This is you in the spots. What's he gonna ask me? I have a creak in my neck this morning I know listen to me. Yeah, and I'm putting it down because I sleep with two pillows I'm just asking you know how many when you put your head to the pillow. How many pillows do you have I? You're wondering. I don't know. Do you know? I just pile pillows under my head till it starts feeling comfortable And you must always a one or two. More. Two. Is it two? Yeah, one hard one and one soft one. Which one's on top? Soft one. You think? What about yourself? I'm soft too, yeah. I think you haven't had enough sleep. I think I need more sleep. Okay, another burning question tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. That's that one answer. Thanks Lee. Good man. Hopefully you get a wee afternoon nap. It is the nine till noon. Showtime for a news update. Good morning, Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Cleanup operations are continuing across the Northwest after much destruction was caused by flash flooding on Saturday evening. Roads and bridges in East Inishon were significantly damaged, while six people had to be rescued in Derry and Sturban due to the high water levels. The last gear lock off the Inishon Municipal District, Councillor Reena Donhey says it was a frightening experience. I live in the Inishon Peninsula and the flash flooding was, it was scary to say the least. A number of our roads were impacted badly by the flooding and there was debris, significant debris in a lot of the roads, particularly along the foils from must to move out. And one bridge was badly damaged as well. The PR of the Micah Action Group believes the president missed an opportunity to exercise his power and make a difference for Micah homeowners. The defective concrete blocks bill was officially signed into law by President Michael D Higgins over the weekend. Michael D. Higgins says the bill becoming law in its current form is disappointing. Again, we're subject to part of the system here. I was disappointed, being honest, because with the bluster that we had from the president only a few short weeks ago, particularly to do with housing, I thought there may have been an opportunity for him to exercise whatever limited powers he has to make a difference. Police are appealing for information regarding the wherebytes of a missing dairy woman and her daughter who they believe may have travelled into the Republic of Ireland. 39-year-old Jacqueline Fryers and her 5-year-old daughter Scarlett were last seen at around half-past 2 yesterday afternoon in the Shantalo area of Dairy. It's believed they may be travelling in a blue Ford Cougar with a green sticker saying children on board. Scarlett is described as having hazel eyes and light-brown hair tied in a ponytail. Police and the family of the missing pair are said to be significantly concerned for their safety and welfare and are appealing to Jacqueline or anyone with information on their wherebytes to contact them. And for what, whether or not Clidy and Breezy this morning with scattered shards, it will become drier through the afternoon with high temperatures. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. We don't always know who's at risk from COVID-19 and other viruses, but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask, let fresh air in, get vaccinated and stay at home if you were unwell. From the HSC, for us all. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning. It's the start of another week. This one Monday, the 25th of July 2022. How are you keeping? I hope you are well. And hopefully you're with us for the rest of the program here on Highland Radio and for the rest of the day, too, on your local radio station. Okay, 0866-25000, that's the WhatsApp and text number. The lines are open for you right now. If you want to interact with us on social media, why don't you do so? While you're watching the program, get on our website, highlandradio.com. Watch us in your browser or YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, or across our Facebook pages as well. You can call the program. The lines are open right now for your 07491-25000. We had another weather event at the weekend. Again, impacting in a show, in the east in a show, really quite severely. If you were caught up in that, if you've got a view on that, of course, we're going to be discussing that on this program. Get involved in that conversation as well. Tell us what you experienced, what it was like. I know lots of people in the Derrystuban area also impacted by this weather event, which wasn't really forecast at the extent it was. I'm not sure if it could be really, but also it was very reminiscent, though not quite as severe as 2017. What lessons have we learned? What measures have been implemented since then to try and avoid a once-in-a-lifetime event, which has happened twice in five years? Again, seemingly not to the severity of 2017. But tell us your experiences. Get involved in the conversation, please. If you're in Northern Ireland and you want to call us, 003537491-25000. WhatsApps and texts from outside of the Republic of Ireland, 003538660-25000. Great game of football yesterday. The All-Ireland Final, of course, was on its heartbreak for Gore-Waits. It would have been nice to see them do it, but carry two. You couldn't begrudge them either, I don't suppose. If you enjoyed that, you can get involved in that conversation as well. Brendan Devaney will be joining us after 11 o'clock to look back on the GEA action, local and inter-county. And also, obviously, looking forward to the DL debate, which is broadcast later. And anything else that you want to talk about, get in touch with us. 07491-25000. We really want to hear from you. The Dairy People, Donegal News. The 2022 Mary from Dunlowe contestants are pictured across the front of that paper today. Daniel O'Donnell doing his thing yesterday in Dunlowe. A good crowd seemed to have turned out in awful weather. But he always puts on a show, doesn't he? And events in Dunlowe have kicked off in earnest and run throughout the course this week. And of course, the winning Mary will be crowned next week. And we'll have them in studios. We do traditionally tomorrow to have a brief chat with all 12 or 13 of them. So we're looking forward to that as well. And it forms part of their week of events as well. Thankfully, seemingly, though, I keep getting these reminders from last year and the year before from Google. You know, photos and videos. And the weather was amazing last year. We're not getting that this year, are we? But hopefully now for this week, it will be dry and warm at least before the weather turns again heading into the weekend. But it would just have been nice to go a bit longer somewhere. It may come yet. We heard from our weather expert on Friday that as we head into August, things might show signs of improvement on the longer, the long range forecasting. But anyway, let's get to news. The state is taking a radical approach in the unblocking of land, a dereliction conference, in letter Kenny has heard. Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Peter Burke officially opened the groundbreaking derelict in Donegal and beyond conference in Dillon's Hotel on Friday. He told of a raft of measures being put in place to tackle vacancy and dereliction. Minister Burke said the country continues to respond to pressing challenges presented by Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency added to which is the war in Ukraine. Also, it would be fantastic to see decision makers, policy makers, to take some responsibility themselves. Brexit, we were told about that a long, long time in advance. We should be able to deal with the likes of the COVID pandemic. Climate emergency is nothing new. And immigration is nothing new either. And yet here we are. So we look externally. I think sometimes we need to make sure we're looking internally as well. The DARREN News tells us the STLP leader Colin Meastwood has announced his party's intention to become the official opposition in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Assembly has failed to form an executive since the May 5th elections due to the DUP's refusal to engage in the process until its issues with the Northern Ireland protocol were addressed. In a bid to end the political status, the Mr Eastwood has nominated South Belfast MLA Matthew O'Toole as the leader of the official opposition. Mr Eastwood has written to the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly Alex Maskey signaling the party's intentions ahead of the recalled assembly on Tuesday. That's tomorrow. I was looking through the National Newspapers trying to pick out some interesting stuff to talk to you about. But I have to say it was something of a challenge. Not an awful lot happening in the papers at the very least for a Monday morning. But anyway, this is the National Site All-Coff. The Irish and Dependent, a picture on the front of David Clifford. He celebrated yesterday's victory against Goreway in the All-Ireland Final at Croke Park. It's a fantastic picture, they always are though, because people are so happy and it means so much to a county. But the news story in the front of the paper, higher social welfare payments for workers who suddenly lose their jobs during the mix for the budget. A longer-term plan to get early retirement and former carers to take up part-time work is also in the pipeline. To avoid the so-called income shock or cliff edge of going from a full wage to a social welfare payment of 2008 euro, newly unemployed workers would get higher unemployment benefit. The different rates would be based on individual levels of income and how long a person is unemployed. The intention is to tide over workers who will be unemployed for a short period before getting another job. The system is muddled on the PUP at one point. There were five different rates of PUP ranging from 350 down to 150 for part-time workers. Different rates of dole are common in other European countries and help workers adjust to declining incomes. I also heard over the weekend talking about retirement, that Miehol Martin effectively said, that we need to get rid of compulsory retirement. Is that something you'd be in favour of? 08, 660, 25,000. Let's go to the front of the Irish Times, another picture of the end of yesterday's football match. This new story here, coalition leaders to meet over emissions deadlock. This is causing some tension amongst the coalition. I can't remember which leader it was. Would the trust last into the second change of leadership? Obviously, the parties have an eye on the next general election.  I just wonder if, excuse me, things are starting to wobble. One of the big issues, obviously, is our emissions and targets to get them down. Coalition party leaders and Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConnell, could you to meet today and attempt to break the deadlock on the scale of the carbon emissions cut to be sought from the agriculture sector? Before the meeting, senior sources indicated that a reduction of 24-25% by 2030 could be a possible compromise. Discussions between ministers and officials over the past week have failed to yield agreement on the point between 22 and 30%. At which emissions of greenhouse gases from the agriculture sector will be expected to be reduced by before the end of the decade? I just feel that we're throwing a lot of the conversation and challenges onto the farming community. Not we, but the country as a whole. And I just think sometimes, is it the path of least resistance? There's an awful lot of other areas that equally perhaps need to show some reductions. And yet, all we ever do is talk about farmers and agriculture. Why? And I think a group of finnigale TDs have put out a press release to that effect. I haven't got my eyes on it yet, but I will. Let me see. These discussions that are ongoing have delayed the announcement of a government-wide plan for mission reduction ceilings to be sought from various sectors. Coalition sources said they would try to reach agreement today in a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change, which is likely to be attended by the T-shock, tarnished Green Party Leader and Minister for the Environment, Aimee and Ryan, Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGraw and Mr. McConnelogue and his senior officials. On to the Irish Daily Mirror. We've covered this when it was launched, but I'm just mentioning it again in case maybe one of two of you haven't taken up this scheme. And it might be of benefit for you and might have a positive impact in your life. So I thought I'd mention it again. There's been a low uptake on a new government grant that offers free wigs and hairpieces to people suffering from allopecia and other medical conditions. A finnigale TD is called for an awareness campaign after it was revealed just 183 have availed of the grant. The 500-year-old grant came into effect on June 1 with the Department of Social Protection saying it was expected to support around 2,000 people during the first year of its introduction. Figures obtained by finnigale TD Aimee Higgins show that in the nearly two months since its introduction there's been a very low level of uptake. So there's 500 euro there for you if this would suit you. And at the moment only 183 people out of, you know, 5 plus million in this country, many of whom would be perhaps affected by hair loss for one reason or another. So maybe it's because you don't know about it. And I'm just mentioning it again in case it could make a big difference to one or two of you. The Irish Daily Star, the Commission for Regulating Electricity warned the risk of security of supply of power in Ireland was acute amid fears of significant outages and collateral damage to government policy and climate change. The latest risk register for the Commission for Regulation of Utilities scored challenges to supply at 5 out of 5 for impact and 4 out of 5 for the likelihood of them happening. This created a risk calculated at 20 out of 25 that electricity supply needs would not be met between now and 2025. It warned of the potential for the loss of load expectation, expectation higher than targets and all significant events occurring during the period such as significant outages. The risk register added the potential to hamper public sentiment for climate action plan and the transition to a low carbon future. Maybe it's time to get a generator for the house, is it? I know a few people that have them, thankfully they don't have to use them too often. But are we at the point whereby we should be ringing up our local supplier electricians and finding out, you know, is it practical to get a generator for the house? It's something I would be tempted to think on. The Sun tells us that a large number of people not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine are seeking appointments at pharmacies. Irish pharmacies have now administered over 1 million COVID-19 vaccines and are currently vaccinated around 2,000 people a day. But the Irish Pharmacy Union had said a high number of people who are trying to get appointments are not eligible to receive the vaccine. IPU President Dermot Toomey said many of those are not in the target cohorts or may have had COVID-19 in the past four months. There's a lot of strange, not strange stuff, but unusual decisions going on, I would say. I've seen NIAC has recommended the administration of a third booster to over 65s now, right, and it's the old vaccine still. Only half took up the second booster and they're okaying a third now, which to me the timing seems a little strange if you're into that kind of thing because, of course, we've just come through a wave now and the big concern is the flu period, isn't it? Sort of November, December, January, October, November, December, January. I would have thought, mate, why not hold off and see if there's a better jab at that time? I don't know. But they've made the decision and we'll see what the uptake will be. I suspect it might be low. Okay, we're going to talk about that weather event, which impacted many of you over the weekend after these. M.D. installations are currently recruiting qualified electricians across Doney Gull to work on the National Smarter Metering Framework Program on behalf of ESB Networks. Would you like a market-leading salary bonus and a company van with tunes and full training provided? 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I know it's actually this morning that there's quite a significant, I suppose you could call it a landslide in a small gap, not encroaching on the road or what have you, but just something I haven't seen there before. But anyway, let's talk about what happened over the weekend. Gary Martin is director of emergency services with Donegal County Council. He's going to join us now but a brief word first with that Councillor Martin Farron. Good morning, Councillor. Thanks for taking the call this morning. No, at all. Thank you, Greg. Thank you for inviting me on your show. Now, what was the event at the weekend? Yeah, it was a very bad night. Straban, Derry and along the far side really seemed to have taken the blunt of it, Greg. A number of the areas were very badly damaged in my own area there. For example, from Muff right down to Green Castle. I'll just give you a few examples. The bridge at Red Castle, the part of it, the wall completely collapsed. The Moville Green Castle, Shore Walk, the Slienus Launcher Walk there, a large part of the pathway also collapsed there. There was a number of side roads between Moville and Green Castle, which were very badly damaged. A lot of those things actually happened and also there was a number of businesses in the area, both in Moville and Green Castle and private houses were actually flooded as well. So, all in all, it was a very bad night. The whole thing sort of kicked off at approximately half six on Saturday evening and the rain continued on until after 10 o'clock at night. So, you can imagine how much rain fell at that particular time and it did a considerable amount of damage. Now, I was out myself yesterday and the road section of Donegal County Council, I'll speak about them and I'll speak about the emergency services now in a second, but they were out again just doing a clean-up yesterday. So, just to tie the place up. And as we speak, senior officials are out there at the moment assessing the damage and I hope to meet up with them later on today in Cairndona and to see if something can be put in place. But all in all, Greg, it was a very bad night. It was a very dangerous night. People were very worried. I would have got quite a significant number of phone calls from people and I want to thank them for that. I want to pay tribute as well to Voxpro, the company that whenever Donegal County Council are off in the evening, you can get in touch with them and the out-of-hours service. It was a busy night, a busy night for myself as well. My phone, they were stopped up on all night, but again, I want to thank the people that rang me and bringing issues to my attention so as I could pass them on to the council. What a very bad night, Greg. Yeah, and what are you hearing about flooding to property? Is it severe, obviously, any time the water ingresses into your house, it's severe, but are you hearing any stories from your constituents, people in the area? Yes, I have. Yes, a number of people have got quite a lot of damage done to their houses and as I said, in the mobile greencastle area and that's something I suppose again, just like everybody else, it'll just be assessed over the next number of days. My understanding is, and it could be completely wrong here, but it suggested to me that maybe the Derry, Sturban council were actually considering giving some funding or some money to homeowners, so maybe Donegal County council maybe if that were... Well, we have national schemes in place, it's just whether or not they kick in this event. Are you satisfied that the infrastructure is well enough maintained to avoid something like this because of course we have seen flooding events like this? Well, Greg, I think looking into the future, they're saying that this is something we're going to have to live with with the climate change over the next number of years or maybe three years to come and obviously we don't have the proper infrastructure and I would take a considerable amount of money to put that in place and I sometimes think and I get frustrated that we've got MEPs out in Europe there and I never hear of them from one general election to the next one and sometimes I think that they should be trying to secure funding from the European Union for Ireland, for rural areas and that money being transferred on to central government so that if we do have significant amount of money and the funding is there I'm sure if Donegal County council could get the funding that they require they certainly would carry out the work and put in the proper infrastructure that's going to be needed and needed into the future because we just have to look around Europe there at the moment around the world and see the amount of fires that are happening at temperatures of 40 degrees I think we need to secure funding to put in the proper infrastructure especially in rural Ireland I agree wholeheartedly with you Alright Councillor Martin Farron thanks for your time this morning Gary Martin director of emergency services with Donegal County council particularly busy this morning Gary from the local authorities perspective how did events unfold on Saturday evening? Yeah good morning Greg there was a substantial rainfall event I suppose across kind of northeast over Donegal from late Saturday afternoon right through until the early hours of Sunday morning and your point that you made in your introduction about the scar and the side of Barnasmore Gap I mean you're absolutely right it's a reflection I suppose of where the intensity of the storm was on Saturday evening you know in that derg and foggy catchments and like that I've never seen and I know that area as well probably as yourself I've never seen such scarring on the side of Barnasmore Gap in my life but it gives an indication I suppose of the intensity of these rainfall events which on Saturday was in forecast there was no warning no yellow or orange warning or anything at all like that it's another one of these pluvial events similar to what happened in August 2017 which caused such substantial damage again and then they shown unfortunately and thankfully on this Saturday and Sunday it didn't have the same intensity or the same duration or indeed the same spread but as Councillor Farron has said there was damage across a range of areas on that eastern-ish own area and also then obviously across the border and the Straban and Derry areas as well the emergency services responded but we had four appliances from three stations but Cranagh, Moville and Cairndonna out on Saturday evening and in conjunction with road services they responded to I suppose defend properties as well as sandbags, pumping where necessary and diverting where necessary and in conjunction with the road services whose primary objective I suppose was to ensure that there was no risk to people actually on any of our roads they would have signed and diverted where necessary and where roads were unundated and as Councillor Farron says they're now reviewing I suppose the damage that has taken place and with a view to see and I suppose prepared repair plans for all of that there were a number of properties that were unundated despite the best efforts of everyone and just acknowledge again the huge effort of locals including Councillor Farron indeed all of the residents in the Green Castle, Moville Red Castle areas and how well they responded on Saturday evening and Sunday morning even with that there were a number of properties unundated and I just got confirmation there from the national directorate for fire and emergency management that the Department of Social Protection is available to assist anyone and with your agreement I'll give a number that any affected householder can actually make a phone call to now and the event of them actually requiring assistance from that national body you know in response to this event and the telephone number and they are expecting calls from East Anishoan this morning the telephone number is 0818-607-080 that's 0818-607-080 and that's the Department of Social Protection who are available to assist householders who actually have had damage done to their properties as a result of this incident What kind of support do they offer? Is it like financial support and is it income dependent or what's the story there Gary? Yes financial support so for example if your property was damaged and flooded and indebted and for example if you need funding let's say to I suppose to carry out repairs or to replace certain items that have been damaged that's the type of intervention that the scheme that they have can be brought to bear they have some flexibility and as I understand they look at each individual case I suppose on a humanitarian basis and they respond accordingly then to anyone who has been impacted I would certainly encourage them to call that number Yeah for sure in terms of how prepared we can be for events like this you know going back to 2017 and thankfully it's not as severe as that but you know we were told that was once an a generation type event or once in a century type event and yet here we are again to a lesser extent but it just goes to show we are at the mercy of the elements are we doing enough to clear our waterways to make sure that even in the summer months our drains anything that can sort of relieve water pressure that that is being properly maintained do we have a system in place to ensure that that is the case and identify problems and fix them where they may be Yeah well each council road services area in the county would have a cyclical I suppose maintenance system of clearing the storm water drains and that's to ensure that you know the normal flows of storm water going down into our drains and our towns and our villages you know can actually get away in a normal sense the difficulty I think that happens in these types of events is that the scale of the water falling within such a short period of time and then dates you know normal drainage systems and it probably does require now as we go forward into I suppose a new environment where as you say what would have been once in a 100 year events they're now occurring much more regularly and there seems to be strong evidence that it's associated with climate change you know the design and how we design our culverts and how we design our wastewater systems will inevitably have to be reviewed as part of that and it was as councillor Farron has said you know as we learn more about how these events occur we have to try to design our infrastructure accordingly the big difficulty is and as I said about the event on Saturday evening this could have happened anywhere in the county anywhere it just depends on where the rainfall happens to fall at any given time and you really, really, really have huge difficulty in trying to defend against that and we've had it in different areas of county at different times where there's killi bags or Dunningall town or any show owner that are getting done low open bag we've had it in pretty much every location in the county in one area at one time or another and an awful lot of it not forecast and instances where events are forecast you know our teams will go out they'll jet the drains in advance to make sure that there's no obstacles or obstructions there but even with that you know there are times when there is the risk of them being overwhelmed Alright Gary give us that number one more time if you don't mind Yeah the number is<PHONE_NUMBER>81860708 Alright and they're anticipating calls to that number Gary thanks for your time this morning Take care, thank you very much Gary Martin there director of emergency services with Dunningall County Council Hailey Devine joins us on the programme now Hailey thanks for holding Good morning Greg Good morning to you right Now your father is in Sturan affected by this flooding on Saturday evening can you tell us how things unfolded at the extent of damage to his property Yes I arrived for this property just before 7 on Saturday and just as I came in the corner the whole street was flooded and there was lots of new version frames there carrying sand bags but it could cause the rainfall was so heavy it came down so quickly at the time we got the sand bags there the water had already entered the house and whenever we went into the house the floor and the hall was just left them and this house has just been repaired it's not even you know it's furniture it's not even a year old the floors and that that we had replaced after the last flood in August last year have all been destroyed again it's just heartbreaking In terms of supports that we heard about telephone numbers being made available for people in the Republic in terms of supports he's having to go through this all over again is there house insurance it might be hard to get house insurance at this stage is it? Well you know thankfully our house insurance you know did pay out after the last flood we haven't even got running into contacting them at this stage because we don't know if in such a short period of time will they pay it again it's not just you know the monetary loss you know it's the upheaval my father is a pensioner and it's just you know the upheaval of having to do this over again you know we've spoken to the you know the people in the authorities and they all seem to be less than and I've jumped the gun a little bit there because the feeling is Haley that the writing was on the wall here people in the local area your family know what causes this in other words water can't get away really is that simple has anything been done since the last event Haley and sorry if I missed you saying it earlier has anything been done to try and prevent this since the last incident well we met Nicola Malin on the streets last year and she pledged you know to put money forward to you know fix the infrastructure to alleviate the problem nothing has been done since that we have asked them the road service as well with the empty the gullies more often and given that it was a problematic area and that this was occurring all the time and we were told that they didn't have the manpower to empty them more regularly than what they do so it seems to be that the manholes and the gullies were you know they're not able to take away the water so there's a problem all around and you know the main issue is that nobody will take ownership of the problem you know they're constantly passing the buck the road service will say it's an anti-water problem the anti-water will say it's the road service you know and we're just fed up now we don't know we don't care it's frustrating because you talk about those agencies fudging responsibility and then as soon as you try and speak to a politician about what they're doing they instantly start this crack about well there's no storm on top and running and blah we as people on the ground aren't interested in that nonsense we don't want excuses we want solutions who cares about the political infighting and which department is responsible and who is not you know it's nonsense go out and fix the problems that are evident because the manpower is there in an emergency everyone can come out when it's happened what we're asking for is someone to stand up take responsibility stop playing this as a football and listen to the people who know what's causing the issues it's tiresome isn't it absolutely we are all just totally deflated and downtrodden you know we're sick of talking to people we've gone to every meeting you know we've had a petition we've done everything that we can and we just feel that we're not being listened to and you know we've been kept in the dark we haven't been told you know about that money that was pledged you know what you know how you know the timeline of when that's going to happen if they're going to fix it it's just we are we're just fed up and you know even my dad's like you know I could just tell by his majestic he was very very low and he doesn't want to see anyone he doesn't want to talk to any politicians he's fed up he says no he says I've heard it all before we've said it all before and he's just now fed up at this stage it's just it's going to be very very hard to get him you know sort of back on track how many times can you rebuild because you never know when it's going to happen again and you're sitting there in your house we've spoken to so many people particularly since the 2017 floods and there's no pleasure because you know nothing's been done to protect you so you're just waiting for that deluge to be the deluge that the water comes back into your house again it's no way to live your life though every person on that row lives in fear as soon as there's a heavy rainfall you know I know my own father would be pacing the floors just watching and waiting to see you know if the water's going away and they are they're living in fear and it's just it's heartbreaking like you mean there's at least four pensioners who live alone in that area you know there's a lady of 84 who was there and her own house she hadn't finished the repairs from the last flood and you know and to see her floors and furniture being thrown out into the garden yesterday was just soul destroying you know I can't see any other person putting up with us or you know I don't know why you know as I say we've been very dignified we've attended the meetings with them you know we've been told to do but I don't know it's just no words I really am I'm totally just late at myself because I know the cleanup operation that's ahead of us again you know we've been there we've done it all we managed to get my dad back in his face and he was just you know loving life and just you know loved getting home in the evenings to get him to sit down and you know to come home he was actually at mass on Saturday he didn't even know he had been flooded and he just came back from mass and he just sat in the car he couldn't even get out of the car he was just that disgusted all goes far beyond floors and couches absolutely the impact is far greater than that on a human level Hailey best wishes to your dad and everything and hopefully you get some to do alright thanks so much indeed that's Hailey there staying in Sturban we're joined on the line now by Emma again thank you very much for taking the call this is just it's not once in a generation or once in a hundred years this is happening just way too often isn't it Emma way too often Greg and good morning just really treating everything Hailey has said we have we're just at our wits end we've been here we've done this this is a third time in two years where do we go from here you know the feeling on the street we're very lucky we have as Hailey said we have a great community there's seven in the row and we all be out to help but every one of us we're just I'm sick of it and I don't want to rebuild my house again for what I put my heart and soul into this house to get it back to where it was and two years down the line after meetings and promises and you know petitions and everything here I am Monday morning with no floors with soaking wet sofa no skirting boards a house that smells absolutely disgusting from sewer water and where is anybody to help us apart from each other you know honestly now I know and I know I can talk for all of us we just feel at our wits end we done everything we attended every meeting we were dignified we listened to what they had to say we thanked them and two years down the line here we are again you know it's not the people that can do something it's not them waking up this Monday morning with a house and a street that is completely destroyed it's us at these meetings does anyone recognise what the problems actually are in other words you know we know what we're capable of from an engineering perspective on this island we can do anything so someone must know what's stopping the water getting away what's causing this flooding do you feel that information is there secondly if that information is there why does someone one organisation or group or branch of the government step up and sort this problem out it can't be beyond fixing because we constantly have to fix houses let's fix the problem yeah it just seems that it's a you know it just seems like a game of football you know one and from me looking in it you know I'm fed up of the blind game I'm not interested that it's northern island water whether it's rivers agency whether it's road service whether it's a council I've had my you know I've had my feel I'm not worried instead of you know and I'm sure lots of meetings I'm sure there has been lots of paperwork and there has been lots of meetings that have gone ahead but we need action we don't need more meetings that we're going to do this and we're going to do this and you know we don't need that we need action because two years down the line we are in the same situation and I'm sure lots of manpower and lots of meetings and lots of notes and lots of two in them throwing have gone through the statutory body but that's not helping us today that is not helping us today where do you start with the with the trying to get your house back habitable again somewhere where you can open the front door and you know feel proud walking back in again not having to endure the smell it will take ages you know I'm sitting in here today I have a corner suite so it is split up into three parts my TV unit has gone my bookcase has gone my sofa is in three pieces filthy maybe two or three feet up it's light grey absolutely black my doors my skirting boards and floors are all away my wooden doors brand new wooden doors are all whooping and peeling up the bottom where do I start I have no floor coverings where do I start and to open the front door you are met with sand bags dirt our mats that have we have thrown out where do we start and yeah do you know we have been we don't even know whether we the environmental health are out we're very grateful for a thousand pounds but let's face it what is a thousand pound going to do and even the real fundamentals say for instance you got everyone on site right now and got your house back looking spick and spam on Friday who's to say on Saturday again all of that effort could be wiped out how many times can you keep going back to that emotional well or the financial well to get your house back exactly not knowing when everything might happen yep it's not monetary it is but that's not all we are living in fear we are actually living in fear you know I've spoken about the community here as soon as the rain one's ringing the other it's a house okay I'm not there we can't live like that and you know what it kind of just hit me today the weekend has been busy and I have come down I've took a couple of days off work to try and I just thought how am I going to where do I start here do you know where am I going to start and as you say if we do we we'll come together and we'll get it done but where's the solution because I'm just not keen on doing it all again until I know it can't happen again you know I'm scared of doing it all again you know and all of us we put our heart and soul all of us putting in we roll in seeing each other houses and sure where are we today where are we today how far can it extend before all of you feel projected and in terms of you know £1,000 that wouldn't even touch it are you still able to get house insurance and all that doesn't cover the emotional turmoil we're talking about here but in terms of the cost I don't know save in that corner sweet could that ever be really cleaned up and reused again like do you have do you still have home insurance I do I suppose I am one of the lucky ones I was in short but as Haley was saying I did get paid out the last time and changed everything and within two years I'm wondering will you know they're not going to keep going back no you know so I would say that you know and we haven't even started that again you know we were compared to the last time we were just completely you know deflated thinking I actually said I am in disbelief that I'm here again I really really cannot believe that we are here again I can't believe it and so I'm going to start the process today to see but you know even if you know even if they do I'm sure well I could really bet there's no way I'll get it again I think it's kind of interesting Emma both you and Haley when I mentioned the house insurance it's almost secondary to the just the upset having to go through this again you know it's not about the house insurance or the money to repair it's the fact that we're back here again and where do we start and that question I'm asking is probably a week or two weeks too early because everything is so raw that your house is destroyed again yeah we have and you know it's it's the silly things you know when the flood water was coming in we went up and we just got the dew phase off the bed and the towels and so it's silly things so we have nothing so there's not a town in this house there's not a doosay in this house there's no sheets there's nothing probably washing machine and drying the ground floor oh yes we need a sofa you know yeah alright yeah of course we need a sofa we need floor but it's all the extra it's the extra things do you know you know it's the extra things that lots of us are all the same you know it just opens such and as the emotional side it's just open you know after the two years last year we were very we were really close to it only we got sand bags up but you know to just open that whole all them feelings up again and this you know yeah we're upset but I am so annoyed I am so angry that we are here again you know it's 2022 it's 2022 surely and you know I know lots of houses around Sturman and Derry in many places have been hit by it and I can emphasise you know really really with them but you know any trouble for me this is a trouble spot area this is known to flood and for us to have to be sitting here again you know it's you know and people say it's material things and it can be fixed and a hundred percent I can get that but you know this is our homes this is our factories across it's not about being able to replace material things this is about the impact I think you said you recently moved into your house or into the into your house like has the historically been flooding in the area in other words should these houses have ever been built here in the first place or did other developments make them prone to flooding more recently well I have lived here maybe for 21-22 years right sorry it's your reference in the previous flooding incident my mistake never has it flooded apart from the two years we've had heavy rain so do you know is the rain different than the last two years because it has never but now I know that I think Hailey's father has lived there 51 years and they had been flooded previously but I am no engineer and I don't know but I would imagine you know we're at the bottom of an estate there's been lots of different infrastructure houses built along in the surrounding area so whether that's all you know add into the impact of the pipes or you know it's maybe just not fit for purpose but as always it's going to take time and it's going to take money it's going to be a long old road for you I know that but hopefully you get there and hopefully they do something that you can feel more confident that it's not going to happen to you again and that's the priority almost today listen thanks for your time Emma I'm really sorry what you've been through and going through and we'll be going through thanks so much for helping us understand it by the way no problem thank you very much indeed right Kathleen what area are you in Kathleen good morning to you good morning Greg this is I'm here from Bournemouth again you'll be used to talking to me about flooding yes today that this is like so sorry for these people I'm not going through this morning but you know we've been there we've got all the promises we're still where we were five years ago five years out of your house five years out of our house the latest report you know the money that was allocated by Boxer Morn in June 2018 we thought this is great something is happening that's been reports we were told 20-25 being reports the latest report is that one option is that there will be no defences it's not worth it we were so angry at a counselor on the morning or a week after the flooding that said you know these houses should be abandoned thought it's okay but do you know something he was right if he was listened to you know were fobbed off all of the time we're no further forward you know there's no communication from the council do you know if your old properties were impacted by this weather event or was it a bit far away or what was the story or have you no I don't actually know I was away for the weekend and when I said we've seen this and seen you know that was our first talk and we've seen it up you know on Saturday night oh my god you know Jerry you know where and the muffled all so close to us you know open mobile all so close to us but I don't actually know because I'm just back and I just wanted to comment but it's it's just like we're back here again once in a 100 and here we are five years later and there was a severe weather between now and 2017 as well and it's not even necessarily severe long spell of weather our network our systems can't seem to deal with a big deluge Catherine thanks very much for joining us so Kathleen a big to speak to you again Kathleen counselor Jason bars on the line with us now good morning counselor right the line is not fantastic what's your reaction to what we've seen over the weekend I suppose particularly as it affects the Glee 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these houses have been there for over half a century who are you going to sue in fairness now and also development can exacerbate flooding in certain areas caller says think about the time we had an emergency as a emergency team on call to deal with flooding and bad weather we all hear what all we hear about is climate change tax this tax that time we had a team ready to act on the bad weather professional people to deal with the change of the bad weather and indeed it was post 2017 we were speaking to a gentleman if my memory serves me correctly he used to work in an office that coordinated all of this stuff there was not no one blaming you know it's that department it's that department we can't do anything because of this there was just an office and they maintained the waterways and what have you and it was all in the one place and there was no blaming Greg I went to bonk run out a week after the last floods and the trees under the bridge were not removed after a week what does that tell you another caller says I was out the other night I was out the other night of the flooding and most of it was caused by the rains not being cleaned out who's responsible for this the council the farmers of the landowners it's clear that drains are unable to take the water floods when they there is a funder fallout I wonder too though is the infrastructure I wonder is the infrastructure though powerful enough to to take the weather in other words even if it's cleaned out perhaps it needs to be needs to be more capable right now we are joined back on the program by Jason hopefully you can hear me this time yep it's very understandable okay so there's a lot of anger from those affected by this flooding they've been to various meetings they've been here before and they're just here in the blame game and they're sick and tired of it they just want action do you sympathize with them are they correct in their feelings well I found it out Greg I did put up a status in social media do you know there's no point me beating about the bush and I've no shame at the politicians and Straban have failed the people and there's no question about that site meeting after site meeting promise after promise and you know I know yes councillors we haven't got much power especially from those further up the ladder as to the scrapes to be honest and I have no doubt what they're saying they have every right to be angry at what's going on as I said it should have been resolved yesterday not tomorrow and do you believe the problems have been identified that leave particularly the Glee Barrier for the sake of this conversation so vulnerable Oh what about a doubt do you know I'm not a representative for the Glee Barrier I'm more Straban but yes I know there are particular issues around the Glee and especially around Garton Avenue there there's issues in around there with drainage and stuff but it's the same in the Valley Common Estate do you know the problems have been well identified they know that the drainage can't hold the capacity for water it runs through the the plans were drawn up for the new big drainage system to come on as if yep that hasn't happened and here we are once again listening to her residents who are absolutely devastated they're home been wrecked once again so this is not necessarily about keeping you know drainage clear we need more capacity to deal with these heavy doubt that's what was yep and that's what was identified as particularly as I say in the Valley Common Estate the drainage system is supposed to go on to keep up with the amount of the volumes of water that come down because the way the Valley Common Estate is built on a whole so the amount of the volume of water that comes down there especially during flash flooding as was described by another elected representative Apocalyptic do you know it's scary to see and scary to watch so the drains cannot hold the amount of water that comes down so then the infrastructure minister last year, Nicola Mal identified that a new drainage system has to be put in place unfortunately here we are once again and hasn't happened yeah I don't want to get into it I'm sure you don't or maybe you don't and I know the families don't want to get into any political argument about well storm it's not up and running because this that and the other no one cares about that so who ultimately needs to take responsibility for this and get it sorted well I'll say the responsibility does fall on to the department of infrastructure you know the money should be there the money's there for strength and sports put the man on the ground get it sorted yeah they can't go through this can't live their lives like this Councillor Barr thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it alright that's Councillor Jason Barr there 08 660 25000 is the whatsapp and text number from outside the Republic 0035 386 60 25000 okay we'll be back with more on the 9 till noon show this Monday morning after we take a break 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It's 10 o'clock. Donald Kavanaugh at the Highland Radio News Desk. Cleanup operations are continuing across the northwest after destruction was caused by flash flooding at the weekend. Significant damage was caused to the road network and bridges in East Ineshaun. While elsewhere in the northwest in Derrion Straban, six people had to be rescued with many areas affected by flooding there. Gary Martin is the director of economic development, emergency services and information services with Donegal County Council. He says it's been confirmed that funding has been made available to support people from the Department of Social Protection. There were a number of properties that were mandated despite the best efforts of everyone and I just got confirmation there from the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management that the Department of Social Protection is available to assist anyone and I'll give a number that any affected householder can actually make a phone call to now in the event of them actually requiring assistance. They are expecting calls from East Ineshaun this morning. The telephone number is 0818-607-080. That's 0818-607-080. But Councillor Albert Doherty is calling for a full audit to be carried out on infrastructure right across Ineshaun. Even as we see there might be people in their homes or businesses that are open today that there may be damage so I think there's an onus on us to do an audit. There and from what happened five years ago and we have to seek significant funding aid again to assist us and put everything back into a proper way of working again. Works that were to have been carried out on the high road in Letterkenny have been postponed following a meeting between Irish Water and Letterkenny Chamber. It was confirmed the works will now be carried out in January. A number of local businesses had expressed grave concern at the short notice that had been given saying that August is a prime time for business and disruption during the month would be disastrous for their turnover. Police are repeating for information regarding the whereabouts of a missing dairy woman and her daughter who they believe may have traveled into the Republic of Ireland. 39 year old Jacqueline Friars and her five year old daughter Scarlett were last seen at around half past two yesterday afternoon in the Shantalo area of the city. It's believed they may be traveling in a blue Ford Cougar with a green sticker saying children on board. Funding has been approved for a new GTEC Digital Hub on Tory Island, others in the culture that approved the monies at its monthly board meeting for the development adjacent to the Ireland's Community Centre. The project is being developed by the Ireland's Community Cooperative. It will offer shared workspace and be available as a community space and also a meeting centre. Funding has also been approved for Digital Hub in Maranbeg, then Colham Cale in cooperation with Donegal County Council. The PRO of the Micah Action Group believes that President Michael D Higgins missed an opportunity to exercise his power and make a difference for Michael Homeowners at the weekend. The defective concrete blocks bill was officially signed into law by the President. Michael Doherty says his lack of action is disappointing. Again we're subject to part of the system here. Disappointed, been honest because with a bluster that we had from the President only a few short weeks ago, particularly to do with housing, I thought there may have been an opportunity for him to exercise whatever limited powers he has to make a difference and it looks like he's rolled over as well here and he's rammed it, which is very disappointing to be honest. A group of Fungal TDs and senators say finger-pointing at the agriculture industry could impact the country's reputation as a sustainable food producer. John Paul Fieland, David Stanton, Charlie Flanagan, Paul Keogh, John Cummins and Gareth Ahearn have issued a statement on the planned carbon emission cuts to the sector claiming a false narrative is putting blame on farmers. It comes as talks continue this week on the cuts with question marks over whether agriculture will be asked to bear cuts in the order of 22% or 30%. Cardinal Kennedy D John Fieland says they're not looking for agriculture to be exempt but he says it must take a fair proportion of the burden. We're seeking that the emissions would be at the lower end of the range and that has already been pre-agreed. Currently that range is 22% to 30% so we're not seeking that agriculture would be exempt. We are seeking that it would be at a level that can be achievable for farmers but also be a significant reduction so you know anything up to 24 or 25% reduction in agricultural emissions. With the forecast we'll see cloudy weather today with showers, some heavy and thundery at times, blustery with moderate to fresh south westerly winds, a mix of cloud and clear spells, occasional showers, light to moderate westerly winds. They will remain fresh near coasts in lowest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow we'll start cloudy with scattered showers becoming clearer through the afternoon and evening with some decent sunny spells developing highest temperatures tomorrow. 15 to 18 degrees Celsius light to moderate north westerly winds remaining fresh near coasts and that's how in radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning. The obituary notice says for this monday morning july the 25th the death has occurred of hillary mcque 83 hillview park castle derg the family home will be open to the public from 11 o'clock until 10 o'clock today funeral from the family home to more mourning at 20 past 11 for recreation mass at 12 noon in simpatrick's church castle derg interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard the mass can be viewed via the parish webcam family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to cancer research care of charge lynch funeral director the death has taken place of patsy mulvey hill bali herein at kill mcranon remains reposing at his home house private to family and close friends recreation mass to more mourning at 11 o'clock in synclombers church kill mcranon burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only donations if desired to the dunagul hospice care of any family member the death has taken place of jim kelly colman fold stroban and formerly of 54 fountain street stroban reposing at his daughter nadine kelly's home one drum rala stroban funeral leaving his daughter's home to more mourning at 20 past nine for recreation mass in the church of the immaculate conception stroban at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in simtary cemetery melmont family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of norah o'hagan nae hoynes 21 melmont garden stroban reposing at her home funeral leaving her home to more mourning at 25 past nine for recreation mass in st mary's church melmont at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of mary log nae broadly let your hill you claw hunt county dunagul mary's remains are reposing at her home funeral mass at 11 o'clock to more mourning in the church of our lady of perpetual soccer glenn finn with burial afterwards in kilty vogue cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on mcn media family flowers only please donations if desired to the claw hunt day care center care of any family member the death has taken place of tony mcnigal karik karen agar of movill tony's remains are reposing at his home funeral mass will take place to more mourning at 11 o'clock in sympires the 10th church movill followed by burial in balibrak cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on movill parish dot com family time please from 11 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only donations and need to art avian karn dunag care of any family member the death has occurred of annie callahan nae sweeney main street kilty gordon remains reposing at her late residence funeral leaving from there to more mourning at half past 10 for recreation mass in sympatics church at crossroads kilty gordon at 11 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard the recreation mass will be streamed live on sympatics church at crossroads kilty gordon facebook page donations are made of flowers if so desired to the patients comfort fund that barns to reward since joseph's community hospital stern roller care of any family member the death has taken place of tarnes macnamie 28 knock a niller road juggles bridge remains are opposing at his late residence funeral from there this morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock recreation mass at syntugian's church glennock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of john roger kilty newt convoy his remains are opposing at his late residence removal from there this morning at quarter past 11 for 12 o'clock funeral mass in sympatics church convoy while by burial in the family plot in the old cemetery family time please before the funeral family flowers only donations if desired to the dunigal hospice care of tarnes mclintock at funeral director the death has occurred in the k-man islands of liam callahan balna lost funnard on november the fifth at 2021 liam's ashes will be posed at his late residence at balna lost from one until 10 o'clock today rosary tonight at nine o'clock a memorial mass will be held in sypmeri's church fanavolte tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock for by the burial of ashes in the adjoining graveyard the memorial mass can be viewed live via the sypmeri's fanavolte and synt clumbers mass mount facebook page family flowers only please donations in lieu of desire to the dunigal hospice care of any family member or market here funeral directors the death has occurred of eddie car tearlyn creaslaw his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral mass from st michael's church creaslaw this afternoon at one o'clock burial afterwards in dose cemetery mass can be viewed live on mcmedia dot tv family time please before the funeral today family flowers only donations in lieu of desire to creaslaw day center care of any family member or james harkin funeral director the death has occurred of maj mcloughlin drama trumman kerry keel reposing at her home recreation mass this morning at 11 o'clock in our lady of lurch church kerry keel while by interment in milford cemetery family flowers only donations in lieu to positive care care of any family member or mcloughlin funeral directors the death has occurred of rosemary mcmonigal name mcloughlin two hawthorne heights letter kenny formally of mulla heap family time please before the funeral this morning funeral from there this morning going to st jennan's cathedral letter kenny for 11 o'clock recreation mass which can be viewed online on church services dot tv interment afterwards in comwall cemetery family flowers only please donations of wish to mary's meals care pascal plague funeral director the death has occurred of hue moss 14 black rock drive ballet buffet and formerly of list mulladoth crossroads killy gordon reposing at his late home at 14 black rock drive ballet buffet funeral from his late home this afternoon at half past 12 for recreation mass at one o'clock in the church of mary mcloughlin strunner interment afterwards in st patrick's churchyard crossroads killy gordon via list mulladoth and the death has taken place of sarah cd mcgnott the large dinnings reposing at her late residence funeral at her home today at 12 noon fall by interment in the family plot at holy trinity churchyard carry guard house open to family and friends for more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to highland radio dot com all right you're very welcome back to the second hour of the night on the show good morning if you are just joining us it's good to have you on board a reminder for you that you can watch the program on our website highland radio dot com or you can follow us on our social media so you can watch on youtube or on facebook we spent much of the first hour of the program talking about the weather event over the weekend which saw a lot of flooding primarily instra band dairy and east in the show and this caller says you can only do so much against freak weather caused by global warming build the wall higher or make the drains bigger and next year there'll be a bigger deluge of more flooding the only way to beat freak flash floods is by making the houses i.e. doors and windows watertight i mean if you have i understand what you're saying but you know even historically there can be and this is not denying anything but but i think at the very least though we have to make sure where our houses are at the moment that the drains are wide enough to accommodate water it's like a sink you know you put two taps on and the drain will comfortably take the water away you empty a kid's bath into it and it will quickly overflow we need bigger drains it's that simple but of course you know we also need to be looking to the future as well another caller says the weather is only impacting the northwest i was down the country and it was lovely people on their holidays can't go outside at all indeed but this week hopefully it's going to be a little bit drier temperatures in the late teens as i said earlier in the show we had great weather this time last year i think people come to the northwest know that it's not necessarily the southeast and you're not going to get the same type of weather but we've so much other things to offer so hopefully that's why people still keep coming do you do you know anything why the water is off in the elmwood stands area for letter kenny by any chance i don't know why it's off but i know irish water are aware of it and they're investigating it it's not a planned outage they're investigating that outage in the letter kenny and saran's areas that's all i can tell you they know what's happening and they're working on it that's what they say great kudos must be given to the niron community for their public toilets and also the wheelchair availability for the beach they even have seats outside the louis the disabled louis the best i've ever seen it's everything as you can see in the pics here they included some pics including a class to michelle the louis a bed style lift a movable screen to protect privacy i assume and the gents ladies and disabled all spotless even being so busy with the great weather with uh day phone number and out of our phone number in case uh the need attention if carsburg did public laboratories yes indeed and um we would we've talked extensively about those facilities and how they came to pass and uh it is a amazing what can be done when you put your mind to it hi gregg could you please find out about the question out there on um as a irish e u citizen traveling to spain from belfast international airport do we need a cold with certain entry as we are traveling from there it doesn't make any sense as e u citizens we should have free entry thanks a lot well unfortunately if you're flying from belfast uh it's it's not really your citizenship it's your departure and you are subject to uk travel rules not e u travel rules or irish citizens travels rules it's the airport and your department airport i'm not quite sure of the situation in spain and all flying out of doblin um you don't need any uh covid information as far as i'm aware but i'll check that out on the website and bring you an answer to it uh call up from the gauntlet area if letter can he says he woke up this morning to know water and when he called irish water to see what was happening they didn't appear to have any idea of the outage or estimated time for it coming on again does anyone know what's happening as i say irish water are only saying that they're investigating the outage at the moment the one thing i would say though um and maybe we always leave it to someone else in terms of a power outage or a water outage particularly uh that you have to ring up irish water as soon as you notice it like you did um because that heightens awareness of the problem for them is it possible that everyone thought the neighbor was calling anyway they're working on it now as soon as we get any uh estimated time if we we do get any estimated time of the water returning uh we'll get back to you okay since we were last on the program actually the aib reversed their decision some believe only temporary but anyway they reversed their decision to uh turn 70 of their branches six or seven in donagol cashless and to remove atms they uh bowed to public pressure again this is so important you know if people organize themselves and i heard i heard people try to take credit from this for this between radio presenters and politicians he's got nothing to do with them a program like this or any other program or this is that well maybe at a certain level political pressure will help this is down to people being outraged this is what happens when people organize and and uh are uh to a man and woman against something the aib had to reverse their decisions um and that's good news i think at least for the short term uh but obviously we were having the conversation again about a move to a cashless society and we've some comments here which i want to carry uh over from the end of last week hi greg living in rural arland if i have to travel to let kenny to do some business and use the local link boss service i have to pay in cash as they don't have any other option another caller says i don't want cashless banks i'm a young person and i use cash as i can watch what i'm spending and i know what i've left each time i buy something indeed another i went to the bank this morning to lodge my paycheck if i go to the counter it's in my account in a few minutes if i use the machine it's not there until 2 p.m the counter staff refused to do it today saying i had to use the machine i refused saying i'm paying a premium to use my bank account and i want counter human experience she eventually gave in and served me i think this is disgraceful i'm in the same uh boat when it comes to self service tills and shops i refuse point blank to use them it's small stands but we all need to make them indeed but you see these self service tools are busier now as a former roaster bank customer i changed i a b a month ago now we can use the atm at the bank of island but eventually the banks are all going to go cashless our local post office is stacked staffed by local people if they don't have an atm do we want them to know our business no way you can only lodge 400 euro a week into the credit union says another caller what about people who get their disability money paid into the bank what are they supposed to do uh to get money out well they would say have a card and use the card but as i say some of these messages coming in before that uh you turn from the a i b uh riddle me this why are the a i b not made to pay back the 21 billion that the irish taxpayers used to bail them out would go a long way to help fund that effective building material crisis um let me see here mainstream media contribute a lot to social uh media pile on the biggest pile on in recent years in ireland was when a journalist reported and tweeted false allegations about innocent male teachers in a carlowe school this set was retweeted with critical comments by many other journalists and some politicians making it go viral worldwide very few of them bothered to clarify or report the truth after the press council ruled the story to be untrue a minority deleted the tweets afterwards without a comment yeah indeed and um that's 100 true and i think that's as it relates to comments i talked about yesterday but listen just because a pile on comes from the mainstream media it doesn't make it legitimate and it's happening and it happened last week on the national airwaves uh you know because uh someone won't speak to us so let's punish them for not doing so well that's exactly how it felt i don't want to go into the details of the case but you're right i remember that story as it relates to those school teachers and i remember seeing the tweets and i think even someone asked me to retweet it and i refuse to do so uh because i didn't like it and we all have to make individual decisions and if mainstream journalists want to be held above uh others reporting news or claiming to be journalists well they have to hold themselves to a certain standard as well and i fully agree with you i think you're right and they are very very slow to apologize delete the tweet and hope it goes away and often it does but you're right uh they should be held to account and um asked to explain what they did and why they deleted it and to apologize if they did harm to people uh right hi greg when i was applying for a loan with AIB uh they went through my statements and they asked me what a with uh what a withdrawal of cash was used for a cashless society will know every detail now so they wanted to know what withdrawal cash was being spent on right if the government wants cashless that's good enough reason to keep cash you can rest assured that it is not in your interest again you know the banks themselves are are private companies uh insurance companies that don't want to deal with you necessarily in person they want you to ring up someone in an office and they'll discount you for that your electricity company that doesn't want you to have a paper trail of direct debits they'll email you they'll discount you for that they'll give you money off if you buy a product online rather than going into a shop the banks will reduce your fees if you don't use cash you know i'm not sure this is being driven by government necessarily i'm not sure they have to wear with all to do something with this level of organization these are private companies for the most part albeit we have stakes in some of them but they are run as a private company and the government says well we're not interfering i i think this is more being driven by um big corporations rather than the governments but anyway that's just a view this caller says if the government wants cashless that's good enough reason to keep cash you can rest assured that it's not in your interest after the covid con as they call it where three quarters of people rolled over and got a vaccine and a passport to track you the current climate please tell me you can see the cashless side will be used to control and manipulate people must wake up you see people tell people to wake up the majority of people don't want cash right that's that's no one's asleep i always it don't always does amuse me when uh you know people go we told you we were going cashless but you didn't heed our warnings we all know it some of us don't mind others are fighting against it rallying against it all of the people uh from all different points of view rallied against the AI AIB decision and they got it reversed no no one needs to wake up the public are fully awake they just choose to get involved in what they disbelieve or what bothers them AIB shutting down their their cash 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not actually from letter kenny but i would be in a good bit and i just noticed that a good few of the traffic lights don't make any noise when you're crossing um which makes it very difficult to know when to go if there's no one there or if you're on your own yeah well why would some of them not i wonder i think everyone would be familiar with the the the beeps that sort of indicate when it's safe to cross but obviously i wouldn't notice perhaps when they're not there as much as you might i wonder why some have that audio and others don't i notice that um and a lot of places not just letter kenny but like you know other places would they would make the noise but um just opposite you know where task goes over to mr choppy there they don't make any noise which is quite a dangerous road yeah it is yeah also there at the retail park as well and is it um is it mostly in letter kenny that you notice this or are there other areas of the county or country where it's a problem um letter kenny is the only place that i've noticed because anywhere else i've been there's always you know you're always here and what does this mean practically for you say for instance that that cross uh over uh test goes like what do you do how do you know when to go do you have to sort of take a chance and rely on engine noise and what have you well um you can't really go by engine noise because there's electric cars and you can't hear them so um usually if i'm on my own i just kind of wait do you know if there's a group of people until both cars have stopped on both sides and people start walking i can go with them then but um if i'm on my own it makes it really difficult to know when to go i can only know if the cars have stopped on both sides and it's very uh it's very frustrating but also kind of is is wrapping you of your independence to some extent because something that should be there isn't there yeah because i would be very independent i feel like doing things and getting about myself as well okay well we're going to get on this straight away and see well firstly someone's going to have to explain why this is the case and secondly tell us when they're going to uh stick in this uh audio assistance because we can't have someone like yourself um you know i can imagine if there's no if it's quieter and there's no one around you and you're standing there with no other indication it must be a horrible feeling it's happened a few times actually where i've been on my own and there was no cars going either way so i kind of i probably have actually missed the lights and i just waited till somebody else came over to cross yeah but as you say you know maybe you we talked about electric cars but also cyclists and what have you you know you should not have to feel like you have to take a risk and and sometimes it sounds like that's what you feel you have to do yeah also up at the warehouse as they may make an noise but it's very hard to hear right okay quite a dangerous area as well yeah that is and um okay i know the ones that you're talking of we know i know all three that you talk of here now there might be others maybe that you haven't used as well i'm not sure that's just the ones that i've noticed myself other than that are there any other um challenges uh walking around the county's biggest town for someone visually impaired and alka and street furniture is another one as well you know like signs and that shops or cafes may have outside or um you know in shops the wet floor signs yes it's very hard to see them a lot of actually quite a few times i've went like straight into them without realizing oh my i never even thought about that and as the street signs has always been a bit of a controversial one has it worsened since maybe covid and there's more sort of outside uh you know on street furniture and that type of stuff yeah there would be a lot more outside now um doing all the people sitting outside and stuff like that it's just quite difficult because you can have to make your way around them or you might see it and then you just walk into it and it slows you down because obviously you're using the cane to identify the obstruction but you don't know then you have to be careful going around that because there could be a table on the other side of the sandwich board so it really slows you down presumably yeah well i do have something and um like say somebody who might not be able to see it all or something it could be a lot harder for them yeah indeed and i'm presumed to it could be an issue for wheelchair users too yeah all right just stay where you are because it's not just letter kenny and and we need to sort of find out what the criteria is for for these noises to assist people crossing martin good morning to you good morning how are you doing fantastic martin it's not just letter kenny what's the story in ballet buffet uh and i'll say the one outside metal hannies was tasked to weigh back a couple months ago and after they've been on a new one there was no noise when you cross no it doesn't bleep or nothing okay you've got a radio on in the background so i hope you're not too distracted by the echo is this something that you've just noticed or are you visually impaired also martin no no no no no no it's probably i just used it and i i just noticed it and i think for all people even all people there when they hear the beep they know to cross because but no you know it's there's no noise and there's nothing there to tell you really where to go you know other than the other than the green matter other than watching the lights yeah exactly okay and and yeah all right this morning yeah go ahead no no no that's all of it i thought no it's it's useful information and we can add it to our inquiry thanks so much martin okay all right take care of yourself so there you have it um and okay it's not just letter kenny and and martin's noticed it also in in the ball of a face in all our area yeah it's probably other places because it's just where i notice myself okay well listen we're going to try and get to the bottom of it and see what the story is it's uh you shouldn't be inconvenienced um and it shouldn't be hit and miss and dependent on where you are in letter kenny or wherever leave it with us so we're going to make some inquiries and see if we can get to the bottom of it yeah no that'd be good yeah is there anything else you want to add whilst you're on you talked of uh outside furniture is there anything else that we should be more aware of um just in shops as well as you know whatever um people you know um packaging or have things maybe set the white trolleys i've noticed that um trolleys would be very hard to see as well right okay if they're setting the right in front of the shop it's easy to walk into them yeah for sure okay pat stay there a second hanalka patrick good morning to you oh good morning greg um yeah well i was listening to that care there that's visually impaired and and about the bleeping on the traffic lights but i have a bigger problem than that there at the junction of the high road and the pork road so if you're talking about there where warehouse says and the traffic lights there right so at least twice a day and i'm not exaggeration whenever the lights go green there there's cars taking a sharp left to go down the pork road towards the test go direction now if anybody it wouldn't matter whether you're visually impaired or not that's a foot out there and has an altercation with one of those cars there's going to be a fatality now i've been on to the county council and the powers that be and uh they got back to me and they said that it was a garden matter and i told them well look can you put up a sign no sharp left and their their retort back was uh there's no more room for any more signs and it's a very serious situation can you legally turn left there patrick no you can't legally turn left but there's no signage for strangers to know that yeah there's there's a line across the road at the lower part of the that's one way obviously isn't it uh it's one way it's one way but you see the thing about it is it's a totally blind corner the car has turned left and it's on its way and there's no warning for pedestrians or even for other cars coming up the way yeah you know and this is happening at least twice every day and it's a very serious matter now i did notice about a month ago they put up a temporary sign with a kind of like an arrow and a cross you know a line through it so as to say that you can't have a sharp sharp left turn you know but um i was on to the council about it and i'll talk to the powers that be and charge of the roads and he said it was a garden matter and he could do nothing about it i thought that was yeah but it's a garden matter after someone has done it it's not a garden matter to prevent it happening yeah well that's true but it just goes to show you you know you talk about road safety and the rfn everything and this here to me is one of the most serious situations as far as pedestrians are concerned and latter canny town all right patrick listen it's one i hadn't heard before and it's interesting and it does affect hinalka too because that's one of the crossings that she's talking of so uh you know even if it were a beeping even if it were a beeping because of what you feel is inadequate signage you still could find yourself uh having problems with the car thanks for that patrick i appreciate it will also right okay thank you great right thank you very much indeed uh hinalka a caller says i've read on a few occasions that pedestrian traffic lights are fitted with a vibrating button which is located at the place where you press the button to stop traffic when the light is red the vibrating button is the cue for visually impaired people to cross have you heard of that i've heard of that before um i know somebody who was deaf and that's how they knew but um i actually tried to think for that and i never yeah i never found it or whatever i was gonna say if they're not sophisticated enough to be i can't imagine they're gonna have a vibrating uh button in car and on other three places you can cross the road there are no crossings as such this is dangerous in general let alone if you were visually impaired i hate having to cross the road and there was new uh traffic crossings put in balaba feintanore uh hinalka which i have i think they're unsafe because a lot of it is is uh you know the judgment between the driver and the pedestrian and it doesn't account for people in my view who are visually impaired and i don't find that very inclusive and if it's not inclusive then i think it needs to change uh hinalka thank you so much for joining us we'll see if there is a uh a response uh and an explanation and uh if you're not listening we'll get back to you and let you know but thank you very much for raising it with us this morning all right thank you for having me on i know it's our pleasure hinalka thank you so very much indeed uh a caller says um the crossing at the aura doesn't even have lights despite it having those sensor burns on the ground okay well that's uh further uh problematic because i think whatever else that we can't get right uh for for us not to have our roads infrastructure to be as inclusive as possible i think that's a really really significant problem right let's take a break uh we'll be taking some music soon if you've a request or dedication for anyone today get in touch with us so we'll dedicate the track to them the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union you're all living your best lives now aren't you that's right andrea got a new car with heated everything greg's finally having his horse themed wedding i'm getting the bathroom reason it's the water ball rain 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was in Dublin recently you mentioned the tables and chairs put outside premises on the pavement and sometimes clear rubbish bags it's a disgrace how did they get away with it um i think some business practice has changed uh post-covid maybe that is part of it but listen and we the sandwich i remember on a on a different program on a different radio station doing the sandwich board story um it's been happening for years um and and you know businesses won't do anything purposely to make life difficult for visually impaired or people in the wheelchair or buggy pushers but they have also highlighted the fact that you know it gives them they're struggling to keep their head above water and it's to try and get people in uh across the door and to spend some money so uh but there has to be a way in between there that we can get it right the 90 new show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office 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by unan mackentire and the minor tones see you this sunday at the glenn column kill agricultural show okay there is a drive on at the moment for all of us but particularly those of us over 50 to understand shingles martina feyland is chair of chronic pain arland and joins us on the program now martina thank you for taking the time this morning thanks greg it's great to be on and to be able to to spread the awareness about shingles i seem to be hearing about shingles more recently than i have in the past is that just a coincidence or uh is there something to it and i don't mean from people like yourself just out the community just people say now i've got shingles or you know i don't recall hearing it as much as i have been recently um i think it's a part of it it must be coincidence or my age perhaps it could be something i would never say that i could never say that so there's a slight delay on this line we are getting it sorted martina but just my apologies for cutting across you there i thought you were finished so talk to us about shingles what is shingles and who does it affect and how often you know how many people get it well um looking at research that uh gsk have done recently it does one fifth of people in the over 50s age group would get shingles so that's 20 percent you know and and that's probably why you're hearing a lot more of it out and about and people that you know because 20 percent of our population is quite a lot even in the over 50s and then over half of people that were surveyed said they knew somebody who had been affected by shingles so shingles it's a very painful red rash and it's accompanied by itching and burning and a tingling sensation in the body and i suppose to to even make that a bit clearer some people believe that it's just a rash you know but we've heard from other people on shows that they've been affected by it for months or even longer and there's also um a common complication that 20 percent of people with shingles develop particularly in the over 50s in the at-risk groups called post-herpatic neurology and that is a prolonged nerve pain in the area where you've been affected by shingles and that can go on for months or even years so i think it's very very important to get the word out to these groups to the over 50s the at-risk groups and even everybody because anybody who's had chicken pox in their lifetime has a one-in-three chance of developing shingles so i think it's very very important that you know the conversation starts among people to raise awareness and in the at-risk groups that they talk to their healthcare professionals about options that are open to them treatment options you talk and we'll talk a little bit more about that you talked about developing shingles so is it contained is it something someone catches or is it just depending on your body makeup if you had chicken pox before some people it will flare up for them others it won't it's not contagious and it is if you've had chicken pox it is a risk factor for shingles i mean i'm not a doctor i'll say that straight out i'm not a healthcare professional so i would advise everybody to contact their doctor practice nurse even pharmacist any healthcare professional can give them more advice about the risk factors for them as far as you're aware is there any way to prevent it again that's a discussion for the understood i get you so in terms of increasing awareness then what do you want to achieve by that people are more inclined to as soon as possible go and seek seek their seek medical advice or like why do you think we should be talking about it more what's the aim of this campaign the campaign really is awareness and so that people realize that shingles isn't just a rash that it can be a very very severe illness a very very severe condition it it can be when it reaches the post-traumatic neuralgia stage and even in the shingles stage itself it's a very difficult condition to treat and people need to realize this no there are those people out there who will get a very mild dose as we say but then there are people who are very very affected by it and it can impact every part of their life you know if they're suffering from chronic pain from the nerve pain that's going to impact everything they do in their life you know and i think it's very important that that message gets out there and from your experience talking to people is it the type of pain that the likes of pain patches work better than oral medication or again is it another dependent on what your your your GP or doctor might think again it's dependent on the person and it's dependent on the treatment options available to that person so there's nothing that i could say there again you know and we also don't want people particularly i suppose of its post-traumatic neuralgia to sort of be suffering in silence or putting it down to something else or arch just age or you know obviously the more severe it is maybe the more inclined there might be to try and get some pain really from it but presumably too there are people walking around that might be putting it down to something else absolutely absolutely you know and and that goes for for any other pain condition a lot of people put it down to to other reasons you know oh i'm just getting old or orchard and i banged my knee last week or oh i overdid it but no if some if you have chronic pain and that's pain or persistent pain that goes on for more than three months it's definitely something that needs to be looked into conversation with your GP is definitely the first start there and do we get a good understanding amongst the medical professionals to this because you know there are some ailments where ailments where people feel they don't get the help that they need i presume shingles is so widespread that we can trust our GPs and pharmacies to have a good understanding and a good pathway to pain relief or whatever the treatment might be absolutely you know i have care professionals are very well educated and as you say you know shingles is a very common illness and i would absolutely trust the GPs to know the treatment options available there okay martina thank you for helping us to spread awareness people presumably can search out the chronic chronic pain island but even just heed your advice and if you have any concerns contact your GP your pharmacy your trusted medical professional and hopefully they'll be able to help you and take the you know help with eating the pain and everything else associated with it thanks for your time this morning thank you can i just say that there is a dedicated website for shingles at the moment yes of course go ahead yep it's www.understandingshingles.ie and the chronic pain island website is www.chronicpain.ie lovely stuff thank you very much for your time martina that's martina chair of chronic pain now had a text in about water in the bally rain area of cantodonegall and i'm going to hold a picture up for those watching on on social media but i'll describe it for the majority of you that aren't it is mank it's pure gray i don't know what's causing that but that's the drinking water there in the bally rain area of letter kenny that's in addition i think to the water outages we were talking about earlier right let's take a break and go to the news the 9 till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 this is a radio ad voiced by an actor made by a producer it's all pretty straightforward but when it comes to radio there's more than meets the ear if you're someone who's always wondered what goes on behind the mic then the learning waves skillet 360 broadcast bootcamp course could be for you you learn all about radio from some of the best people in the industry from music presentation music links research interviewing and editing to voice training and to produce and 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michael de higgins over the weekend michael don't already says the lack of action from the president is disappointing the supposed battle between kites and climate protection needs to end nigh according to a finnegale tg john paul felon and five of his party colleagues are calling for constant agriculture emissions to remain at the lower end of the scale and not at the full 30 per cent proposed by the green party ministers are holding more talks this week in a bid to finalize the issue works that were to have been carried out on the high road in letter kenny have been postponed following a meeting between irish water and the letter kenny chamber it was confirmed that the works will now be carried out in january a number of local businesses had expressed great concern of the short notice that have been given saying that august is a prime time for business and disruption in august would be disastrous for their turnover approval has been granted by dunagol county council to progress the liver to castle finne greenway the development is part of the northwest greenway initiative three crossings will be included on the route at livered balle last school and castle finne and funding has been approved for a new g-tech digital hub on tori island iris nigiel talk to approve the monies at its monthly board meeting for the development adjacent to the island's community centre those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon thanks so much mikaela um a caller says the teller is obliged to ask above a certain level for money laundering reasons okay that's what we suspected in house here uh that's off the back of another comment where someone withdrew five grand and um was asked what it was for letter kenny straight on sunday afternoon there were men lying about drunk there were asleep in doorways it was two o'clock in the afternoon why wasn't there enigadie cold i don't know the answer to that question another caller says i got shingles after getting the covid booster and i know three other people who uh exactly the same happened to uh they want to know if it's linked to the vaccine well listen i'm not in any way discrediting uh what you feel to be the case by the way but just throwing it out there we must consider also that certainly in the over fifties you know 90 to 95 percent of people have had vaccines so invariably you know people are still going to get little things after the vaccine maybe even immediately after it uh and might attribute it to the vaccine but as i say the one thing we'll say 95 percent of the population have had a vaccine so anything gotten thereafter it's most likely you could say well i got it after the vaccine but it doesn't necessarily mean uh the two are connected i think i don't think that's a crazy assertion okay we have a short break to take and then our next guest joins us right after these the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with 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of international concern because it's really important to bring countries together to implement a coordinated response in order to stop transmission and really protect vulnerable groups and that's it isn't it this isn't necessarily about trying to to make people fearful or to over amplify a situation and i'm not in any way trying to minimize it either but this triggers a international response and maybe that was the the motivation that's exactly right and in fact i'm not going to go through all the recommendations we made because it'd be here until tomorrow morning i think but the critical things were that a large number of recommendations were made to countries to really step up the clinical training awareness so that medical advisors can give the right advice to work with affected communities to provide the right information provide the right pathways to getting care and also to taking measures to protect themselves and others so that you don't have increasing spread and and also to ensure that you can do the testing so a lot of people who get this condition aren't don't necessarily have clear symptoms but they know they've been in contact with somebody so they need to be able to get testing know where they can get testing they need to know whether or not vaccines are available so there are many many things all countries of the world need to do but particularly the countries that have quite a large number of cases going on and it's a difficult one to deliver the public health message in the right way because you know there are particular groups of individuals within or between which this is spreading but at the same time then one doesn't want to create a stigma that would avoid people you know for example if i came on and and and just said you know last week i'm back to work now but last week i had monkeypox well because of the way this is being messaged everyone might jump to a conclusion and there would be completely wrong because in fact monkeypox spreads from any person to person through close contact with somebody who's got the rash now sometimes you don't see the rash because it could be just a few little bubbles inside the mouth for instance so you may have been talking to somebody closely it might have been a noisy bar so that you've been close face to face and you know if they've got that current bubbles in their mouth and not even know it's there they could have spread it to you so it's a nonsense to say it just simply related to being in a particular group however the number of cases we've seen have come from people who've who um have identified as men who have sex with men and this is probably because many people are very good about their health and very good about identifying any kind of illness and and ensuring that they do the right thing so it's also critical that that all societies step up and understand that the reason we've taken this seriously is we want to ensure that everyone in the community understand how to prevent um transmission yes i'm i'm not sure if you want to comment on this marker but what upsets me is everything is weaponized nowadays and i did note some commentary on social media um that you know in the case where children or a child or there's a break outbreak amongst children that instantly people were saying oh well people need to look on to what's going on in that house or in that environment to what have you and presuming that it can only spread one way or one particular group be responsible i mean as i say you know that doesn't help anyone that kind of commentary you're quite right and and again people saying that are completely wrong when we look and monkeypox has been around since the 70s we've known about it since the 70s and when you look in uh countries that have have a long history of of having uh transmission that quite often children are affected and in fact we're quite concerned about children because they have lower tend to have weaker immune systems especially the very little ones and they tend to get a lot sicker but we've also seen studies which have found that children who never had symptoms do have antibodies so it it's anybody who's got little kids know it's that little kids they're all over each other so when you talk about close contact little children do that a lot i call wants to know is there any relation and i think it's important to ask this question purely just to to to get a definitive answer from someone you opposition uh is it related in any way to hiv and aids no it's not um it's it's again it's a virus we've seen around for a long time it's what's called an orthopox virus it's a member of the smallpox family but there are lots of other poxas there's cowpox and there's raccoon poxas all kinds of other uh members of this family and why they're called orthopoxas they cause this rash with the little bubbles um and that they're also sort of similarly related and one of the good things about that is because we have continued to work on smallpox vaccines really even though we eradicated that we're always concerned that there could still be an outbreak at some point we've got second and third generation smallpox vaccines that we believe should have some protection against monkeypox and that's the vaccine that's being rolled out at the moment but again one of the recommendations and one of the things we really need countries to do is when they roll out these vaccines to also collect clinical data to understand how long it takes for people to get protected we think it's two to three weeks for instance between getting the vaccine and being protected um and you know ensuring that we understand any side effects and anything else so we really ask countries to be rolling them out in a setting where it's possible for people to have to be followed up okay and one final question to do with the coronavirus if you don't mind dr harris just here nationally the nyak have announced a recommendation that over 65s here are to get and other groups are to get a third booster vaccine and and now and i'm just wondering what your view is my concern with this is personally is that this would be the original vaccine which obviously i think we understand is good at preventing you know serious illness and death but not necessarily transmission and mild illness and we are just through a wave at the moment and things are dying down a little bit as we head to the towards the flu season as maybe you know better adapted vaccines are available i just wondered do you have a view as to us pushing an older vaccine at this time where maybe our guard is low if that's why should we not have waited and try and coincide with the natural flu season and perhaps more refined or defined vaccines i'm especially considering only half of over 65s took up the second booster do you have a view on that yes indeed and in fact our scientific groups say to review this have got a clear view on this as well and that the the vaccine you're referring to i think is probably the messenger RNA vaccines that indeed will roll out first and they were designed exactly as you say to prevent severe disease and death they've done that extremely well but our immunity does drop off and so as after six months in the groups that we are really trying to whose lives are most at risk they're most likely to get the severe illness and most likely to need long hospitalization it's really important that they do get that booster and get it now because remember you want that protection the coronavirus the covid is circulating at very high levels right now in europe you know we're seeing we're seeing huge numbers of cases and we've got the ba4 and ba5 that's causing quite a lot of trouble so it is very important that people get boosted now it's not a matter of just waiting for winter because in winter time the reason we worry about winter is you get the flu and the other things and just the cold puts people with underlying illness at at higher risk of other things so your hospitals fill up so you don't want to then have hospitals filled with people with covid as well because then they just can't function and we've seen that winter after winter haven't we all right now we need to take other measures of course to stop transmission so it's not just vaccination and we need to understand covid has not gone away unfortunately all right one very final question back to monkeypox it's an interesting one you mentioned yourself the virus has been around for quite some time why might we be seeing a monkey pox peak now sorry for the flip-flopping but as i say it's just a question a lot of good question yes it's a good question and that's exactly why we've one of the reasons for declaring the public health emergency of international concern yes it's been around for a long time it's remained in a few countries and it's remained at relatively similar levels and now we've seen it move into a lot of new populations in more than 70 countries around the world and we're seeing the numbers increase quite rapidly and there are a lot of unknowns so that's again why we need the world to work together to share information to to use the tools we have to bring down the transmission but also to understand better what's going on and to stop this outbreak thank you so much for your time this morning margaret i really appreciate it um that's dr margaret harris who's an epidemiologist with the world health organization 08 660 25 000 watts apps and texts there rider call us is hi greg in december we're getting a new government i.e. the override car will become t-shock and there'll be a reshuffle is this legal should there not be election as the people didn't vote for what's planned in december well it's already happened once so it must be have passed some legal test because of course the override car was the t-shock then he gave me home martin ago and now he wants another rattle at it so um i i don't see any grounds for a legal challenge there um 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