an unnotified parade in line with their legal duties. Young people were observed making petrol bombs before the parade commenced. These, along with other objects, were then thrown at police vehicles at the junction of Innescairn Road and Linsford Drive. Leaving the city cemetery, participants were reported to remove their paramilitary uniforms under the cover of umbrellas and burn them. This attack occurred despite previous communications with organisers who expressed their desire to have a respectful and dignified event. Police remind people there is no place for this type of criminal activity and it is not wanted by the vast majority of people in the city. Investigations into the incident are now being carried out as potential offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. Meanwhile, security alert in the north has been declared as nothing on toward. Roads were closed and residents forced to evacuate their homes just after 9 o'clock last night when a suspicious object was found in the Circular Road area, in the area of Newton-Ards. An examination of the scene was carried out and the PSNI say the item was declared safe. Clint Manay Shamrock's FC have released an appeal for information following an act of vandalism on their new astro pitch. It is near completion. The social media post shows an image of a large rock which had been thrown onto the new facility. It is one of many dangerous objects reported to have been discarded. The club has asked for any suspicious activity to be reported to the Guardian. The future of teaching as profession will take centre stage at a number of teaching union conferences this week. Teacher shortages will also be discussed with many schools reporting difficulty recruiting and retaining staff. Unions are also looking for pay rises in line with inflation which is currently around 7%. General Secretary of the ASTI, Kieran Christie says talks will take place on this later this year. And finally, the L2843 in our drab between the N56 and the Mahara caves will be blocked over the next two days. Essential roadworks mean the road is closed from 7.30am to 6pm today and tomorrow. A local diversion is in place. And finally, to weather, bright and early this morning with passing heavy showers, it'll turn cloudy with a spell of rain developing early this afternoon. Blustery with fresh and gusty southerly winds, highs of 7-11 degrees. That's all for now. We'll be back again with the news and follow individuary notices at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. And a very good morning to you. This is the 90 noon show on Highland Radio. Donald Kavanaugh with you on tail 12 noon today and with you for the rest of this week. As we always say, a packed show lined up, but the most important part of the show is your contributions. 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Donna-Marie working in the newsroom, of course. Outside we have Neve taking your calls along with Karla and Karla in producing the show this morning as well. Let's take a look at our papers this morning. We start with the Donegal Democrat as it is a Tuesday. And Dunlowe's Emily is world champion again. Emily Colin Angelo received a hero's welcome in her native Dunlowe on Sunday when she arrived back with the Under-19 World Irish Dancing Championship title. It's the third time she's picked up that particular honour. She had the success at the Commissure in the World Irish Dancing Championships in Montreal, Canada on Friday. Also has had story on the front of the paper. Body recovered from Crawley River. You'll have heard the story over the weekend. Gar thee investigating all the circumstances surrounding the recovery of the body of a man from the Crawley River in West Donegal on Easter Sunday morning. The man believed to have been in his 40s, was removed from the river by the Coast Guard and pronounced dead at the scene. That's the front of the Donegal Democrat. Front of the Journal this morning. Dairy Journal. Big crowds for Karn Easter Parade. Nice pictures there. And the main headline, Crematorium Plan for Inch. And Loret Len writes the conditional permission has been granted for Inch Owens first pet crematorium to be located on Inch Island. The permission was granted by Donegal County Council to Francesca McLeod for change of use of part of an existing farm machinery shed and workshop to create that pet crematorium and all associated site works at Black or Boholian. And that's the front of the Dairy Journal. Front of the Irish Independent. One of the really sad stories over the course of the past two days has been that horrific crash in County Galway on the road between Galway and Castle Bar in the early hours of yesterday. Two 14-year-olds, sorry, one 15-year-old Lucas Joyce and 14-year-old Kirsty Bohan, killed following that collision on the N84. I can't wake them up, the headline there. The main headline on the front of the Irish Independent. Private nursing homes get millions in COVID subsidies. Philip Ryan writes that the price, the private nursing home sector has received 220 million euro in COVID supports in addition to the 11 billion that the industry gets annually from the nursing home support scheme or the fair deal scheme as it's known. The temporary assistance payment scheme is due to when this month, but new figures show that investment firms boasting billions of euro in revenue have drawn 148 million euro from the state's COVID support program. And that's, you can read more about that there on your Irish Independent. The main photograph on the front of the independent shades of a dark past, the tag underneath a police vehicle is attacked with petrol bombs during a march by dissident roller guns in Derry yesterday. The scenes coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and occurred on the eve of US President Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland. And I think in fairness to PSNI had been flagging up since Thursday or Friday of last week that they expected issues in Derry on Easter Monday afternoon. And it's not the first Easter Monday we've had pictures like this, unfortunately, and not the first Easter Monday we've had scenes like this in the lovely city of Derry. Front of the Irish Times this morning, Ombudsman criticizes treatment of child asylum seekers. Discrimination means Ukrainians leave city west after a day while others remain. Dr. Neil Muldoon has warned the government of unacceptable preferential treatment and that's an interesting story there. Officials warn of overcrowding risk in Mount Joy. Prison staff are considering buying back beds, buying bunk beds due to serious concerns over safety and two teenagers killed and two injured in County. Galway crashed that same story we saw on The Independent. The sports section, Jim McGinnis writing in the Irish Times, for Mayo, the hype and expectation has been replaced by a severe dose of reality. If you want to read Jim McGinnis' thoughts, they're available to you in The Times. And the main picture is a picture of champion jockey Paul Taland producing a ride for the ages to win yesterday's Irish Grand National at Ferry House on I Am Maximus, trained by Willie Mullins and owned by J. P. McManus, that's the front of The Irish Times. Irish Daily Mail. We'll hear a lot obviously from teachers this week, the week after Easter, traditionally the week for the teachers' unions conferences. So the teachers' unions are going to be very busy. Norma Foley is going to be very busy going from conference to conference over the next couple of days. And the main story on the Irish Daily Mail, teachers looking for 280 million euro pay rise, a figure that would fund 7,000 new teaching posts. Teachers are demanding another pay rise and want earnings to match the highest level of inflation or double the current rate. The Education Minister will be told today an additional pay increase for teachers would cost the state that further 280 million. John Boyle of this parish of the Irish National Teachers Organization said a significant pay rise of up to 15% is needed to counter the housing crisis and the rising cost of living. That's the front of the Irish Daily Mail. Irish Daily Star this morning, two teens dead in a smash. Treasured students tributes have poured in for two teenagers who lost their lives in that horrific Easter Monday car smash. A Galway school said they'd lost two treasured members following the deaths of Lucas Joyce and Kirsty Bohan. Two other teens were hospitalised. Teenage driver and another pal are rushed to hospital. Front of the Irish Daily Mirror, again it's the same headline. Three teens die in bank hall horror. Also GAA starlet David 15 and two friends killed in separate accidents. Three teenagers died over the course of the bank holiday weekend including Leesh under GAA player David Brown. He lost his life in a quad bike accident close to Emo village and there's more on the inside of the paper there. The front of the mirror also a picture of Joe Biden. Holy Joe is the little headline there. President Biden will visit Nock Shrine. Now we know that Joe Biden flies into Belfast tonight. We have an overall idea of his itinerary. We've been hearing that obviously with Donna Marie on the news throughout the course of the morning but we'll not get the nitty gritty details uncle closer to the time for obvious security reasons. But it does appear a visit to Nock Shrine is on the cards for President Biden. Front of the Irish Sun this morning. Four kids aged 13 and 14 in car. Girl and boy dead in six AM crash horror. Another boy and girl fight for life. Also Monk's duck party for 60th. The Monk will be dreaming of Chinese grub as he turns 60 in jail today. The agency accused plans a duck pancake meal with friends if he's freed next week. That's the front of the Irish Sun and that's how your papers are looking on this Tuesday morning. And as always happens after bank holiday. Yeah it is kind of in my head. I keep if I start calling today much Tuesday you'll know what I mean. It is a Tuesday and they were your papers. A reminder just once again that if you wish to make contact with us you can do so. 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We had a situation which is not uncommon where we had people camping at the beach of rage right beside the airport within walking distance from the airport. Maybe about 50 60 feet this time of year with things being at 12 how things can be very dry and we've seen the horrific ghost fires that we had over the number of years and somebody was down over the weekend camped lit fires and then took all their scrap and set it alight and just drove off and that's that's not acceptable. First and foremost the idea that you think you can come along to the community our community which is absolutely beautiful. The airport here has been has been elected selected over many years as one of the most beautiful landing sites and in the world we hold that with great pride. We have a fantastic management and staff at the airport who works extremely hard at what they do. We have the Carrick Finn Trust who owns that land we take great pride in our community and the idea that somebody thinks that they can come along put a handful of rocks around in a circle camp in a place where they didn't even have the respect to ask could they camp there and then let a fire and then bugger off. That's that's not acceptable and only shape or form I'm sure you saw the video yourself. It wasn't a case that there was a few sods of turf it was a case of that they had plastic and wood and different materials and set it like a light and one person who came along and tried to put the fire out and unfortunately couldn't put the fire out had to ring for assistance then to to put the fire out from the airport and that's you know a funding happened in between times while staff were away doing what was the right thing to do you know it would have left a different story for me and you to be talking about today and like that there's nothing wrong whatsoever in my opinion anyway as long as it's respectful to go wild camping I do it myself around the islands even around that area it's there but the idea that you can think that you can come along and if you go down to like if you look at some of the places around west and you go you come along and there's nothing but dots of black marks people think they can just light fires there's other ways of doing that there's a respectful way to do that and we see that the vast majority of the campers and the tents and the camper vans that's how they actually do it but that's here it's actually enraged quite a lot of people it raises the question is it time perhaps for cctv cameras so that if people act in that way maybe car registration numbers can be captured and people can be called on to account for their actions and where necessary to make reparations because as you've said it's not the first time this has happened well I'll be honest with you I'm not sure about cct the cameras I'm not a massive fan of yeah I know you would have other issues but I think people's privacies are a privacy is very important but I do know that somebody has bought the registration of this car on their phone by chance purely by chance and I am seriously considering putting it out there for the world to see who it actually it was because I think it's very clear that they were camping there the fire was lit and their car was in the camera by chance and it's it's just not right it's just not right and I know people may think there's more important things to be worried about yes there are more important things in some aspects to be worried about but if that fire it takes a light and it spreads and we've seen the damage of loss of homes lost of property very very lucky there was no loss of life a number of years ago exactly this time of year it was Easter there were two separate fires we fought one on Sunday on Friday opened them the cart we spent all day fighting there where we lost poor Anne lost her house and property then we fought on Easter Monday we fought over a huge area west of Niigal where where people were so great from different parts of the county and country came to came to our assistance but some foolish foolish people just don't realize what impact this could have on our community I remember that one well um you as you say and it's a coincidental that this happened so close to a airport in Niigal um let's talk about what happened at the airport because of operational problems with the the Erlingas regional flight it never left Dublin and then the return flight never left the airport and a lot of people found themselves stranded yeah this is not unfamiliar and first thing I'd like to say is this is no reflection whatsoever in relation to our fantastic staff from cleaners to managers at airport the bridge or airport the Niigal who do fantastic work day and night but the airline the airline yet again for technical reason apparently and I use that in the virtual comments brackets is that there was technical problems maybe there was I'm not sure but I do know one thing it's not good enough that flight was full to leave west Niigal and Giltat yesterday I had one person in particular who was heading back yesterday to go to work today and couldn't make that connecting flight now I don't know everybody that was that was involved or that was that was uh that was to fly yesterday but I do know some of them that were in contact with me and a lot of them were home for Easter a lot of them had to get connected flights from Dublin onwards and and now they're going to be out of pocket we all know that it's difficult enough to finance the home journey to come home to see your parents and loved ones in your community but this airline now yet again and yet again have cancelled flights now I've been in contact and what they afford and I've been in contact where I've asked Thomas Pringle to raise this what the minister Thomas has done this before I want a list of all the cancelled flights since the beginning of the year it's not good enough we wouldn't expect and we wouldn't tolerate if a bus didn't come on time and at three o'clock bus leaving from the Giltat to go to or to Liddy Kinney or to the Niigal town or to Pallye channel wherever it's going and it just didn't turn up and then we weren't given proper notification one of the people that were in contact with me says if we got the notification in time we might have been able to get alternatives to being Dublin for the connecting flight abroad but they didn't and and it's a mess and I would call on the airport to come out and give a give a statement and not just a press statement come out talk lively if we are now and tell us what's going on and apologize to our community because it's not good enough like it says would you wouldn't you wouldn't tolerate for a bus not to to not to turn up they wouldn't do it anyway the bus companies that we have in West Niigal are second and on and they wouldn't do that anyway but what I'm saying is the community wouldn't tolerate it so why should we tolerate a flight deciding not to turn up we've seen it a couple of weeks ago it was days and ends that we were without flights and and the concern is that this this is going to go back to the situation where we had a couple of weeks ago now I'm sure some people will have bought integrated tickets where the connecting flight hopefully they'll be able to at least get the money back or get an alternative arrangements made but there'll be some people who will have had a flight on another airline that it's not a connecting flight that they've paid for and the money for that flight they've missed is gone because as far as the other airline is going to be concerned they missed their flight so from that point of view people will not only find themselves discommoded and late for work or whatever they're going to find themselves in some cases quite frankly severely out of pocket absolutely like a like that one person in a dint of a children thank you enough and no doubt maybe his family here listening to me talk about it he's going to be actually very much out of pocket he'll he would have then had to get a lift to double him he would have had to either share or pay for that petal or diesel he would have then had to get a flight at the last minute that would have cost him X amount of hundreds and if he wasn't able to get that that flight would have been got today so that would have been still three two three hundred for a flight and possibly the loss of loss of wages so the airline we all know won't compensate for that there but there should be a stricter legislation in terms of people who are out of pocket at all surely if it's a case of bad weather or maybe heavy or a strong gust or something like that there people can understand that but by coming out and saying yet again a technical issue should that could be anything to write down to a puncture yeah well we know that W. Pringle did raise it with Lee of Radker on the floor of the door in February at that point the Taoiseach said he would look into the problem so hopefully the Taoiseach will get some answers and they will get some answers from the airline as well it's an Air Lingus regional flight obviously didn't leave Dublin and then subsequently didn't leave Carrick. So presumably there was a number of people who would have been trying to get back to Donegal were severely delayed getting back up to the county as well as a result of that so it had impact on both ends. I noticed this morning when I woke up this morning I noticed there was a few comments on my Facebook where people saying the return flight didn't leave until somewhere around 10 o'clock listen this is really important and people might say first world problems but it's not it's really important that we have the public service that we as taxpayers paid for and Thomas I'm confident will continue to raise this wouldn't have any much faith now in given a response that we should be getting. On the earlier issue well there's a headline for us, not a fan of Lee of Radker, that's a shocker. Just on the earlier issue colors as we live in such a beautiful county the councillor is right a fire can so easily spread and cause huge damage to the local community never mind the vegetation on the animal life so I don't think anyone's going to disagree with the first comment certainly. That's councillor Michal Kolemigalasberg there speaking to us from Weston-Igol and as he said that is a really really difficult situation where you have fires lit by people they come camping now as he said there's ways of doing it that's respectful to the community and there are ways of just coming in and doing it randomly and this appears to be one of those random things and you know we do have such a responsibility whenever you're camping like that and I have friends who camp I'm thinking one friend in particular who camps an awful lot, hail, rain, snow, winter, summer, autumn and I know that he is hugely responsible and his family are hugely responsible and as Michal rightly pointed out most people are but certainly when you're in a community like that it really is important that we show any community we're visiting the respect that they deserve and respect is the right word their respect is the absolute right word to use because when you're visiting or when you're in an area you respect the area you expect them to respect you the least you can do is give them respect back. Another issue and a letter and letters always welcome it's the Ninth Hill Noon Show Highland Radio Pine Hill Mountain Top Letter Kenny let's be honest Highland Radio Letter Kenny is going to get here we don't need to worry over much about that the Mountain Topper and any of that could you please bring it to someone's attention walking past the old tourist board building two old caravans and rubbish lying around it's a lovely walk now with the new footpath and bicycle lane but when you see this it's awful we live in a tidy town can that be tackled it's it I think I actually know the area the caller was talking about it's just the other side of the port bridge if I'm correct if you're walking in say from the direction of the dry arch toward the post around about on the left hand side just before the port bridge when you're on that new footpath in on the left hand side it's like a little wooded a little almost like a little dale if that's the right word and a wooded area and there's two caravans and and yet some rubbish in there the caller is correct in that and yeah it's it's an issue that potentially needs to be looked at and and hopefully that will and I'm sure the council is aware of it but no harm to actually say it and let the council know thank you very much indeed caller for that 28 minutes past nine we're going to take a short break back after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the world is getting a little more more but maybe more could mean something else more means more proactive green energy solutions more means more wind turbines and more recycling more means more biodiversity and more energy storage more means more hydrogen and more solar farms because more clean energy means more efficient living means more thriving communities means more energy autonomy that's why we're more than mona learn more at more than mona dot i board in a mona the groom goes free the groom goes free yes you heard it the groom's room 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annual congress taking place from today at the silver springs hotel in cork city and juan joins us now on zoom juan good morning to you morning don't know it's always a Easter week is is the week we always get the teacher stories juan and there are a number of issues being discussed issues that people will have heard over the past while the retention crisis the recruitment crisis and also reclaiming the profession from bureaucracy an important time to be having this conference wouldn't have thought absolutely I mean we recently conducted a survey and we found for example in the last six months of all the teacher vacancies that there have been nationally 70% of those vacancies didn't have one teacher applying so we really are at a teacher supply crisis we are seeing subjects being lost in school because we don't have teachers we see now more teachers teaching out of field which means they're teaching subjects that they're not qualified to teach so that is really affecting the service that we can provide to students so we're trying to know we've been saying this for 10 years that the unequal pay that we had post 2011 was going to cause this a lot of people are you know getting their qualification here going abroad and then they're not they're not coming back and we're trying to incentivize those teachers who are abroad to come home and the only way that we can do that is if we offer them full time contracts when they come home and there is the availability there to do it but we're seeing a lot of employers who don't want to offer full time contracts or permanent contracts day one and it's the only way we're going to address this crisis now in the teacher supply issue the other issue of course is pay and at least one newspaper making the comparison that if teachers were to get the level of increases that are being sought by the various unions the amount it would take to fund that would be enough to create 7 000 new teaching posts now presumably that's 7 000 new teaching posts at current salary levels your argument to counter that I'm sure not that I want to put words on your mouth but your counterargument that's going to be we can't even get teachers now never never mind get 7 000 more absolutely and for second level teachers in particular we're now seeing a surge in demographics of that age cohort from 13 to 18 there was a big surge going through our primary schools that has now hit our second level schools so we can't get enough teachers to meet the democratic needs the increase in the students coming into our schools never mind trying to do anything else that would enhance the education profession but we really need to look at it we're seeing now a lot more teachers leaving the profession early as well which is a new phenomenon that never happened before we're seeing people retiring at the age 55 and when we say to them like why are you going they say it's not because of teaching we love teaching but it's the paperwork it's the admin it's one initiative after another initiative and if they could just get back to teaching and learning you know the problem would not be as bad you do have among the issues under discussion as we said reclaiming the profession from bureaucracy what's been the cause of that is it new circulars coming from be it Harrington Road or whatever or is it the lack of secretarial and support staff in schools I mean what's that the root of this a lot of it is a new initiatives that are that are foisted upon schools from the Department of Education we've seen for example yesterday the the minister announced a whole program around bullying and bullying awareness which we absolutely welcome we've no difficulty with that schools and teachers have always responded to various society societal pressures but we don't have the management structures in our schools anymore to support that in schools used to be a post structure where people could apply for assistant principal one or assistant principal two they were all most of those were pulled in 2009 when there was was the crash in the economy which we understood at the time although we didn't like it but we're in a better place now we need these post structures back in order to support all this administration work that's been foisted upon teachers if you had more posts we could have more pastoral care for students and all of that at the minute it's just been put on teachers to do for free and it's just it's not going to work anymore and we as I say we have no difficulty with all these new initiatives if the structures were in schools to to implement them the housing emergency obviously is going to have a major impact on this and whatever it's like trying to get teachers in a county like Donegal I mean I can imagine there must be schools in Dublin in very very serious difficulty because I'm sure there are schools that are trying to get teachers in but there's going to be nowhere anywhere next or near that school to rent that's going to be coming in at less than two grand and more a month absolutely and I look after a lot of the schools in in the Dublin area it's a huge problem up there there are subjects that are being that are being lost they're particularly around the areas of engineering and construction studies where teachers who would normally be teaching these subjects are now going back into the building industry and we we have students there that are doing the leaving certain in May and June of this year and they've had no teacher all year like it is really really that bad and in our survey we found that 84 percent of those who we surveyed which were those who joined the profession since 2011 can't get accommodation and accommodation is the huge factor now in some way that benefits Donegal because a lot more people are coming to the west where accommodation although there still is availability crisis it is that somewhat more cheaper than it would be to to rent if you can get anywhere in Dublin so the housing emergency will be discussed here at our Congress on Thursday and we would have a lot of speakers who are just commuting huge distances we have one teacher for example who's commuting every day from Lumbwick to Dublin I mean we talk about a climate emergency we talk about all of that like that's unsustainable that's going to be a teacher who's going to burn out very soon and leave the profession and it's purely because she can't get anywhere to stay around the Dublin or the commuter belt we know that for instance the animal last week the nursing and minerals organization was looking at the new children's hospital that's being built besides and James is anyone that gets the Lewis from Red Cow into Dublin city centre we will pass by that that building site whenever they're on the Lewis going in from Red Cow but they're saying that look if we are going to get staff for a new hospital they're going to have to have some form of modular housing cheap housing units available for nurses in the city centre so that people can live in the city centre within walking distance of the hospital they're working in is a similar initiative like that going to be necessary for schools do you believe do you think the government needs to be taking maybe a more holistic look at this and saying well maybe we need to do something be it a short median term measure where we can actually create accommodation for the nurses who are going to work in the new children's hospital for the teachers who are going to teach in city centre schools and maybe extend that out to other areas be it Cork be it Lumbwick or whatever and even extended where necessary to places like letter Kenny where there is as you say maybe the rents are a little cheaper but there is still issues of availability and in highlighting Dublin I don't want to in any way minimize the issues that you're going to get in letter Kenny or Sligo or locally because there are issues let's not hide that fact I mean are there going to be initiatives like that needed from government I mean is it time for some new thinking rather than sort of saying well the market will take care of it because we've been looking at the market an awful lot in the past couple of weeks and some of what we're seeing is not pretty absolutely and just to say look as I say look I've a lot of schools in Dublin they are now advertising jobs with accommodation we would never have seen that before particularly around the areas of schools that may have boarding facilities for students they're now offering that boarding accommodation come here we'll give you a full-time contract we'll give you permanent day one and we'll give you somewhere to live in your first year like that's hugely attractive to a teacher coming back from Dubai or Australia or somewhere like that there to come back in but there absolutely needs to be thinking around that and there's not it's only the schools that can afford to do that that that are offering that at the minute such as the fee paying schools you're not going to get that a disadvantage school you know in the middle of Dublin study centre but the government needs to think about that I mean that that absolutely would be like solve an immediate problem and it and it is immediate solutions that we need right now not long-term you know plans like we know the minister announced and additional places in primary teachers but that's not going to come on stream for further six years until they're qualified and to be honest all that means is more people to go abroad like we're trying to get all of our teachers who are abroad to come back home and like one of the things that we're looking at and I know it was something that that the Joe McEwen who's Minister for Education like he was out there trying to get teachers to come home though some of those teachers did come home but only to find out all of their service that they did abroad isn't going to be recognised here so they're starting back at the start of this deal again so there are a lot of things that could be resolved literally overnight that would really solve this crisis let's discuss pay because let's be honest all the teachers unions are going to be saying to Norma Foley quite forcefully I'm sure over the next couple of days we need pay increases and we need realistic pay increases various figures being mentioned I mean figures up to between 10 and 15 percent and in some cases perhaps even more is tui putting a figure on this in terms of what you're going to be saying to Norma Foley this is what we need in order to keep the teachers we have and attract more teachers in yeah so we haven't put a figure on that at all we generally don't suppose we are currently in the current pay deal which doesn't run out until December it's likely that the talks around that pay deal will commence either before the summer or in September and what we have asked at the minimum is that any pay increases would match inflation just to keep the cost of living you know sustainable we're not looking for huge pay increases like there are loads of people out there that are completely worse off and we get that but we are looking for a match of inflation and we have not set any figure on that we generally don't in the tui so we just kind of see where things are at at the time of those pay talks finally in terms of and you travel the country Joanne you you see what's happening right across Ireland you see what's happening in dunny gall with the etb schools your old bailey because it were i mean what's your sense of the short to medium term future are you confident are you wary mean do you believe these issues that you're highlighting can be over common that we can say look we have traditionally had an education system in this country that we can be proud of it always had its issues it always had its problems it's going to continue to have issues and problems nothing is perfect but it was always a fairly good system are you confident we can get get it back to have that sort of respect and to have that reputation that it would have previously enjoyed absolutely and as you said we're one of the highest performance education system across the OECD and across Europe like we rank very very high in all international standards but we do have a teacher supply crisis it is not unique to Ireland it is across Europe we're saying that a lot of European conferences that we that we attend but we can see measures that can be implemented tomorrow morning no additional costs to the state that would really solve this such as give teachers permanent contracts day one give them full-time hours day one we have teachers down here who are speaking out this week who run three hours a week and they can't work across schools at the minute for various different employer reasons but they that should be resolved that teacher should get a 22 hour contract and be put where that need is you know be that and i have to say dunny gall etb are actually really good at that where there is a need they do move teachers and and even the whole issue around teacher supply like certainly in in our community comprehensive schools or voluntary schools and our etb schools in dunny gall we are very very lucky in that we are able to plug a lot of those gaps because a lot of people want to come home and that's something even i attend all the student talks and the universities through our darland to encourage them to obviously to join the tui and and speak about the profession but every single place that i go there is someone from dunny gall and all they say to me is i want to go home i want to go back i want to give back to my local community i want to go back to my area because i can see the you know the teachers are part of a school community and that's really evident i think more so in a rural area that than elsewhere so we are lucky in some way that we can shield that locally it's not the case in some of the other as you say the the urban areas that i look after it is a real a real problem if there's ever a redeployment scheme there's a lot of people saying i'll took this opportunity to get back home normal foley obviously has been minister for a while now you've been dealing with her for a while now is she a minister that you have confidence in well that's a strong question i think everything around the senior cycle reform would certainly make us concerned over various announcements made by the minister like there was an announcement made in march 2022 so over a year ago that there was going to be reformed to senior cycle we welcomed an awful lot of that reform but there was an announcement made that the english paper and the irish paper was going to change and then for a full year we heard nothing and we were begging for consultation we were begging to get into the door say what does that mean what does that mean and then only a few weeks ago we were told it was deferred so we definitely look every minister should consult with the people on the ground who are actually you know to implement all of this and i don't just mean teachers i mean the students i mean we work a lot with the irish second level students union and obviously the president is from letter kenny as well and but she needs to listen to the people who it affects and the people who have to have to implement it so i think there is an opportunity to do that i don't think it has happened to date caller says teaching posts are struggling to be filled it's because they're predominantly temporary substitute or part-time and not permanent who can risk coming home for that and that really i suppose speaks to what you were saying to us earlier absolutely it's a huge problem and even if a school like a lot of people come back and they might get a maternity contract they might cover for six months but there's no reason why the state can't employ these teachers on full-time contracts and move them around to the schools where there is that need particularly in areas such as as irish or the sciences or maths where there you know there's schools that would love to offer chemistry love to offer pe for example and they can't because they may only have six or seven hours a week to give a pe teacher and there's no pe teacher going to come back from anywhere for seven hours a week but they could be seven hours in one school and seven hours in another school in order to reach their full time contract so that's no additional cost to the state but it's just kind of thinking as opposed outside the box a bit join our man thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning assistant general secretary of the tui and i'm not sure do you say enjoy your time in cork i suspect you're going to be very busy down there over the next couple of days but uh we could expect quite a lot of stories to come out of the various teachers unions and conferences all of which are taking place this week juan thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning 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early in the night rain at first will clear with clear spells developing in many areas lowest overnight temperatures zero to three degrees celsius tomorrow dry most areas in the morning mostly cloudy with spells of rain in the afternoon top temperatures tomorrow again six to nine degrees celsius so um and i was a bit warmer last week now that it's going to be this week so uh they always say you have to be careful in april um what's the old saying cast near a cloud till may is out or whatever um you know you get a few really nice days in april you're thinking yay it's turning and the summer is coming not quite yet by the looks of the weather situation now let's read some comments a very um sobering and unserious comment um a corner says over the weekend i read a passing reference which was total news to me and shocking that more people have now died by suicide in northern ireland since the good friday agreement than had died in the previous 30 years of the troubles why is this fact being swept under the rug although it's quite politically convenient to cover up but damning this says something is terribly wrong and nothing is really being done to save the thousands of young lives what does it say about a shared future um sadly there are lives being lost by suicide all over not just in northern ireland it's it's happening here as well and we uh regularly sadly hear some some sad tales from our own area as well is there a political cover-up i'm not sure that there is a political cover-up per se but certainly it's an issue that does need to be discussed i absolutely agree with uh the call on that when we do need a large discussion about suicide in northern ireland in the republic of ireland in the uk across europe there needs to be discussion on this because there are some very sad stories coming and sadly no part of our island and further afield is immune we know there were scenes of trouble in dairy yesterday uh close to the city cemetery where a commemoration had taken place before and after the ceremony itself we had been getting indications from the ps and i on thursday and friday of last week that there were concerns something could be in the offing for easter monday and so it came to pass joined on the line by dup mp greggory cambell greggory very good morning to you good morning um greggory cambell we often hear uh you know that these incidents are spontaneous and uh it's it's not intended and uh it just happens because of disaffection in an area it would seem that that explanation can't really be used on this occasion no that's right when you look at some of the video footage that that that we all saw probably on news bulletins and you saw crates of petal bones so it wasn't a case of somebody getting off and getting a couple of bottles and filling them with with some petal uh it was a case of something been organized by presumably older people because quite a few of those who were actually involved in the petal bombing were were quite young you know they looked to be anything between 11 and 16 years of age around about that so normally that wouldn't give you the indication of uh an organized thing uh but more likely be older people who have some experience of this so that that's concerning and i think the police now have to step up their uh plans to try and deal with this they had tell they had uh helicopter footage up they had landovers there with cameras so they have to try and ensure that the people behind this are brought before the courts as you said many young people involved in in these incidents and even someone who is 15 now they were born 10 years after the good friday agreement so the the excuse that they're reflecting what they experienced during the troubles etc that really doesn't hold water i mean these are young people who have grown up in an era of peace who have not in any way experienced what people like yourself and and people of of your age and your vintage would have experienced over the years in northern ireland yes and and that would tend to uh allows to to make the assumption and i think it's a fairly soundly based assumption that the older people who were orchestrating yesterday's events were also orchestrating the mindset that brought people out onto to the streets i mean even if you're trying to organize young people and arrange crates for paddle bombs and getting the paddle to actually motivate them to throw paddle bombs at uh landrovers and at police officers you need to try and inculcate some form of hatred and animosity and political angst in their mind to get them to do that even if you organize all the things behind the scenes so there there's an element of organizational activity that's going on that i think the schools parents and community workers have to try and deal with to stop this reoccurring michelle o'neill has been vocal in her condemnation of what happened shin fane have been vocal in their condemnation community leaders in the city have been vocal in their condemnation as well do you take some comfort from the fact that people like like shin fane are are quite strong on this that that it appears that this does not have the support of what we might term wider republicanism well certainly condemning it is better than condoning it which is what used to happen in years gone by by by shin fane personnel so condemnation is much better but i think we need to go beyond that because we all need to to stand not just in condemnation of this but we have to then actively say to people in the community to neighbors to friends look this is not this is just not acceptable and we're going to take steps to ensure that everybody knows it's not acceptable and if those steps include getting the names of people we believe who were involved to the police so that they can call them in for questioning then we are prepared to do that that's what people have to do now as well as condemnation because you know the dissident republican activists will wear the condemnation they it's it's like water if it ducks back to them they expect to be condemned but they don't expect to be sitting in front of a judge and and hopefully getting sentences that are you know somewhere in the region of what is required to deter them from doing it again so that's what's required as well as condemnation and the other question is given that uh it is as you've indicated widely believe that there would have been figures behind the scenes who were orchestrating what was happening uh the sad reality is in cases like this very often the ones who find themselves before the court are the ones in the front line who have been directly involved and those that were pulling their strings and those that were pushing them into that situation in the background tend to stay in the background and tend not to be called to account for their actions yes and and that's where i think the uh the parents of of the children yesterday come in to play because they need to consider do i want my son or daughter mostly young young males but do i want them to end up in the position where they don't get a job and the reason they don't get a job is not because there aren't jobs available it's because they have a criminal record and part of the reason for that is i allowed them as a parent to get involved with people whom i believe to be uh uh engaged in illegal activity they ended up throwing petal bonds with the police officer and in a few years time when they come of age they end up getting into more trouble and the cycle continues that's what parents and community workers and all of us have to remember that these young people will end up doing harm not just to police officers and vehicles but they'll do harm to themselves for a lifetime if if we don't ensure that the community as a whole unites against this activity and gets it stopped it's clear that the police had intelligence that this was going to happen they were they were quite clear from about thursday friday and even earlier than that last week they were quite clear that something was going to happen on on easter monday it has happened on on easter monday before it's it's not the first year that we've seen those scenes in recent times you wouldn't expect i'm sure that a police investigation will continue that will hopefully build on that intelligence from their point of view and try to get the the root of what actually happened here yes that's as i said earlier that that's what needs to happen now the police did give plenty of notice but they also in giving plenty of notice to wider society they were also indicating that they had plenty of notice so hopefully now sufficient time was allowed for them to have plenty of video footage now which they will be able to go through over the next few days and weeks and they probably have a reasonable idea of who may have been involved behind the scenes anyway so hopefully we can expect to see people being questioned and if sufficient evidence is available through the video footage that needs to be compiled into a case goes to the prosecution service and hopefully convictions fall that's the way to deal with this and if parents at the same time ensure that their young people their sons or daughters aren't involved in this sort of activity that's the way to stop this and to ensure that you know whenever president biden arrives later on the last thing you want is video footage going across the globe of uh uh paddle bombs thrown at police officers in a vehicle and then a few miles away the president visiting hailing peace in north island how you know how ironic would that be for footage tonight and tomorrow will you be meeting president biden during his trip are you going to go to the airport tonight no i'm i'm otherwise engaged but i know sir jeffrey will be meeting along with the other party leaders so i imagine it will be quite short because it is a brief visit but they may get an opportunity to have a brief discussion with him Gregory Campbell dup mp thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you that's a Gregory Campbell there mp in east area um earlier we spoke about the um delays to the flights and uh councillor behal column last book saying that uh thomas pringle will be looking into the issue just a caller saying i i asked called thomas pringle's office uh asking for information about something i was told they'd check it out for me uh it's six uh months ago i'm still waiting and i haven't heard that's just a line there from a caller and um it's very much coming up to time now for news and obituary notices just one or two uh more uh comments just a little note in the good friday agreement is 25 years old and so are you we'd like to celebrate the 25 25 years of the good friday agreement with all those born on the 10th of april 1998 by wishing them all a very happy and peaceful 25th birthday a mention from you could spread the word to families on the island took a join in that 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condemning a campfire which was left unattended while still alight near donnie gall airport over the bank holiday weekend the fire which can be seen in a video doing the rounds on social media was compiled of a circle of rocks and burned an array of material including plastic bottles speaking on this morning's now until noon show councillor mehill collin magilla asbug called the act foolish and disrespectful he's added that we've seen this in the past and how campfires can get out of hand it's it's just not right it's just not right and i know people may think there's more important things to be worried about yes there are more important things in some aspects to be worried about but if that fire takes a light and it spreads and we've seen the damage of lots of homes lost the property very very lucky there was no loss of life a number of years ago exactly this time of year it was Easter there were two separate fires but some foolish foolish foolish people just don't realize uh what impact this could have on our community attacks on dairy police over the bank holiday weekend have been described as disheartening by the ps and i police were on high alert at Easter commemoration parades however a number of missiles including petrol bombs were thrown at a ps and i land rover jaden clafford a reports police officers came under attack in kregan yesterday while in attendance at an unnotified parade in line with their legal duties young people were observed making petrol bombs before the parade commenced these along with other objects were then thrown at police vehicles at the junction of innish caren road and linsford drive leaving the city cemetery participants were reported to remove their paramilitary uniforms under the cover of umbrellas and burn them this attack occurred despite previous communications with organisers who expressed their desire to have a respectful and dignified event police remind people there is no place for this type of criminal activity and it is not wanted by the vast majority of people in the city investigations into the incident are now being carried out as potential offences under the terrorism act 2000 clon manori shamrocks fc have released an appeal for information following an act of vandalism on their new astro pitch which is near completion the social media post shows an image of a large rock which had been thrown onto the new facility it is one of many dangerous objects reported to have been discarded the club has asked for any suspicious activity to please be reported to garradi the waiting times for driving tests should reduce later this year according to the minister of state for transport currently the average wait time is 21 weeks however more testers are being recruited it's expected the wait times will be cut to 10 weeks and quarter one next year minister jack chambers says they hope to speed up the recruitment process 75 testers being recruited and there'll be a three months recruitment process and two months two months of training so they'll be in place by october of this year and we're hoping to even expedite that if possible and we should see the waiting time start to reduce from then on pay and staff shortages will be topping the agendas at a series of teacher conferences today the national teachers organization continues its congress in calarni tui delegates are meeting in cork while the sti holds its annual conference in wexford ic tu president kevin cullinan will address into members and carry later and will be telling delegates that the new national wage talks later this year will be firmly focused on the cost of living rising prices and how that impacts on pay we will be considering whether or not the government are going to withdraw as it would appear to be the case the various measures that they introduced like the energy credit and we will obviously be looking at the projections for inflation over the period of any agreement so all of these things together i think will will certainly be the main focus for the negotiators on the union side u.s president joe biden will start his visit to ireland in belfast later it'll mark the beginning of a four-day visit to the island shawnda foe has more a big event in northern arnan really is tomorrow early afternoon around lunchtime is going to give an address to austria university students and also to the political leaders in northern arnan who will be there and say that's what the folks that being that look austria university it's a very belfast centre oriented campus they've got a new campus that they've put an awful lot of money into and this was an area belfast that maybe would have been an ogo area times during the during the trouble so that that's what he's going to be very much focusing on and they're amazing wish sunak in a bilateral meeting at that as well and talking to some of the northern party leaders and now to weather bright this morning with passing heavy showers it'll turn cloudy with the spell of rain developing early this afternoon blustery with fresh angosti southerly winds highs of seven to nine degrees that's all for now we'll be back again at 11 o'clock with the news news headlines until then good morning the obituary notices this Tuesday morning april 11th the death has taken place of pete doherty drimm clohen pete will repose at the home of his nephew patter and myra mcminamon clohen beg and clohen from 7 p.m. today rosary is at 9 p.m. with family time after the rosary until 12 noon tomorrow removal at 4 30 p.m. tomorrow to repose in the oratory of the church of our lady of perpetual soaker glenn finn to arrive for 5 p.m. rosary is at 8 o'clock rakeway and mass is at 12 noon on thursday with burial afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on mcn media the death has taken place of pat tully pound street karndonna her remains are opposing at her home funeral from there tomorrow at 10 30 a.m. to the church of the sacred heart karndonna for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m. interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house private for family only until 10 a.m. tomorrow house open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow the death has occurred of mary mccinney gordon amok castle finn reposing at the home of her brother jimmy and sister-in-law mary mccinney gordon amok castle finn funeral from there tomorrow at 10 30 a.m. for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m. in st mary's church castle finn with interment afterwards in st mary's cemetery castle finn family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. family flowers only please donations in the loo if desired to st joseph's hospital strunerler fin view ward care of any family member the death has occurred of anna harrison knee callahan looking county dublin and formerly of port road letter kenny county donnie gall removal to st mary's church looking tomorrow arriving for rakeway and mass at 10 a.m. followed by cremation in the new lands cross crematorium the death has taken place of thomas tom connelly kelly clug letter kenny tom's remains are opposing at his late residence today from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. funeral from there tomorrow morning for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m. in st union's cathedral letter kenny followed by interment in lex cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on the church services website house private on the morning of the funeral family flowers only please donations in loo if flowers to the orthopedic ward of letter kenny university hospital the death has taken place of agnes campbell capri ballet buffet rakeway and mass in st mary's church strunerler at 11 o'clock today with burial afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery glenn fin family time please before the funeral this morning the death has occurred of mary meli condy caravan road dun loo funeral mass today at 11 o'clock in st chrona's church with interment afterwards in mary cemetery family flowers only donations in loo to the dun loo community hospital the death has taken place of mary curran the rohan 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ryan air flight and to the nose wheel on it they were doing obviously a very clear um search of the runway to make sure there were no pieces of debris on that south runway so that runway was closed for several hours and they would have done a very patient taking search on that i'm not sure that would have um lasted right through into yesterday and later said the the issue that was uh the airline said it was a technical issue and it seemed to be suggesting it was a technical issue with the plane i could be wrong on that because as it happened there was actually a close um family member of mine had been in north wales for the weekend and was flying home from liverpool to city of derri airport on sunday afternoon and the logon air flight from derri to liverpool never made it over there so the flight from liverpool to derri obviously didn't take off and she found herself having to at very short notice book herself onto an easy jet flight from liverpool to belfast which got in much later on 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by guarder grogna doherty grogna good morning good morning right it's um no um grogna and off a lot obviously on on on the cards this morning so we begin with some criminal damage at lessone avenue in bunkrana yeah bunkrana guardy you're investigating this incident it happened in the area of lessone avenue in the early hours of tuesday the fourth of april in around 3am it's believed it happened a resident at a property there heard a few loud bangs and the following morning they went out checked over their property they discovered the glass had been cracked in an upstairs window so it's believed the stones may have been thrown at this window in an effort to smash it so we appeal to anybody particularly maybe other residents in that area anybody that was in the area had a dash cam um if they could make contact with guardy in bunkrana so anybody that witnessed the incident or observed any sort of activity in that area overnight um if they could contact guards in bunkrana or the guard of confidentiality on 1800 6661 1 1 now i'm just going to lean over and just get that mic a little bit closer just pull that a bit closer into yourself now because and get a little closer if you could because it's uh it's not picking it up and obviously this is really important stuff that we do want people to hear um going now with another case of criminal damage this time to uh bali mccool woods in letter kenny yes this incident happened at the green bali mccool woods between 5 p.m and 1 a.m on saturday the 8th of april so again the resident of that property they were away they were away from home returned home to discover that the glass in their front door had been smashed so again in this instance it would appear that a stone was thrown at the glass and we're appealing again to residents in that area to contact guardy in letter kenny on nine months six seven one hundred just if they witnessed any sort of anti social behavior maybe taking place in that area um or if they have any other relevant information we'd like to hear from them also a theft this time at the nick our draw between the sixth and seventh of april that was last week yeah so this car was parked up just at the nick our draw along the roadside there and four allies were still stolen from it between 5 p.m on thursday the 6th and 8 a.m the following morning friday the 7th of april so again to anybody living in that area we appeal to them or to anybody who may have traveled in that area between those times you noticed any suspicious activity to make contact with guardy in bali shannon on<PHONE_NUMBER> another theft this time the theft of sheep in lent column kill now it happened at some point over a period of um some weeks between march and april yeah so this was only recently reported to guardy actually yes these sheep 40 sheep mainly yos and some of whom were in them so they were stolen from a mountain area at largie brackland column kill so it's believed they were stolen between march 12th and april second so we just received the report um in recent days so we appeal to anybody who may have information in relation to the theft of these animals or in relation to the current whereabouts of them to contact guardy in bali shannon on<PHONE_NUMBER> i mean 40 sheep you know that's a that's a massive loss to any farmer you know it's a massive loss to to suffer so anybody with any sort of information they can contact the guard a confidential line either in 1800 666111 if they don't feel comfortable contact their local guard station a road traffic collision in letter candy this one happened on holy thursday just outside bali rain school there yeah thursday the 6th of april so shortly before 6 50 p.m just happened on the bali rain road uh outside bali rain national school there at the crossing so the between a pedestrian and a car so the pedestrian was taken by ambulance to letter candy hospital to receive treatment thankfully their injuries are not believed to be life threatening so guardy did speak with all parties involved at the scene so we appeal to anybody who may have traveled along this road who may have witnessed the incident or to anybody who traveled on that stretch of road who had a dashcam to contact guardy in letter candy on 9167 100 as you say thankfully not life threatening injuries and we wish the injured person well there um advice for people with family members who may be susceptible to bogus callers and this is one of these things that crops up again and again and I suppose it's one of those problems you always do have to be aware of yeah and thankfully we haven't had any recent reports in the dunigal division in relation to bogus callers but at this time of the year usually this does crop up that there are uh occurrences of bogus callers calling to people um and I did see something online a couple of days ago that there have been a few reports down the country further down the country in relation to bogus callers calling to houses so just in light of that we thought we'd issue a piece of advice to anybody if anybody has maybe family members who live alone or who may be vulnerable considered vulnerable we would like them to speak to those people also in relation to this just to advise them in relation to it so with the longer brighter evenings now it's possible we will see a rise in the occurrence of incidents involving bogus callers these callers may arrive to offer services such as could be power washing painting general maintenance maintenance tarmac and they could be selling goods either so these callers prefer to target the more vulnerable and people who live alone so we advise everybody just do not engage with these callers don't open your door to anybody before you are 100 percent confident that they are known to you or that they have a genuine reason to be there use a chain lock for added security and these callers can be quite intimidating often they might refuse to take no for an answer particularly if they know that you're there alone you know they may be very overbearing um keep your door locked contact garrity immediately if you encounter such a caller try to give as much information as possible you know as they're leaving your property glance out try to see have the emotive transport what color it is registration number and give a good detailed description off the caller so we also ask everybody when you're out and about to be vigilant just report any suspicious people or vehicles to us immediately and the best advice is just if you're in doubt keep them out we've also had reports over the years of of instances where in some cases they will literally begin work and then try and browbeat the householder or are the occupant into paying on the basis look the work is done you have to pay us now in in that instance the I'm sure the you know the advice would be to call yourselves of course yeah and that's quite a common occurrence yeah and more often than not too this may be somebody who lives alone again who there's very little back up there for them to stand up to these people or somebody who's vulnerable they're well aware you know they know who to target so our advice is if somebody does come to your home if you have hired their services and they're refusing to complete the work or you know if you're feeling in fear of this person or people contact Gary there's no issue whatsoever and we'll we'll immediately call out to you now we know some of your colleagues in Galway have had some horrendous scenes to deal with over the past 24 hours here in Donegal obviously a road safety appeal was issued ahead of the Easter weekend thankfully we don't have major tragedies to report on the roads in Donegal but your colleagues were still busy out there over the last couple of days and definitely if anybody was tuned into the TV or the radio stations over the weekend they would have heard that there was a lot a lot of tragedy and a lot of sad homes over the Easter weekend unfortunately as a result of fatalities on the roads and we did issue a road safety appeal to all road users as always ahead of any bank holiday weekend and last weekend was no different so we're glad to say the vast majority of road users did take the general road safety message on board but as always there's a few who didn't so Gary we're out in the roads over the weekend conducting high visibility checkpoints speed checks and FCPNs or fines were issued for a range of road traffic related offences speeding being the main one but across the Donegal division between Friday and Monday there were eight arrests for drink driving related offences and three arrests for drug driving offences so just the longer evenings now the brighter weather you know over the coming weeks and months there will be a higher volume of traffic traffic on the roads people out holiday and enjoying the good weather and what this on comes an increased risk of collisions so we ask all road users whether it's a bank holiday weekend or not the advice remains the same please use the roads responsibly drivers are always urged slow down you know keep your speed down you don't have to you know if you're in a hundred kilometer speed limit you don't have to drive at a hundred kilometers you know take all factors into consideration and drive at a safe speed wear your seatbelt make sure your passengers are wearing their seatbelts you're responsible you know for their safety when they're in your car never drive while under the influence of alcohol or and our drugs don't use hold your mobile phone while driving and think road safety at all times never ever take a risk on the roads finally Grania the garter recruitment competition it opened on March 24th it lasts until the end of this week if people are still thinking of perhaps applying what should they be doing now yeah well actually the closing date now to apply is coming quite close three p.m. on the 14th of April candidates must apply so if they log on to publicjobs.ie that's you apply from there and we actually we had our recruitment stand the other day at letter kenny shopping center and we quite a bit of an interest you know a lot of people came over and took the information leafless which was great to see and we just ask anybody who's interested in applying to become a garter don't be afraid to come into your local garter come into letter Kenny Bunkran and Milford Ballishan and they're open 24 seven call in there'd be no issue whatsoever if you have any questions just in relation to the job the training come in we'll talk to you and people can also view additional information at www.garter.ie in relation to the training and the job itself and as we say that closing date is Friday afternoon so if people are thinking of applying it it's time to really get the skates on now at the stage get haunted at the stage yet definitely garter Grania thank you very much indeed for joining us this morning for that hopefully if anyone wants to you know respond to any of those they can do so to the garter station in question to their local garter station we'll be getting all the details up obviously on our website highlandvideo.com and you want to just repeat that the the confidential line as well just in case people want to use that yeah 1800 1800 666111 and just it's important to note as well when you ring that number i actually i called it myself one day just just to make sure i had my facts straight but you're actually through to a recorded message when you ring that you know your let's just leave your message after the beep you don't have to leave your name no further details about yourself you can leave the information you want to leave hang up it's as simple as that and it's totally confidential garter grania daugherty thank you very much indeed no problem the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop the community garter information slot is brought to you by charidan security systems protecting what you value most call today 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letter that we received recently um and it says um i'm writing to you in relation to my daughter being bullied in school this past six months it needs to be stopped it started with one girl she's formed a group of four it's happening constantly day in day out they've thrown glue in her hair hitting against her while walking past her they've hit her school books coming up to exams they isolate her in class if any other girl would stand and chat to my daughter this bully would come over and drag her away leaving my daughter standing on her own it was a daily thing if students had a trip down the country they'd make sure that she would be on her own they set up a snapchat account so they could text negative comments and call her names but put it in a different girl's name claiming to be someone else in class they would pull tables away from her making her feel like she had a disease in pe they would leave her out in a team and tackle her deliberately this has been going on every day my daughter is very traumatized that's just an excerpt from a letter that we received joined on the line by jim harding who is the founder of the group bullying for you jim good morning good morning call jim you don't want to make your part yes indeed jim you've heard that that's just an excerpt from a letter that we received and i'm sure that's the sort of thing that you've heard an awful lot of since you became involved in this particular area it is donal unfortunately it is probably the number one sort of issue that arrives on our desk where a parent feels that the school and i would feel this in this case that the school is failing in their duty of care to this child this child is being traumatized as it said in the letter she's been isolated she has been bullied continuously and i i've received this sort of inquiry quite a lot where a parent says that they've been going to the school for six months 18 months two years and nothing has happened to protect their child what i would advise in this instance donal to to this parent that they should get a copy of the school's anti-bullying policy and they should make a formal complaint through the school's anti-bullying policy the school can conveniently ignore phone calls short meetings somebody's going up and saying i feel my child has been bullied but if it is done through the school's anti-bullying policy in writing the school have to act and have to do something about i would as as as the parents here i would itemize every single interaction that they've had with the school everything that has happened i wouldn't care if it turned into a 20 page letter i would also get a copy screenshot of all these hopefully she kept a screenshot of these snapchat messages and any of these kind of online things always keep a copy of them their evidence and i would supplement the report there are three the complaint with all of this information this really isn't good enough a lot of what's in this letter and it would appear a lot of the bullying that does take place tends to be psychological and from that point of view it kind of times perhaps be difficult to quantify the impact it's having but i'm sure you more than anyone realize the the the psychological impact that the culmination of a lot of little things builds up to something that's quite psychologically harmful to a person the problem sometimes can be actually proving that completely i mean what this is doing is is being away at this child constantly just chipping away undermining her it will lead unfortunately as any we can see in the latter two anxiety the child has to lock herself into a toilet cubicle at lunch times and it and and it can have a very detrimental effect on her education and her her future sort of outlook on things and this needs to be tackled immediately and how the school can can sort of neglect i mean there was mentioned in the letter which i saw about teachers seeing activity on cctv and on cameras where the child is being undermined and people pulling their desks away from her i think it's the parents that is as if she had a disease and this is all on cctv wash who is responsible for this but i think the child is in ty who is responsible within the school for the ty students and why is nothing being done about this i think it's disgraceful and i think from our experience in bully for you children in primary school they know exactly who to go to they know their their their interaction is with one teacher all the time they know to go to sir or to miss or or else to mom and dad but when as soon as the child moves into secondary school they could have 10 subject teachers there'd be career guidance guidance councillors deputy principals year heads chaplains there's a whole myriad of of teaching staff and the problem with children when they move into secondary school is they don't know who to go to and and secondly they don't know what's going to happen so as a result the child's suffers in silence which is totally unacceptable in this day and age earlier in the program by coincidence because this is the week of teacher conferences it happens to be Easter week when all the teacher conferences take place we spoke to a local person who's high up in one of the teachers unions and they were talking about how difficult it is for teachers at the moment to do the work they have plus all the other extracurricular admin work and everything else that teachers are finding themselves having to do are we in a situation where at the moment there is so much of a workload being handed on to teachers over and above their teaching that something like this almost inevitably is not going to get the attention it deserves because teachers are all being pulled seven different ways at once well i mean we all know the teachers are under massive pressure but this is it this is a different situation to maybe organizing the school outing our sports occasion this this child's future um i wouldn't say it's on the line but her future has been undermined and shipped away out on a constant basis and from my understanding of the letter the school are aware are certainly some individuals in the school are well aware of what's actually happening and i i would suggest that and for a for a school like this where maybe you have you've got you've a constant roll over of teachers if they met they might see seven or eight different teachers a day in a single teacher classroom situation the teacher can identify that there is bullying behavior going on whereas when they're coming in maybe for a teacher's coming in for a 40 minute period they might see something but they might not see it again later in the day because they're not going to be in that class i think there should be some sort of a register a logbook there and if say the teacher in the first class and math class math teacher comes in and sees a child being picked on are isolated that they should go and put that into that the relevant register a log for that particular classroom and as a mandatory piece of reporting and it's then if a number of teachers are doing this and they're saying that pupil x is coming in from five or six different teachers that the pupil x has been trees around fairly is being isolated if this all adds up to a picture that and where you have a number of different teachers coming in that you're not going to get that picture but they should be mandatory reporting of this sort of stuff but my advice to parents in this situation is don't just go up and have a chat with the teacher because you'll be going up and possibly i mean hopefully something will be done immediately and this is certainly happening in most schools across the country but in situations where it's not happening immediately get a copy of the school's anti-bullying policy it should be on the school's website if not phone the school get onto the office ask them to post you out a copy of the policy or go in and collect it and then itemize everything that's happening and make the make the complaint through the policy and let them know that you're making the complaint through the policy and that will certainly focus their attention and you believe it should be formal I beg your pardon and you believe that complaint should be formal it should be formally put through with an expectation that it's dealt with as per the policy and responded to as per the policy okay and this should happen immediately and the school should not be letting this situation drag on i mean what are they waiting for this child's uh our present and our future is on the line here and she needs support and now there was one piece in the parent's letter that i noticed where punishment was mentioned and there certainly seems to be a ringleader a circle around this ringleader our experience in bully for you is that punishment as such does not work if i get punished for picking on you donal and then i get punished and i get you know i mean i kept back in school or in this event or whatever it is that can harden the bully and make them determined to go back in again as soon as possible what we find the the best way of addressing this from the school's perspective is through restorative practice so restorative practice would be and a lot of schools that's teaching staff are getting trained in this so it will be a case of get it sitting down it's not always going to be appropriate but i would i would have thought that this would be appropriate sitting down letting the the bully know are the child engaged in bullying behavior the impact that her behavior is having on the other child and sometimes it can be a win-win situation because generally the child engaged in the bullying behavior there's something going wrong in their background there's something wrong there that they are being so mean and so horrible to this child so it can be an opportunity for somebody to say well you know what's going on in your in your life why are you and then something might come out and then it can be a chance that the child with the bullying behavior it can be addressed which you can also see the effect that she's having on the other child and it gives the other child a chance to regain some of the power that has been taken from them if anyone wants to make contact with you jim or contact bullying for you uh how can they do so um so we've we've visited dunigala many occasions donal um on invitation from schools in dunigaltown letter kenny um they can contact me at jim at bully the u l l y the number four letter u dot ie that's bully number four letter u dot ie we we we've traveled we've traveled to dunigala many occasions providing student workshops primary secondary level uh teacher in service and it definitely sounds like a teacher in service is required in this instance this is it's just not acceptable for a child to be continuously treated in this way the duty of care on behalf of the school towards this child is not reading reaching the minimum standard i would think in this case um so that's how we can be contacted uh donal and if this uh parent wants to reach out to me um i'd be very happy to speak to her provide some sort of uh support and guidance and some um give her some chance to prioritise this within the school so that our child can overcome this horrific experience thank you that's uh jim harding there of bully for you b u l l y letter four capital u jim thank you very much indeed thank you donal that's uh jim speaking to us there um a few comments coming in color says gregory gregory cambell simply cannot provide inspiration for the young in the kregen in darry city nor can shin fain provide any inspiration the caller makes claims that if one in the irish language girl's school was being set up in kregen many years ago shin fain effectively hijacked it and forced it to move to the bog site um and and this is one of the reasons they say the good friday agreement has had so many difficulties in kregen and in other communities now the caller says ask gregory cambell about the uda and the u v f and drug dealers who have destroyed northern ireland with their criminal activities as well earlier we read a comment with regards to suicide in northern ireland and the fact that suicide figures in northern ireland since the good friday agreement are larger it's claimed than the number of people who were actually killed during the troubles uh caller says race suicide the connection between suicide and parental alienation is well known and totally yet it's been covered up by a lack of research by the organizations and government agencies that are addressing it that's uh uh claimed they're from a caller and i suppose what it points to was the fact that we do need more research in this particular area uh birthday request and happy birthday to my sister bridging kelly in lens willy have a lovely day and that is from kelda so happy birthday to you bridging just um another uh one or two comments before we take a break i was in ross nally yesterday as were many portaloos were completely full with toilet roll they'd reached their capacity i don't know the situation throughout the county at other beaches i wonder can they be served daily over weekends as they're obviously on hire what's the long term situation it's not very tourist friendly i know certainly what it's like to um be using a portaloos which which has been a bit clogged up by a toilet paper etc and all i will say is it is one thing for a man um it's i suspect an even more difficult thing for a woman because of the the way we go so i think it's probably easier for a man and i have often been in a portaloo that i've been using and thought to myself it must be very difficult for a woman now i always try i will always clean down the the area around and i will try as much as i can to use that little lever and clear as much as i can but when they get clogged up they get clogged up that is an absolute case uh caller says how long is 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to nine blustery again tonight with fresh southwest winds possibly very windy earlier on rain at first tonight it'll clear there was some clear spells developing in many areas heavy showers will then develop lowest overnight temperatures zero to three degrees celsius tomorrow it'll be dry in many areas during the morning mostly cloudy with spells of rain in the afternoon heavy at times again with local downpours becoming very windy with strong or very northwest winds developing across much of the region top temperatures tomorrow six to nine degrees celsius now let's talk about merva beach one of the best beaches in dunigol a merva beach committee has been formed in partnership with dunigol county council and culture on matters important to the area and its amenities joined by the group's chair person lorraine mccaverdy lorraine good morning to you good morning donal how are you a pleasure to be on very well indeed and a pleasure to speak to you lorraine um what sort of issues do you foresee this group discussing and who do you want to get involved oh thank you so listen i think the committee has uh five main focus areas um the general maintenance of the beach uh the boardwalk making sure it's clean all of that um erosion is also a very hot topic uh within the committee um addressing the issue of camper vans um staying overnight um during the summer um you know the forestry um there's a lot of uh overnight camping in the forestry you want to just make sure uh you know that the health and and uh general maintenance of the forestry is with upheld and then lastly we're looking to put a play area for kids um somewhere um in the vicinity of the beach similar to what they have in rest area so they're the key sort of like four or five areas that the committee's focused on and local people obviously will have a lot to contribute to this they know the area better than anyone else and they probably have a better vision of what the area can and should be correct correct that's why we're looking for um local people um the Balashana and Donegal town Lahi Balantra area you know to come and join us we currently have about six people on the committee we're looking to double that um because the more the merrier um you know each committee member would volunteer on what they want to focus on and work directly with uh the governing bodies whether or not that's Donegal County Council or culture on that particular issue so I think what we're aim is try to move a lot of these issue issues along in parallel and not take them one by one so that we can kind of hit the ground running you know there is a similar group uh the friends over Snala beach they've been they were established back in 2017 so you know we're in constant contact with them to try to learn from them you know some of the things that they've come across in the last four or five years and how they've dealt with it so listen it's a challenge um but I think it's one that's for the good of the you know the community and it's a good of the beach and it's a resource we really should look after important to from your point of view that you've got Donegal County Council on board in this you've got culture on board in this that these agencies are working together with you and when you have the local community inputting to those agencies policies that can only be a good thing correct and you know we've already had one very productive meeting with them they were really open and delighted to have a committee and Marva there wasn't um such committee um already in establishment so this is new for them um and they like haven't point people to work on these issues um with um you know some of these will are bigger issues than others and it'll take time um and obviously there's some legislative stuff that you know obviously um keeps us within certain parameters of what we want to do but I mean overall it's very much a partnership and at least that's what the committee took away from the very first meeting you have as you say a number of people involved what sort of numbers are you hoping to get because I suppose the more people that get involved the more people that engage the more perspectives you have the more different visions you have and the more chance you have of getting uh you know some perspectives and some good ideas that can maybe make some real breakthroughs that's right so we have six at the minute we're looking is it nobody will be turned away I just think because to your point you know whether or not it's uh it's parents that's on the committee then they have the angle on what the kids need down there as we have more of the older folks and you know they're able to give us in the perspective of what they'd like to see down there obviously the boardwalk was at us a couple of years ago and I think that was a great addition for the older folks and people with strollers to kind of get down onto the beach so we're you know we're open to not alone members but also volunteers I quickly mentioned we're having our first cleanup um at the beach um on April 15th which is this Saturday coming so obviously the more volunteers there to help us with that cleanup in partnership with Donegal County so you know better but yeah I mean we can be reached on our Facebook page we're known as the Friends of Merva Beach group so if you want to send a message there if you're thinking that I'll either volunteer or join in the committee that's where you'll find us um and we you know we've honoured for that all the time and so we get back to you and set up we're going to have our next committee meeting within the next two weeks um so if anybody wants to join you know you're not too far behind we've only had one meeting with Donegal County Council enclosures so far so we're really very much at the end since we stage so please anybody who is interested in joining us um send us a note and you know be part of it and we know there are initiatives out there like Antashka's Clean Coasts and so on and so forth that will get very much behind cleanups like that and I'm sure you're working in in conjunction with them as well to make sure that uh the the best possible outcome comes out of these initiatives yes that's right so we've applied to Antashka for our grant that'll cover all the cleaning equipment and um you know everything that's needed for and and Donegal County Council has agreed to come and uh list up all the rubbish after we do our clean so we're going to hopefully do a clean um the second Saturday of every month um if that works for folks so you know so if we get the grant we'll have the facilities and we'll have everything that goes along with that for people to come along and listen we want it to be a fun day as well you know Resnala has been friends and Resnala has been doing this for a number of years now and they always get a good old group so I think it'll take us a while to build up our presence and for people to find out about us but there is a lot of interest and people just wanting you know to be um you know to help um so come along next Saturday the Saturday comments are at 15th between 10 and 12 and get to know everybody and and and hear what we're doing obviously the hope would be that beach cleanups will no longer be necessary because I mean you would hope that people using the beach would treat it with the respect they deserve and I'm sure that there's part of your work is going to be having information uh signage and and so on and so forth increased to try and exhort people not to be leaving any rubbish behind and we had a conversation earlier on in the show with councillor Micheal Cullum from West Donegal about an incident that happened at a envrage there near uh the airport at Carrick Finn and and you know how how that's been dealt with and issues there but you would ultimately hope that that people would treat the beach with the respect it deserves and with that in mind I'm sure as well as working with the council in Cuiolce you'll be working with the tourism authorities as well because more of a uh a you know it's a popular destination not not necessarily drawing as many people as Ross Nala but it certainly does draw its visitors and I'm sure they're welcome but you want to make sure that when those visitors come they come in a way that respects the beach and that respects the community that they're visiting that's right and listen I do think um you know it's not a huge problem but like not everybody is a hundred percent in compliance so there always is that residual amount that's left we also have a problem with just a debris uh washing up on the beach right which is obviously not one individual's um you know problem but so there is a cleanup not alone from residual stuff that's left over from people visiting the beach but also from what comes out of the ocean um you often see you know various and they can be quite large there would be deposits on the beach after the tide goes out so you know we'll also focus on that but yeah listen uh you know your rice um there's quite a lot of debris actually left in the forestry I think that is actually a bigger problem than the beach itself and nonetheless you use a forestry you actually would never see it but you know we have problems with people just walking off and leaving three or four tenths there you know they're you know they've cooped overnight we obviously you know there's bylaws on the beach down in Martha as I said they are in most forestry areas you can't actually enter the forestry without a license or a permit for which you have to have insurance so you know obviously people are not going to that level of detail in order to camp overnight but what they are doing is they're leaving a lot of rubbish behind and that's what we're working with Quiltron to just kind of figure out how do we kind of monitor that more closely um that was to come into the summer season as you say Lorraine you're on Facebook so if people want to make contact they can look up friends of more of a beach on Facebook make contact there or come down to meet you as you say on Saturday morning between 10 and 12 and uh if they want to get involved in the committee they'll they'll be welcomed with open arms if they just want to volunteer they're they're they'll be welcomed there as well absolutely um we're there we have a presence on Facebook we're getting a lot of traction which is great there's a lot of people you know from far away that are happy to you know share share our message and share our Facebook to make sure that you know back home and you know that the beaches look faster and that the mean is usually have right there it's sort of quick for purpose you know I go back to the playground area you know which now has the most beautiful playground area that they put up during COVID actually and we're looking to do something similar for the kids um you know down in morgue as well but that'll take time it'll take something but yeah that's that's correct I think we can be we can be uh reached on the Facebook page Lorraine we wish you all the best with it and it's always great to see a community getting involved in something like this and laying down a claim to this because as well as being a facility for visitors it is a facility for you in the local community as well Lorraine McCavery chair of the Friends of Murphur Beach thank you indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you very much have a good day you too a few of your comments say before we go to news at 11 we were speaking earlier to Jim about bullying and a caller asks why is bullying not a matter for the Garde is it not a criminal matter and I suppose yeah the answer to that really is you would like to get it resolved in the school rather than to be calling Garde in I mean obviously calling of Garde the maybe a last resort but I think it would not be a first resort um another caller says bullying is rife not just in schools I had a terrible time at work with a bully who was very tech savvy was using my accounts to send people messages claiming to be from me bullies do need to be dealt with another caller says I had a terrible time with my daughter who was being bullied she ended up leaving and going to Australia to get away from it all people don't understand the damage that words can do now I'm just gonna leave that one there because that tells a story that needs no amplification or addition to I'll read that comment again uh my daughter was being bullied she ended up leaving and going to Australia to get away from it all another caller says there is no excuse in this day and age for the school not dealing with the issue if these schools were named and shamed on social media there'd be an immediate change of attitude will we wait until the budding leaves this child in um worst place asks a caller again the the naming and shaming yeah it would be I think a last resort rather than a first resort and hopefully what will happen is that this can be dealt with through the school and uh the student and and the family can reach a resolution and and that we will see resolution to this one um we we await to see what happens it's um approaching a minute and a half to 11 we're going to take a short break as we say news headlines coming up after this the world awaits you make that dream your next adventure cruise the caribbean sail from Crete to Corsica soak in Santorini sunsets dine on the shores of the indian ocean stroll through cobbled streets for hidden gems or bring the little ones to a magical wonderland trust the award-winning atlantic travel to guide your next adventure step through our doorway to the world atlantic travel letter kenny savings to put a spring in your step fly with Logan air from donnie gall to glasgow airport and save up to 15 percent during our sail now on with more destinations available from city of dairy airport to book by the 11th of april at Logan air dot co dot uk travel from 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john and the family wanted them to john good morning john um a bad experience for the family tell us what happened i was i was disappointed don't what happened was with a family holiday but it was actually booked three years ago and was cancelled through covid so it was back on uh this Easter so we had it off last Tuesday and just back and uh built up to the airport now as we speak we were away for a week and uh waited great time but a couple of weeks maybe five or six weeks ago we said god we'll see if we can get a matching when we're over there because we were closer to Bournemouth than south hampton so we looked at Bournemouth but they were praying away that we gave us south hampton we're at home and they happened to be at home to man's city which you thought oh great you know we'll see all the stars of the man's city team uh i'm actually a man united fan and the sons of man united fan one of them says he's a man's city family's only five years of age the other boy doesn't know what my wife's so we're going up uh the south and i'm afraid we appear to have lost the connection with john there um it wasn't the best of lines as john said he's actually in belfast at the airport i think we've just lost that connection if carline wants to try and get john back to us but um the the basic story is that uh the as john said the five-year-old had been wearing a man's city jersey and we're wearing it for a photo earlier now apparently that was seen on camera as i read it the family actually covered the man's city jersey we're going to try that too and just see if we have john back john good morning good morning dole have you got to us yeah we we have you indeed hopefully that's a slightly better line we just lost the connection there john you were telling us your five-year-old uh was wearing a man's city jersey earlier and had taken a photograph but was then refused admittance to the ground even though the actual jersey at that point was had been covered up that's right uh so uh i think we got up to south happen earlier all of the afternoon the game was to have five so we were a couple hours around south happened sharpening and the leg was throwing the boys were happy and loads of man's city fans walk around loads of south happened fans walk around great atmosphere no signal no sign of trouble just a normal Saturday lovely rally uh they say we walked out the stadium maybe a mile from the city centre uh man's city fans walk about happened fans walk about got outside to marry them away in my life they say just want to take a picture of the boy so she got uh the youngest boy the guy you don't want to take off his hoodie you know he's a man's city jersey we took a photograph no problems then one of the stewards came over and asked to see a ticket and she said uh oh you're in the home and so we said yeah and she says well you know you can't we weren't well we said we know that and like i'm not that naive to walk into uh you know the home section with a man's city jersey we're going to call them up and we covered them up but by the time we walked around to our our entrance into the exit i can see another security lady outside and she was saying as opposed to walk up to the up to the targe side stall and she just came over and was going to see your tickets and she's seen the ticket she said uh you did the ballad on camera your uh that was it and we treated with her and tried her best but no she said club policy that's it but i said god you know we're not man's city fans the five-year-old of the man's city jersey on him it's covered up now he's a hoodie on he's a coat over top of it we're going to go in i've warned him you know to behave smells enough we shout and go over man's city because you don't do that but yeah there's no good no good door that was it no one and boys there was tears everywhere and big disappointment but you know uh i was chatting the caroline earlier i had a treat up about it afterwards in the photograph of us but i didn't get much sympathy on twitter i can tell you that and i don't know because it seems to be it's just not a done thing to do and an english football grounds yeah it's have a covered up see i i can see i i can kind of understand the policy now you get to the point where you say yeah it's a policy because if they think there is any risk that someone is going to expose an opposing jersey in the other side's end and and we know what problems they've had in english soccer over the years thankfully not not an awful lot of it in in recent years but we know we all know the history now i suppose they have to say policy is policy uh your your story certainly known is going to accuse a five-year-old of stirring up trouble but then again i suppose is the question going to be is a five-year-old innocently going to act like a five-year-old and pull up the hoodie or shout something if and if i recall this the the score i did go very much in man city's favor if i if i recall the score correctly um there was four ones yeah that that that's that's what i thought i was just trying trying to yeah i made me you know it was maybe we were naive even to take the photograph outside the city but i think that we had a state covered up no one would have seen us and we would have got an okay but what i watched them i'd never be able to but it's maybe just a lesson you know was was was there any i'm a more of a g a man yeah as oh as and people will will probably recognize you john as we speak in john in terms of um you know was there even any look we'll take the jersey off and put it into a bag or something or you know we'll just make sure he's not actually wearing it going in was was that uh offered as a no no no it wasn't was not it wasn't you were you were he was a we were identified the whole lot of us as man city fans once we've seen him with the man city jersey outside at the far side of the stadium before we went even even around the good house that was it no we were spotted one of the the lady came up to us apparently the security lady of the steward but by the time we got around to the church site where we were dead to the other side you had been spotted on camera your man city fans you're not getting into the home end and that's a nice addition we're here on holidays we're from Ireland couldn't give a damn who was the man so if we get into what it would go tourists all right the young fella definitely had a man city but it was covered up at that stage so no one would have seen it and there was no chance of getting tickets for the away and i suppose they don't sell tickets for the away end actually at the stadium they're all done through the other team and it seems to be novice there's there's no chance of that there at that stage now in fairness there is a Damien Daugherty from other counties over the south half the long time and Damien's uh he's a season ticket holder there and he might have uh he's good connections and around Damien straight away this was about 10 past five and he was away at holidays at the time that he made a few phone calls and he lined me back maybe oh that's as well into the first half and said that he had got two tickets at that stage for me if i was like that we were but we're in the car and we were on the way back to the house at that stage break so uh our door looked through there but first they did not see Daugherty there he did he did try to pull me out of the last minute but yeah and I was getting too mad at that stage you know probably one minute or so now nobody wants even to see this coming back yeah oh it's it's it's it's a salutary tale and a cautionary tale John i'm really sorry you had that um that that that that experience and and hopefully at some point you'll get to go to a match and you get to bring him to a match again in in in the future but I know certainly you can they look forward