know 40 weeks of the year let me know garty informally asked for mob boss daniel canahan to be charged with the murder of a brother of jerry the monk hutch it has emerged this is the irish daily mirror sources have confirmed to the paper that detectives probing probing the march 2016 gun attack on eddie hutch 58 at his dublin home of centre far to the dpp and it contains a recommendation that can hand be charged over it he is over in dubai of course at the moment that could take up to six months but certainly the net close and continuing to close the irish daily star this morning britain's dot just of cambridge has publicly taken the blame for the manipulated family photograph issued by kensington palace as she issued a personal apology for the confusion lots of questions remain to this i did suspect if you were listening to show yesterday that they would blame sort of amateur photoshopping and that's exactly what they did do just two hours later in the statement released on social media kate said like many amateur photographers i do occasionally experiment with editing that being said why would a picture taken by her and edited by her be sent out to the worldwide press with all the people that are around them and all the the pr people that would surely look at the picture and say there's about five errors in this picture but still they expect people to believe that it was her that took the picture it was her that edited and then that was deemed good enough to send to the associated press and routers and everything else and finally a mention of the Oscars of course we covered it yesterday the paper's catching up this morning uh in the sun this morning killian murphy is the toast of ireland after his systoric oppenheimer oscars victory with the actor comparing the triumph to italian 90 and now he's been linked with uh the james bond role which i don't think would be good for his career actually i think um whilst it might be good financially and for exposure i think in terms of award-winning uh it might not suit him and also i'm not really sure he fits that uh he would fit that part great but anyway 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it very much it's beautiful it would be nice if it was summertime but uh i'm enjoying it i'm here with the father pablo uh giving a mission enjoying meeting the people yes indeed um you entered the sister of st claire at a very young age uh were you were you called to that did you feel oh yes i i have no doubt after 63 years now go on 64 that it was certainly the best choice i entered when i was very young and i went to america when i was 21 and i'm there now 56 years in america in it well i i spend a lot of time on the plane i was going to say because you certainly have retained much of your accent of course um now there was the was it mainly because of the rheumatoid arthritis that you suffered that you went to florida or was that a happy coincidence that the warm climate might help you in that regard no greg right yes no greg i i didn't go to america i tell people like you know people go on mission because they love the lord and our missionaries were way out all over the world well at 17 i had this disease which i spent in masquerade park and belfast and i was told i was going to be in a wheelchair and there wasn't much they could do because you know crippling rheumatoid arthritis at 17 but um i was in cas and a nun came home from florida because the parish priest there was from mara felt and he was looking for irish nuns he didn't have enough and so there were sisters there my own congregation and this nun told me oh florida would be ideal best place for arthritis and i went for the sun not for jesus thinking i'm going to get healed i got there and i thought this has to be hell it was so hot and i was in the old habit and i thought this is a lie and so i well i cried for two weeks i wanted to go home and the reality was i had no money and i had to stay i was a nun and i was had 56 kindergartners as well as you know in the pain so the doctor told me there's nothing they could do he'd like to make a guinea pig so he started experimenting and at 20 i was on 30 pills a day it was a terrible time but in another way the lord brought me there because it was in florida that i had a wonderful experience where i was miraculously healed and before we get to that um so did the heat assist in in in easing any of the symptoms of arthritis 20 times worse and i can only imagine to the i can only imagine of course the humidity that can only imagine to uh taking those drugs it must have had a devastating impact on your digestive system yeah well you know just wants to counteract the other you know i was an heavy dose of cortisone but you know i i look back now and i think you know when you're in pain desperate pain you the humidity made it worse you'll take anything you know so i took everything they gave me and now i look my memory i you know and i was bloated because i was cortisone but um it was it was two years of suffering but it was worth it to get where i am today for sure i didn't look for healing and i didn't pray for healing so talk to us about the this miraculous healing of yours then and how did it like where were you yeah well you know um greg i entered young so i i loved religious life and i have to say i thank god every day i entered the sisters of st claire and i enjoyed going through the novitiate but did i really know the lord i knew about him because everybody went to mass where i was from we practiced and it was when i went to america you know the americans are very expressive so that see a young nun and they said oh you must love jesus a lot to give up so much and i used to think well i don't love him that much i mean i do my job and i am happy in religious life and that but then the point comes where i say it's like selling a product if you're not really convinced you don't market well things if you're not really convinced of what you are and i started to realize that i would be foolish at my age to spend my whole life as a nun when at least if i was married i'd have children i could have a husband and i made a decision which i tell all your listeners best decision i ever made i thought there has to be more to catholicism and religious life and i'm going to find so i went away on retreat and i didn't ask for it i didn't think that i was worthy to be healed who believes that you know miracles happen but i did ask i said i want to meet the person of jesus as a person not because you're committed to not a church or an institution or a bishop or you're committed to jesus and in different words is that that you needed convincing proof in a simple word like just that you needed i just needed i needed to be in love with the person that i had a ring on my finger and that's all i prayed for okay and that i was on saturday sunday morning in 1967 no 70 i was three years there and uh at a quarter nine on sunday morning all i said was you know jesus i i don't know if i'll persevere lots of people were leaving priesthood and religious life i said jesus please reveal yourself i would love to fall in love with you to have some zeal because you need zeal for if you're doing this kind of work because it's not all easy and it doesn't change your life and you don't get attracted being attracted to in the opposite sex or whatever as a young 23 year old girl very normal but it takes more than just make have an idea so i said jesus i just want to know you i would love to be convinced i'd love to fall in love with my faith and being a nun it's no point in being a sister if i'm not a proof that you exist and how i act and everything and i hand touched my head and i thought the priest came over so i opened my eyes to look at the priest and the next thing i'm being healed and i had these acid raw sores some gout from the result of the medication left i jumped up and you know in now this is going back in the early 70s i mean it's not usual to jump up on a church to start shouting jesus i love you i believe i'm me and none and the man because i said are you all right sister and at that moment greg everything in my life changed i was completely free from pain i fell in love with the person jesus and since that time the one thing that has kept me going is i spend a couple of hours every day in adoration and i thought that i was just going to be teaching and doing things but so in that instant you were completely healed completely totally transformed because of course it wouldn't just be the fact that you'd feel better there's a you know with gout and what have you there something physically is happening so that had to be reversed in that moment for you to have that freedom on the monday after and the doctor cried he was a presbyterian a lovely lovely man and he was saying to me because he was elderly and he kept saying i'd love to help you as a young sister because he saw the pain i was in and with the humidity and no air conditioning we didn't have any air conditioning so you can imagine the humidity in florida in those summer months and he said to me um i would love to take the credit he said i'd be famous if i could say that i cured you but he said i too believe in jesus but how do you how do you carry that then as a young person okay because you know like it was a personal experience for you but others saw it uh very quickly people start you know hearing about it and hearing your story and of course you'd want to tell it uh because um no i didn't want to tell did you know no because i was afraid of my life of healing because in florida we had a lot of you know big huge tent revivals and um very well known preachers you know i thought a catholic none oh it's not for me yeah so i didn't tell anybody except my congregation yeah and i didn't tell the children's school because we'd be afraid the parents would think it was contagious so i yes i was excited but initially it was a burden not a burden but it was it was great it was fantastic for you but i mean you had to process what this meant oh yes you know what this meant to your life well i did and um i came back to the convent and i went to school and people kept saying that knew me are you going to come down of the cloud you know we say face reality you're not going to be up in that cloud and i did and um and then it was six months later when i had an experience where um on pentecost i was born on the feast of pentecost which is good six months later the lord spoke to me at adoration told me i had the gift of healing and i told him jesus i don't want it keep it yourself i wanted nothing to do with it i was a very reluctant candidate but the lord well if you're open to him he'll keep knocking and i have to say that in those early days i asked for proof i kept saying jesus give me a sign and uh an episcopal eilken minister met me in california i'm about to go to summer school i told nobody about this experience in the chapel and he looked at me he said never spoke to roman catholic none but you have the gift a gift when are you going to use it and i thought now how would he know he i'm a catholic he's presbyterian you think you told me episcopal and that's the way it happened i went to college i got all these signs and then one day the lord showed me it's very easy in any commitment to make a commitment until your challenge to be a fool in my work because i give my life as a bride away to my father left me at the altar and then all of a sudden when this challenge comes will i would accept this gift would accept this kind of a life and i had to say that it wasn't until he showed me that i had a private room in my life which said private property don't enter and that's my reputation what people think of me what the neighbors are going to say what the nuns are going to say and you come to a point and you say who did i say yes to so how how um i mean obviously you know we're not obviously but i presume you can't heal everyone that you come in contact with and and and you know you will get people that are it's just that the the very last hope is perhaps someone like you can heal them great how is that i don't heal anybody i just work for jesus oh yes okay i get you i get you but and jesus works for you presumably but how is that how is that how does it how does it how is can we understand maybe we can't understand how perhaps maybe you you can through jesus through you offer healing to some but maybe not others how i know what you're trying to ask me what happens to those who are not healed yes exactly because we want answers to everything but this aren't the answers to everything either well you know that's the great thing that that for me i don't talk about healing other time i when i pray with people i'm convinced in my own life that prayer changes people not god not everybody i've never told a person in all i'm 52 years worldwide now traveling and as a catholic you must remember that i'm a catholic nun so i preach a lot on the catholic faith because i say i say to to presbyterians lewtons whoever you are be the best you can if you're if i'm a catholic nun and i go to mass every day um then i have to be the best and so i speak a lot about the eucharist and i see miracles i mean we just came back from indonesia we saw a woman completely healed of cancer of the throat i never saw her but the preaching of the gospel has the power to do that now when i pray with people yes i've seen marvellous healings but the lord revealed to me that i could very easily become a celebrity a false god people will come to me but not seek the lord uh there's all kinds of money making and all kinds of stuff that goes on it's a very easy thing for satan to use because of this the attached to it like people would call me up in the beginning and say how much does it cost to be healed and people come to me terrible lives looking now it was then when i went to lured and i said there must be our lady please help me and it was then that i got this great experience where i went to mexico to the garbage dumps of mexico and i saw miraculous healings happen right in front of my eyes at mass and that's when i realized my mission is to point to jesus is to tell catholics as a catholic nun i'm speaking and i respect everybody's faith but as a catholic you have to be a hundred percent if you see you're catholic and that's where the problem comes in you know if you're if you're only going to church but any church but you don't have some zeal so i do a lot of preaching in the first years in stadiums i went all over latin america asia i've been in about a hundred hundred and some countries with father kevin scallan who is a from up in firmana now i work with a spanish priest and we see miracles all the time of conversions i go to prisons i have an old prisoner in florida and i went first to the prisoners speak on death row in 1976 and i still go to see him he's in his 80s he's a saint you know um that's kind of healing you'd be in knock regularly i take it because there's a number of people messaging in saying that they love to go down and um when you're in knock each year um and full of praise for you i would love to keep you here but unfortunately i'd love to do which but i i have to let you go we appreciate you coming down father john joe coming down with father john joe as well in about half an hour there's morning mass and mission talks evening mass and mission talk that's later today the theme is prayer and the power of the holy spirit this is in st michael's church chrysler by the way um it's for a lantern mission until the 13th of march which is tomorrow and tomorrow morning mass and a mission talk there's an evening mass mission talk and eucharistic healing themed the eucharist the source and summit of our faith thank you for squeezing us into your incredibly busy schedule sister breed it's been wonderful having on the show thank you so much and i pray for your great work too i love radio so i'm so grateful to get this opportunity thank you so much okay god bless you take care of yourself thank you that's sister breed 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56 what's your comments the colleges greg i noticed just notice there this morning and overnight there there's a lot of talking with the holy homes and so on the various areas like that star and dust and such it is what it is is going to get into it's going to take his own his own discussions and due course but my point is at the minute they were happy enough to throw out all the holy homes i wanted in the last 20 years in the earnest anyway and now the lecture myself and others uh with family members uh extended relations and so on we cannot get planning greg along the n 56 years and they go along the main road from the mountaintop right through on foodie we door uh the low glint is on to gilly begs et cetera and this is not going to get any better it's actually getting worse uh we're meeting there last wednesday and it's turned out now they're basically looking at zero acts of now on to the n 56 to the complete complete madness and the t days of the day need to stand up they need to get they need to get together and they need to get into the dole and and shake it to the foundations for the constituent and they go and also pull into the as well as i've done before and i'll do again but to be all miss out on the country as well to get behind me and others that are that are are pushing for this we cannot allow the county of elvin plan greg to go ahead and make without some sort of some sort of uh really catching really really catching on the n 56 we need that like but it's the bottom line regardless of what the council uh and you're not on your own in terms of uh saying look we need to be able to uh we need to be able to build in certain parts of donagore the bottom line is is though this is a dublin decision regardless of what you was 36 councillors sit around sit around and decide does someone in dublin actually makes the final call uh whether or not this uh aligns with the national development plan yes great you're absolutely right it's a civil service and the civil service and dublin are the problem that have that have uh have done this well actually back in the over at your same that's what happened he used a minister for transport to come back that far he allowed it to happen that time like but like we have done to the goal even though we can't change things and left for it we still can stand up and be counted and left for it and make us make a stand that we are not we are not supporting the county development plan because regardless dublin wants that county development plan passed in me by hooker recoup they want that passed in me so we as the legal county characters have a chance now to stand with the public stand with the people stand request that you and stand rule rule it on the goal waste on the goal and so on and take that stand and do not back that plan and just get on to the national year we have rt and everything else is the one to view it uh the good luck good luck at nand rt to talk about rural uh development on the goal but just just in relation to the no that's fine but just in relation to the holiday homes and the second homes mostly holiday homes we're talking about in the glentes and milford municipal districts like you would know areas uh close to you michael that were buzzing one time with families you know three generations in the same area you know kids cycling around the place and all that type of stuff and now they've become come effectively like like wastelands in the winter all the houses there but the lights aren't on little shops that used to be there are gone uh you know and then it's a struggle to keep shops and post offices opened in these areas do we need to start looking at repopulating these areas however we do it which probably means taxing people out of their holiday homes maybe that's what some people are suggesting or i think you said right at the beginning that's that fight has been lost now has it been lost or or should we try and encourage these houses back into all year round living well gregas can be very hard to encourage them first of all it's very hard to encourage them until year round living because they are what they are they are holy homes every people come here for the east or somewhere halloween whatever christmas time new year the majority are holy homes like that there's another handful through them here near daughter through the place the rentals and so on um you know various reasons and that's what it is but as we're getting things repopulated the only way we're going to get the areas repopulated greg is to get planning in the end 56 there the reason areas are getting repopulated the minute now particularly in western engal mcventus area and so on and probably even to prepare for your only area there that the kenny as well only because it's not as notable because i'm through the town people have been forced away that is the reality of it there's lack of jobs there's lack of infrastructure here at the moment and people have been forced away uh you hear so many times now even thankfully i'm very pleased to the to the companies we do have here eyes for working at them and operating still successfully operating as such but there's some of them they still can't get workers greg and they can't get workers for the simple reason people can't get accommodation they don't want to come here with a jpc meeting there on friday as well greg and liver and they asked the the deniery appointed chief superintend garedy sharden as well i said look i know it's outside your remit as such we get in relation to the roads but it's whenever you yourself and chiefs and superintend are gathered up you might try and make a point uh you're talking about like she mentioned herself as well with lack of accommodation for garedy and so on the lack of accommodation is going to be there going forward because we can't get the houses so only houses are rented at the moment there's no space left they're all taken up people around about me here with families with kids and so on they're on to miss garedy looking for houses themselves both off the council and private rentals and they can't get it and the truth is a lot of n56 it's actually going to be even more difficult going forward potentially for people to build on their own land and what have you right but again i think i think that i think you users cancelors will come together and and send a message to doublins just whether that message in doublin is heard about you know the future development of this region the bottom line is is we've seen with the closure of the health the health centers in in uh church hill and in kill mcrennan and bossing people to milford you know it's death by a thousand cuts that's another service taken out of rural arlington inverted commas and if you track them over time it's all about pushing us to the more urban areas a few areas have been picked out it would seem boncrana milford donnie galtan bali shannon uh baliba face drunaler you know and and the uh the the the rural part of donnie gall is going to become as the film says that you know no country for old men this is going to happen dragon this is what's going to happen but again it's happening it's happening before our eyes like it's i mean it's it's happening it's happening before right yes but it's happening because the doublin government are letting it go that way that they don't give a dammer but donnie gall or any of the rural county along the western seaboard and this is what this is the problem i work in a shop and i'm funny as you know sent the voice sent the down there there were a notice open on on the notice board and voice sent it for a very important uh health care worker uh that we all may be maybe reliant on any any day at all that notice up there for three four months looking for accommodation locally the person the question couldn't get it great she was stationed locally she's moved on now because she couldn't get accommodation like this is the crazy thing about it we're not going to get nurses doctors guards uh the front-line workers are on here or even in general anybody at all to come here that's not here at the moment but like any hospital's going to suffer all the garden stations through the place are going to suffer we're all going to suffer accordingly if you can't get things sorted we can't get accommodation if you are a doctor or a qualified physician or whatever in the medical state will you stay in the medical state that's important across the board to everybody regardless who you are you're looking at donny go on there to come quickly so you want to work out with any hospital if you can't get accommodation Greg you're not going to be going there if you're from the country you may want to live in the country or rather okay but but but just to be clear i i'm a big fan of people being able to do whatever they want to do with their own property but there is an irony in that you know that person that you talk of looking for accommodation in the don fanny area if you throw a sort of 10 mile radius uh if you throw a 10 mile radius blanket over that area you're probably there's thousands and thousands of houses that are only occupied for about four to six weeks a year you're okay with that i'm not okay with Greg no of course i'm not okay with it i'm not okay with the problem is it is people's private property as such i agree no more otherwise there's their private property and the reality is until some policy goes into place or some conversation happens with these people with those types of houses there's nothing i or you would like to see this is the problem this is the problem with politics michael and i mean the absolute respect everyone's okay to talk about the stuff that's popular right but as soon as you start getting into something that's a little bit complicated and potentially unpopular no one wants to talk about it we saw that with the referendum you know everyone after the fact saying oh well i says no no but in advance they were saying yes yes i mean the real tough conversation for councillors is is really is it not you know what do how do we internally try and get some of this housing stock or more housing stock to the people that need it you know what i mean we can't shirk that responsibility because it might be a little bit controversial i'm not saying you are but you know what i mean the public are a bit tired of that stuff now you know let's talk about the stuff that's uh you know and people have done really well out of this not you again michael but you know let's talk about the stuff that you know resonates well with the public and you know when you want to talk about something controversial everyone runs for the hills well i'm not running for no no you have to run for the hills thank you for saying that on two counts first of all i stood to be growing there on the referendum and i voted no no because i believe the right thing to do secondly on the holiday home uh slash house the end of it that's not being used i believe there should be some sort of there should be some sort of policy brought into place to pull those people and ask them what's happened here you're not using your house and so on you know it was available for renting and the needs to be a the needs of apology slash law put in place if you're not living in your house a reasonable amount of time over the year and especially now when we are in a housing crisis the need to either look at surrendering selling their house to the local authority if they want you to do that selling it all together or else there should be a law put in place to end up renting the house at least so many months of the year some some some level of degree anyway Greg i'm not i'm not sure exactly how to how to phrase it properly but the needs to be something put in place like that and it would definitely go on forward a better sort of thing more than just doing now in the quick spot at the moment but the needs to be something done on that going forward and i i certainly wouldn't mind hide behind that at all to be quite honest all right thanks thank you very much councillor micah mcclafferty there now it's not he or i really that's calling for this in the papers today we read that holiday homes and airbnb rentals putting bosses in scenic areas sorry houses in scenic areas beyond the reach of locals accounting for up to 20% of housing stock in some areas and this is leading to some calls some calls for increased taxation on these type of properties uh dermot is a holiday home owner in beautiful Inneshaun hi dermot how you doing dermot yeah dermot how are you getting on sorry beg your pardon i was told different right your you've had your holiday home for a couple of decades now um what do you think they're in a blight on Donegal's landscape or they they're good for the good for the county in the economy well that's a silly question because i think we're an asset to county Donegal hey as i explained your research there i bought a piece of land in 1986 for 8 000 right on today's prices that was a bloody good price but the c2 weeks before i bought it it was 4 000 right so it's gone up 4 000 so something with a nice handsome profit right now i paid for a field that was a spod field prior to me putting the house on it right now i rent the house on occasions and i bring tourism to the inneshaun area right now it's not only me but loads of people bring tourism and that brings money right now if there's a housing shortage in Donegal it's central government's fault not northerners who have holiday homes and the same 8 000 that i gave for my piece of land no i probably couldn't buy it for less than 70 000 but see my money that went to somebody in Donegal and somebody somebody's uncle somebody's daddy somebody's mommy somebody's sister had 8 000 that was went into the staker or went into the economy that wouldn't have been there so my point would be stop blaming people who are coming and bringing tourism to the area right because tourism is the way forward now i live in dairy and there's no industry come on the dairy the calvary is not common the british and the and the assembly are setting employment today and tourism is the way for us to make money and get serious about it and Donegal is one of the most beautiful places in the world so let's capitalize on what we have and bring tourists like stock and boil to Donegal stop whinging at people who have bought land and are bringing tourists well i don't see the logic unless man telling us to start taxing homeowners i'm in order i'm from southern part of county calvary county lead them i'm as as you i pay all the taxes that are asked of me on that house so i pay as much tax as much the staker as anybody around me i just want to say chairman there's been no anti uh there's been no anti uh northern or an inverted commas sentiment on this program um i honestly go down to this program no i didn't honestly even consider that it was the majority on by northern irish i actually didn't know that if that if that's true information and i think most people listening most people listening would not like uh an overreach by any government north or south on private property which yours is private property okay listen chairman thanks for that i appreciate it uh do i really do chairman thank you brian hello brian what's your view oh hello uh i just you mentioned earlier there in passing that you had a great uh uh respect for private property yes and people's right to own what they own i just wanted to point out that uh much to my surprise when i first read it in the catechism of the catholic church under the seventh commandment the shuttle steel private property is dealt with there in the very first few lanes and it's not an absolute you know that's when required private property uh can be jettisoned and things can be reorganized i'd also like to point out that in bon crana there a great deal of land that is zoned for housing is owned by a small number of people and they're sitting on it in preference to having money sitting depreciating on the bank they're sitting on land are you against that brian i do think that would you be in favor of of of if there is a housing shortage an abundance of property that that that the government intervened to match the property with those that need it even if it is uh even if it is against the will of the private property owner yeah i don't know how it should be organized but it's been done elsewhere i'm sure and it has to be done it's not a matter of am i in favor of but it's common sense it has to be done it's ridiculous that young people can't get houses and i love looking for mansions they're just looking for uh you know purely bedrooms and a way of living in either of a garden that should be possible in a place as sparsely populated as done they go and another point i've been to switzerland and i've been up on the mountaintops there and looking around houses are scattered far and wide they're not grouped in in urban areas like they seem to be required here you know why don't they send some of the planners on every holiday we junk it over to switzerland and see how the most prosperous country in the world organizes itself it doesn't seem to have a problem with houses scattered through the countryside so bram would you be in favor then of this tax that was introduced you know on on uh on land zoned for development uh you know there's a there's a tax on that now and i presume is to sort of make it unattractive to hold on to it like you talked of as an investment are you in favor of a tax like that that brings that kind of property available for housing i'm not i'm not in favor of big government or taxation that type of thing but i would respect what what they have in some countries like the little andora there you're not allowed you you won't as a foreigner you won't be allowed to buy a house in andora and lots of other countries in the world they just don't allow non resident people to get a house there you know it's not a matter of taxation but look i i'm not a counselor anyway god i don't know the ins and outs of it i just want to point out the obvious private property is not an absolute and other countries have no problem with scattered housing could you explain to me though because i want to understand what you're saying when you say private property is not an absolute what what does that mean just in layman's terms so i understand what that sentence means right if i own ten acres and uh uh people around me are are are living in hobbles or caravans uh that land uh can be taken off me by the organizing uh authority in the country in that area i can be taken off me simply repossessed uh in in in the eyes of the catholic church and the catholic church is the uh the communists regard the catholic church as their arch enemy but the catholic church uh has a balance in its teaching and uh and that is that private property is not an absolute every it states quite boldly in the catholicism we look it up there it's a commandment that everything in the world belongs to everybody private property is a secondary or a principle of organization it's not absolute and it can in in dire circumstances can be changed brian and i'm not being argumentative by the way and i'm not anti uh not in for a second i've been anti-catholic but does that not mean then we should just be able to walk into pro-cool houses and and churches and and take much of the wealth the catholic church has and distribute that but what do you do that for sure we need a catholic church no the wealth of the wealth of the church brian you know well what is the wealth of the church it's simply though the own graveyard and the own church properties which are needed for for for all sorts of purposes they're crucial for the principle of of of a community they they're the center i mean prince charles above all people who described the the towns of of italy as organized around cathedrals and that was his ideal form of urban planning he thought the small towns of italy were beautiful and that they were he described them like the mantle of virgin the perimeters of the towns you know around the around the cathedrals well the beautiful image coming from a surprising question yeah i didn't think it would be coming on uh to talk about catholicism and quote and prince charles but there we are a king charles or whatever he's called now brian thanks for your time this morning take care of yourself i'll wait 60 25 000 just before a break my lord greg what are you planning to do can i just say very clearly i'm not planning to do anything there's an article in the newspaper today right that's talking about potentially taxing and we've heard it before uh thomas pringle and and and others have quite clearly said in the past that we should be putting incredibly heavy tax on properties that are on that are available for air b and b to get them back in so it's more attractive for them to be long-term rentals can i just say one thing and i don't use this platform for my honor that i don't know i'm having a conversation so i'm listening to listeners on what they're saying but i do make some propositions at times to get the conversation going but i'm not planning on doing anything but let me read the text and phone my lord greg what are you planning to do only for tourists in falcaracord hawked and fanahigridor there'd be no restaurants open they are spending in the local shops bars and restaurants they're paying their taxes to the irish government can i just say i love tourists i love tourists areas but the conversation is being hand down in dublin it would be foolhardy of us not to also have that conversation at least to make people aware of what potentially people are planning the night all new show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at 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week due to unusually high tides a full tide not that long past here um in the northwest and uh it was a high one up past the coast there and haven't seen enough that high in a long long time but there's no bad weather can imagine if there was a storm whipping the waves up uh darin and facebook we have uh say good morning gregg just because you bought your house you still don't actually own it uh that's what people aren't told the state can come and take it if it's needed they just uh do in other countries well i'm not quite sure they can do it right now i do know there was legislation being attempted to be passed by um people before profit this is often attributed to the government uh that the government were behind the 39th amendment of the constitution this is the right to housing but it was actually people before profit that wanted effectively uh for for a private property taken and given to people that needed both finafall and finnegale opposed that actually voted against it meaning it's very very unlikely to happen but it was deputy richard boyd barrett that bought that proposal forward but often and this is what frustrates me and it whites so important everyone does their own research time and time again i see it on the internet uh by people saying that it was finafall finnegale and the greens that were trying to bring this over the line when it was actually they who opposed the people before profit proposition in that regard but anyway rural island is ruined with one-off housing large urban centres is the way to go that cancer is living in the past and that is a a broadly held point of view that you know if you live in rural island i've heard arguments this you can't expect to have a boss at your door broadband at your door electricity at the door i don't agree with that but that's what some people say another we need holiday homes for tourists as all the hotels are full of refugees stop attacking private property we're simply having the conversation because in the papers today uh there are calls from certain organizations to start taxing this property if we don't talk about it now and then next thing you know it becomes a proposal people will say well this came out of the blue we're simply talking about it not proposing it or not saying it's what should be done right okay have to take a break for the news and obituary notices indeed i want to take a break for the news and obituary notices return or don't go anywhere for that matter because we have community guard information coming up after 10 o'clock where you hear the latest appeals and information from ungodly shiokana first here every tuesday morning on the nine till noon show the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six reply online via our apper in office today will you join us at really for life donnie gall in may this event 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kavanaugh at the news desk the north's justice minister has told the storm and assembly laws will be enacted that would deny parole to people convicted of murder who haven't disclosed where they disposed of the bodies of their victims the only long was answering questions from west ron emily melissa mcquee who raised the issue of the murder of castle dirk teenager arlene arkinson who was last seen in august 1994 after a night out in bandone her body has never been found meslong said they're looking at an acting charlotte's law named in honor of oma woman charlotte murphy who disappeared in 2012 her partner was subsequently convicted of her murder but has not yet disclosed the location of her body however meslong acknowledged that this law may not help arlene's family it is a very challenging space but we intend to bring forward charlotte's law in this mandate and a very bespoke form of it which will allow us at each stage of the criminal justice system and to apply more pressure on offenders in that space the difficulty of course is that my understanding my recollection is that in arlene's case the individual who was ultimately thought to be responsible has now passed away the 100% redress party has announced its first candidate for june's local election promise shone divine who also chairs the party will contest the election in the letter kenny electoral area other candidates will be announced in the coming weeks arland has just over half the number of neurologists required to meet patients needs according to the neurological alliance it's launching the third phase of its patients deserve better campaign to provide support for the 800 000 people with neurological conditions nationwide in particular it's focusing on the need in the regions and calling for better services particularly at five hospitals letter kenny bantry mail port leash and wexford the organization's executive director is magdalene rogers we have over 21 000 people waiting for an appointment to see a neurologist nearly 4 000 of those are waiting more than 18 months providing consultant neurology outpatient services in regional hospitals will not only have a positive impact on a patient's overall health but it's critical in reducing unnecessary admissions reducing length of stay and unnecessary tests for those patients the central bank has upped its projection for the number of new house completions over the next three years it comes as its latest quarterly review predicts moderate domestic growth for the next two years with historically low levels of unemployment the bank's director of economics robert kelly says it's crucial that housing supply issues are tackled to keep the economy stable we look at housing what we would forecast within the bulletin is the amount of houses we expect to be delivered over over the next three years and we've actually revised that up and mainly driven by the fact that our best guides that are commencements and they're running at about 34 000 in january so we expect to see in mid 30s over projection but 35 000 in 2024 and then rising to about 37 000 by 20 27 lonely planet's destination editor has revealed that an ongoing commitment to sustainability is what makes donnie gall stand out leading to the county being named the world's fourth best region to visit at a recent tourism seminar hosted by donnie gall county council emie lynch said donnie gall was the wild child of ardent with more here's mcgillard lark emie lynch destination editor for lonely planet shed light at the event and what makes donnie gall stand out in the global tourism landscape while the county is traditionally known for its friendly people scenic beauty and great crack she highlighted that it was the county's best in class sustainability credentials that made it stand out she says sustainability is something that is increasingly becoming a priority for global visitors miss lynch says donnie gall's key sustainability initiatives are increasingly drawing global recognition on new visitors to the island such as slow tourism quality local food an array of walking and cycling trails and eco-friendly accommodation which were key in the county's inclusion and the best in travel list further solidifying its global appeal as a must-visit destination it's been suggested the only way to get sufficient aid to the people of gaza will be via the land border attempts to airdrop supplies into the region have had limited success efforts are being made by the u.s to build a new seaport israel is being accused of holding up the majority of aid trucks with over half a million people on the brink of starvation noreen gumbel from trocura says the most vulnerable are paying the highest price airdrops are just an indication of how bad the situation is it's the last resort in a humanitarian crisis their expenses their least like lead to reach people most in need so rather than a distraction of airdrops we really need full access to the gaza strip through the 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adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 o'clock tonight the requiem mass can be viewed at lonely parish dot com the death has taken place of davie robb main street newton cunningham davies remains will repose at his late residence today from 11 a.m with rosary at nine funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to wall saint's church newton cunningham for 11 o'clock requiem mass which can be viewed live on church services dot tv interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only please donations in louis of desire to the orthopedic ward letter kenny university hospital care of any family member the death has taken place of william don middleton 12 heather road upper creva a service of thanksgiving for his life will take place at his late home tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock followed by burial in monorail presbyterian church burial ground family time please from nine o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only please donations in louis of desire to the foil hospice care of mrs ruth hay funeral director the death has taken place of paddy kerr keol numara cross connell clon manny his remains will repose at sin column keel village oratory connell manny from 12 midday today with removal from there at eight o'clock going to st mary's church connell manny to repose overnight funeral mass there tomorrow morning at 11 with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations in louis of desire to sin column keel village care of any family member or comersky funeral directors the funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv the death has taken place of greta gillespie bally bow convoy funeral from her late residence this afternoon it have passed one for two o'clock service of thanksgiving instant minions church convoy followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family time please before the funeral family flowers only please donations in louis to brindley manner nursing home and sininian's church care of any family member or tern smith linduk funeral director the death has taken place of kathleen blee nay connell 89 moorlach road lend morning funeral from her home this morning at 20 past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st joseph's church lend morning interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery and the death is occurred of marjorie kelly name echo henney church town carndonna removal from the family home this morning at quarter past 10 going to the sacred heart church carndonna for 11 o'clock requiem mass followed by interment in the adjoining graveyard the requiem mass can be viewed on church media dot tv family flowers only please donations in louis of desire to icu at the govern hospital care of any family member or murphy funeral directors for family information and more details regarding wicks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com the big kahoon is back for the bank holiday weekend the euro millions mega draw will be a guaranteed jackpot of 130 million euro on friday march 15th 130 million euro time to dream big so don't forget to get your ticket the national lottery it could be you play responsibly play for fun and now in rose 2023 best local original news program the voice of the northwest the nine till noon show with greg hughes a very good morning to you welcome back to the program or good morning if you're just after joining us thank you so much for your company today very shortly we're going to be joined by garter claire rafferty for community garter information so stay tuned for that greg excuse me greg can you tell me if the citizens assembly is selected by only people from dublin well what we are told is that the citizens assembly is comprised of 99 people plus an appointed church supposedly random and invitations apparently are sent to randomly selected households from those who reply agreeing to take part members are selected to reflect ira society in terms of age gender social clash social class and regional spread before 2022 the citizens assembly was selected at random from the electoral register but since then anyone who is a resident in the state any adult is eligible to become a member of the citizens assembly so the question obvious question is is now we've got quite a reach here 80 percent of people who listen to radio in donny gold generally listen to highland radio at some point or another and we've got people listening in many other areas have you anyone out there ever been invited to become a member of the citizens assembly did you reply were you accepted were you not accepted anyone listening at all know anyone and i'm not saying the person won't be out there by the way but just interested to find out if anyone listening to this show has themselves or knows someone that has either become a member of the citizens assembly or been invited to so if we're talking about the individuals or if you know them that's going to cover a lot of people in donny gold if not all people in there in donny gold to some extent so anyone out there ever invited to be a member of the citizens assembly or do you know someone that has been invited and we'll cut that off at 20 past 10 actually because if no one contacts us by then i think that's a decent that's a decent straw poll 08 6 6 well it's not a decent straw poll it just gives us an indication what's apple text does an 08 6 6 to 25 000 give us a call on 07 491 25 000 uh take don fannah he says listener locals can't afford to buy land it's mostly owned by wealthy farmers uh or members of the community they are not uh catholics so which bible says to take the land okay right i don't i can't talk of the religious makeup of land ownership but i appreciate your message look at um core mc shamus begley that was refused for 14 years by kerry cancel in favour of holiday homes even made a tv show highlighting the hopper hypocrisy morning greg listening to your elected councillor talking about no housing and blaming dublin that's why we vote for these people to represent us and get more resources done the goal if they can't help do that what are they getting paid for thank you well we've got county development plans which um were told must conform to the national development plan in terms of decision councillors can actually make and this is that they will tell it tell you themselves this is not in any way having a go at councillors they don't really get to make an awful lot of decisions the property tax is one that springs to mind they can vote to vary that or keep it as is emotion is passed and seconded and for the majority of the decisions made by council it's an executive decision i.e the appointed board of the council or perhaps in some cases um relevant dublin departments can overrule even those decisions or those set suggestions right a lot of interesting messages coming in with some very interesting um language which i'll go through and bring them to you a little later on in the program now to challenge the candidates when they come knocking on our doors if they have the nerve and other the catholic church has plenty of private land and property tax and other too many houses will spoil what beautiful landscape that is left that is attracting the tourists it's a catch-22 situation in some ways um all this had been on the cards a long time ago have been asleep for years and the undercurrent is taking them into deeper water where they may never come back from people genuinely need to seriously get their act together and see how everything around them is slowly being taken over by government policies enough it's enough we won't live in a free state either right but in an open prison i call us there so they tried to redefine our families delete our mothers tried to take our freedoms during the lockdown and now they're coming for our homes people need to roar their voices against these civil servants and 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five tuesday the 12th of march 24 it's 10 17 time for community guard information and we're joined on the program now by god of claire rafferty from the milford guarder station claire thanks so much for your time today morning greg good to have you on the show okay let's jump straight into the appeals and your colleagues seeking information in relation to criminal damage in st johnston yeah so uh this incident occurred in the tolleone area of st johnson in the early hours of this morning march the 12th so it happened between approximately 12 15 am and 12 50 am someone called to a house in that area and then proceeded to smash the kitchen window and the bedroom window of the property the occupants occupants of the house were in bed at the time um now they would have got an awful fright but thankfully nobody was hurt and access was not gained to the house this uh was deeply traumatic incident for the residents of the house and we're anxious to progress our investigation into this matter so we appeal to anyone who may have traveled in that area in the early hours of this morning or who may have observed any suspicious vehicles people activity anything at all in the area to make contact with us so if anyone traveled in the area with dashcam between midnight and one am we asked them to make the footage available to us so letter kenny guards can be contacted on<PHONE_NUMBER> in relation to this incident and the guard a confidential line and maybe reach on 1800 treble six treble one yeah and as you said claire that was this morning in uh st johnston so should be very clear in people's minds any information to those numbers criminal damage also being investigated in the car and donna area yeah so this was at a business premises on the mobile road car and donna between 6 p.m last wednesday uh the 6th march and 8 a.m on thursday morning uh graffiti was sprayed on the building question between those times so we appeal to anyone who may have observed suspicious activity in that area between last wednesday evening and thursday morning to make contact with guardian bunk ranna and their numbers<PHONE_NUMBER> okay and we're staying uh well sorry we're staying with criminal damage but in ross nowler now um yeah so guardian bellie shannon are investigating a criminal damage incident that occurred in the area of strandview ross nowler on thursday the 7th march or shortly before 11 15 p.m so there were 20 concrete posts smashed at that location the posts were five foot long uh we appealed to anyone who may have travelled in that area around that time who had a dashcam to make the footage available to us if anyone has relevant information that might assist with the investigation we asked them to contact bellie shannon guards on<PHONE_NUMBER> and if you need any proof that god of claire afty is an absolute professional i accidentally skipped an appeal and she didn't miss a beat uh so i appreciate that we'll go back to caron donna my apologies no problem uh so this is again another criminal damage in glass salt area of caron donna on friday the 8th march uh this was at approximately 10 30 p.m uh a resident in the area heard bangs outside their home and they went outside to discover that various food stuff had been thrown all over the walls and doors of their house so we appealed to other residents and uh road users in the area to make contact with the guardian boncran on<PHONE_NUMBER> if they observed any suspicious activity any suspicious vehicles anyone that just looked out of place in that area that night okay thanks claire now uh to your colleagues in letter kenny and investigating an incident in the new brook court yes so new brook court letter kenny in the early hours of wednesday the 6th of march we're talking about approximately 2 15 a.m there was an incident of criminal damage and assault that occurred there so as part of our investigation into this incident we appealed to any road users who may have travelled in that area who had dashcam please make it available to us we're particularly interested in any sightings or any dashcam footage of two males on foot in the area so again that was wednesday 6th of march approximately 2 15 a.m so if anyone has any information please contact letter kenny guard station<PHONE_NUMBER> right okay now uh this coming weekend and we were speaking uh our fair claire hard to believe we're in the middle of march st patrick's day and st patrick's day weekend uh just ahead of us now we do know unfortunately that weekends with a public holiday uh can lead to um you know death and serious injury on our roads and with that in mind if a road safety appeal for the public yeah look for we're urging all road users to act responsibly and make responsible road safety decisions this st patrick's day and all over the bank holiday weekend so what there is a bank holiday roads police in operation that will take place over the course of the weekend we will maintain a visible presence on the roads and on the streets our priority is to keep people safe and to prevent death and serious injury or any injury on the roads we appeal to those of you who will be socialising and consuming alcohol to leave your car at home or to designate a driver and also to remember that you may still be over the limit the next morning it's not worth taking the risk so we urge people not to drive while under the influence of alcohol and or drugs and please do not get into the car as a passenger with a driver who you suspect may be under the influence of either of those alcohol or drugs the figures in relation to to drug driving detections in particular are very concerning a present look it's happening a lot so don't don't risk it over the past week alone within the dunneagal division we have had five drink driving related arrests and 10 drug driving related arrests and just also remember slow down wear your seatbelt do not use or hold a mobile phone while driving we simply ask all road users to play their part in the bid to save lives on the roads by always making responsible decisions and I think too as you mentioned there Claire you know it's not just immediately after drinking you know the the drink and drugs can remain in your system for quite some time and Guardi will be out in the mornings in the early afternoons as well absolutely and it's just really interesting to see now that we're having a drink a drug driving related arrests I know this is a snapshot of one week but a two to one ratio I never thought we'd get to that point but 10 in the last week alone 10 drug driving related arrests in dunneagal five drink driving related arrests and really good advice about two you know you can feel stuck for a lift to get home ring someone close to you they'd far prefer the call than you getting into the car with someone who's under the influence of either drink or drugs and again you know the the fleeting nature of life is that someone could be listening you know to this show on a Saturday well this radio station on a Saturday morning and and be on the obituaries on a Sunday morning absolutely you know and I don't mean that in any way heartless or whatever but it just like that and next thing you're buried by Tuesday and the obviously the loss of life but the terrible pain that would cause those closest to you and there's not an awful lot that we have an awful lot of control about in but we do this you know we do have an awful lot of control in what we do on the roads and helping to keep our roads safe and to keep any heartbreak or misery out of out of our homes at this St Patrick's weekend and we can all come back afterwards having had a wonderful celebration no one's trying to ruin anyone's fun but just not to take any risks and not to do anything foolish with St Patrick's Day in mind the biggest parade in the county I'm not going to say it's the best but certainly the biggest is in letter Kenny I think the parade in Carrick Hart and Downing's Donegal town where I've little tentacles very special okay but letter Kenny is where a lawful lot of people come into town so what's the plans from a road management perspective we have been given the details of the road closures for letter Kenny but I'll also just mention if any other organizers of events wish to make us aware of their plans just send us a message on the guard of Facebook page and we will post it up and then everyone can see so what we've received in relation to the letter Kenny is that the temporary road closures will take place on Sunday 17th of March to facilitate the St Patrick's Day festival between 1 p.m and 5 p.m the pork road so from the station roundabout and Main Street to the bottom of Lower Main Street and on over to the entrance of Old Donnes on the Old Town Road will be closed to traffic there will there will be guards in place there and you'll be diverted other ways so don't worry about that but traffic will be busy so bear that in mind one lane will be blocked along the Pierce Road from the Northwest Service Centre to to the station roundabout local traffic will be allowed from 1 30 p.m to 3 p.m only Gardie will be on hand to assist with the local day versions and the roads will all reopen from 5 p.m details of the various road closures will be posted on our Facebook page before Sunday we advise all who intend on visiting letter Kenny for the parade to familiarise themselves with the road closures and diversions in advance of the day okay and social inclusion week is coming up yeah so as part of social inclusion week 2024 Donegal County Council and the public participation network are hosting a number of events for one Donegal social inclusion week we are delighted to be taking part in social inclusion week once again this year one Donegal social inclusion week aims to increase awareness and understanding of inclusion and diversity in Donegal social inclusion week is an annual fun action packed week of events that offers opportunities for people to get involved with their community through welcoming and engaging events that highlight the positive network the community and voluntary groups are doing to reduce social inclusion social isolation and poverty so this year's social inclusion week is taking place from the 16th March to the 24th of March with cyber crime awareness highlighted at events during the week and there's a focus on the four P's which are password permission payment and participants a full list of events for the week is available on the Donegal County Council website and on the Donegal PPN Facebook page and we'll have it on our one as well so we encourage everyone to get involved in it brilliant stuff god of claire rafferty thank you very much indeed i really appreciate it i appreciate you making the trip down and that was community guard information live for this uh tuesday the 12th of march it will be available for you to watch on our facebook page uh or the goddess you can't have facebook page a little later on today and it's also available on our podcast but claire um last week i forgot to post it right and the other twice that i forgot to post it it was all the one person that happened to be on and guess who that was our friend guard at granada hearty well she wouldn't have been happy well she she's gonna think now that i have a something against her the problems of the three times i've forgotten it's been uh because other things popped up it's been gotta grind you well anyway it'll definitely go up today and no offence growing it if you're listening it just genuinely was a mistake but claire thanks so much indeed no problem all right we'll be back with more in the night until noon show after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account for a great breakfast pulling to 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the run up to st patrick's day is the ring around of the celebrations that are happening across the region we're going to do on thursday this week and for reasons what to become apparent we're not doing it on friday so if you are organizing a parade or whatever it might be some i'll say function but some event in your area doesn't matter how small it is or how big it is for that matter but we want to give everyone a platform to plug the start times and what people can expect and all that type of stuff so if you are part of the organizing committee of anything to do with st patrick's weekend st patrick's weekend or st patrick's day get in touch with us now you can give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand or you can also email comments at highland radio dot com but if you want a really good plug for your event this st patrick's we can please get in touch with us now and let us platform that for you okay we are joined in studio now uh because as you would know sorry highland radio's birthday bash uh is friday the 15th of march and we're having a fun day on air and off air for our three charities the r of the Irish wheelchair association jigsaw and breast cancer uh northwest we hear from these organizations regularly in any case but also in the lead up to this special birthday we have been speaking to them again just to get a sense of what they can do with public funding and they rely so much on public funding so we have a special day and i use the word advisedly we have a special day of programming uh on friday and fun inside and outside the building and to help me uh flog it to death is oshin kelly and shawn quinn good morning gentlemen hey greg morning greg don't have specials the right word this will flog it as in to sell it right so this is one of those things that uh it seemed like a good idea at the time okay uh so frame it for us uh shawn uh on friday that we're having a completely different but familiar day of programming uh on air and then there's more crack going on down at let it kind of shopping center but let's focus on the radio side of it first and they're all interlinked uh so things are being mixed up on friday we're all going to be mixed up on friday greg yeah including yourself yeah so it's something there was a conversation happened a few months ago and we've kind of moved that on to to what we're going to do on friday so we're going to start off half past six with a friday morning like no other um and uh jimmy stafford and paul mcdevis are actually going to be in studio and it's going to be called the naughty friday morning sessions so instead of monday night sessions on a monday night from eight we've got naughty friday morning sessions god help to mofo ever is coming in i did well to get that right there's coming in friday morning sessions because the place will be like a bomb site once they're left but anyway right so naughty friday morning sessions so jimmy and paul presumably uh our sheen we're going to expect some life music can crack i'm sure the studio is going to be packed is that anything to go by in a monday night yeah there'll be there'll be more people in here in a friday morning than there's ever been to that the name be as many offers they'll get out at that time in the morning there's anything right so they'll bring their the bring their usual top quality broadcasting skills as well with as well as the this is paul and jimmy paul and jimmy yeah it wasn't sure you were talking about there right okay it's a bit different start to friday morning from 6 30 a.m to 9 a.m it's going to be great fun and i'm sure there's going to be live music chopped in there as well of course we're going to keep you updated with news and sport but we're focusing on the fun side of things as well uh and we'll reference the links that will be coming in separately right so just not to confuse anything so then nine till ten normally it's me with the friday panel discussing all the big serious news stories of the day john bresnan's been moved forward three hours sure what's going on there yeah so he's uh he's going to produce a show called funny you should see that and he's going to be joined it's going to be a comedy hour uh by daniel carroll connell gallin paddy brown and park galler so it's a friday panel with a difference with us with a big difference yeah okay one liners not headliners it's very good great oh you should be on this show you're wasted you're wasted seriously i am just the king of content you know what you are so waiting for that link there weren't you you're so i swear to god that just came into my head that's how i operate uh some headers and some funny fellas in there isn't there yeah so paddy paddy brown's great crack park is john going to control that i well johnny's funny himself so i think he might just chuck himself head first into it and see what happens all right so that's from nine to ten it's funny you should say that it's the comedy friday panel with john bresnan the host daniel carroll connell gallin paddy brown park galler for cracking comedians arguably five cracking comedians righty oh then from ten to eleven uh we have an auction shone so we do yeah so we're yourself and lee yeah uh we're we have an hour of uh of this make as much money as we can there's a big auction some brilliant stuff huge auction we're still actually working on that but already we have some brilliant prizes uh so we're asking our listeners and business people to uh to dig deep and uh there there are some serious prizes in there just to remind you this is all to raise money from the Irish wheelchair for the Irish wheelchair association jigsaw and breast cancer care northwest we have some brilliant high value prizes uh not prizes lots in that auction between nine and ten but if you want to associate yourself with it if you're a business or an individual out there and you want to associate it and put a lot forward give us a ring here shone and his team will not belong uh biting the hand off you uh that's going to be between nine and ten myself and lee gooch will be co-presenting that um and i have to say my my confidence has really taken a boost uh because uh they thought what's the best way what's the best way to raise money from highland ready that's right take greg off the air take greg off the air i put lee gooch beside you yeah but technically we've taken a bit of a chance here by putting the auction but but we'll hope your conversation is going to be a wee bit better than it normally sort of as the times i don't know we shall see it's worrying like it i can carry lee for two or three minutes i'm not sure i can carry lee gooch for an hour normally do that in the news is usually lit beaver two or three minutes in the morning it's it's definitely a tune-in one because it'll be interesting just to see how do you how do you get on for the whole hour all right 10 to 11 we have a very special what's on the auction is the name of any interest on the auction can you reveal anything in fact actually i think that one of them was flagged and we actually had an early bid on some of this stuff didn't we did yeah we did so yeah we have a few but let's talk about the one that was flagged early because it is pretty serious uh of of a of an opportunity so we reached out to gary ohanlan who's an award-winning chef and uh he's very kindly donated that he'll go to somebody's house and he'll cook for eight people he'll not just cook for them he'll supply the food and some wine as well for the dinner so that's pretty amazing i've been at one of those before and it's like to see a professional chef cooking in your own kitchen is uh is worth paying money for now i mean to put that into context these guys are a gary ohanlan is a top top chef in this country in huge demand uh and could pick i would suggest could pick his restaurants in this country where he wrapped what what he would run if you were to book this guy for a couple hours you would be talking thousands not hundreds yeah now this prize several thousands several thousands this guy gary ohanlan very generously will come to your house with the food with the booze and i i could be milk and cook in your house a meal for eight people gary ohanlan this is no joke right now we're auctioning this prize off it was flagged a little earlier on there's already as you can imagine great interest in this to have a world class chef in your house saying is that the only frying pan you have you might bring his own fry he might bring his own frying pan you cook without a lid you're gonna get lost me uh no but my point is does it do the dishes that's up to gary it'll be in cooking your food for eight for you and seven um guests it's an amazing price talk us through a bit more sure yeah so it's like it'll be a three course it's a three course dinner um and he'll obviously he'll talk to you in advance about um your eating requirements but it's there's an interest there already because there's 800 euros being bid on that and we haven't even gone live with that yet right so how um how are we bidding at this point is it phone call bids at this point so at this one until you come on air on friday they can contact me at the station and they can make a bid on on now we will list in advance today what we have so far for the auction sorry but just just just in case there's interest and you want to get a high-end bid here high-end bid in here and you want to secure it at the moment the bid is effectively 100 euro ahead for world-class chef gary ohanlan to come into your house and cook for you in seven of your mates or family uh family at the moment it's 100 quid ahead effectively is the bid yeah if you want a bid higher than that 07491 25 000 and we'll hook you up but there's loads of other great prizes as well well keep same prizes but they are lots and we're just really hoping that those of you out there that are that are well resourced and thankfully in this country there are some people out there that are but even for that gary ohanlan one could go together with three mates you know get together with a few mates and do it but at the moment it's 800 but if you want to come in and trump that you can it's an early leaked lot from the big auction with me and lee between 10 and 11 a.m on friday now uh let us see i'm going to take the coffee morning separate as well we're going to stick to the programming for now um from 12 to 1 um there's an interesting 11 11 or you better go back to 11 because you might not have a job normally of course too as part of 9th lune show we've got that entertainment on a friday where i have normally fenula and michael or michaeline dahi or loads of other people that come in i'm gone again fenula is in the hot seat so let's just see how easy it is miss rabbit okay she's in the hot seat presenting that's entertainment osheen looking forward to this i can't wait i can't wait there's there's numerous parts of the day that have a lot of interest and that's one maria rush michael lete and the main man no conning him is uh is coming on board to talk entertainment and god knows what else they're gonna be talking about as well greek as they uh try to drum up the interest and the donations and getting people to to donate to the three charities but i'm sure they will have something special and that are and we're not going to hear about it until it happens knowing the way fenula works so i think it's going to be see to the pan stuff totally what does that button do there don't touch that button but i want to touch that button we don't need to take ads i don't need to take ads that could just get to the sack that way right okay that's fantastic then from uh 12 to 1 because as well as it being a fun day and this is fun as well but uh people love a bit of nostalgia as well and we've got a great trio actually of of great guys in donal kavner canis wilson and aid and murphy osheen i'll stay with you on this one there's a wealth of history over the years my word we've all changed so much i've only been here 20 odd years compared to some of you but um this is a nostalgic uh hour and i think we're going to sort of test our listeners as to how well they know us it'll be a fantastic hour for listening great you could do four hours in this because there's so much stuff on it but it's going to bring people back to times in highland um when highland started off uh highland still is a massive part of the community but there was it was linked to so much uh from march 1990 and you'll hear old voices sadly some people have passed on others are still with us but it's memories of of highland it's the nostalgia of of highland that's so important to our listeners and and it it has a place in numerous people a special place in their heart highland has over the years because it's meant so much to them because at times highland's been a friend of the listeners yeah highland has kept so many people company these presenters from years gone by have been part of people's homes people's families and now and now now they're going to get a chance to to i suppose reminisce on that and think back to those days but it's it's a show that you could do for four or five hours there's so much stuff there but donal canis waltz and adan murphy are ideally suited to present this program because they have been such a strong core of highland for a very very long time and uh they've been part of the station history and they're going to try and bring that day over that hour definitely 12 to 1 looking forward to that donal canis and adan and a great trio anyway just to listen to uh that's the thing about this friday it's throwing people together that ordinarily i mean they know each other and chat off there but you don't sort of hear them on there when did you arrive in highland i think it's an early 20 years ago you know so i'm not the only year that you arrived not a clue see i'm not having a clue no donal does or or caroline might remember now she won't either i was here in work experience in 92 yeah so it was two years after the station right here sons of course yeah institutionalized yeah it's like that it is it's like the hotel california yeah nobody leaves they're stuck here yeah exactly but i don't know i don't know how long it's almost it's 20 odd years anyway um i think there's people in this building years big donals here a long time uh canis is here almost since 1990 i think late 1990 canis right we've got lund upstairs you're very own caroline or something out there it's here since nearly day dot as well yeah so there um the i came here just before a local election so it could be maybe it's either 16 or 20 years right one of the two but anyway i like that gap there 16 or 20 yes elections every four or five years i am so focused on the present and the future i very rarely look back because i would be afraid to it's hard to believe that i started here when i was 12 yeah right so um that's the nostalgia this is an interesting one loose women uh it's a play on the uh it's a play on the um popular loose women format that people be familiar with uh and shone we have a lot of great but we do have uh mckayla clocks the host yeah and we have shane black uh is superbly talented presenter and musician gene coran who is uh also uh an amazing woman donemary daherty from the newsroom um who is well known to people as well and trudio donnell what a cracking panel that is and i don't know what they're going to talk about uh but it's just going to be a fun odd hour odd odd hour i think there'll be a lot of topics and discussions the good mix in there it is yeah they're uncle 230 aren't they they are yeah yeah brilliant stuff all right okay so then this is no this is where i can't wait to what are we calling this country jamboree with the country boys now it's austin kelly's country jamboree from 230 to 230 to 3 p 30 p m now austin kelly has done dj and still does dj right yeah people might be more familiar with him talking about the the left wing in in the pocket uh but this time he's going to be talking uh the chicks he's going to be talking gareth wilkins gareth wilkins is going to talk about people that used to work here gareth brooks yeah gareth wilkins and with the utv don't know if i'll be talking much about them but yeah because you sprung this yesterday in the meantime you're a dj so do you know when you're up from i'm sorry from half two to three thirty you're a country dj i'm going to turn into a country dj what we've got and you're going to help me cause you can't use country jamboree we'll have two special guests go on greg hues is going to be one yeah so and uh we're bringing in a man that knows a lot about music the dv yeah but he knows nothing about country music that's good that's good so brendan the venny uh who's the ldb presenter does commentaries and matches for us knows a lot about football not a lot about country music's going to give us a hand as well brilliant and uh we're going to get him to do a few things he doesn't know what the area no it's the country boys country jamboree uh david james now this is another one to keep an eye on david james is also uh doing a uh a jukebox really pay to play from three thirty five p.m this is also by the way we're from we're going to take a break and then tell you there's a lot going on at shopping center as well by the way so just stay tuned for that uh david james is going to be down in the shopping center after austin kelly's country jamboree uh and it's going to be a pay to play it's a radio jukebox we're going to ask people to play five euro if you're there in person or you can ring it in and um there's also what you sure you pay people not to you you pay not to play somebody might pay me not to do there might be a few songs that are saying okay so okay donation sir 50 euro 50 50 euro not to play all right uh and then um we are we've got uh the dj mashup yeah and this is a mashup of djs from across the programming this is from 5 15 to 8 p.m um shone do you want to take this one yeah this is this will be really good as well because there's so much different uh experience within the we're in the show you've got canis and keith fletcher keith fletcher marie frail marie frail joe dex and of course joe joe dek dek hoasted by ivan porland the mr knowledgeable so you're probably going to be full of nineties music well i'm hoping they'll throw a bitty eighties in there somewhere we'll need to get a new fighter in here the amounts of times it's going to be pushed up and years ago when ivan borland and and keith fletcher used to do their shows they used to record the ghetto blasters wow that's back when hiding first i remember some of my own family members do it i where they would actually set the ghetto blaster up the twin deck and when ivan or keith was going to play a certain song they would record yeah and hopefully get it before be able to stop it before i want to talk again wow listen that's going to be that that's five great dj's in the one spot i think there might be a wee quiz in there as well too but it's going to be great fun and they're going to be i mean you know a lot you know we span a lot of i think some of the best dancehall disco kind of music since we've been on there okay so that's a sense of what's on air and it's going to be great fun folks so we want you involved throughout the day because we're trying to raise money for three brilliant charities that serve the northwest so well the arish wheelchair association jigsaw and breast cancer northwest that's what you can expect on there we're going to talk about coffee mornings tea mornings and we're going to talk about what's going on down at letterkenny shopping center as part of the day as well after we take these messages stay right where you are the nine till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no 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a listener already prepared to donate 200 euro to jigsaw if live in letter kenny shopping centre we have osheen kelly singing ghost don't shave las vegas in the hills of donagol osheen what do you think 200 euro for jigsaw are you up for it yeah i have to have no well i can't say no to it can i there you go i have to do it any other but you know what donations when you know what we'll do we'll have uh i don't know what retainers have up for you we'll have country karaoke in that hour right how does that sound sounds absolutely so i sing one yes you have to sing one i have to pick one but no one's no no somebody else can pick it for you yeah but no what holiday and a brand of any's less than by the way brandon you're going to be doing this so i got caught with him before by the way someone stole 8 and 200 euro for you to sing it i'm gonna do it for free what's just somebody give me 200 euro for great huge to sing okay and you can pick the song as well yeah right okay that's uh what seems to have turned into country karaoke but we'll have great country music on as well other than what we're doing right okay uh by the way um we're still at 800 is it 800 still for um yeah gary o handland to come into your house and cook for you and 80 of your friends uh we are accepting bids is the donation page open online yet taste so it's on highland radio dot com at the top of the page you'll see it you can click on it and uh you can donate as much as you want to okay brilliant stuff and it's for jigsaw it is for breast cancer care northwest it's for the irish wheelchair association we're looking to support all of these traverties right talk to me about spinathon so spinathon where we will be in the shopping center all day on friday uh we will be kicking off or cycling off uh from nine o'clock so what we've done greg is we've got two bikes one is a highland radio bike and our challenge is to try to cycle from mallonhead to sleeve league so sounds like you literally just made that up we're technically not we're not actually moving but we we're gonna clock the miles or the kilometers that we do and we'll give you an update during the day of exactly where we're at but there's 23 staff from highland radio that will be on the bike we're all doing 20 minutes hopefully most of us will survive the 20 minutes and we'll go right through the five o'clock um the second bike is i reached out to local gyms and hotels and asked them would they be uh would they like to come on board in a kind of a cyclophone spinathon competition so we've i'm glad to say we're 15 which was brilliant and they've all paid a donation of 150 euros um so we've raised over 2 000 euros they're already and there's a bit of competition so they've got 30 minutes to cycle as far as they can on the day so they've some of them are doing one cyclist most are doing two or three and there'll be a little prize for the for the fittest gym or the best cycling gym in dunny go now go to our website please if you don't mind you will see there that we have the donation page opened and it's brand new and it's fresh there are some donations already in that aren't included in this but if you want to be the first online donator uh to raise money for the Irish wheelchair association jigsaw and breast cancer care north west please get to our website right now we'll talk more about this in friday we're only officially launching it now uh we want people to come in uh to to letter kind of shopping center from early morning uh to early evening uh you'll see presenter cycling you'll see our fantastic uh friends at the gyms and what have you taking part in that and uh there'll also be regular links between the station and the on-air output and also to what's happening in letter kind of shopping center on air and across our social media is right you won't miss it and also is there anything happening here i heard when should have a coffee morning yeah there's a coffee morning as well yeah so we're calling people up between 10 and 12 i think 10 and 12 so uh there'll be coffees gone and you have a great opportunity to meet people because there'll be a lot of presenters around um so if you're in the area um come and say hello come in our or attendively if you're by the shopping center come and say hello okay brilliant stuff listen uh right okay we've just had um a second bid in or a third bid on which is in relation to the meal are she yeah it's gone to a thousand euro so eight people gary ohanlan is the celebrity chef who actually went to school with back in the day he's going to come to somebody's house and amazing how people's lives and careers can go into completely so gary's going to come to the house and he's going to cook a three course meal he's going to provide all the food he's also going to have the wine for the meal as well uh and it's for eight people um there are about 115 ahead here so it's not much well if you were to if i wanted gary ohanlan to come to my house to do it would cost a lot of money yeah it would cost a lot of you could you would be taken off the thousands right to show you what for but it's up now to a thousand euro so if you want a bid for that contact the station and talk to carolina ask for sure and what you are doing every single donation is going towards the Irish wheelchair association they really need another boss to help with their day trips and all that type of stuff and give people the independence that they uh want and deserve jigsaw which does amazing work in helping people through mental health crises and breast cancer sent to north west we know the amazing things that they do the idonite page is live now on our website we're going to tell you so much more about what's happening on friday in the run up to it and we can't wait it's going to be fun but it's only fun if you're with us uh celebrating and having fun with us as well so please get in the spirit get in the mood and if you have any ideas or you want to do something 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the meeting should go ahead the office of the marine was unable to attend leading to a level of frustration among members of the committee in attendance remaining members stressed the importance of marine in the life of those who live on the islands councillor Micheal McCullough-McLeod aspect said he was protesting at the meeting on that account the past seven days the north's justice minister has told the storm and assembly laws will be enacted that would deny parole to people convicted of murder who haven't disclosed where they disposed of the bodies of their victims the only long was answering questions from west throne Emily Melissa McLeod who raised the issue of the murder of Custle Durga teenager Arlene Arkansas she was last seen in august 1994 after a night out in Bondoran. Garthy are investigating an incident of criminal damage that occurred in the Tullione area of St Johnson in the early hours of this morning a window and door were smashed at a house but entry wasn't gained Garthy say the occupants were unhurt but deeply shocked and the chief medical officer says another case of measles has been confirmed here it means three confirmed cases in Ireland to date there have been outbreaks across Europe but so far numbers here have remained small CMO Professor Breedersmith is warning it could spread if unvaccinated people don't avail of the catch-up program and they're the headlines back with headlines again at 12 noon. Donald thank you very much indeed we'll have Sinn Fein chief whip deputy power McLaughlin talking about really the referenda and his party's stances on them after this very short break stay right where you are live score bet would like to welcome you to Cheltenham nestled against the Cotswolds it is the perfect place to unwind and refresh your mind body and soul a regency town that's intimate and friendly a civilized place of culture and learning of peace and quiet except for four days of the year no matter who you're backing this Cheltenham festival celebrate with great offers from live score bet t's and c's in account terms apply bet responsibly 18 plus gambling care dot ie okay deputy power McLaughlin Sinn Fein chief whip joins us on the program now good morning porridge thanks for joining us good morning Greg good morning Greg how did your party get it so wrong uh that that that you didn't get a sense of of what the people of this country expected in terms of these referenda yeah we did get it wrong Greg you're right i mean four or five weeks ago there was a obviously as you'd expect a debate within our party and there was a strong view that the citizens assembly that was established by the governments the government ignored it went with a wording of their own um and we would have been leaning on calling for for no votes at a point in time but when we engage with you know the likes of family carers Ireland which is a major organization representing carers with the national women's council the points they made to us was that yes this is not what we wanted this is not what the citizens assembly said but we see this as a as a step in the right direction that we can build on so that was the argument they made to us so and they'd ask that we would you know look at a yes vote just to sort of have that step forward now this was the government's referendum and i've never seen i mean i'm sure you'd agree i've never seen a campaign by government ran so badly i mean if you looked around donny god there was no evidence of yes campaign but just but just before pure iron i know what you're talking about the government right but uh you are the opposition the biggest party in opposition and it's where that is where people look for an alternative voice uh shin fame backed for the most part what the government did through the pandemic for an example then one of the next big issues that were to come up was the change to our constitution on two points your party considered it and even if there were dissenting voices are a bit of disquiet amongst the party you come out and said we're voting yes yes even at the same time suggesting that this could be revisited after the fact if it were defeated so you can't you can't distance yourself from it now because you said yes yes what so so you're as culpable your party's as culpable as the government is just to be clear most of the opposition listened to the major organizations that represent women and carers in terms of this being a small step in the right direction i mean our instinct at a point in time when we were coming to a decision was to call for no votes but we listened to those campaigning groups and the problem is is that and and by the way those campaigning groups who represent carers and women were utterly failed by the government because they put a little bit of faith in the the step in the right direction argument but the government clearly had no confidence in their own proposition none whatsoever i mean i i say did you see a single yes poster across done you go did you see a single person for finna gale finna fall or the greens knocking on your door arguing the case that was absolute arrogant where was but was there not if your party endorses a yes yes which it did is it not the role of your party to to go out and explain to the electorate why you're taking that stance because i didn't see an awful fine people out in the media either absolutely and i'll tell you something greg i make no apologies like we didn't like i didn't put a single poster up and done you go i didn't canvas a single person in the county i mean what we listened to was the caring groups the women's groups who who said at a moment in time we were talking here about four or five weeks ago at that time it looked like this referendum might be able to pass they would see as a step in the right direction but it became clear as a campaign went on i've never seen anything like it normally why would the party not come out then at that point um poor again say look at on reflection we have actually now changed our stance and we're not endorsing a yes yes do you know what i mean you're not locked in uh you know you can't you could have adjusted your position and say actually you know what maybe we got this one wrong but still right up into poland day the party's official stance was yes yes yeah i listen greg like i actually have no difficulty in saying that we made the wrong call none whatsoever and like shin fain are not perfect but the real issues that matter to the people of donny gall greg and i know you know this are housing 100 redress for defective block families are a disaster of a health service you know if you look at disabilities cares in donny gall if you look at respite services you look at the issue with the counseling services recently the work we're doing with the children's disability network teams they're all the big issues in donny gall this is this this this was a referendum you have to have an opinion on in the moment in time we got it wrong i have no hesitation in saying that the other point is absolutely shin fain will not be rerunning uh this that was a misreporting of mary lee mcdonald i