They call you Craig? Craggy, Greg, no? I start with something. They call you Craig? Sure, you can be called anything. Yeah, as long as it's not too early. Right, you're last to show the week tomorrow. Well, yeah. I'm kind of looking it off, but I need somebody to do it for me. But I'll be probably here. If I didn't get the text saying, yeah, I got that covered. That's real behind the scenes stuff. This is what you may as well tell the guy. So I might be off and I might be here, but we'll see how it goes. It'll be a surprise. Surprise, surprise. All right, then you have a good one. What if you do? I don't see it till Monday. Enjoy your weekend. All right, it's the night till noon. Show nine o'clock. Time for a news update. Good morning, Makayla Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The Remelton Road in Latter County is currently closed following a serious overnight crash. Guardia at the scene and diversions are expected to remain in place for a number of hours. Traffic is being diverted via Thorn Road and Golf Course Road, while local access to Tara Court is being facilitated. No further details are known at this time. A significant tranche of funding has been announced today for the regeneration of Remelton. 6.4 million euro is being made available towards the 8 million euro project under a major rural regeneration development fund to target dereliction in landmark buildings. It will see significant works carried out in the town, including the development of a new creative hub and co-working hub. Minister Charlie McConn-Lokes says the funding will make a huge difference by injecting vibrancy back into the town. Remelton is a tremendously significant town in the history of Donegal. It has great heritage. It's a really attractive town for the wider area and serves the wider area, but it has a lot of on-tap potential. A lot of the heritage buildings in that have become worse for wear, particularly in the river area. This 6.4 million euro will really be a step change in relation to the regeneration of Remelton. A letter Kenny Concer has warned that the Bonnegie Lane is an accident waiting to happen. Concerns have been raised over the volume of vehicles using the route and the speed at which they are travelling. A motion was brought before a meeting of the latter Kenny Milford Municipal District this week by Councilor Jerry McMunnigal, calling for ramps or other forms of traffic management to be put in place. The local authority says an assessment of the road will be carried out. Councilor Donald Coil, who supported the motion, believes there is only one solution. Ramps are the only thing that I see that really slows down traffic and I think it's imperative now that the Council proceed and put in the ramps. And cuts to the pay of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have been described as tokenism. MLA's will see their salaries reduced by around a third as part of plans to defer an assembly election by six weeks. The new deadlines to form an executive instalment is now the 8th of December, with the potential for a further extension to January the 19th if necessary. Former T-shock Bertie Hernd says MLA's are doing a lot of work even if the assembly isn't sitting. Whether or not a mild and windy day with plenty of Clyde, there will be long, dry periods and just patchy rain or drizzle, top temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Sometimes getting older is a good thing. Take a fine cheese with steady planning, careful preparation and trust and guidance at every stage of the process. It matures. At Standard Life, we believe in a similar approach when planning for retirement. Because when you do, things get better with age. Search Retirement Hub or talk to your financial advisor today. Standard Life International DAC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. 02127 The Counties Number One Talk Show The Nine Till Noon Show On Highland Radio And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And it is a very good morning to you for when it's past nine Thursday, the 10th of November 2022. How are you keeping? I hope you're well. It's breezy out there. It was very wet overnight too. So it's another Thursday. It's a busy one as always. Lots to cover on the program today. Lots of happen to the last 24 hours. We're going to keep you, if I can string two words together, we're going to keep you right across it. But we want your views, 0866, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. Give us a call either on 07491 25,000 07491 25,000. You can watch the show, go to our website, click Watch Live or go to YouTube at Highland Radio Art. And if you're interested in the show, go to our Facebook page too. It's useful, please. The same could be said of our Facebook pages, Highland Radio News & Sport and Highland Radio. Good morning, Annette and Rosemary already joining us this morning and the rest of you there as well. Right, okay, let's look at the newspapers this Thursday morning. There's a lot to get through. It's always on a Thursday. Talked about traffic on the front of the paper, the Chicano Tribune this morning. If the ongoing traffic gridlock and the stock warning from Councillor Michael McBride who said that the next six weeks would be the most important time of the year for businesses in the town during Tuesday's MD meeting, Councillor McBride and said traders were telling him that up to 40% of their annual revenue is derived from the festive period but in speaking to us yesterday it was, you know, things are going okay. They're looking into it. It's a positive message but anyway, he's worried at the council meeting. The bottom line is that we have to support the businesses of letter Kenny with whatever short-term measures we can to ease the traffic congestion. Elsewhere in the front of the paper, a picture of the inside of the new Creasler shop. The new Lafferty shop in Creasler Village is scheduled to open tomorrow afternoon on a site adjacent to St. Michael's Church. The people look forward with much optimism and with good wishes to the Lafferty family on the initiative that once again restores a vital community hub in the village as small tentative steps are being taken to move forward at a time. On to the Donegal News this morning they have flagged what's in the sports pages. Ollie Horgan, he is gone from Finn Harps. We're going to have some reaction to that story for you a little later on. Who would you like to see replace him? There are a number of names out there. All good. The one thing Finn Harps is not short of, I don't think, is viable candidates. Would you favour Kevin McEwen? Oh, he's doing great work at the Academy. Would he favour sort of stepping into that type of position at this stage? Jim McInnes. He's freed up now from Sky perspective. He's managed soccer teams before. Would that be a challenge he'd be interested in? And there's other names out there as well. But we'll go through all of that over the course of the morning. If you have a preference, if you would have a preference 08, 660, 25,000. Housing Minister Dara O'Brien is expected to announce tomorrow that all families living in Michael Holmes will be able to avail of 15,000 Euro to help them find alternative accommodation. Now, I'd been told this was going to be announced last week, but good to see that announcement is likely. There were some developments at a mica defective concrete block meeting yesterday. Council involvement, local reps were going to be getting some reaction from families to that. Well, Minister O'Brien will meet with Donateagall Council's Chief Executive John McLaughlin to discuss progress in the overall mica redress scheme, speaking in the doll. Yesterday the housing minister indicated that he intends to front load some of the expenses facing families whose homes are crumbling around them. I also was told that he was considering also making an announcement as it relates to temporary works that can be done. At the moment the paper is reporting the 15,000 Euro to help find alternative accommodation. But as I say, I would not be flabbergasted if also there was some announcement as it relates to some monies, the 5,000 isn't it for emergency remedial work. Anyway, we'll see what comes out of the minister tomorrow. The dairy news this morning, ongoing uncertainty regarding the future of pilots row community centres impacting Eden's Place Art Centre, which is housed in the iconic bogside building. Judy Loog, the arts centre coordinator, said she had received no clarity about the facility's future from either the Education Authority or Dairy City and Straban District Council. The Farmers' Journal this morning apparently record feed costs are set to drive down cattle farm or margins this winter. An exclusive All Island Irish Farmers Journal survey shows that feed costs are up by 120 Euro to 130 Euro. An average compared to this time last year. An extra 2,000 will be added to the feed bill of a 35-cow suckler farm keeping weenlings a winter finisher will carry an additional 8,450 Euro in feed costs for every 100 cattle sent to the factory next spring. Chuggers figures show that farmers will need beef prices to rise by close to 6 Euro a kilogram in order to just break even this winter. Now on to the national newspapers and the ducks are getting nicely in a row for Leo Veradkar regaining his position as a T-shock of the country because the state's Ethics Watchdog has said it will not investigate honest to Leo Veradkar over the leaking of a draft GP contract after a split vote between commissioners decided on an inquiry. The Standards in Public Office Commission stated that there was not enough evidence to sustain the complaint because his action carried out as part of his duties as T-shock. However, two of the five commissioners voted against the decision not to investigate. Three complaints have been made to SIPO including from people before Prof. T. D. Paul Murphy Mr. Veradkar said, I've been now cleared of criminal wrongdoing and any breach of Ethics or Standards this is always the outcome I expected while the possibility of SIPO investigating the tarnished was not seen as a major political risk to his planned resumption of the role of T-shock and the decision to investigate could have caused controversy around the handover which the government has now agreed will happen on December 17th which is handy, isn't it? And I'm not sure how this next story in the Irish Independent will play with local elected Finnegale representatives local party members but Tarnished Leo Veradkar has raised the prospect of a transfer pact between Finnegale and Finnefall in the next general election Speaking on the Indo-Daily podcast the Finnegale leader said his party and Finnefall could have won more seats if their supporters transferred votes between the parties last time out but what do you think about that? I mean, I think speaking to a lot of Finnefall, Finnegale supporters over time, particularly it seems Finnefall supporters that they'd be very pleased to see even if it meant election loss they'd be very keen to see a distinct brand a distinction between they and Finnegale and some Finnegales would feel the same but if then heading into a new election you have Finnegale, Finnefall effectively saying vote number one, Charlie McConnelogue vote number two, whomever Finnegale have elected it doesn't really in terms of especially two debates and conversation and vying for the public vote how does that work? How can you have a debate between Finnefall and Finnegale candidates a meaningful debate if there's a voting a voting pact between them it doesn't make a transfer pact it doesn't make much sense to me but anyway anyone out there who has an interest let us know what you think he also took out McShin Fane saying it would take ten years to clean up the mess Mary Lou McDonnell's party will make of the economy should they be voted into government and he called on Ms McDonnell to condemn the murder of innocent children, guardian, prison officers before she ever becomes tea shock the Irish Daily Mail the number of houses needed in the country has been drastically underestimated internal reports from the Department of Housing obtained by the Irish Daily Mail reveal a mail analysis shows that there will be a shortfall of up to 65,000 homes in 2030 even if the ambitious target set by Housing Minister Dara O'Brien O'Mett internal department records state that in reality 42,000 new homes are needed per year while in excess of the estimated 27,000 homes due to be built this year are caused by O'Mett demand and population growth and it does not include housing required for over 62,000 Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Ireland since February Plenty of coverage of the US midterm elections in the papers today will go to the Irish Son Raging Donald Trump were told yelled at AIDS after arrival Republican Ron DeSantis as he calls him Ron DeSantimonious swept to victory in the US midterm elections quite bizarre because both of them of course are Republican party members Donald Trump's going to announce that he's seeking re-election as president of the United States of America the Republicans though probably have a really good candidate another really good candidate some would argue in Ron DeSantis but these are party members now imagine it happening here Donald Trump's effectively said that he's got dirt on Ron DeSantis and that if Ron DeSantis decides to run that he'll release this dirty house on him whatever it might be and it'll scop his chances and ruin his reputation he's literally publicly threatening to release dirty information you know the dirt I don't mean this I don't know what the information is on a fellow Republican so as to discourage him from running for president really remarkable stuff the former US president was said to be livid after DeSantis who is expected to run against him for a White House bid in 2024 when a landslide re-election at Florida governor or as Florida governor other candidates who trump backed for governor in Michigan New York and Pennsylvania all lost a Trump advisor later said candidates matter they were all bad candidates and there is a sense that Donald Trump's influence over the Republican party in the United States might be beginning to wane that is the what some within the Republican party themselves are saying the Irish Daily Mirror tells us that Ireland's prisons are almost full to the brim the justice minister has revealed as of October 24 there were 4,266 prisoners in custody out of total bed capacity of 4,471 leaving just 205 beds free in the country's 12 jails but there's no beds free in housing so at least there's beds free in the jails in a clear indication of rising crime minister Helen McInty admitted significant growth has been experienced in the remand prison population which has resulted in pressures on facilities including Cloverhill prison in Dublin and for those in the tech industry there could be further job losses on the way as their share prices drop the first victims are the staff up to 400 meta jobs in Ireland are in danger as part of an ongoing downsizing in the lucrative tech sector now they still will continue to employ 300 directly but anyway employers at meta facebook's parent company were reluctant to speak to media gathered outside the tech giants European HQ in Dublin about the confirmation of thousands of job losses that's thousands around the around the world 300 or 400 in Ireland people leaving the Grand Canal duck building declined to give their reaction to 11,000 workers globally being let go can you imagine leaving work having been told you lost your job and you walk out and there's a load of people newspapers there with their cameras in the notepads and pens but anyway listen it's fine I'm not judging really just seems strange to me also I was wondering last night as I track the price of a barrel of oil as I try and get off to sleep a barrel of oil currently is trading at $86 per barrel and let's not forget I think it was June it was at $130 per barrel very very high but now it's down to $86 now it may go back over 100 but it's well below 100 at the moment now of course as the price of oil went up to 130 what we did see is that very quickly prices went up at the petrol pumps home heating oil that type of thing skyrocketed come down a little bit then it tipped over to Euro for diesel but the price of the raw product oil is low again relatively oh $86 $87 per barrel but where is the reduction in our fuel costs now the dollar is very strong okay so that's going to account for some of it and obviously we pay massive tax excise and everything else on a litre of diesel or petrol and home heating also that's obviously in there but where is the reduction in the price of petrol and diesel I don't know does anyone out there know oh wait 60 25000 why are we seeing a barrel of oil I'm not pretending on much about this stuff but it's $23 for the raw product less than it was at its peak and yet we see really high petrol and diesel prices still what's going on anyone have an insight as I say I recognize the high levels of taxation I recognize the dollar is pretty strong at the moment but that surely can't account for it all oh wait 60 25000 are we being treated as mugs 07491 25000 what's going on stay right where you are we're going to be joined by our first guests very shortly the newspapers our courtesy of Kelly centra 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you know the disappointment of relegation because it could have been avoidable if things had gone your way in the team's way I imagine that's still very raw this the club has been a part of your life for almost a decade now a lot to process but how are you feeling I think you some built up I think that's you know it's a lot of release 13 days since we got relegated and that's really what you wake up to in the morning is certainly a huge disappointment and you know maybe what looking back and thinking what she could done differently that the fact that I'm a longer manager is actually secondary to be honest with you Greg it's the fact that that we are now the word be as you said being being the fact that I'm no longer managing the club I think that's really what I wake up to in the morning and that will take its process but if it doesn't hurt Greg there was no point in me being in it but it certainly does hurt that the fact that we got relegated I've read some comments from you at the weekend and I presume it was an accurate quote you said you wouldn't walk away what happened in your meeting with the the club that what happened with your meeting you don't beat around the bush Greg look listen it was best for both parties like from my point of view and I know people don't like me repeating this it's a well known fact that I had walked away this time last year with family commitments in Galway in particular and because of my respect to some of the board members that met me I went back in and I did it for them who stood by me when we got relegated Paul Higgory was with me at the time four or five years ago Greg and we came straight back up the following year so there's really in an effort to try and stabilize the club start again and try to avoid relegation and pass on the reins but unfortunately we came up short and there's nobody to blame by myself as regards falling short this year that's you know my recruitment wasn't good enough and there's nobody passing the buck as regards you know where we came up short I had good years I had bad years but it was another about me it was about the club for anyone that knows me would understand what I mean by that Greg yeah indeed do you regret then that extra year because you did it you obviously did it for the right reasons yeah do I regret if it was about me I would yeah like I knew in my head that this was going to be a hugely huge difficult test much more difficult than any year and in the other years regardless of the team that that we built we only survived in the last game of the season invariably or maybe a playoff so losing 11 players and then David Webster losing coach and staff do I regret it I could done without the headaches but I probably learned more in the last year about people and I did in eight years and I thought maybe I'd learned a fair bit over the years but it certainly was an education even in a nice change what do you mean by that you learned more about people in the last year we had brilliant years and you know positively I think last year our results weren't good enough and I had no rights to be reappointed as manager absolutely not but positively the supporters who were there through tick and pin in the difficult years and the good years and ending in a very difficult year they stood by me and the players and we had no right really for them to stand by us they turned on us in years that we actually avoided relegation and there was a hell of a lot of pride when I saw that happen I thought yeah you're good people you're hurting and I would love that the club could get back on to the Premier Division for then as well as the whole community but for them alone I took a lot of pride in that and driving up and down the road I thought yeah you know we're all mad as Hatters and we're all mad Greg but I thought yeah did a bit about them and they knew the difficulty that the players and the management that were in you know we were struggling at the same time and it wasn't the lack of effort but they backed us right to the end and I just would love to see the club get back up for then in particular Greg After so many years in charge Olly you know does it become difficult as to what to say in the dressing room because you know what you have to work with you know everyone is probably trying as best as they can you know the quality of the opposition that you're up against we can we can we can we can do they get difficult in the dressing room to try and motivate it doesn't get any easier from year to year but I mean the changing room there's nobody in that changing room by myself and Tommy Harkin who was with me infinite years before that we're the only two that are in that changing room from nine years ago because of the turnover of players and indeed staff it constantly changes so it's not like it's the same group in the changing room we can make out year in year out it's basically a different group changes slightly most years but it changed hugely 12 months ago although that's not an excuse Greg we should have finished you know above UCD and huge credit to them for getting to the playoffs tomorrow we wish them well in that but we've fell it down there's no one passing the buck here by myself that it was it was very disappointing and it hurts however it certainly wasn't for the lack of effort on anyone's behalf and the staff that were there all through the years and in particular this year you learn a hell of a lot about people as I said a few minutes ago of people who are with you and back you quietly and obviously when the chips are down and everyone backs you when you're getting promoted but you know you see who's with you and who isn't when you're rock bottom as we were for parts of the season and unfortunately at the end of the season as well Greg right I'm not going to dwell on that but you kind of mentioned that a couple of times do you think that maybe there are people that could have been a bit more supportive towards you is that what you're saying and understood the challenges that you were facing do you feel that look we've had brilliant days brilliant years and you're talking about the good days that we are harping on in the bad days but you're talking about the night that BJ and Mickey funds and scored to get us up against them many years ago and I knew that night and I remember doing an interview afterwards that here comes trouble that you know fairness to BJ I knew how it was ahead I knew how difficult the Premier Division was going to be we'd bring it nights you know down in the second time they got promoted with Nathan Boyle and Martin and scoring to get us back up and even in playoff games in Australia they're probably the nights that stick out you know there were tough nights as well you know you're trying to harp on the negative side of it what I'm saying to you is that when you're maybe being pulled from pillar to post as I was and I knew of my commitments at home in Galway prior to going back in and I made it quite clear that I would commute most of the time from Galway and like personally you went from you know maybe 24-48 hours without any sleep for your travelling but nothing weathered with me it wasn't that it was tired although people tell me I'm tired I might sooth the brief to tell me I'm tired you know I keep going and I did and the fact that you were bottom of the table would add to it but what I'm saying to you about human beings is that when you're bottom of the table that the good people they dig you out other people maybe throw meaningless problems at you I won't say meaningless but problems that could be dealt at a different level and that would be the real education of the year for me that yeah yeah there's some brilliant people around that club and some brilliant volunteers that welcomed me nine years ago they had the clue whether I could lace me boots or not or whatever but they welcomed me and backed me right the way through and I'd love to see the club go back up you know it's not about me and it won't be of course it would look great for me if the club didn't get promoted it's not about me I'm not involved in sport for that I would love to see them go back up because they gave me a massive chance nine years ago and you know I can only thank them for that I hope I've repaid it I was going to say that you've repaid it and then some do you envy whomever is taking over next I wish them every bit of success I wish them well as I said they gave me a chance coming from intermediate football with Fannish and either than to be fair to them in Fannish it was probably as Mickey Fulson kept telling me that was a good education for you and it was brilliant brilliant people that on a small scale that probably prepared you for St. Harp's similar on a national scale and you know do I envy who's coming in I wish them nothing but success and while I won't be on the sideline I'm sure I'll be at some of the games but I won't be given my the manager of Greg in that manner will you be in the opposition dugout I mean obviously you have had a fantastic this is a new show I'm going to get everything out of you you've obviously had a fantastic nine years with working with the resources that you did a lot of people would be very interested now to see you perhaps maybe at a club with more resources Greg that's easier said than done like you know when my phone has been ringing since it hasn't been there's no one from other clubs ringing me if that makes sense and I'm not one to pretend yes there were opportunities to go other places over the years without doubt and as there were with loads of my staff and loads of the players it's not that we don't go telling people about it but just you know I need to take stock if the phone rings and something comes up and hang up the boots are to be said or to pass your just yes you know and people that tell me I'm tired Greg I'm working since I was 11 yeah don't listen don't you know yourself you don't need to listen to other people it's not that I said I don't mean that I don't mean that I don't mean that either I know that on the program yesterday I said I hate when people say you look tired especially when you don't because it starts it starts making you question how you look so I kind of get a sense you know yourself better than anyone but in terms of if the phone call came in Ollie is there a particular level now that you would be you know that would entice you do you know what I mean is it sort of legal league of Ireland level would you go back the way a bit you know like what what would excite you now from a challenge perspective I've no idea Greg like I don't have any idea it's not about me it would never was it's about Finn Harps and part of me Hartrell always be with them because because of the manner and the chance that they gave me in the way that they back me over the years and I've a course you know it was it's hearting hugely that we got relegated that's where the heart is it's not the fact that I'm a longer manager there's a relief that I'm a longer manager to be honest Richard Greg but it's it's still the heart is still there from from getting relegated last Friday week and I need to get all of that before I think about anything else the phone the phone the phone might never ring Greg so it might be a question that I never have to answer to put it that way greatly Ali highlight of the last nine you've you've you've picked on a few of them the great escapes and and players that you put faith in returning that faith and that those amazing nights that you had as well what would be the the highlight is there an individual thing that's the highlight of an overall experience or what it's it's it's I think I gave you some of the highlights some of the highlights would have been surviving in the last day of the season where it wasn't that maybe the huge occasion of getting promoted but I think out of maybe out of a little bit of innocence way back when when Mickey Thompson and BJ got us promoted in Finn Park against them Rick you know it was it was very much a local group local staff that just bought into it and you know it's we've had great days since that and difficult days but probably out of you know it probably wasn't if you like how it wasn't like you know there was a lot of maybe innocence and trusting people as they were probably that nice in the playoff where we were one down from from the Marcus Field and we won the next time yeah probably that night over the years although we've had many many good nights but unfortunately we had a number of difficult ones as well that is sport isn't it that is the sport would you ever return to Finn Park what do you mean I intend to return whenever the season starts and support them you know there's no problem with that if you're saying we're returning I have no idea you know certainly you won't be seeing me back for a while you know you never say another look let's see what happens I you know I'm not one to sit in the house and you know I certainly haven't sat in the house since we finished on Sunday and it won't tend to that either whether that's football maybe I don't know Greg but let's see and as I said I still need to process the disappointment of getting relegators before you know I go and look at anything further down the line but never say never and I won't be closing any door should anyone you know look for me in times come lots of people texting in saying thanks Ali I mean it's an amazing commitment almost a decade and as you say there's been highs and lows but all of that forms why we follow clubs and that's sport and it is sport so enjoy whatever time you have I have a feeling your phone will be ringing off the hook at some point Ali but for now thank you so much for your time this morning take care that's Ali Hogan the former Finn Hopps manager and it's nine years before you could say that we're going to be joined very shortly by our Finn Hopps correspondent Jeremy Daugherty but I also want to bring in Kathy Tath who is secretary at Finn Hopps football club I'm not sure how much of Ali's comments you heard there but I suppose from the get go Kathy it's a big thanks from Finn Hopps to Ali Hogan is it okay good morning Greg thank you for the invitation to come on I heard much about Ali not all of that you're right it's a huge thanks absolutely what he has done is phenomenal it kind of just flies out of people's lips long-serving manager in the League of Ireland but that is that in itself is quite a statement for anyone who's involved in Premier Division League of Ireland football, Premier Division First Division it doesn't matter it's a full-time job and Ali Hogan has done it while doing his own job while as he's outlined having a family having the commitment to the commitment that he spoke about speak to them but it's amazing as modest as he perhaps doesn't allow him to talk about the extensive nature of the job it's not a case of turning up take training stand on the sideline for a game especially at particular levels there's an awful lot more to Finn Hopps manager's job than might meet the eye for most of us there is to every manager's job particularly Finn Hopps and particularly so because of one our location our part-time status and the fact that by the very nature of our part-time status the majority of our players are Ali our management our backroom staff who are huge and many I mean we have a core registered physiotherapist, a dietitian who has a master's in sports nutrition and you know specifically studies or research high intensity football the needs in the body for high intensity football in terms of hydration and nutrition we're not very much credit here our strength and conditioning coach spent eight years with Dairy City was asked by Kenny Shields to join the team for the Northern Ireland women's team the Northern Ireland ladies team that's the caliber our backroom staff, our coaching staff our goalkeeper coaches and this is the danger when you start naming anybody no I understand, well listen I'll move on then to take you out of that to help you out of that but you're talking about all of the commitment and then I get you it's a whole team Ali Horgan came back sorry Greg I don't know the point is they've all come and they've all come to a part-time setup and they've all come because it's Ali Horgan not because it's Finn Hopps, not because any of the rest of us are bears because Ali sets them he's stayed many of them for as long as Ali has been there so it's he's it's a credit to him indeed he came back for another year he said on Sunday that he wouldn't walk away he met obviously with reps from the club and the decision was taken by mutual consent to for Ali to leave was it the club's wish to go in a different direction you know a lot of people are saying that a lot of comments Greg about how the board should you know really made a per decision it was a joint decision it wasn't the board's decision and you know the board I would say and have said to anybody who's asked me this is you know it's reflective as our fan base there are those who absolutely felt that Ali's time you know his time had come you know to move on others who wanted him to remain even give it one more year you know so it wasn't you know and I've heard it oh gosh he sacked Ali Ali Ali Horgan the board did not sack Ali the board met with Ali we've discussed this and mutually it was decided and you know there are those on the board and I'm one of them who would who are so sad and so disappointed that Ali has not given it up I presume he also would have brought not demands as such he would have brought requests to the table for that meeting as well in other words if he were to continue I presume he would have some maybe even hinted at them during that interview he would have had some expectations that maybe Finn Harps couldn't have met I don't agree with that I don't know that Ali was saying that No it's a question Kathy it's a question I'm not making statements it's just a question for you to say yes or no or whatever you want I would say no to be fair and I think Ali would acknowledge that the board has backed him for the last nine years we came up the first time from two and a half thousand per year which we think about as remarkable but again Ali Horgan brought us up and everybody around him for two and a half thousand the budget has increased year on year we're a part time club we rely so much on our gates on our sponsors on our commercial outputs and many clubs don't have to do that they have a benefactor who will write checks and nothing is an issue we haven't had that so the board has given that commitment and I know Ali will acknowledge and does acknowledge that that's a fact so there were no there were no demands I didn't hear them if they were That stated clearly Kathy They're absolutely weren't Brilliant that's just a question to try and so the listeners know what is the process now for appointing and a replacement Kathy for the closed season now but the sooner someone knows they're in that position the better I suppose so what's the process now in appointing a successor There's a group or subgroup that are going to manage this piece an advertisement will go out I mean I've already as club secretary much of the the correspondence and the communication comes via my email already we have received emails with our expressions of interest the process will be to formally set that in place and to filter what I hope will be many applications draw up a shortlist there's an interview process I think ordinarily the managers or the potential managers make a presentation it will be done over a number of meetings with the perspective of the manager it's not just a matter of reaching out and tapping somebody on the shoulder and saying come here and so these enormous shoes so that's where we're at at the moment and I'm not going to be directly involved with that piece so I'm probably not the best person to speak to it really OK and very finally Kathy as far as you're aware is it a case of invites only it's not invites only but you know opening up but what I'm trying to get at is here there is the possibility also to approach people similarly as well as to advertise the position I would expect so I'm sure every avenue is going to be explored I'm not going to be doing it but those that are have done it before they engaged Olly Horgan and that wasn't a bad call so I'm sure brilliant stuff Kathy and it's exciting times ahead it's disappointment obviously after well to say goodbye to someone who served so loyally at the club with relegation but it's a building process again now exciting times ahead in terms of new facilities still great work ongoing in terms of you know engaging with the youth and growing that side of things as well so you know whilst we're in a period of disappointment with Olly moving on after his loyal service and relegation it's still a very positive mood is it around Finn Hart was about the future and where the club and its environs are going it is great because it's not to be positive about I mean our stadium certainly and that's going to be a Donegal stadium it's not just going to be Finn Hart stadium it's going to be a facility for the entire county which is brilliant so fair play to Paul McLoone for absolutely turning that around and getting us to where we are that's hugely exciting first division isn't a bad thing as you say you know our youth are there they certainly will be very evident in the first division because you know the step up from under 19 to Premier Division really it's quite a gap it's quite a goal very few can do it and do it well so first division is definitely a good stepping stone for many of our underage graduates for want of a better word our academy graduates and I imagine that there are quite a few stars in the future who will emerge there you know whoever comes in the request of the board will be that we finish as strongly as possible and ideally get back up and out of the first division if not in the first year then very quickly after that and we know what can be done, it's been done twice now so that's really what what we hope the future will be Kathy Taft, thank you very much for your time this morning I really appreciate it Secretary at Finn Hart's football club now Jirma Daharty my apologies for holding you so long but I think actually it's quite interesting for our conversation for us to hear from Olly and Kathy there as well Jirma, you know you've been covering these games, going to these games for so long it's got to be strange the next one that you attend and it won't be Olly Hogan in the dugout yeah it's an end of an era isn't it Greg and it's very interesting as you say to hear what Kathy had to say there and Olly before her just to get an insight into exactly what has been going on over this last this last while but it all came to head this week with Olly's departure and yeah it will be very strange because we've worked with them for the past nine years and we've built up a relationship and got to know them away from the football it's been great, it's been exciting this season has been tough any supporters that you talk to about the standard the style of football the disappointing run of results everything, it was all so disappointing in so many aspects but I mean it's probably just a shame that that's the way it has ended yeah it's always nice to go out in a high but sure who walks away in a high do you know what I mean I mean obviously there's a personal relationship there and respect thing there but there's also a fan element to it as well do you think this was the right decision at this time or maybe he's done it a couple of times before another year to give Olly what he needs to try and get hearts back up, what's your feelings or the mixed feelings or what do you feel yeah probably mixed feelings Greg you know it would be easy for me to say they should have let Olly stay they should have given another go in the first division but I mean the question is did Olly want to stay did he what has hard on it is he really happy to stay in the current circumstances with the board of directors that were there you know there's so many aspects to it Greg but yeah from a personal level I mean I knew Olly before he took over as fan harps manager because you know I knew him from my days at St. Unan's college when I played on one of his teams so he was a manager for me when I was a footballer I got to know him then when he was playing with Fanage United when he was managing Fanage United Fan Harps I knew him before that I knew a lot of what he brought to the table but believe you me I've got to know him a lot better since Greg and you know I have so much respect for the man what he's brought to Fan Harps has been unreal Fan Harps have had good managers over the years Greg and we shouldn't forget that you know Harps have been lucky to have you know the names jump out at you Paul Hegerty before Olly Horgan was a class act and I think it's fair to say he brought things to a new level Kathy touched on it there the way he set up his you know we can call the back room team the nutritionist that he brought and the goalkeeping coaches and not only that Greg but the players that he brought to the club as well and I think it was even Kathy that touched on it there herself and I think it's fair to say he brought things to a new level and I think it was even Kathy that touched on it there herself and you know it's a credit to her they didn't come to join Fan Harps they came as much for Olly as anything it was Olly who you know I suppose that makes the next appointment all the more so let's run through who could take over next we talked about the importance of the academy academy players coming through playing in the first division next year would spring to mind you know he's Finn Harps through and through I'm not sure how keen he might be to give up the work that he's currently doing to take on the job of manager but I mean obviously Kevin McHugh is a name that would be linked to this job what do you think of the chances there yeah Kevin McHugh will definitely be among the favourites and you know I hope he gives it some thought I hope he is given consideration as well by the club Kevin is extremely popular among supporters he's an all-time one of the top goalscores in the club's records and as you say he's been Harps through and through and has been involved at underage level with the academies and things like that so yeah he's definitely a prospect worth considering it's kind of what he wants or not is it that's the thing Greg it might be too early for Kevin maybe it just doesn't suit him in terms of as you said his work, his own work, his own personal life you know things have to happen at the right time we saw how Ollie made the transition Gavin Cullen then is another name that might spring to mind Cockhill Celtic manager, former Harps keeper Box has been ticked all over the place there exactly Gavin as well Declan Boyle who was on with Osheen this morning has to be a candidate as well because Declan was there with Harps at the underage setup along with Joe Boyle who's another name that has been mentioned Declan is now managing at under 19 level with Flagle Rovers, knows the game knows the players knows the players that are coming up and I'm sure Declan would love an opportunity to manage at League of Ireland level again is at the right time Declan works down in County Litrum you know he's got not as far away as Galway not as far away as Galway yeah so this you know it's interesting one of the things that Kathy mentioned there as well was that you know the emails have started to come in already even though Ollie's only only gone you know literally ours at this stage yeah so you know listen League of Ireland football is strange Greg I've always found over the years it's almost like a managerial merry go round the times you know a manager leaves one club he ends up somewhere else and then he moves on somewhere else and players similarly you know the amount of players that are playing at League of Ireland level that have played with other clubs within the League of Ireland too you know so there's three quality names and I'll tell you it's not I mean we've seen in GEA circles and elsewhere how difficult it is to even maybe identify prospective candidates but there is a there's a richness there already and that's not to mention who might be looking for it a curve ball now I'm not sure what Jim McGuinness's status is in terms of availability to actually manage at the moment but you know if you're looking for maybe a name that might bring something else to the party as well huge you respected we know the kind of work he can do on nutrition and all that type of stuff I mean is it nonsense to suggest Jim McGuinness he likes managing soccer teams now no listen Greg I don't think it's nonsense would I like to see Jim McGuinness there as manager of Finharps yes I would love it again as much as I have respect for Ali as a person as a manager what can we say about Jim McGuinness and what he has done for sport here in the Northwest so if he was given the opportunity I'll put it this way I would love to see Jim McGuinness if he was if he ended up managing Dairy City or Dundalk where he was linked before you know I'd be thinking why he didn't Finharps get him that would be my first question how come Harps missed out there so you know yes I'm sure the name Jim McGuinness that it's been mentioned it's not been mentioned by accident there's a reason for it you know has contact been made I don't know and again would it suit Jim McGuinness at this stage of his standings of his situation to come and manage the club like Finharps I don't know but I suppose all we can do is watch this space Jim would be I mean you spoke very highly there of Declan Boyle and this is not in any way speaking negative of others but for you would it be Declan or Jim would be your favourites well Greg I honestly don't know I remember when Ali was appointed manager back in November of what 2013 nine years ago they called the press conference to announce the manager and genuinely walked into the press conference and Ali was sitting at the top table and I did not expect to see Ali sitting there that day so nothing would surprise you nothing would surprise you you know that's not Ali's appointment I remember asking Ali one of the questions that that press conference that day was Ali had a young family at that time now that his children have grown up now nine years later but he had young kids at that time I think he had four children and one of the questions I put to him was how is he going to be able to juggle family life and children and Finharps and he answered it in a typical Ali fashion he says listen he says you know we'll just get on with it these are the things you've got to deal with I suppose it's like every job we all do it really don't we I mean it's not just because you're under the team it doesn't yeah but Greg you know what Ali's Ali's unreal I mean he did juggle family life his parents living down in Galway his mum sadly passed away recently he would be up and down to Galway he's got us working in Union's college and all the other things going on in his life as well wasn't just Finharps he was involved at school boys level in football so hey you could ring him any time any hour of the day and he could literally be anywhere it'll be he's a big miss there's no doubt about that but so many happy memories and of course because it is sport there's sad memories disappointing memories sorry probably by the way putting it to reflect on alright we'll see how it goes when do you expect a success to actually be appointed German obviously they have their ducks in a row they're all action now in terms of of trying to get someone in place how long do you think that process might take again not sure Greg hopefully sooner rather than later because the new season will be up and running you know after Christmas I'm sure they'll get back for pre-season the new league of Ireland season will kick off in late February early March of next year we thought that the process of appointing a manager within the Donegal GA scene would have been straight forward and that proved totally different Greg so who knows how this will go but hopefully it won't be as as slow and and frustrating as that and Jeremy thanks for your time this morning I really appreciate it Jeremy Daherty there Finn Harp's correspondent for us here at Highland Radio the 9th all-new show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today this December the 23rd you could own a brand new car worth 30,000 you'll be Highland Radio is 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angrianon theater box office and angrianon.com presented by joe gallagher entertainment okay some comments before the news ollie hogan performed miracles keeping fin harps in the top tier on a shoestring budget at a time when there were no representatives there from strongholds such as waterford city limmered go away and midlands home gate receipts would only pay two maybe three players from a top four club disheartening this year to see x stars return with other clubs and some crucial goals against them will miss his honesty and humorous interviews thank you ollie for battling passionately against the odds thank you well considered there tell ollie to take up sea swimming clear the head and he'd be ready to go again thanks and good luck ollie a fin harps legend one place i feel fin harps are losing out financially it's not enough merchandise in the club shop alright something maybe to look at watching from mallin head ollie thank you for all the memories okay and thank you for watching in your comments greg ollie gave his all to do his best he deserves every thanks in his example and graciousness will inspire others to carry the baton forward god bless and well done says a listener there and another greg can you please wish ollie all the best for the future and thank him for all he did for fin harps that comes in from derrick who's tuned in in there cyan mills okie doke that's where we're going to leave it for the first hour of the show stay tuned lots to come on the program stay involved in it text or whatsapp 08 660 25000 that's 08 660 25000 or give us a call in 07491 25000 we'll be back after the news and the obituary notices with mikaela clark the 9 till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your ultster bank loan or overdraft we are now offering competitive low-rate switcher loans and mycu current account with overdraft live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm mikaela clark with the news at 10 o'clock the remelton road in letter kenny remains closed following a serious overnight crash guardians are at the scene and diversions are expected to be in place for a number of hours traffic is being diverted via thorn road and golf course road where local access to tarot court is being facilitated no further details are known at this time a significant tranja funding has been announced today for reimagining remelton 6.4 million euro was being made available towards the 8 million euro project under a major rural regeneration development fund it will see significant works carried out in the time including the development of a new creative hub and co-working hub minister tranny mcconnlough says the funding will make a huge difference by injecting vibrancy back into the time it's a tremendously significant tone in the history of donny goll it has great heritage it's a really attractive town for the wider area and serve the wider area but it has a lot of on path potential a lot of the heritage buildings that have become worse for wear particularly in the river area this 6.4 million euro will really be a step change in relation to the regeneration of melton a letter kenny conser has warned that the bonnegie lane is an accident waiting to happen concerns have been raised over the volume of vehicles using the route and the speed at which they are travelling emotion was brought before meeting of the letter kenny conser jerry mcconnigl who called for ramps or other forms of traffic management to be put in place the local authority says an assessment of the road will be carried out conser donal corn who supported the motion believes ramps are the only option this is something that we've been looking for for a long time and i think it needs to be done now and it needs to be done urgently ramps are the only thing that i see that really slows down traffic because you know if you come to a ramp you just have to slow down and i think it's imperative now that the council proceed and put in the ramps tributes have been paid this morning at dunagal county consul's economic enterprise and emergency spc to all agencies involved in the rescue and recovery operation following an explosion in christenal last month the consul's director of emergency services gary martin has prized all he responded to the unprecedented event including the local community who he says has to be commanded he told the meeting that the thorn training undertaken by the agencies providing assistance was evident through the operation gary martin acknowledged also the support from the northern arnan fire and reski service including specialist and kinine and camera support from balfast cuts to the pay of members of the northern arnan assembly have been described as tokenism mls will see their salaries reduced by around a third as part of plans to defer an assembly election by six weeks you'd add lines to form an executive instalment is now the eighth of december with the potential for a further extension to january the 19th if necessary former t-shock bertia heron says mls are doing a lot of work even if the assembly isn't sitting they're still doing their constituency work and i suppose that's a lot of the public say listen off they haven't been really meeting properly you know for months now why should they be getting that i understand that argument and this is to try to deal with that argument but you know i'd rather see a resolution than to worry about what they get paid jenny got kindy councils islands committee is stepping up its campaign to have a fire service developed on tori island issue was raised by tori representatives at a meeting this week and also at a meeting of the glendis municipal district tori has a population of around 120 people but there is no fire station or fire tender on the island hemi shofari says with new tenders being located at a number of fire stations in the county arrangement should be made to transfer one of the old tenders to tori we're getting new fire tenders and to the fire stations around donnie gall and around island and i'm sure they're able to get a second hand fire tender to tori island the population has grown over the last number of years in the island and it's important that the motor tours and everything that goes to the island with two schools there a hotel, a local pop and the amount of people that are living on the island that the services are put in place. A wind warning for donnie gall has been extended Matt Aaron is warning of strong to gale force south to south west winds today and into tomorrow with gusts of 90 to 110 kilometers per hour expected the warning will remain in place until 10 o'clock to more morning mild on windy today with plenty of Clyde there will be long dry periods and just patchy rain or drizzle with top temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees that's all from Highland Radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this thursday morning november the 10th the death has taken place of elizabeth mclaughlin den carre road cardona her remains will be reposing at her home from four o'clock this afternoon funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has taken place of donnie mcgarvey newton springfield fanid funeral arrangements to be confirmed later the death has taken place of edward ferrie don lew gheedore his remains are reposing at his home with rosary nightly at 8 o'clock funeral arrangements to follow family flowers on the place donations in lieu to the irish hard foundation care of any family member or cairn rote funeral director the death has taken place of bridgett breed mccormick named ed three the pines church hill bridgett's remains are reposing at her late residence funeral from there to more morning for requiem mass in st. colin kills church services funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time from 11 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only donations to positive care department letter kenney university hospital care of any family member the death has occurred of mary galler nae kyle port sallan and fawn county donnie gall her remains are reposing at the residence of mary galler nae kyle port sallan and fawn county donnie carol ross port sallan fawned remeble from there at half past one tomorrow afternoon arriving at christ the redeemer church rosna kill for two clock funeral service burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only please donations if desired to the Alzheimer society of Ireland care of any family member or mccatier funeral the death has occurred of winnie doherty simbridge it's cock hill rope on crana there will be no way and heist is strictly private at the request of the deceased the death has taken place of gertie maguire 93 don't take road oma her remains will repose at her late residence her funeral will take place tomorrow morning in st. mary's church draggish burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of ronan kelly cross car kindie dine and formerly mean a boy and the gleebs to norler remains are posing at mcculls chapel rest valley buffet today with visiting time from 7 o'clock until rosary at 9 o'clock funeral leaving from there to more morning at half past 10 for requiem mass in the church of mary a macklitz to norler at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in drum boat cemetery the requiem mass will be streamed live by the parish webcam the death has taken place of charlie mcculgan late of three simbridge avenue dairy funeral from his daughter's home 42 st. francis terrace this morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st. patrick's church pennyburn interment afterwards in the city cemetery family flowers only please donations and leo flowers if wished to the alzheimer society 7 oaks dairy and the death has occurred of susan buffini nae clay 12 thorns ed road london formerly wood hill manor cunning him county dunagall susan's funeral will take place on monday morning in cheshire at half past 10 at st. mary's orse church to new king street middle which burial at 12 noon at middle which cemetery chester road middle which for more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to highlandradio.com okay very welcome back to the second hour of the nine till noon show good morning if you are just joining us alright some of your comments as they continue to come in here gregg gave his all to do his best he deserves every thanks in his example and graciousness will inspire others I think I read that one already both of you thank you very much for those comments what about throwing poll hegerty's name into the hat for fin harms well you've just done so haven't you um some other stuff here investigate the override cars alleged misdeeds am I perhaps too cynical in believing there's a separate class of people in Ireland who are too important to go to prison well I'm not sure if it's simply connected but the more money you have seemingly the less likely you are to lose your home or to end up in jail it seems gregg you had a letter can you cancel on your show yesterday and still I heard no response to how this four lane project is going to ease the traffic in letter Kenny's not it's a multi-million euro cycle lane that will keep the greens happy while the traffic is still gridlocked in letter Kenny and will definitely stop people from visiting and shopping until things are done right in this country and the right people are making the right decisions letter Kenny's going to struggle big time but still it's an attractive enough experience for tens of thousands of people to still go in and shop letter Kenny's are thriving a busy busy town but you just want to make sure that everything through their difficult times and also through the times where trading is at its peak over the Christmas time separately trying to get through to Samaritans for the past three weeks wondering if anyone else had the same thing happen to them now that surprises me if you want to just get back in touch with us and tell us the number that you're trying to contact them on we'll see if we can look into that for you because if you're trying to reach the Samaritans it's obviously an important call Hi Greg in relation to the opposition we don't have an opposition should they voted with the government in relation to the carbon tax and then organized cost of living protests you couldn't make it up seems on the face with something of a contradiction I don't think any popular party now though can sort of doubt the fact that we need to do something about climate change about a carbon emissions but there has to be a balanced struck doesn't there caller says the minister has said the reason for the 42 million funding for race horses is that it brings a couple of billion in revenue from sales of horses from abroad if we didn't have the race courses we would never know how good they are we have to speculate to accumulate okay show me the billions and if 42 million euro can return billions of euro in revenue why is that coming out of the public purse surely there's a private surely there's a private fund that could fund that or maybe the industry itself could fund it if the industry creates billions of a government investing 42 million or surely from those billions they themselves could scrape together 42 million for the next year if that truly is what's happening here I'm not against supporting the race racing industry I don't I don't engage in it really it's not it doesn't put me up or down it won't stop me sleeping at night but if it creates billions in revenues of sales from horses right and whatever else well then surely 42 million can come from the billions from this year for next year and then that 42 million euro can go to paying nurses properly just a suggestion I agree agree with you about the link between night clubs and antisocial behavior but isn't there less night clubs now and antisocial behavior seems to be increasing night night clubs is a catch all right night clubs really if you if you think night clubs you think right 2 30 opening 3 30 3 o'clock opening then you think pubs closed at half 11 it's not the case now the night time the night time entertainment industries made up a lot of pubs that stay open till 2 30 do you know what I mean so it's still lots and lots of people out on the streets just because night clubs aren't as popular as the ones where it doesn't mean that people aren't going out after midnight and when if you messaging into some being carried over from yesterday as it relates to traffic lights and all that type of stuff I'll get to that but I want to give you the opportunity now to hear the bingo numbers because it's jackpot day today and it's just an opportunity to remind you that all of you playing the bingo and hundreds of euros given away every week which is fantastic but all of you paying the bingo have collectively donated to charity hope you know that you've raised over 250 million euro for the national council for the blind of Ireland and that money has been is being and is spent locally so in playing bingo you are doing your bit for charity over a quarter of a million euro all of you out there have raised now it's not a club it's not a scheme you can buy a book anytime you like and contribute to that charity as well 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there are calls for the appointment of a staff care czar in the health service it comes as nursing unions highlight the problems of overcrowding and emergency departments and difficulties in attracting and key days well retaining workers consultant in emergency medicine doctor Chris Luke joins us on the program now he is the person behind this call good morning doctor Luke thanks for your time thank you very much for asking me right so where would you see this position be because some might feel that some of the problems from with the services is who's responsible too many people making decisions and maybe not enough people taking responsibility so where would you see this staff cares are positioned well you're absolutely right it's sort of everybody's problem and nobody's responsibility you know I spent 40 years in the NHS and the Irish health service and it seems to me that the further we get into high level organization and something which I think is potentially to blame for much of our problems is the sort of imitation of car factory management I mean an awful lot of management teaching in the NHS when I was a young consultant in the 90s referred to the so-called lean thinking of Toyota factories and all these other car factories in Japan and for years I thought you know hospitals are nothing like car factories they're much more like horticultural or agricultural you know ventures it's much more a natural process of growth needing nurture and time and sunshine and patients basically so it seems to me that one of the things that consistent in the reports about dysfunction in the NHS and the Irish health service is the want of emotional intelligence perhaps the very top but the very top and I mean in government and in perhaps the civil service but also in many hospitals I've worked in many many hospitals and for years I've been horrified at the way staff throughout the hospital are increasingly treated as units or as if they're making widgets and there is a complete failure to understand their need to socialize as social animals proper clean warm staff rooms proper clean warm accommodation at night like clean beds warm food that sort of very very basic idea but then in addition you've got things that are absolutely perennial like the failure to pay staff appropriately, predictably, reliably to have them constantly shifting from one job to the next without any knowledge on the part of the salary offered in each hospital of the last you know salary hospitals details endlessly on emergency tax not getting rosters for example until two weeks after they've started in a new hospital and perhaps the most egregious issue of all and I speak now as a father of a young medic myself someone you know young medics going to HR in every hospital in the land and asking look I've got a wedding in three months or six months or I've got a big exam in two months you know can I please book the leave and they say oh yes yes of course and then come the day to you know week or even just a few days before the date they're told no you can't have a short stop and on and on it goes so just in relation to that out of interest because where does this come from the working environment for someone working in a hospital is very very difficult the wages for nurses are really quite poor there's very few decisions the government could make in terms of increasing spend for public workers that would have universal support almost from the public if you are struggling to retain and attract staff then you look at the conditions like every private company that's very successful looks after and cares for their staff even if the wage is on as high as they might get in another company so what why is that such a difficult not for us to crack to make sure that staff are looked after well rewarded so that we're not constantly seeing us hemorrhaging staff to other places that do treat them well well I mean it goes back to my original suggestion I think the diagnosis is a lack of emotional intelligence this is not like cognitive intelligence this is actually not really about money it's about people at the very very top understanding trying to understand the misery that many many healthcare workers have to endure because of this basically complete dysfunction in terms of the way the health service's most precious asset their staff are managed so it's basically about you know having a unique identifier for example tax or salary purposes as they move between institutions it's about someone with authority in a hospital and I would suggest someone at the rank of deputy chief executive in every hospital should have the power and the remit to ensure that every member of staff starting with the most pointy end you know the emergency department intensive care unit staff where our need is greatest and the burden is great ensuring that each of that each member of staff in those units has had a hot meal in their last night shift has slept in a clean bed or has been in a clean staff room has had their salary paid this this month has had their leave you know guaranteed and so on and so forth and then you move from prioritized departments to the whole hospital but I'm sorry to say that over the last 30-40 years you know year after year I've seen a relentless chipping away at things like clean staff rooms common rooms for the doctors it's almost as if they're afraid of the doctors and nurses you know congregating and conspiring against some imaginary managerial enemy and I think it reflects a chasm in terms of understanding between politicians and civil service and management and the staff at the front line all right so it's a broadly I don't know if the right word toxic work environment then you know like a culture that everyone's looking over their shoulder the suspicion as people's motives I mean is that what you're suggesting no no I'm not talking about I'm talking about staff working doing the job no it's just you talked about having a clean space for people to eat and comfort for fear that they might be they might be plotting or something well I mean that's an example where hospital after hospital in the 90s and 90s started to get rid of the doctors common room that's that's a side issue I'm talking here about much more basic stuff I'm talking about how our doctors and nurses who are in the service at the moment are most of them are doing the job of two or three other people if they were in Italy or Germany or France there would be three times the number of doctors or nurses that's the basic starting point then there's the fact that even when they get breaks they may go into a staff room that's filthy or there's no clean water or there's no food at night for the ships and so on or if they're doing night shifts or even for example a whole weekend that there isn't a clean quiet you know res room and bed for them to take a break but we're talking about the most fundamental conditions for caring for healthcare staff and I think it has to start at the top with the national czar and in each institution as I say someone of the rank of a deputy chief executive who can enforce the kind of standards in terms of conditions that would perhaps begin to improve the retention of our staff. It's a fascinating insight thank you very much Dr. Chris Luke I really appreciate your time this morning that is Dr. Chris Luke consultant in emergency medicine maybe you are someone who's off shift at the moment working in that environment let us know anonymously what you think of those suggestions 08 60 25 thousand I made an inquiry about installing a smart meter with the ESB says this caller I was listening to English news channels last night and the lady had installed a smart meter about a month ago but the provider has now switched her over without her knowledge to pay as you go it seems this can quite easily be done by the provider just wondering can they do the same thing here and if anyone has any experience or information on this it would certainly have to be done with it have to be in the terms and conditions I'm not sure if that's like the equivalent of the 300 euro that was put on my bill because my direct debit bounced because I forgot to switch it between banks is that 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business and the elderly on the Office of Emergency Planning website winterready.ie or follow us on Twitter at emergencyie an initiative of the Government of Ireland Right okay now there was a meeting yesterday amongst a few interested parties not homeowners as far as I'm aware but I'll get some clarification on that as it relates to an update in respect of the administration of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme so we're joined on the program now by Lisa Hone chair of the Micah Action Group Hi Lisa thanks for taking the call this morning Hi Greg Right so there's not much news here for the many perhaps some positives for the few in terms of those who are currently trying to progress on this scheme that there may be say some movement in that regard but for everybody else is to wait and see what's the story with this new enhanced scheme is that your assessment of it or have I done the meeting a disservice To be honest Greg we weren't expecting anything from the meeting really much with regard to the revised scheme that wasn't the purpose of the meeting in saying that we did have questions from the MAG committee members who were there at the meeting yesterday did have questions in terms of how things are progressing with regard to the implementation of the scheme but the greater part of the meeting yesterday really was focused on a presentation which was due to be made by John Gallagher who is a senior engineer with the council and he was really going to give details on what had been agreed between the council and also the department of housing because as people will be aware certainly anybody involved in this awful crisis is that many many applications have just been on hold I mean effectively in Donegal the scheme has been paralysed for the best part of a year now and it wasn't really like it was going great guns beforehand to be honest I mean like you know I think Constipated is probably the best description I can give of the scheme before that but effectively when issues like other deleterious materials in particular like Piratite etc. reared their heads in terms of the evidence thing in the the the engineers reports that really that kind of threw another spoke into the works and effectively the scheme ground to halt because there was no direction from the department of housing on how those kind of materials should be assessed and whether or whether they should not be taken into consideration well they the the expected outcomes some applications will be approved in confirmation of eligibility will be issued to the applicant where applicants cannot be approved a final request for further information will issue to the applicant this will afford the applicants chartered engineer an opportunity to provide the necessary evidence to substantiate the recommended minimum feasible remedial options submitted are there still people interested in you know outer leaves I mean is any engineer recommending anything other than full demolition at this point and as well as that we still don't really know whether or not foundations might be included or not so was on the face with this seems like progress I certainly at this point if I were directly affected would not want to be progressing in the scheme for say for instance outer leaf only now I mean look every the recommendations that go forward are based on the engineers assessment and also that of the homeowner now the vast majority of homeowners are trying to view an option one and what then maybe homeowners in other circumstances that don't want to go down that full demolish route so I can't give you a breakdown at the moment Greg in terms of you know how many option you know how many homeowners are going to go for you know are going to try and pursue each type of remediation but what I do know is the vast vast majority at the moment want to pursue option one because that is being as you know in a lot of cases the damage is obviously very very evident and also it is seen as the only way to actually rid your home of these military materials so you know that's and the other thing about the foundation yes there's huge concern about that as well and we are still pushing for foundations to be taken into consideration but and it's just very very disappointing that that's not really being taken on board with the urgency that it needs to be it is really unacceptable that you know we're not necessarily going to have that evidence for another year to 18 months I mean what are people supposed to do in the meantime and the you know the stance of the mic action group would be very much if you don't have the data and you don't have the evidence to substantiate that that remediation is absolutely going to be a full proof remediation for the homeowner then you have to take a very very courted approach and you have to take the only thing with all that is is though you know if you can't get home insurance with their outer block being done you know who wants to go on that route yeah I mean we these are these are all extremely valid questions Greg absolutely valid questions that was one of the questions that we have we're still pursuing these trying to get answers from the likes of the department of housing with regard to stuff like that there was a letter sent from the four counties that are due to be on the revised scheme and you know one of the questions was can the department assure homeowners that the remediation will entitle them to be fully insured fully most multiple and their house will be fully available unless they provide but unless they provide the indemnity because you cannot compel a private company to indemnify a building you can't compel that you can see they have no influence over banks who've got billions invested in this they're going to be effectively bailed out again they can't influence banks there's no chance of them being able to influence insurance companies so in terms of progress do you think this is a step forward or will a lot of you know in other words it feels like there is a pathway for some people to get you know on the scheme or to move forward within it but in reality people not going to say well let's see what the new scheme looks like let's see if foundations are included let's see what other materials are recognized so in other words like you know this is like saying you can drive on there now but in reality there is a massive roadblock there still yeah I'm to be honest it's difficult to comment on the the details of what's in that presentation because unfortunately we didn't get to hear the presentation first hand we didn't have that forum where we could actually follow up and ask the questions we are visiting the meeting with the likes of John Gallo her practicality you know relevant parties within Donegal County Council to actually have that opportunity to go through in the detail that is required at the moment so I think that's the next step fellas and with regard to the new scheme at the moment you know like let's be realistic at the moment government is just giving all the signs that you know we they won't include foundations until they've done the testing you know but this you know they're so behind with the data analysis they're so behind with the scientific analysis and this is because they didn't do sufficient and robust scientific analysis well they didn't do either what is being done on the 15th of November you know they didn't do that and then even when the export report was issued in 2017 there was a recommendation in the export report which is now 5 years old to actually go and do scientific study they didn't do it they haven't bothered to do it that's the reason why we're so behind in terms of we don't have the data a lot of this is not new every taxpayer in this county sorry Lisa there's a slight delay in the line every taxpayer in this county and in this country should be very interested in the government and their their level of investigation into this and to get this right because this affects everyone it's not just those that have crumbling homes we're expecting the Minister of Housing to announce tomorrow the 15,000 euro for for accommodation I heard some suggestion the 5,000 for emergency works might also be discussed but we'll have to wait and see is that to be welcomed if that happens as it relates to 15,000 for accommodation because we know there are you know a dozen odd maybe even more people who are they need to get out of their houses the houses are unsafe this houses are damaging their their mental and physical health and arguably potentially leaving them with health problems that they might have to live with for the rest of their lives so with that in mind do you think if he announces the 15,000 for an emergency accommodation that that is to be welcomed Lisa that will give some people a pathway out of their their homes I think you should go further because it depends on the circumstances of the particular homeowner but there are homeowners that are living in unsafe unhealthy homes they have applied to the scheme but the scheme as we know has been effectively paralyzed now that 15,000 for accommodation was designed to help people when they have to move out of their home because of rebuild works it was not designed to support homeowners who are living in really unsafe homes because their application is not progressing and it's just literally taking too long that my concern would be that if that is all they offer and this is why I think it should go further if we've got homeowners who need that before they even get to a stage where they can use the 15,000 to support their rent when they have to move out if you're asking somebody to move out for what two, three years that's not going to cut it Interesting point actually It's really not good they have to look at these on an individual basis and in reality how many people could qualify to draw down that 15,000 that it would be useful and cover at least to some decent extent the actual cost that's going to be a small amount of people I suppose Yeah I mean my concern is that if that is released that unfortunately they have to use it now and it's not their fault that the application hasn't been processed it's not there we have even homeowners who can't even get on the scheme because they don't have the financial means to get over that hurdle of their 6, 7,000 euros so we've got homeowners who can't even get near the scheme at the moment and yet they're still living in really really unsafe homes so are you saying that they have to burn through that now so when they actually come to rebuild what do they do then it has to go further it has to go further than just the accommodation cost being drawn down early that's not good enough it might work but there's a whole lot of others that they will not work for and it has to be looked on a case by case basis and they need to stop putting hurdles and hoops in the way of people like people who are trying to access this emergency funding so-called you have to be at Stage 1 on the scheme so basically they're saying if you've got a chimney breath that's about to fall down and it's looking really dangerous unless you're on the scheme already so unless you have the financial means on the scheme you're not even entitled to qualify that and by the way that's another up front payment it's totally utterly impractical it's totally disconnected from people's personal circumstances it doesn't really need to get real about this and understand the desperate circumstances that people are living in and not everybody has thousands of euros to throw down up front to be able to deal with this situation most people don't any word on free mica testing that doesn't come in until such time as the enhanced scheme is in this and that correct you have to pay maybe four or five hundred for an engineer to make an observation and if they think there is a suspicion that you have defective concrete blocks then you can get free testing but that doesn't, if that is the correct is Lisa and that doesn't really we're not going to see that until such time as the new scheme as they call it the enhanced scheme is actually in place is that correct yeah unfortunately the scheme I mean effectively the only scheme that exists at the moment is the original scheme so if you want to apply for the original you still have to I'm afraid pay your six seven thousand euros and you know obviously it's of huge frustration really really unacceptable that we do not have an open date for the enhanced scheme as they call it it's really really unacceptable it's leaving home owners in limbo you know it's really hard to decide what to do and obviously those that do not have the financial means they are just kind of left to the wayside at the moment and that's just not acceptable all right Lisa thanks for your insight into it and to give us that measured response to that news I appreciate it take care of yourself 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23rd of December so good luck to all of you from Highland Radio team one of you out there will be driving around next year in a brand new black Nissan Duke worth 30 grand and it's the 2023 car as well so that's all very exciting good luck to all of you who may enter there um let me see here a caller says the mica problem is the greatest problem ever to hit the north west the big problem is communication people who have paid 7,000 to have their homes tested do not have a clue what compensation they will get or what they need to do to fix their homes it is the entire north west now people don't know if remediation works will combat the problem the only mistake we made or was made was that the cement was not put in pure neglect more to it than that but I take your point um and it's half the country it's 13 counties we are at the sharp end but we aren't the only ones here we've heard also of confirmed cases in Darien elsewhere this is a problem that will only get bigger it's not going to go away it's a big scheme a lot of money but we need to see how it we need to see how it's actually going to start repairing houses it's hard to believe we've talked about this now for a decade and what is there 6 or 7 houses repaired something like that I don't know off the top of my head but it's not a big number anyway righty-o we are on the way to the news at 11 o'clock stay tuned though another busy hour coming up for you between 11 and 12 purchase 2 long com products 1 to be skin care and get a free 8 piece gift containing a full size comfort mousse absolute day and night travel size creams plus more of your favourite iconic long com products available until Saturday the 12th of November or while stocks last season seas apply at McGee's chemist main street Litter County or it's got to the point where you have no other choice we'll do what it takes to resolve your problem it may be as simple as a wax removal Donegal Hearing Clinic Pierce Road Litter County and Milltown Business 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Sport radio dot com. Okay, it is just turning 11 o'clock. Let's get a news update. And we say good morning to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. A teenager has died following a fatal crash in letter Kenny just before midnight. Two men have been taken to letter Kenny University Hospital with serious injuries. Guardi remain at the scene of the road traffic collision involving two cars that occurred at 1155 p.m. on the Remelton Road. Guardi are appealing for witnesses. A significant range of funding has been announced today for reimagining Remelton. 6.4 million euros being made available for the eight million year project under major rural regeneration development fund. There's a better chance of Northern Ireland not being used as a bargaining chip in discussions about the protocol under Rishi Sunak according to former T shock Bertie Herron. The post Brexit arrangement has been a sticking point in a Northern Ireland executive not being formed since the election there last May. The number of fires being dealt with by the Donegal fire service has reduced. The service responded to a total of 786 calls last year, done 3% from 2020. Despite that there has been a slight increase in malicious calls to the service. Donegal County Council's Islands Committee meanwhile is stepping up its campaign to have a fire service developed on Tory Island. Tory has a population of around 120 people, but there's no fire station or fire tender on the island. A letter Kenny Council has warned that the Bonnegie Lien is an accident waiting to happen. Concerns have been raised over the volume of vehicles using the route and the speed at which they are travelling. The Council says an assessment of the road will be carried out. Tributes have been paid this morning at Donegal County Council's Economic Enterprise and Emergency SPC to all agencies involved in the rescue and recovery operation following an explosion in Crecelon last month. The Council's Director of Emergency Services, Gary Martin, has prized all who responded to the unprecedented event, including the local community, who he says has to be commanded. And a wind warning for Donegal has been extended. NetEarn is warning of strong to gale forces south to south west winds today and into tomorrow with gusts of 90 to 110 km per hour expected. Those are the latest headlines. We'll be back with an update again at 12 noon. Okay, thank you very much, Michaela. I've been sent some images here from the Donegal Riverwalk. It's hugely popular amongst people, but apparently the donation box which has been busted open. I hope that's not the case, but anyway, that's the images that have been sent forward to me, unfortunately. We'll look further into that. Right, okay, so Fulcher Ireland is predicting another busy 2023 in terms of tourism. That's if we have somewhere for them to stay though. And we've discussed this on the program before. A lot of hotels, a lot of rooms are being taken up as part of our response to the refugee crisis, which was triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So how are we going to resolve all of that? Paul Diver is the General Manager of the Sandhouse Hotel Rossnalla. He's also Chair of the Irish Hotel's Federation Donegal Branch. I'm going to be chatting to him after this break to get his insight into where we're at, where we're going. Stay tuned if you've been interested in that, which I'm sure many of you do. The Lintel Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union, now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost. Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127. If I learned one thing in the last year, it's that falling into debt can happen to anyone. Luckily, I heard about the ISI, the Insolvency Service of Ireland. Their professional advisors can help you restructure or even write off your debt. The first thing they said to me was every debt problem has a solution. 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Northwest Forestry Services, Bali Buffet are fully insured and have over 40 years experience in dangerous tree removal, tree felling, surgery and stump grinding. For peace of mind, call Northwest Forest Services, Bali Buffet for no obligation to reportation on 911-320-333. OK, you're welcome back. Now, Paul Diver, as I mentioned before, the break is the general manager at the Sandhouse Hotel, Rosnalla, also chair of the Irish Hotels Federation, Donagall Branch. He joins us now. Paul, good morning to you. Good to have you back on the show. Good morning, Greg. Right, some comments, hearing some comments. I think there was a conference, I can't remember, was London perhaps, from people in the Irish tourism industry, welcoming the fact that despite all the challenges, there's been quite a strong bounce back nationally in terms of tourism numbers, and they're predicting that 2023 may not be that far behind 2019. But that does beg the question, and it's interesting, actually, to hear it being asked today by those representing the industry. Where are tourists going to stay? An awful lot of our accommodation is currently being utilized to house refugees. Is it a problem? And it's going to be a problem if numbers keep rising, the weather rising. It's going to be a problem. I think here in Donagall, we have about seven and a half thousand bed spaces, and about 13% of that is taken up by Ukrainians. Now, I'm just speaking from a tourism point of view, not a humanitarian point of view, just strictly from a tourism point of view. I suppose our concern would be, you know, where entire villages or towns or regions where all the accommodation has been handed over, you know, for example, I was speaking to people here last weekend. The normal levels were a draft for a walking week, but we weren't able to get accommodation in our draft. They came here instead. That week would have been taken up, you know, off-site seeing during the day, and hikes, as I said. But then that night will be off to a restaurant or a pub or for Irish music or whatever. And the knock-on effect for that was because there was no accommodation available and a lot of the restaurants were closed. There was no Irish music session.  You know, Dunningall had a very serious problem over the last 30, 40 years of being seasonal. And Falkshire and other ourselves did a lot of work to make the county open all of the year round. But certainly if tourists are going to come and if they can't do the tourist thing, it's going to be a very serious problem. Yeah, because 13% overall doesn't tell the full story of the huge impact in particular areas. That being said, though, it's a moneymaker for hotels. You know, you can struggle in terms of your overall annual capacity. You know, the big bills are coming through in terms of electricity and what have you. The government's competing with the tourism industry in that it's looking after aspects of the tourism industry and it's looking after them, you know, very well financially. So why would any hotel go back to the uncertainty of the regular business when they're guaranteed capacity and an income all year round? Housing refugees? Yeah, that's a very good point and it's very relevant.   You look at the other side of it and as you say, you look at this very nice offer from the government. I suppose as an industry here in Dunningall, we have to look at the bigger picture. If we go down the route of more hotels handing over accommodation, well, we're going to lose our biggest asset and our biggest asset here in Dunningall is our staff. And, you know, a lot of hotels here in Dunningall, we trade throughout the winter, we wouldn't make money in the winter, but the reason you're training is to keep your staff employed. If we go down the route of handing over accommodation, as I say, we're losing that. So we have to look at the bigger picture and, you know, sort of in come next Easter that we have a hotel to open by up, but we also have staff to, you know, to staff it. But certainly, you know, the costs, it's an absolutely, it's just a serious, serious issue that's keeping very many people in the tourism industry awake at night. It's a bit of a mess too, because how do you resolve it? Some might say, well, you know, maybe then you need to support the hotels who are currently making a lot of money housing refugees. You'd have to support them, subsidise them so that they would go back into the general tourism market. But how could you do that fairly when hotels like your own have been plugging away in the tourism market with limited supports? Like, there's a problem being created that's gonna be hard to unravel, because also as well, we had that great staycation market that could be lost, that progress could be lost, because if you've nowhere to stay in Donegal, you're not gonna go there. And then you talked about the work to try and attract more tourists here to extend the season. That work could be unraveled again. So it's not one season, i.e., the 2023 tourism season. Previous year's work could be undone and it could take a generation to build us back to where we are again. That's all worst-case scenario, but I don't think anything I've said there is completely irrelevant. No, it's not, and it's very relevant. We had a fantastic opportunity when the country was in lockdown with COVID. Donegal did extremely well out of that. We were in the shop window. People loved, you know, when the camps only got they loved what we had on offer. They loved the value for money. We still have all of that. But if we go back to a lockdown situation or we go back to only been open for three months of the year or we have that perception, you're 100% right to take a generation to undo that. I don't know how we're gonna resolve the situation, but I think some of the departments need to look at towns and villages, not just in Donegal but right throughout the country and only allocate a certain percentage of people. Because here in Donegal, like I mean, tourism is extremely important to us here in Donegal. There's 8,000 people employed in tourism and that's not just in Ladder County or Donegal town. That's in every corner, you know, they can mean from Ironmore to Mallon Heads to Rosnouda to Endorn. We're all over the country and nothing is going to replace that. So it is a very, very serious issue and it's something that needs to be addressed. Yeah, because hopefully we don't know yet though. I don't know what, say for instance, car rental prices are looking like for 2023, but we saw the great challenge in 2022. You talked about the prices on the increase. You tie in the fact that limited accommodation and certainly in the big urban areas, whatever is left, they're gonna price it. That's just the bottom line and we might hear, but we're gonna feel the impact of it. You could be looking at the, serious, serious dental decimation of the tourism industry in Ireland. In other words, people will look at their options and go, I can go to Berlin. I can go to a Faro. I can go to Alba Faire. I can go, you know, why go to Ireland? And again, that's gonna be hard to get back.  You know, we heard about the astronomical prices that car rental companies were quoting. We had an awful lot of people then that changed their holiday flew into Belfast and got a very good D in Belfast. You know, I suppose the thing about hotels here in Donegal, the majority of them are family-old and family-managed. You know, we're gonna try and take the hit for as much as we can. You know, it's key to us that we offer value for money and we continue to offer value for money. And as I say, it's key for us that we have full-time jobs for our staff. It is gonna be a bumpy year or a few years ahead, but hopefully the goodwill that we've built up, you know, as I say, when we were in the shop window with the country being closed down and people had to holiday home, you know, we did absolutely fantastically well out of that and hopefully that will pay off the way of first going forward. Yeah, but you can only do as much as you can do. We know from Ryanair and other airlines they're moving record numbers of people around. People are traveling, people are holidaying. So you can have your hotel offering good value in a beautiful location, but if the environment is being dictated by government or whomever, that means people won't come here. You're fighting a losing battle. So you can only do your bit. It's up to the powers that be to ensure that they create a more general environment that leaves us as a, you know, realistic option for someone to head away for a week in the summer. Yeah, that, you know, that's very true. And, you know, I suppose there's no point in burying our head in the sand, but we have a very good tourism product here in Donegal, you know, we've got everything from, you know, some of the best golf courses in the world at fantastic value, you know, brilliant surfing and, you know, so much to see and do. And it's up to us to keep getting that message out and that there is value to be had in Donegal. There's a huge variety of things to enjoy in Donegal. And just sort of hope that the powers that be will look at where, you know, hotels are handing over to their accommodation and just try and manage it a bit better so that the tours that's coming to Donegal, you know, get a really good tourist experience. And the solution in Donegal is there because we had hundreds of homes offered for accommodation. None were given out by whomever is responsible for that. And they were put into a group of accommodation or hotels. Finally, 17 cent on a price of Heineken is obviously coming