Have yourself a good... Come back, Greg. Hi, Lee. Welcome back, Lee. Welcome back. How are you? Double troubles back. I would say the text machine was on fire this morning. Yes. What time's Greg coming in? Because we miss him. We love him. No. I mean, like, Lee, welcome back. I've got the love that you got this morning. Copper tea, coffee, everything. But what did Caroline say? That's only because it's the first day back. No more after that. Well, sure. That's nice to get you bedded in, isn't it? Nice. We're 90s June there. I went down a 90s rabbit hole last night, yesterday in the car, listening to 90s music. What are the ones stood out for you? Oh, Tone Lock. He might be late 80s. Funky Cold Medina. That's pretty good, eh? Yeah. You might play that tomorrow. On finish. Well, I wouldn't. Why? Third versus a bit dodgy. Why, what's dodgy about that? It's just the times moved on. Just go mad. Don't listen to the third versus dodgy, Greg Hughes says. Yeah. And the second versus two. That's all dodgy. Yeah. Well, it's innocent enough. Yeah. But do you know how we're very sensitive nowadays? Yeah. Well, I'm not. No, but some people. Society is. Yeah. I'm all right. Come here. Not all of the society up here were different. Yes. Anyway, did you enjoy your week off? Did I? What did you do? I got rid of the skip. Yay! Oh, she was loaded, daddy. I was going to send you a picture from the kitchen window. Yeah, I was. Mine's still not been collected, but it is full. Oh, no. They gave me to last Monday, but they must have forgotten about it. Now come on. So you had yours before mine. Do you know? It is crazy. God, I don't know. But to say, there's a statistic out there. One in five people uses other people's skips. They sneak stuff into it. That would be an urban environment, wouldn't it? That wouldn't happen, would it? You better wear, because people know now you have the skip. Well, I have one neighbor and I'll use it, but... Does he? I am related to him, so... All right, that's okay. Did he ask? Uh, not... No, he didn't, because he hesitated. It sort of went, can I put a few things in to the entire house? He's now sitting on top of the skip. Yeah, it's like my dad. Yeah, I'll just have a few things, and then he'll be sneaking down and lift the boot of the car. And she comes and says, What are you doing? I said, you need money for this, now. There you go. Let you go. All right, mate. Take care of yourself. It is the nightly noon show, and we'll get a news update now. It's over to Donald Kavanaugh. Hi, Donald. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. Two teenagers have been killed in a road crash in North in a show, and a third person was injured in the crash, which happened overnight near Duneddy. Four, here is Ifet Kearns. Emergency services were called to the scene at 12.45 this morning. The single vehicle crash happened on the Orr 238 at Terawee in Glen Ealy. An 18-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were pronounced dead at the scene. A third person in the car at the time has been taken to hospital with injuries, which aren't thought to be life-threatening. The Glen Ealy to Cull Daff Road is closed as guard the forensic teams prepared to carry out a full investigation. Local diversions are in place. Guard the in Bunkrana are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact them. Any road users who were travelling on the Orr 238 in the early hours of the morning between midnight and 1 a.m. and may have camera or dashcam footage is asked to make that available. Anyone with information asked to contact Guard the in Bunkrana, the Guard of the Confidential Line, or any Guard of the Station. More than four in 10 people want a home care scheme paid for by the person receiving the care and the state. That's according to a new poll by Sage Advocacy as the Commission on Care begins reviewing provision here. There are plans to introduce a statutory home care scheme which could involve a payment. Mark Millard is chair of Sage Advocacy. He says more than 8 in 10 of those surveyed believe home care is already concentrated on private providers. There's a surprising number who actually believed that too much of current care provision is provided by the private sector with very little and less than 20% provided by state. There's a huge support for the idea of a kind of NGEA for care whereby the institutions of the society and the community level should be more involved and more enabled to provide care. So you have that balance between government, between the markers and also between the society. It now seems certain an NGEA limit will be imposed on the use of e-scooters. The Transport Minister Emyn Ryan had initially ruled it out saying that without a mandatory edge card system here any law would be unenforceable. However, the Irish Examiner reports this morning the World Safety Authority, Guardi and the Justice Minister have intervened and e-scooters will be limited to over 16s when new laws are enacted. And there are fresh calls for a living wage to help combat poverty. Social justice Ireland says higher welfare rates and affordable state housing will help eradicate childhood poverty. Spokesperson Susanne Rogers says we're building up problems for the future by not addressing poverty issues now. Cheap, affordable, sustainable, social or public housing. That is also so necessary. I think if we're going to put a dent in any sort of child poverty figure there's been research done about children living in homeless accommodation who miss their milestones. These things are impossible to do when you're in a small hotel room. We are building up trouble for the future because we're not looking after these children really as well as we should do. Well the forecaster met here and tell us to expect scattered showers and occasional sunshine today. Some of the showers heavy with the possibility of spot flooding in places cool with top temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees Celsius in a moderate to fresh, westerly wind. And that's Highland Radio News. We're back with more at 10 o'clock. You can keep up to date on our website HighlandRadio.com. But for now from the news team, good morning. I'm a little confused because I have no idea what I'm thinking. I'm just trying to figure out what the solution is for the future. So my child, Punga i, I'll have to do the same for her. And I'm going to do it for her. I'll be doing it for her. And I'm going to do it for her to see what the future is. I'll have to do it for her. And I'll go and do it for her. So my child Punga i, I'll have to do it for her. launcher. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland radio. 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 to you. It's five minutes past nine on this Monday, the 6th of November 2023. How are you all keeping it? We hope you're very well indeed. You're very welcome along to another week of the 9 till noon show. And it's great to be back and a big thanks to Donald Kavanaugh, who as always steered the ship with great skill. And it's good to be back, though, as I say, and the lines are open 08 660 25,000. What's apps and texts to that number? Give us a call and 07 491 25,000. And if you want to email the program comments at highland radio.com, we've lots coming up as you can imagine. But if there's something that you want to talk about, something you came across at the weekend, maybe an act of kindness, anything you want to talk about or spread about the Northwest and beyond. All those contact details are good for that too, right? Let's look at the front of the newspaper. Start with the Dairy People, Donegal News, a six week review of Lederkenny University Hospital's emergency department got underway on Friday following concerns for patient safety. This comes after 78 GPs subsequently backed by 11 consultants and written correspondence to the Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly imploring him to take urgent action at the hospital's emergency department amid service collapse fears. And of course, whilst much of that letter was focused on the emergency department, particularly the cold consultants in adding a little bit more to the text said that this is a service collapse risk collapse risk is because of the amount of people that are leaving the hospital. And I'm sure many of you out there today who were under the guise of one consultant or another who no longer is at the hospital or wondering about your future treatment options, Sligo University Hospital, perhaps is going to be where you are going to have to go for endocrinology services for an example. A lot of people now left in the lurch. I'm not sure what this review of the ED will do in relation to that. It's much wider than that, but look at it is a start. And I asked during the week last week what people's work experiences were because people were having mixed experiences there. And some saying that the the wait had become much shorter or they would be moved around the hospital whilst waiting a bed off the chairs and all that. So I asked the people on social media if that was the case and some horror stories of people still enduring really bad experiences, obviously, as well. By the way, people have good experiences, but lots of people having bad experiences all as well. Well, the consultants and the GPs reading on here, they called on the minister and senior officials to step in and have an external review of the emergency department carried out and an action plan put in place regarding access to the department and acute services on to the dairy news this morning. Is this something that affects you? Dairy and Sturban District Council received a total of 556 noise complaints last year with the majority coming as a result of animal noise. Now that's an awful lot, isn't it? That's well in excess of one a day heading towards two a day. Animal noise accounted for 240 of the complaints. The second most common was music, televisions or parties with 91 other neighbour noises had sorry, other neighbour noise had 55 complaints making it the third most common. There were 34 complaints about entertainment premises putting it as the fourth most common construction sites, demolition work or road works was fifth with 18. On to the nationals now and the Irish and dependent Israel yesterday rebuffed growing international pressure for a ceasefire and said its forces had encircled Gaza City as the top US diplomat scrambled to contain a crisis that threatened to cause further escalation in neighbouring Lebanon. Gaza was was under unprecedented bombardment from Israel yesterday. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported while Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel said that all communication and internet services had once again been cut. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas joined international calls for an immediate ceasefire at a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken who was making an unannounced visit to the occupied West Bank. And I'm you know, there's a lot of people really need to get off their backsides and work a little bit harder here. 4,000 children have been annihilated, obliterated, murdered over the last well since October 7, 4,000 little children along with 6,000 adults, 10,000 in total. That's what we know of. And yet still the overnight bombardments the all day bombardments continue to wreak devastation and destruction on the primary the majority of people who are just innocence. Shocking stuff. After Mr Blinken repeated US concerns that a ceasefire could aid Hamas Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out that unless hostages held by Hamas were released, there will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages. This should be completely removed from the lexicon. I said there on to the Irish times and recruitment crises. You could call it I think in primary schools. Well, we have figures to show how bad it is 800 vacant teachers jobs in primary schools. An unprecedented shortfall of more than 800 vacant teacher posts across cross primary classes is undermining the education of pupils with the greatest needs according to a survey of more than 1000 schools. As a result, most schools say they're being forced to plug staffing gaps by redeploying special education teachers to cover for absent teachers in mainstream classes, leaving vulnerable pupils without support. Others are using unqualified staff or students to fill gaps at the survey of just over 1000 and 14. The survey of just over 1000 and 14 primary and special schools was 100 in 2015 was conducted in the first week of October by the Irish National Teachers Organization in conjunction with the Irish Primary Principles Network and the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association. Now, I'd imagine that the problem is more acute in the likes of Dublin, but it's not. We aren't immune to it up here either, of course. The Irish Daily Mail this morning, the number of people hauled into court this year over unpaid TV licenses has already surpassed the whole of 2022. There's been a massive increase in refusals to cough up for a license since the RTE scandal of a payments to Ryan Tubberley broke this year. Figures released to the mail show that on post has applied for 11,941 summons this year of which 10,413 were brought before a judge for the whole of 2022 on post applied for 14,915 summonses, but just 9,610 were heard. This means that 803 more people have appeared in court so far in 2023 with almost two months still to go. Are you still refusing to pay your TV license? If so, why have you had a knock on the door? Are you prepared to go to court? There's an awful lot of people who are refusing and I'm sure many of them are in our part of the world here. On to the Irish Sun this morning, Ukrainian refugees may face social welfare cuts and have to pay for their housing under new government plans. Officials aim to bring in measures before the end of this year in a bid to slow the numbers of those arriving from the war-torn country. Tshoklyov Radkar explained to media during his visit to Seoul, South Korea, that details are yet to be agreed by cabinet. He said that almost a third of the 500-800 Ukrainians arriving each week previously had temporary accommodation in another EU country. So there's between five and up to 800 Ukrainians have safety and security in another country, but they say, we're going to go over to Ireland now. He insisted that Ukrainians are still welcome here, but said measures are needed to cope with the large numbers. He told reporters any Ukrainian coming to Ireland is not going to be turned away. That's not going to happen. The situation that we have at the moment, though, is that the numbers have been very large. And this is particularly those who were safe in another country then coming on to Ireland, but we'll see. On to the Irish Daily Mail this morning. Sorry, it's the mirror. Miho Mardin wants to serve in another government after the general election. Speculation, although that being said, there is no other answer. If he was sitting in front of me now and I was to say to him, do you want to be in government after the next election? And he went, no. Where would it go from there? It would be very poor for Fina Falsal. Invariably, he's going to say that, of course, he wants to be in government after the next general election, even if he has an iron and other job. Speculation of the Tarnist future has prompted suggestions that he might seek to become Ireland's EU commissioner next year or could even contemplate running for the Irish presidency in 2025. Mr Mardin, whose party held It's Our Desh in Dublin on Saturday, which, interestingly, the Israeli ambassador attended as well. It was held on Saturday. He insisted he's still committed to politics and enjoys being involved in decision making within a government. He told RT, I'm going to leave Fina Falsal into the next general election. But as I say, obviously, that's what he's going to say. And finally, returning to the Middle East and Ukraine, both stories really combined here, the Israel war in Gaza is taking away the focus from the conflict in Ukraine and playing into the hands of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Vladimir Zelensky warned yesterday. He said the switch of attention from the conflict has also been the Russian president's aim. So he can act with impunity, speaking after a brief thing in Kiev with visiting European Commission President Ursula von De Leyen. Mr Zelensky said it's clear that the war in the Middle East is taking away the focus from Ukraine. He added that Russia wanted this focus to be weakened, but stressed that everything is in our power. And he's also appealing to the US for more weapons. And the US are busy, obviously in supporting Israel and also arming Taiwan up to the teeth as well. So they must be producing an awful lot of weapons in the United States at the moment. Okay, it's 9 15. It's the Ninclenoon show, as I say, text, WhatsApp's 08 660 25,000. That is the WhatsApp or text. If you want to send a voice message on that number, please feel free to do so as well. If that's your preferred means of communication, or give us a call in 07 491 25,000 and just a word to you. If you're listening on the podcast, or you are listening overnight, a very good morning to you, feel free to text in as well at that stage, and we can still carry the messages over to the next morning. So even if you're listening on delay, you can still be a part of the Ninclenoon show. Radio time for a break our next guest or a first guest, in fact, on the way very shortly. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letter Kenny, the 2022 Seastore National Off License of the Year. 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We woke this morning to terrible news that two 18 year olds lost their lives in a single vehicle collision in North Innishone. The crash happened near Glenealy shortly before midnight last night. A third person has been brought to hospital. The Glenealy to Cold Death Road is closed as God of Forensic teams prepare to carry out a full investigation and local diversions are in place. Councillor Martin McDermott is with us on the program this morning and Councillor McDermott, just shocking news primarily for the families of those who have been killed and injured but for the whole community it's awful. Yeah, good morning Greg. Yes, another sad morning here in Innishone this morning and particularly here in North Innishone with the news that two young people at 18 years of age, a fella and a girl have been lost their lives last night. Devastating for the whole community and particularly for the community in Glenealy. Very close-knit community out there and people work together in a very tight-knit community and they're devastated this morning but most of all for the two families and I want to give my condolences to both families and I'm sure on behalf of everyone, our condolences to both families it's a devastating news this morning to wake up to. Any parents or I mean you don't have to be a parent but I think particularly as a parent and especially you know when when they're driving or mobile then they are when they are young. It's just the worst nightmare just to imagine what those families are going through at the moment and when they got that news it's just absolutely devastating isn't it? Yeah it's your worst nightmare to have to get someone to knock on your door and tell you that something has happened and I've carried around the same age myself and you just you could not imagine that happening and someone coming to give you that news but sadly that's that's what has happened and I think you know what's important now that the community and I know the community in Goolili will rally around both families and do everything they can and all the community here in Northland I show and will do everything they can over the next days, weeks and months ahead for both families because it's going to be a very tough time for them particularly and but as I say we will and the people will do everything they can for them over the next period of time. Yeah and the young people's friends circle as well do you know what I mean it's just so much devastation week this morning. Yeah there's a big big friend circle there with with work and with school and with college and with everything else and and and say it's just it's devastating and it'll affect a lot of the children a lot of the people in that area and it'll affect you know school children and people out and about and it's just you can't put into words Greg you know the feeling the numbness that is felt in the community this morning and you know it's we just are hard felt to those both families that have to to deal with us today. Yeah and that's been felt right across the northwest. Councillor Martin McDermott thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you Greg, thank you. We do appreciate unfortunate circumstances to be speaking under though but just the Guardi of course are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact the many road users who were traveling on the r238 in the early hours of this morning between midnight and 1am so it's the timeline's been updated somewhat to after midnight especially if you've got a camera footage and it's not just of the incident itself it's just anything from that road at that time you're asked to make it available to Guardi and it's very simple you don't have to download it or edit it or anything like that there if you do happen to have dash cam footage local Guardi station and they will do all of that for you. Anyone with any information is asked to contact Bonkranagh Guardi Station on<PHONE_NUMBER> you can also contact the Guardi confidential line on 1-800-666-111 or any Guardi station for that matter and any information would be very important that single vehicle collision officially now updated sorry I read an older script it was involving one vehicle and it occurred at around 12 30 a.m in the early hours of this morning and does as a our deepest deepest condolences to everyone affected by that awful awful awful tragedy right okay Michael joins us on the program now Michael good morning to you thanks for taking the time to call talk to us good morning Craig you served with the UN in Lebanon in the Middle East and you you think we can put the what's happening into into Gaza into a bit of perspective yes we certainly can you know the time that I was there you know I have experienced you know the Arabs and I've experienced the Israelis and I've experienced the Arab Christians and I've experienced the PLO and their attitude towards no different factions and different peoples and I firmly believe even then going back you know 40 years ago that the radical Muslims wanted Israel just eradicated off the face of the earth and and I believe that that that's the way it is today you know that Hamas do not want any Jews living in Israel at all they just want them gone I'm not sure I don't think so that you know in Israel itself at the minute there's there's a million and a half Arab Jews living in Israel who settled them in Israel but Hamas as far as I'm concerned they're a terrorist organizations they're a genocide organization and they just want to eradicate the Jews they're not going to settle for a two-state solution they just want them gone Israel obviously because we can see with their actions and the indiscriminate nature of their bombing they clearly want to eradicate Palestine as well 4,000 children have lost their lives so far the 6,000 Greg this is this is the narrative that's being pushed by the media and it's the narrative that's been pushed all around the world except for some people right thinking people that can see through that narrative Israel has been Michael oh it's happening all right but it's in retaliation to Hamas going on to Israel yeah raping burning beheading children 1600 that's a retaliation to that you know the whole that the Hamas are holding their own people as human shields and in bondage and they have been holding them in bondage for the last 10 to 15 years since they they got rid of the the Palestine liberation organization they've they've been at this for a long long long time and so they do not want to do you think then so do you think the Israeli response has been proportional well how do you gauge proportion on the war asking well yes but there are rules to war as you well well after the war right when the Germans will just we'll give an example if you want examples i'll give you an example when the when the Germans and the Nazis bombed Britain during the war there was a hundred and fifty thousand English people lost their lives in the Blitz when Britain bombed Germany there was over two million innocent people that's that's what war is about yeah you know and i think they've been very as you have been but Michael do you not think when we we when we bring it down to this level of conversation and when we sort of try and put it into some sort of a historical context which you have um that doesn't take away from the fact that four thousand kids four thousand children have been blown to bits they're incapable of supporting Hamas they're incapable of being responsible in any way shape or form what the Germans did what the British did almost a hundred years ago that is almost also avoiding the actual reality that four thousand children have died in the last month i mean what what do you say what do you say about that because that's what's not being talked about in the media yeah well it has been talked about in the media because it's been it's there all the time so we're aware of it and nobody wants to see anybody day in the war RT have a have a reporter in israel interviewing people rollerblading around the city do you know what i mean that's that's the coverage that we're getting here if you want to sort of see now would you would you really but would you really believe anything that comes from rte no i'm not i'm not criticized in rte but i mean like there are other news outlets algis era for an example they have reporters inside gaza where you get more of a sense of what's actually happening but regardless surely michael what we need to be talking about is a cessation to this because at the moment israel is effectively driving the entire population of palestine to the south and they probably would love them out of of that area altogether we had the awful events of october 7th but rather than sort of justifying it or saying it's proportionate or disproportionate would you not like to see that that the world leaders actually go in and say right enough is enough we can't at this point continue to blow innocent people to bits israel was not the the aggressor here let's get that point across israel was not the aggressor here and israel hasn't been the aggressor any time there's a been a conflict in the middle east it's been the arab states and the arabs and the and the palestinians that have attacked israel all of the wars all of the wars right through you know from 1948 1967 1973 that's the major wars and the been the been skirmishes you know in between Hamas and the PLO and different organizations that have attacked israel israel has not attacked another country once but so so say for instance you talked about the historical context like when do you start history what about the formation of israel what about since then what about like the Hamas as far as i'm aware i don't have a massive presence in the west bank yet there are many people that have died at the hands of the israelis there you know what i mean it's not just this just this is the way to start in october 7th i didn't start in october 7th at all it started probably in 1880 or 1885 or 1890 it started away way back then you know and it was a u n it was a u n and before that it was illegal nations decided that israel should have a homeland when the jews were being exterminated and in europe and in germany like what do you what do you want the jews to do what do you really really what does people want the jewish nation to do walk walk away from israel is that what they want them to do or do you want them to sit in israel and let arab countries bomb them day in and day out and do nothing what what what does the people want them to do so you actually see almost exclusively here the israelis as the victims i'm not saying these no there's victims there's all victims in conflict we've heard that numerous times in ireland there's always innocent victims in conflict nobody wants to see conflict nobody wants to see wars i don't want to see any wars you know and if you think people have experienced people day and then wars are people day and through you know military conflict you don't want to see that happening you don't want to see children day and you don't want to see elderly people you don't want to see anybody day and but what i'm saying is they have to be they have to be a balance here you know but do you not think i'm actually in the media coverage michael i'm not sure which media you consume do you not find that the the media coverage is really quite pro israel because that's the impression i get now i'm not saying it should be anti israel but i don't i don't see i don't see for example they just announced a certain amount of people that have been killed and overnight bombing there's no differentiating them between innocent civilians and members her mass you know it's just a figure that's thrown out and it's the idf and all of their information that's provided to the media that is printed or reported pretty much unchallenged so i would argue michael or not argue but debate you know what i mean that the coverage that we are getting is actually really quite pro israel rather than balanced so where am i wrong no i think you're wrong and i think you're wrong in the sense that whenever they were covering you know the initial october the seventh attack on israel the genocide on israel it's a genocide what they don't you know what i'm asked only when i'm on the the new deleted people and israel and that's exactly what they don't and we had people actually we had people and don't even go out celebrating that waving palestinian flags and our mass flags that's crazy second did you so you're telling me now hand on heart you saw people waving hamas flags in donning all hamas flags of course i'll tell you what all you had to do was go to the meetings that were the the marches that wasn't letter kenny the marches that were all around different flags to be honest with you i didn't say any hamas flags but if you say you saw them well the around of the gaze of of of palestinian flags yes i was but it wasn't hamas flags yeah but it wasn't hamas flags you saw it was palestinian flags i mean we're talking about uh the media here we have to get things right and and accurate um but you speak so passionately michael and i understand it and i'm not calling out and you speak so passionately about the atrocity the awful awful events of october seventh but when i mention what's happened subsequently you know you know what i mean you don't seem as emotionally invested in ten thousand innocence being carpet bombed in gaza is that not part of the problem that people are taking sides in something where we should all take a stand back and say it's all horrendous and it all needs to stop and there has to be a solution to this because to be honest with you you could argue that either side wants to wipe the other side out and that israel would love its country to to border the sea on it's uh you know what i mean it's not maybe i understand that yeah yeah and i'll tell you what you know you said that i wouldn't be passionate about you know the the ten thousand people i would be everybody's passionate about ten thousand you know uh palestinians saying as ten thousand israelis you know conflicts an awful thing it is you know what i mean and you know i don't think you should level up that at me no well i wouldn't do it i i'm trying to be balanced of course michael and i wouldn't i wouldn't do it unless we hear you and i'll beg a quick i'll beg a question here now do you yeah great as for the israelis left their arms down tomorrow after left their arms down tomorrow what would happen they have to probably would uh be be further attacks like which we saw in october 7th yes if the palestinian people lay their arms down will the same happen well michael you you would know that there are people i'll ask you a quick no i've asked you a question what do you think great i'm not i don't feel i'm qualified to speak on it to be honestly but i do know that up until now up until the events of october 7th which could never be justified that the palestinians would say that uh they were being killed left and right and centered by the israelis it just wasn't being it just wasn't being reported the Israelis have never said that they want to eradicate the muslim people or the arab people they've never ever ever said that neither have hamas has hamas has yes they have but you know they certainly speak for the palestinian people on block but that's exactly we understand that because they're holding the palestinian people in bondage we like and the sooner the people realize that and waking up to that that the palestinian people and gaza and and the you know are being held have been held in bondage like in terms of being held in bondage and again like i i i be hasn't talked about things i don't have experience of or or understand but has the people of palestine not effectively been and it's been generally accepted to be uh bonded by israel in an open air prison uh effectively where their water is regulated their fuel is regulated their imports are regulated their abilities to produce or export is regulated uh so have the palestinians not been living in that enclave uh effectively in bondage at the hands of of israel and the west for many many generations if you go back to the start of the conflict you know when you have to go back to everybody goes back and back and back and back you know you know that the the palestinians that are living now and and gaza are there because of the conflict the previous conflicts when a two-state solution was offered to the palestinian people they didn't want it they don't want they do not want a two-state solution and that's the bottom line and they do not want a two-state solution israel israel has offered that on numerous occasions a two-state solution and they don't want it and this is where the problem lies they do not want a two-state solution they want israel out of israel they want there's really people gone and this is where the problem lies and it's not all it's not all the palestinian people are all our nations around them because there's a lot of nations around and support israel and wanted a two-state solution but uh aran doesn't want it probably syria doesn't want it and you know there's a there's a few other radicals see as the solution michael there's there's only one way it can be as a two-state solution there's no there's no other solution and that's as simple as that there is no other solution and there can't be any other solution other than a two-state solution you can you historically you can see israel belongs to the jews and you can you can see that historically uh the land that they call palestinia now or or some people call palestinia but as israel belongs to the arabs which it was arabs well you would see you you would see historically how the how israel has been encroaching in that territory over the last number of decades well they've had the encroach and it because they were getting bombed from the west bank they were getting bombed from the golden heights they're now getting bombed from south lebanon back in the back back in the 67 war they were encroached by egypt jordan syria and you know that was a seven-day war you know they had to defend themselves what what did you want what does people want them to do just sit back and let all these Arab nations come on them and wipe them out they have to defend themselves and like they have a right to be there as well as the same right as the Palestinians have to be there okay you know unfortunately they can't live in peace because it's islamic jihad has taken place out there all right michael thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it that's michael and his views there congratulations to that caller michael who's standing up for israel and telling the truth about what's going on i'm shocked that the biased highland radio let him on air all right um we hear all views on this broken but anyway that's your view and i've read it out who was on the land before israel set up says a caller palestine was the biggest country in the middle east during world war two israel is pushing the people of palestine out of their native country in the west bank and make israel just a jewish country greg you are calling for israel to declare a ceasefire yet hamas does not want a ceasefire well it depends on what reports you hear in relation to that but i don't again know enough to get into that but i have heard reports that mass wants a ceasefire but either side i mean listen israel wants a mask on at this point that's what they're stating tell michael this is not a war it's the slaughter of the innocent children another can you please ask the current caller to open a history book absolutely appalling listening to that opinion when a dog on the street can see what is happening there michael does not know his history another israel was the aggressor when they stole palestine land and houses israel is bombing jordan syria every day says another what does michael want the palestinians to do stain concentration camps many of these points are put to michael as well who's of a view that some people would agree with ask that man how israel was set up another get that man off the air who was holding the palestinian people without food water etc how can he condone children being killed he may be a soldier but that does not give him any credit another the two state solution was offered it was never offered sorry israel was founded on palestinian land they threw palestinians out of their homes and moved in hi greg oh sorry that's a separate one on a separate issue all right listen thanks very much for all your comments call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six reply online via our app or in office today looks like we're in for a 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media smart brought to you by media literacy island supported by your local radio station okay you're welcome back to the program so we put an inquiry in with the hsc that reads as follows i'm wondering if you have any additional information on the fact that the letter kenny hospital crisis is now impacting elderly patients waiting to go into respite at st joseph's community hospital in strunaller these elderly people who are used to st joseph's now are being sent to private nursing homes when it is their week for respite this is ridiculous and unfair just because the management at letter kenny hospital cannot get their act together does not mean that poor elderly people should be farmed out to places that they are not used to going now this is the the the views of a listener that we sent to the hsc many of them have built relationships with the staff at st joseph's and know what to expect consistency is important for most of them st joseph's is now accepting over 65 year olds from the overflow at letter kenny hospital this is not even safe for the current residents of st joseph's hospital this is exactly what happened in new york during covid when ill patients were brought into nursing homes so many died because of it there are other contagious illnesses apart from covid the hsc in response all efforts are being made by the older person service to support older people availing of respite in donagol at the same time the service must also offer post acute hospital care to those older people who need a continued level of support in order to facilitate the demand for both respite and post acute care some respite services are now provided in private nursing homes within the area all of which are registered facilities with hikwa and have the ability to provide the required care level this will be kept under review on an ongoing basis sirene burn joins us now ireen i mean we've outlined the scenario and we've outlined the hsc's response yeah i mean my our main concern as a family is why are they disrupting a system that is effective and in place it's in joseph's to make way for patients to come in from the overflow at letter kenny when those patients can go directly to the spots that are available in the other private nursing homes so for example my dad instead of going back into st joseph's in a couple of weeks has been given and it's only 10 minutes up the road has been given an assignment at a private nursing home up above the hospital in letter kenny and i don't understand why it is that they have to disrupt something that works well at st joseph's and it's a good system and there are so many people that come in for their cycle of care they know the staff the staff know them they know the system and now they're being turned away from st joseph's that's somewhere they've never been before and the patients from st joseph's are from letter kenny hospital are going into st joseph's has it been explained to you as to why why they can't go directly yeah has it been explained to you why people aren't moved from letter kenny university hospital to the closer larissa lodge and allow the regular respite at st joseph's to continue because obviously larissa is larissa lodge is closer to luh than st joseph's absolutely and that's that's our question and we don't know who made that decision and why the decision was made so to help us understand more can you tell us what your dad's situation is and how the respite care works if that's okay i think yeah so absolutely absolutely my dad is a lovely wonderful 91 year old man and he's lived a great life and just over the past few years he's needed additional help with mobility and getting around and so we do qualify for the perideal scheme and we went through all of that paperwork and we have hsc support minimal support in the morning a little bit of lunch and again at the end of the day is it yes this is at home absolutely and then and then we have additional support that we put in place as a family pardon me for him so that week of respite is really an opportunity for my mother who is 87th and it's a darling and this is me and caregiver it's a little week for her to challenge her about trisel firing exactly exactly and we as a family you know i live in the states my sister lives in the states my brother lives in london we rotate through about every eight or nine weeks one of us is always there as support and i wish we could do it more but it's just the fact that we had this week set up and when i called saint joseph they said oh no all respite is counting because of the crisis in letter kenny why are we allowing the crisis in letter kenny to impact saint joseph that should not be happening they're separate places they should keep the well-established program working and letter kenny hospital will do what they need to do with those you know fit to be discharged patients that need to go in to assist nursing i know it might seem obvious Irene but but if your father gets and he'll get very good care in loresa lodge i think we can both agree on that why yeah of course but why is that not a preferred option for you like what impact might you have is it in terms of visiting him is it in terms of familiar surroundings why is that option because it's a new place yet again for someone to have to get used to you know when you've gone in somewhere and you get to know the staff and they get to know you and you know the routine it's very comforting i mean no one probably really wants to be in respite and some do but most don't and just be able to go into a comfortable place where you're well taken care of and i know that loresa lodge is a very good reputation it's not about that it's just why put somebody in sort of foreign people out to an unfamiliar place where you can keep the system that's working farming people and that's a bit unfortunate too because those those are other people's that's an unfortunate phrase goes those are other people's families as well do you know what i mean and hopefully that's their absolutely that's their pathway to getting home they're not animals do you know what i mean yes no absolutely and i think that better care should be taken of every single elderly person and unequal in fact around the entire country but just should sort of arbitrarily deciding that where we're going to stop this respite and we're going to take these people and put them in there it just doesn't make any sense all right another listener one system yeah another listener says my dad lives in lifford and goes to st joseph's and strunola for respite we recently got letters to say his respite is in letter kenny we have no car if he needs anything we'll have to pay a tax and it's just not possible for us even convoy would have been closer to us not everything is centered around letter kenny no thought has been given to families who have to travel even we get a bus we would still need a return taxi to and from the mountaintop it's so unfair why are families being punished like this another my mom goes to st joseph's for respite once every eight weeks this week we got notified that she'll now have to go to letter kenny there was a ward in st joseph's fully refurnished refurbished and now it's become a changing room it's ridiculous why this room can't be used for respite is beyond me there is plenty of room and staff so what is the excuse there are loads of families in this situation who took a lot of time to get our mom settled into st joseph's now we have to do it all over again in another strange place change is not easy for some elderly people especially older people with dementia i've spoken to other family members in the same boat who have no form of transport to get to letter kenny another why can these patients in letter kenny who need a long-term bed not be sent to the nursing home in letter kenny instead of forcing us in the lyphid area to travel to letter kenny so you know that's four or five families there in the same situation Irene is your family and i suppose too there can be some contentment i suppose there has to be during respite because you know everyone has to look after themselves and get their batteries charged as best as possible but when it's in a new place and there's other other anxieties thrown in maybe to some extent the whole purpose of the respite is lost because someone spends that week feeling anxious and i don't know guilty or whatever emotions people might have yeah yeah no absolutely it's just so unfair and you know i've been in st. joseph and i've seen this you sort of have a little cohort of people that come in at the same time and and you know they're it's so nice because everybody knows them and everyone knows to make them a cup of tea and they know everybody and there's just the familiarity and knowing the routine and where you're going to be next and what you're doing i mean that's a big part of it it's really hard to go somewhere that you're not used to and it's just it's so unfair it's just so unfair and unnecessary yeah i i suppose though have they set st. joseph's up though as a place now specifically for you know post post-hospital care that maybe can't be provided in a number of different premises do you know what i mean if we are going to try and address these prices get people out of hospital that does have to be a dairy set you know we're like almost like a center of excellence and that's not to any that's not speaking down any other nursing home i'm just trying to think of the logic here Irene yeah well i mean definitely what the hsc said last week and what they said was that everyone that has been sent to these nursing homes is a fit to be discharged patient who no longer needs care as a kidney hospital they need support yeah so so i think that you know and all of that somewhere like lorosa lodge is a skilled nursing facility as well so you know again so do you see there's one thing the complication is this though Irene you know st. joseph's can't take everyone so let's say hypothetically god forbid your father needed hospital treatment and needed to be discharged to a community hospital would you be on saying well why is he not being discharged to st. joseph's why is he being discharged from hospital to lorosa lodge do you know what i mean it's another there comes a point where there is just not enough capacity to do everything to suit everybody and i mean that with no badness in my heart i read i hope you understand it's just to tease the convo out yeah it is to be quite honest is that they don't need to disrupt one system just because the system and that you're coming to hospital doesn't work and that's basically what they're doing and my fear is that there are so many families that will not be able to get to where the new place that they're assigned and they won't get their week and that's awful and you know one of the things that i noticed that st. joseph's as well was that there are a couple of people that come in and they come in and you know they might be elderly people living at home i don't know their story yes but they come in and they're taking care of us for a week and they get their meals and they get their cup of tea and they get someone to talk to and you know it's talk about respite i mean that's that's that's a whole new breath of life for them you know and some of them may not be able to get to anywhere else yes okay so we've just we totally disrupted that system and i just think that needs to be looked at why do we have to let let us any hospital impacts in joseph's we shouldn't allow it understood iran and i hope you know you've been heard i appreciate your time and best wishes to your dad and the rest of the family okay thank you very much you appreciate it okay iran bye bye take care all right quick break back with the weather the night till noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your 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the whole area they're arresting small children all the time as for the beheading children they don't exist october 7th was an inside job well i wouldn't agree with that either i do understand that some of the the reporting of what happened on october 7th it was absolutely horrific but not all the reporting was accurate which doesn't in any way take away from that awful awful situation right okay we are an hour in thank you so much by the way for all the welcome backs and all the messages and for all the interactions we're going to be back with more in the nine till noon show after the news at 10 letting you skip the queue and skip the worrying about getting everything you need for the perfect christmas now available nationwide visit dumpstoresgrocery.com to find your nearest store make christmas for everyone at dumpstores subject to availability terms and conditions apply big and stay tuned to erwin expert electrical on social media for the exciting daily deals all eligible for the 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bereaved of families and i would like to offer them my most sincere condolences at this very tragic time more than four in ten people want a home care scheme paid for by the person receiving the care and the state that's according to a new poll by sage advocacy as the commission on care begins a review of services here there are plans to introduce a statutory home care scheme that could involve a payment mark melis is chair of sage advocacy he says more than eight in ten of those surveyed believe home care is overly concentrated on private providers there's a surprising number who actually believed that too much of current care provision is provided by the private sector with very little and less than 20 percent provided by state there's a huge support for the idea of a kind of NGA effort here whereby the institution civil society at community level should be more involved and more enabled to provide care so you have that balance between government between the markers and also between 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chance to leave encourage them Hamas then to stay what like you have to imagine we talk about difficulty in accessing hospitals no bus services and all that type of stuff you know as well as many many people who were in hospital that can't be moved and if they happen to be moved you don't know if the ambulance is going to be attacked and if you have someone sick in a hospital would you leave would you flee or would you stay there's still 400 000 people there I don't think it's for I don't think it's because they want to I think it's because they feel they have to the majority of people worldwide do not support Hamas they are empathetic to innocent people being subjected death and destruction by a superior military force maybe Michael should learn a bit more about the non-Israel settlers who have been killing Palestinians for decades and taking their lands by force his knowledge on the history's mediocre the land was called cannon in big biblical times is that man if that man was on a united nation's peacekeeping force then he doesn't sound very impartial poor Greg is getting tied in knots no I'm not getting tied in knots at all I'm really reluctant to comment about something or that I am not fully aware of and I don't think there's too much of that going on we do see people in this country they're assembling in a panel to discuss the intricacies of why this is happening and why that's happening and you know they've read those opinions elsewhere so I'm not in knots literally just trying to tease out the conversation but not say anything that I don't genuinely have an understanding of but I appreciate your comment Greg there are two or three sides to every conflict and you me and most people here in Ireland even our government don't understand the situation in those countries look at how this is exactly what was happening right through the Old Testament the actions are abominable but there is a great lack of respect for life unborn life here in our own country and everyone just turns a blind eye don't say there's no correlation there is just no Christianity the man that man's making my blood boil he's completely wrong Israel is an apartheid state Palestinians living in an open air prison while the world looks on Palestinian children were being murdered every day by Israeli soldiers as well as many others he's saying children being beheaded by Hamas which I didn't hear because I would have corrected at that time this has since been corrected as being total lies he needs to get his facts right many many prominent Jews are totally against the war it is the Zionist Jews supported by America who want all Palestinians out of Gaza for good it is part of the greater Gaza plan look it up excellent independent journalists like John Pilger and Jonathan Cook will enlighten him and on it goes thank you keep them coming I will take a break now though for the obituary notices because I know many of you are waiting patiently for them the county's number one 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Gemma or myself here at McGee's Pharmacy on Main Street Letter Kenny Santa Claus speaking it's me Santa your trusty elf I've got an urgent message from Coonies Christmas Shop oh my golly goodness what's happening at Coonies well Santa they've gone all like this year their Christmas décor is bigger and better than ever visit Coonies Christmas Shop Letter Kenny retail park and feel the magic of Christmas Santa proved the 9 till noon show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union seasonal loans now available for Christmas apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account 08 660 25000 is the WhatsApp and text number we're joined on the program now by Athena Full Councillor Patrick McGowan good morning Patrick thanks for taking the time out morning Greg right okay we've been talking um well well you've been discussing or making inquiries on the issue we were discussing a little bit later on what what have you learned or what have you found out oh well it's just um at the moment that there's an embargo on the moment and to do with the force of dispute with them some of the services on the HSE so I'm finding it very very difficult to get to get responses back have been sent out queries this last couple of weeks and been very little back but what I can say very much agree with that Lady had on earlier that I've been getting calls all the time including even yesterday there from from local families who avail of the the the respite and much needed the respite because sometimes there's families that have nobody at home you know they might only be one or two in the family and they're they'll be working on their way so the the respite are are vital in them cases and then again there's a very difficult home home care packages available at the moment as well so people are very much dependent on the here in this area on St Joseph's and I have been here as well now that the St Joseph's that's been used now is to step down from the Lerrackenny hospital and that one was right that they're they're moving people from the Lerrackenny catchment area or it's an order for a step down and then while there's people within the Thun Valley area let's say that need respite they've been told then to go to Norsen's homes over in the say the Lerrackenny area do you have any sympathy do you have any sympathy for the HSC in trying to keep all of these balls in the air that's you know they need one dedicated not not not really and and and and you know I know it's not easy as a slag of beds but you know apparently the beds are there so what they're doing is the respite who are people that don't need any more medical attention they've been sent to St Joseph's where where's the people that do get medical intervention and they give us a this not only gives the family a kind respite map but it also catches up on on you know the do get medical attention as well so like why why is there and the people from St Orlitz to Lerrackenny and then then stepped down yeah but you're asking the same question you're asking the same questions that our listeners are asking do you have any answers no I don't because the the problem is people have been commenting is that the last couple of weeks but apparently the force union has said to include counselors with them that this isn't in Bagel they're not even out and the same was that we've actually once we go on was to do with the kind of cancels now that it's to the as well so it's time to get through the various moments officers what they always tried to do to get back to the spouses all right cancer unfortunately that line has just just gone for us but we get your point Jennifer good morning to you good morning Greg it's not just St. Joseph's Community Hospital you're saying well we my father log was into Remelton Community Hospital and and first of all it's September we were told there was no beds for him due to the extra influx coming from that our Kenny Hospital and then October we've been cancelled or October respite we sort of had to change your ground a bit now did it offer us again to go to different respite location but my father-in-law has dementia and we said no way we we it's either he lives with us or Remelton's excellent and he's just to go in there so we he's not going anywhere we're holding on until they come back to tell us basically that they that they were able to take him again right have you been given any indication on the the time frame for this service not to be available in Remelton was it was the wording to suggest at this time or going forward Jennifer no just well she said at this time at this time due to the lack of beds so I said well sure keep me updated now for going forward for November December if anything comes available so that's how we left it but because of your father-in-law and what you know to be best for him he's have lost the respite effectively I mean it was offered in a different location but you know that's not good for him it's not no we just wouldn't call us very protective but just with his routine and what he knows I mean people he knows his friends are in Remelton he knows people people know him in Remelton we wouldn't be comfortable to end with him somewhere else and plus we weren't going to be in the country we had a holiday plan understood so there would have been nobody we wouldn't have been there to visit them or to go in if anything had happened so the so you know we had now they did take him in September because we were going away but we've left it now that that will just wait for Remelton again wow okay all right listen Jennifer thanks for helping us to get an insight into it and best wishes to your father-in-law and the whole family thank you okay thank you take care right a lot of you have been commenting since we heard from Michael the two-state solution was never offered by Israel sales one listener and here's a voice note someone commenting on what we heard from Michael there your caller there that's on online at the minute has absolutely no sense of what's going on when the IRA were bombing Ireland and Northern Ireland and England did the UK come in and demolish Belfast or Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland no they didn't all right if you want to have your say via voice note 08 660 25 thousand Greg that man is the first time I've heard anyone publicly asking for people to see Hamas for what they are i.e. they want to terminate the Jewish people yes Israel are Goliath of course but Hamas have only one goal and will never accept a two-state solution so therein lies the problem Greg get that man off the radio if he served as a UN Peacekeeper for the Irish Army his pension should be stopped immediately another good morning Greg that gentleman Michael clearly well informed man every word is valid and while he says Greg sorry but the discussion is clearly showcasing Michael's knowledge of what is the truth of this conflict going back many years again another sets of opinion right okay thank you very much for all of that as I say on any issue at all feel free to send in your voice notes as you can hear it's a good way of getting your views across 08 660 25 thousand right okay let me see people who don't pay their TV license of no case it is the law just like car tax oh have to renew my car tax thank you for that it is the law just like car tax and household charge citing perceived misappropriation of funds by RTE is not a defence and if it is proved that you don't hold a current license a judge has no option but to convict it's not worth all that hassle and we do need a public service broadcaster whatever its faults if we didn't contribute RTE it would depend on commercial sponsorship in such cases we may not get independent unbiased information remember he who pays the Piper calls the June and some people would say the government calls the June because it pays the Piper but anyway that's another situation right okay Kevin's with us now hi Kevin one has won I'm all right I'm okay right we're highlighting the problem of litter Kevin what what did you come across well weekend there we found multiple bags that was a nappy and stuff it was long before us there at Alston and on the cyber six spun bags full of rubbish so you know just dumped there just dumped at the side of the road I along the forest whereabouts is this just sorry I didn't ask you at the beginning it's on the back road there between Alston and Cool Boy have you turned on the back on the station there's long that forest there household rubbish obviously mostly I showed now a lot it was a lot it was a nappies and takeaway wrappers and stuff like that but mostly nappies my words horrible mess too with birds get at that and stop breaking it open it can cause an awful mess or any animals for that matter yeah I want to talk about that your daughter she's just 11 years of age she shouldn't have to but she did spend the end of her Halloween holidays cleaning up someone else's mess so yours yesterday just again like the whole thing up again tonight this morning and then the way the school again the road's just seen there's a lot of rubbish lying again overnight again a lot of bottles and cans and stuff like that but used to clean-ups don't you you and your daughter with others that wouldn't be unusual to come across bottles and cans and what have you bottles and cans and that's fairly common like Caleb and maybe an hour every Saturday morning should I go out and get a little bit but not so much the band back just kind of a new one as people people come out and sort them down guys as well next year yeah okay fair play to her by the way just generally having an interest in keeping the area clean where does that come from not only and I don't know where she gets her from though but hey so it just has an interest in the environment she likes to keep the place clean and lock on good times fair play to her what do we do though Kevin because you know we hear these cases all the while and I'm sure as we speak there are other people probably taking their phone out to text spotting something similar in their area across the region how do we get through to people that this is just completely unacceptable behavior because we can't have you know we can't have little wardens on every by road and corner road you know to keep an eye on this but how do we get the message through not so hard but I'm not sure whether they could start looking at the young ones like are we in what happened from the young not this one Rob is right the one every see Rob is around pick it up and put it in the bin like it's as easy as pick it up and put it in the bin as it is if it's on the ground yeah like a lot of I'd say the bun bags don't seem to be the locals we haven't seen the bun bags they have names on their ass not going to mention them understood but that's not local we have the names on their ass here it's not local as people come out and be from the town driving five or six miles they're putting them bun bags in the boots they're putting paper on the garden they drive out the conch side of them labels for 10 or 11 euro fine I could just have my band label put the rubbish the band again it left it well that's the easier option but what are you going to do with that info would you pass it on to the guards or do you not want the hassle or what are you going to do I don't think we'll be much on about it we'd rather just let the rubbish get it just pours out out of there and just keep the screen up we're not we're not locking the punnies going to be far but just just tell them to yeah look at the economy of it you're you're driving out out of town into a rural area how much you're spending on petrol versus how much you've been in tag is the world needs more Kayla's Kevin thanks very much for helping us spread the message and we just appeal to appeal to the we just say thanks to the council Kevin Bradley there as well we put up the post yesterday we're tagged a couple answers on the post and Kevin was the first man to come back this and says we'll get the rubbish collected tomorrow morning so I just want to say thanks to Kevin for that all right for a play credit where it is due thank you very much indeed and best wishes to Kayla and the rest of the family thanks Kevin 08 660 25000 if you want to get in on that conversation there Greg condolences to the families of the two young people who lost their lives in North Innes show and this morning God love them all other families and their friends that's coming in from Mary there indeed it's I think we can all join in that right so I'm going to take a little break and we're going to be back with our next guest after watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at highland radio.com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie Greg Folgerarland.ie 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restricting smartphone use for children under 13 which should be adopted by all primary schools and agreed on by all parents using mobile phones we know can have multiple effects in children well a leading psychologist is warning parents of the dangers of mobile devices on the mental and physical health of young children and teenagers she is chartered psychologist Catherine Hallisey and joins us now good morning Catherine good morning it's great to have you back on the program what are the impacts of mobile phone use on on young people that we know of because I mean I think some of it's obvious and their attention is away their head stuck in a phone you can see the white on their face it doesn't feel right right but I mean in the in the medium to long term do we know yet what the impact of prolonged use of these devices actually is that's such an important question the research is not conclusive simply because we don't have enough longitudinal data and rather than demonizing phones I prefer to look at each aspect in isolation and to see the impact on overall well-being so we know that more time spent on phones is means that there's less time moving your body and we know that physical activity is incredibly protective for everybody's mental health children, teenagers, adults so anything that is reducing your physical activity there's an opportunity cost here that we need to talk about we also know there are studies that show that excessive phone use leads to sleep deprivation the vast majority of teenagers will sleep with their phones on beside them in bed so many teenagers who come to my clinic tell me that they do actually check their phones right throughout the night there are friends reaching out to one another because their drive is to connect with one another at that age that's their developmental task but anything that negatively impacts sleep we know is detrimental to mental health because a good night's sleep is so so protective it helps to reduce anxiety ordinary every day anxiety but also over the long term sleep deprivation actually has a very negative impact on mental health so in the first instance it can be tough to sort of not you know to completely withhold a mobile phone we'll get to that in a moment so at the very least if parents guardians say don't take your phone to bed or no phones after a certain time and it's sitting on the kitchen table for you when you get up in the morning that in and of itself would be really quite effective presumably in preserving the sleep cycle very much so I'm not a fan of demonizing anything it's simply about examining it and getting more and more intentional so I recommend that every single person children and adults do not take their phones into their rooms I did that a few years ago I stopped taking my phone into my room and I got an alarm clock and it had a hugely beneficial impact are you gonna what what it's not the 1930s an alarm clock and you know but can you get facebook on it it stopped the dreaded roll and scroll you know turn off the alarm check the phone guilty of it myself 15 20 minutes and you know depending on what's in the particular news cycle you could start your day incredibly stressed by what you're seeing on your phone yeah so again I'm talking about isolating all the potential impacts so we know the roll and scroll makes you lose time so it reduces productivity but it also can greatly impact your mood and then you go out and you try and connect with your family members but you're already in bad form so again it's not about phones are bad it's about how we use them needs to be examined so that we can optimize but I think that's a reasonable compromise for all of us isn't it you know and for all the reasons you've outlined that you wake up in the morning maybe you want to hop out of bed to get to your phone I don't know but you're not impacted straight away by something negative or what have you you have a good night's sleep and then you still have access to your device during the day and of course that's all age dependent but as I say I think that's that's a fair enough compromise for your own well-being yeah I look I'm only interested in following the data I'm not interested in any hand wringing or demonizing anything or making anyone feel bad so for anybody listening here and they've already bought a phone for their child I'm not saying that's bad I'm simply saying we need to get ahead of it we need to really think about how we use it and I do a lot of work with adults around managing their own screen use this isn't just about children it's about us we always need and this is the hard part for anyone listening we need to start with ourselves think about the type of phone use you are modeling because you cannot expect more from your child than you expect from yourself yeah I just sometimes feel that these devices are so integrated into our lives now that it's almost a tide that can't be pushed back but we can't allow that to not allow us to give our children the best starts that we can so I think the idea of whatever way this legislation or whatever form this takes you know people might say oh well parents shouldn't need you know the government to step in this that and the other but I think it makes it easier for them to relate you know the argument to the children because at the moment if you've got a class of 20 11 year olds right 19 have a phone and you want to take the stand with your child it puts everyone in a very difficult situation if there was sort of a uniform acceptance that they shouldn't have a phone well then it makes you it makes your job a little bit easier and I think maybe that's where this legislation or guidance or whatever it might be becomes very useful now that is so spot on so I have an online membership for parents called weekly in parenthood and every single time the mobile phone question comes up in the group there are some parents in the group whose schools actually have this in place this voluntary charter that the parents can sign up to where they agree not to get their child to phone when they're in primary school it's totally voluntary but what these parents have said is I hear it so often I'm so glad this is one less thing for us to worry about I'm so glad that I don't have to navigate the thing of I'm the only one in my class who doesn't have Snapchat and you know there are very real social consequences if your child is the only one there is and then that's what happens with the parents and guardians you see then you sort of start saying right I don't want them to have a phone because it'd be quite a negative impact but then standing your ground on that you start wondering well what is the impact on them are they being excluded is it affecting them psychologically in a different way so you know even if you want to be that parent you're in a catch 22 yeah and I have been that parent and I can tell you it did have a social impact and does have a social impact however what I say to my children look you know unfortunately for you I know the research unfortunately for you this is my bread and butter it's my day in day out and I think what has happened is because phones are such a part of all of our lives we can almost feel helpless as parents and we can think oh well they need to be digitally literate or they need to have these skills or I don't want them to feel left out but if you're making the choice like let's say your school doesn't have this in place and you're making the choice not to have a phone you then need to commit to other ways to support their social interaction so that's what I've done I live in the countryside so I've said okay I just need to be totally okay with dropping them here there and everywhere to meet their friends I need our house to be the house where people come and hang out you know so on I have five kids so on Fridays there are 10 children here every Friday you know because everybody will bring a friend over and that's just the choice that I've made not everybody can make that choice I'm not saying these are perfect choices but you kind of see an interesting uh dynamic I would say on a Friday because I presume none of the children have a mobile device or access to them so you get to observe the creatures in the wild so to speak but you know how they interact and how quickly you know the habit of looking down and going with your finger how that gets replaced by activity that perhaps you know people of my age would be more used to as a child do you see that do you observe that definitely and you know children are incredible children are so adaptable to whatever is in place in the house and again like it's so important that anybody listening here realizes that there is no directive for me saying this is what you should do or this is what you shouldn't do the only should I'm talking about is reflecting on your own values so what do you want for your children so my dream for my children is that childhood is extended for as long as possible that I minimize their exposure to adult content before they're developmentally ready that play is protected because again I know the research on play and psychological well-being I know the research on in-person connection with family members and pets about how that has a positive benefit on psychological well-being so the future isn't guaranteed for any of us but all I'm interested in is stacking the odds in their favor and that's what I want for every child of course it's my job as a psychologist this is what I want I want parents to be empowered so that they can stack the odds in their child's favor and the parents can genuinely feel empowered that the little things they're doing actually have a long-term benefit and up until now we've kind of been talking about simply the interaction even if we're a blank screen i.e. how it affects their sleep how it reduces their mobility we haven't even spoken to then about what they're accessing on there I mean you touched on it in terms of adult content to what have you but you know everything is designed to draw them in you know TikTok amazing don't get me wrong but it's designed there the algorithm feeds people of a certain age certain things to sort of entice them and interest them what have you and the same with other apps as well that's even another layer that we really haven't dug into in terms of the prolonged you know usage of a mobile phone at a certain young age yes and look I work with a lot of children who have had accidental exposure to adult content and how that has had a very negative impact on them now for the vast majority of children it won't have a very negative impact for some children it will it will lead to thoughts and images but even looking at there were a lot of adults who were in touch with me at the moment about how the news for the last four weeks is impacting them you know people are talking about vicarious trauma and these are adults who would fully develop brains so when I'm hearing this from adults I'm also thinking about all of the young people who are also being exposed to a lot of this incredibly distressing content incredibly distressing images and videos and how that is impacting their psychological well-being and your brain matures doesn't it and I presume it's capability to process or analyze or compartmentalize or whatever the correct thing in the brain should do you know early exposure to stuff doesn't fast track that I mean the young mind has to be protected I presume as it develops and you know at a certain age you know there's enough development to be able to process things coupled presumably with general life experiences and what have you yeah so the prefrontal cortex isn't fully formed until the mid-20s to you know around 29-ish you know we're learning more and more about the brain all of the time but we know that there are certain parts of the brain that take much longer to develop and you can't fast track it so when you're exposed to things before you're developmentally ready you can have a profound impact on you and we know that people in general are resilient so it's not about removing all potential harms it's simply about how can we pace things how can we keep people in their developmental task so in primary school their developmental task is all around learning through play it's all around forming social interaction through play and yes of course you can play on phones but it's not actually the same in terms of free play creative play and yes you can definitely do creative things on screens but we just don't know enough about that yet whereas we have a lot very strong evidence base to say we need to protect this in-person free play in-person interaction and even the non-verbal communication skills helping our children really develop their understanding of those because again we know that that isn't fully formed even in adolescence your capacity to interpret nuance, facial expression, tonal voice all of these things which are last when you are just messaging listen pre-mobile phone you can often tell the children who were exposed to American TV shows because they will replace words like pavement with sidewalk or whatever it might be and end up having some sort of a tang to their accents so even before mobile phones we can see what the impact exposure even for an hour a day might have I call it says Greg this is interesting I spoke with some teachers at the weekend and they were saying the number of children unable to use a pencil is increasing computers may be great but we need to keep the writing skills alive personally not really my view matters I'm not terribly concerned about that I'm not sure how much pencil writing is going to be critically in the future I think that maybe is a different situation I don't know what your views on that yes it would be romantic romantic in me would love to see you know them doing the homework with a pen and pencil it is more really their development how they interact with other people and of course being active and their physical that's what more of a concern to me it's an interesting observation from the teacher there but maybe that is just the way it's going that we're not going to be physically writing things well actually the pencil grip isn't the issue it's more about the fine motor skills so pencil grip is just one fine motor skill so if you are seeing children who have difficulty holding a pencil I don't actually care much about pencil grip what it's indicating is that there are issues with fine motor skills and that actually is a problem that is something that has that does have an impact and there are some interesting emerging studies on the bone development in the hands and about how all of this hands on play is incredibly important for fine motor skills but also how the hand isn't like anybody who has experienced repetitive strain injury knows how painful that is and you certainly don't want your child to have repetitive strain and one of the issues with the lack of free play when it's all adult directive play is children are practicing skills repetitively whether it's organized sport or organized games rather than the free movement and physios will talk about the children that they're seeing now younger and younger with injuries from sport when they're not having the overall skills the overall gross motor skills of jumping, running, playing start, stop that you would get in natural play that children do when they're allowed to play freely Okay, it's all very it's an all interesting area and it's somewhat separate but just briefly Catherine I was chatting to a person who specialised in speech therapy with young people recently and they were saying that one of the greatest not one of the greatest problems but a major issue at the moment in delayed speech and what have you is cocomelan that it is too visually stimulating and it doesn't assist in any way that there are other programs that they can watch for a bit and it actually helps with their speech development but they're seeing a trend an increasing trend of particularly with delayed speech where there's no other issues present cocomelan is often a feature there so again what we take in can impact our development really is the point I was trying to make there but I would just pause on that one I would be really cautious about saying anything like that what's much more likely is so unless a child is sitting in front of that program for 24 hours a day I would be 99% sure that it's not causing the speech issues but it's much more likely to be causing the speech issues is actually there are lots of things going on in terms of our society but it's not coincidence I take what the point you're making but there is no coincidence presumably and you talk about the facts and figures that if you watch BBC created children's programs that there is a deliberate learning process through that that you know a speech therapist might say that is better more useful than not so if that is the case when you have something that is very overly stimulating for children and doesn't really doesn't offer any you know it's very repetitive and doesn't offer any educational benefit it has to you know if one is better then it has to have some level of an impact surely well it's everything is dose dependent so how much time you know again looking at opportunity cost look I watched unbelievable trash on TV when I was a child you know loads of us did like I'm a child of the 80s so I think it's it can be seductive to talk about particular programs you know we need to look at the evidence base okay I don't know you don't want to deny anything either one particular thing about that it's actually parent child interaction that is the biggest has the biggest impact on a child's speech development and what's called parent ease so there's so much more I'd love to talk to you about that another time we'll do that another time a particular one actually because I think a lot of parents would find that useful so maybe if you're if you're open to that Catherine just in terms of how we interact with the particularly the very young children to bring them on that's definitely worthy of another item thank you so much for your time Catherine thank you too have you on the show take care of yourself and we'll not fall out of a coconut melon okay bye bye take care thank you all right bye bye all right that was that was Catherine how to say there 08 660 25000 is the whatsapp and text number give us a call on 07 491 25000 the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today hi Tommy Bow here get in store to check out my new 15 kings clothing collection available in premium gents outfitters nationwide and at 15kings.com businesses order your gift vouchers for christmas now from bizprint the 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notices of people who have passed away and creating facebook pages which states and i presume it's the one page they changed the name of stating that you can watch the live stream of their their funeral and then when you do click in because a lot of people might think that's interesting when you click in then it looks for your credit card details to give you access to it it's an absolute scam but i just thought it was remarkable that there is an individual or a group or whatever in not in Donegal but certainly going through the obituary notices in the county identifying people creating a facebook page that says you know Greg Hughes watch funeral mass here and then you click into it and you have to input your your your details so just keep an eye out for that i presume it's a scam i presume it's a scam but i saw it a couple of on a couple of occasions over the last week and only clicked one just out of curiosity and i thought why why would they be seeking why would they be seeking my credit card details anyway pharmacists will soon be able to extend the life of a prescription from six to 12 months it's part of a measure to enhance the role of pharmacists and limit the pressure on gp services health minister steven donnelly says from the first of march next the extension will also mean many patients are able to continue medication without the need for a repeat repeat prescription tom morris treasurer of the irish pharmaceutical union and he joins us now tom good morning to you good morning greg how are you good good on the face of it this seems like a good idea pharmacists have said you know we've got a we've got a skill set we've got expertise we can help in certain areas is is it as simple as that do you believe this is good news i i do we welcome it very much so i suppose the task force was set up in july and the minister had asked the task force to report to him by the end of october it's it's clear that they have done their job there's 13 exports on the tax force including and representatives of the imo and and doctors and they have said that they recognize the clinical skills of pharmacists and i suppose as you say there in terms of reducing weight in listed gps and freeing up some gp time they have said that after consultation where a pharmacist deemed it appropriate so if somebody's unstable on the same medicine for a long time for example blood pressure medicines that the pharmacist can make a decision to extend the prescription up to 12 months or indeed the the gp can also prescribe a 12 month prescription from the first of march as well so it's an extension of the prescription validity at the discretion either of the gp or the pharmacist to extend it from six months to 12 months which will make it more convenient for patients who won't have to revisit the doctor every six months if there's no clinical need do you think because obviously the patient themselves might deem the recent clinical need and want to go the gp to be on the safe side do you think this measure in and of itself is going to really alleviate the pressure on gps or we have to see what other layers of measures go on on top of this well this is the first of hopefully several layers of measures as you alluded to there and where a patient deems that they wish to go and see a deep dp there's nothing going to stop a patient wishing to do that if a pharmacist deems that they can extend the prescription it's after consultation with the patient so it's not just a patient walks in and says for example i don't want to pay the doctor for another private prescription so you extend that to 12 months instead of six months it's a consultation based on clinical need using the pharmacist skills and recognizing the pharmacist expertise and medicines to say actually it is appropriate for that but it's not going to refuse it's not a case where a patient says i want to see a doctor and anybody's going to refuse that absolutely not at all it is the first of hopefully several measures including what we've talked about before a minor ailment scheme whereby pharmacists will be able to prescribe or to supply medicines on the medical card that we currently do privately if the like of yourself walked into my pharmacy and you asked for a cold cold or cough remedy or a flu remedy or a hay fever remedy i would sell it to you if you have a medical card you have to go to the doctors to get it on your medical card so that's another of the hopeful recommendations that will come out from the task force and these measures together will alleviate cues and pressure on gps all right it's progress okay interesting tom as always thank you so very much that's tom morrie who's treasurer of the irish pharmaceutical union that comes in effect from march 1st pharmacists having the power to extend prescriptions up to a maximum of 12 months for patients if they feel it is appropriate do you think you would avail of that service is that good news just back to the 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seven days highland radio time checks with expressway travel route 32 from letterkenny to doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time mass now the times five past 11 sorry flew into an ad break there we are in studio now with brendan devaney we're looking forward to this week tonight's deal debate good morning brent good morning Greg good to have you on board how are you keeping thank you you're keeping the best sir right now ross controversy i didn't see it or haven't read anything at it but a few texts people want to know what your views are what happened yeah listen all come down to fish eating you know the the man in the middle ritzy donahoe just a malaise of red cards black cards yellow cards i mean it was it was just chaos what's happening there um you know noras are good and they're fantastic lead had two goals in a minute and were were well in control of the game but then black cards send them off you know obviously they weren't all players you know some of the the manager himself and the physio got red cards and so it was a really heated game didn't sound like it should have been like that but uh you know delkins interviews up on nine and he says it's not all this time in football i've never seen anything like it and he has seen it up yeah two five two one nine and you think after 15 minutes you know they had that two one two two on the board so i mean it just shows you the effect that had in the rest of the game for them being able to be able to get the ball in these scoring positions and that and it became a bit of an entrenched game which they didn't come out on the right side and they'd lay a chance to be good they've had a really really long season you know and probably even you know all the prep then has to go in to come continue the campaign in holster for that all to be on done seemingly what it must feel like outside of their control and for the fans like this is gonna is gonna sip poorly for quite some time yeah of course they had a challenge after they won it of course by Mavill you know there was a technicality there but you know they went in the holster and like a massive time i mean the club was in the was in the brink of of going under just a few years ago numbers and as we know Greg we were all clubs in that so they pulled it together and they got the club like back and track and of course Declan you know everything he's done playing in the game managing and and and playing has been phenomenal of course he takes the reins as soon as he took it he thought right there's a championship tilt on here they got across the line and of course we've seen some fantastic runs over the years from teams in holster right across the board now from Donegal teams which wasn't always the case so I'm sure they thought you know you dare the dream you're going to the holster playing for Manit Champions listening skiing after a phenomenal start I mean when you think about it then I mean seven yellow cards four black cards you know and and all the reds you know three to to the rest of players it just sounds like something chaos what way did that happen and you look at any game where there's no reason for a game unless there's some season animosity between two teams and this is two teams you never play each other you can't have that amount of things happen so Brent Lago Collins doing co-com for us at the weekend it's going to be up so it'd be interesting to get his views on the plus side I saw the Donegal ladies live this year brilliant team and seemed to have huge depth they could field two yeah good teams that's paying dividends for them in Ulster yeah interestingly Degdon Butters a man inside him for a famous 92 on Tony Boyle of course he's the manager of that team so the two guys doing doing great work out there of course his daughters are playing into the four in them teams as well and just about got across the line against T. Holland and there's a monaghan the ladies football is always strong as well so don't know ageing them out three ten to two twelve good high score and game very entertaining game and they march on to the final now Greg where they're playing the champions of Kevin Lavey so again like that thing about good and the Ulster it's and for see for people you know you play your championship here and again you know so many teams and clubs and grounds next thing you're out of that comfort zone you're playing teams you don't know you're in the dark nights and that and you're representing Donegal so fair play they do