CorkToday 10th September 2026

0:00You're listening to C103's Cork Today podcast phone and text lines are currently closed and very good Thursday morning to you as we welcome you along to the program. A raid is sitting in taking your calls at 0818103103 you can text your WhatsApp as well. To 086203103 anything you want to share with us love to hear from you there's been a lot of talk about social media and the effect of social media on children and we know ourselves not dangerous how addictive social media can be but we also know some of the content that comes up on social media really is not suitable for children and if children are getting their hands on social media they may not understand. A lot of what has been presented to them and has been shown to them so there's been much talk about should we just have this out right ban on social media when it comes to children we've seen in other countries that that's what they're doing and attempting to do things like a ban on social media for under 16s and they're trying to introduce another country so we certainly have spoken about looking at it here in this country as well.

1:17There's an interesting study out because I think if we're going to do something like this that is going to affect young people particularly the young people that are already accessing the social media they're the ones we're if we decide to bring in a ban they're the ones we're going to have to say to them you've got to stop using something that they have been using for quite some time that I think when decisions like this are being made you need to talk to children as well and just not necessarily find out you know the children obviously the don't want to see social media. The don't want to see social media goal will be will be absolutely telling you all the good things about it and why they want to keep it. But it's also an opportunity to get through to children to find out what worries them about social media you know you will get the good the bad and the ugly I think when you sit down and ask children the correct questions in the correct setting and it seems that the majority of children in Ireland would would prefer to be taught about staying safe online rather than to get to the right people. So I think that is a very good view of how we handle the situation online and the internet and everything that comes with the internet is not going to go away.

2:31So what we need to do is it's very much part of young people's lives today and for children of the future as I say it's not going to disappear. So children that are born and children that are not born yet you know online and online activity is very much going to be part of the words that they grow up in their children who've grown up knowing nothing else but an online world. So we need to keep them safe in that space rather than saying we're going to ban it because straight away when you say you're going to ban something you straight away have or there must be something worth looking at here if they're banning it from us people straight away try and go and find out more about it. So education keeping young people safe could that is that the key now this came out from what's been described as an extensive study. It was carried out by Ipsas behavior and attitude and they did it on behalf of Kama Shun Naman and it also found that half of the parents and the caregivers that they interviewed so it wasn't just children they interviewed they also favoured this educational route over a complete social media ban both cohorts agreeing the children both cohorts green both the children and the adults are saying look.

3:51If you decide to do this, honest to God children will find the way around the ban and that's already showing up in countries that have introduced the ban they're already finding out the children whether or not meant to be on social media they can circumnavigate it and they're getting on social media if that's what they want to do. Now the study involved over a thousand children and they went from young enough children they the youngest being interviewed was nine and it went up to the age of 17 so a good you know you'll expect very different answers from a nine year old to a 17 year old and they also spoke with their parents are with their caregivers. Now they were asked firstly about their understanding of how social media and search engines work they were also asked their views about online bullying and more importantly they had been asked whether they had ever received sexually explicit messages now the survey found a quarter of the younger kids this is the nine to 11 year roles so a quarter of those 25% but 90%

5:00of the 16 to 17 year olds had a social media account but showed a mixed understanding of how it works again I would say that's got a lot to do with the age group two thirds 67% recognized that liking our sharing opposed can have a negative impact on others what 39% recognized that the first search result is not always the best source of the information but I'm sure to see that it's as low as that I thought particularly young people would have had the smarts to know that when they look up something you need to scroll down the page and have a good look around but 39% no it's not the first one which means the majority are jumping in and we'll take the result of the first search and we'll take that as gospel. A third of the children admitted they felt upset at least once in the past year about something they experienced online that to me it is tinged with real sadness you know that's a lot of children to be feeling hurt and upset now it rose to 46% when we talked about the older children the 16 to 17 year olds while children with disabilities were more than three times as likely to be a child.

6:19We were a poor feeling upset and three times more likely to report feeling upset frequently when they're online with something they had witnessed or something that was said to them online then they looked at online aggression and cyber bullying now it affected a minority of children as they reported that it happened more often face to face than it did online and I wonder I'd be interested to get a break down of the age group that was receiving sexual messages also relatively uncommon thankfully amongst children 9% reported receiving a sexual message at least once but then go to the older children 16 to 17 they were substantially more likely to report having received a sexual message. Children parents and the caregivers also more likely to agree 67% of children 43% of adults that then disagree 11% of children 23% of adults disagree that a social media ban would not be effective as children as we said earlier they'll just find a way around it.

7:31Now a minority of children sorry a minority of the parents and the caregivers they agreed that removing social media from their children's lives they they said it would have positive impacts on their children's focus on school work 63% saying it will be a positive impact on their mental health so you can see that the parents and the caregivers as opposed if they could wave a magic wand and wish that social media had never been invented and the children had never been in the same way. They never got access to it they would prefer it but now that it's in their lives it's very hard to take it away from them now as I say this particular piece of research was commissioned by Kamishu and Aman who of course are responsible in this country for social media their chairman Jeremy Gottfried he said crucially this study allows Kamishu and Aman to hear directly from the children and the young people but also directly from their parents.

8:31And their caregivers about their attitudes and about their experiences he said the findings in this research now will support evidence based policy development program design and decision making that deliver positive outcomes for children and for young children. So do the young people and the children have a very valid point when they say it would be far better to teach them show them how to stay safe online rather than saying that's it you can go near social media until you're 16 and ban them from it because if you look at even as it stands despite social media platforms already having rules that are in place for example most of the social media platforms. And the state that you cannot sign up to social media until you were at least 13 years of age yet one in four children age to nine to 11 already said they have a social media account so you know nine 10 11 year olds are already getting around that age verification when they're asked are you over the age of 13 they're already managing to circumnavigate that and they're already getting on to these.

9:53So social media sites when we already know they shouldn't be on them oh eight one eight one oh three one oh three would you agree that is now the way to go way to go let's keep our young people safe let's teach them how to safe safe online and particularly on social media and also as opposed to the fact that come and shoot them on now have this that have this piece of research they obviously also are pushing for the owners of the social media companies that they have responsibility to make sure what turns out. So you can drop on their social media sites and what to that is available to young people oh eight one eight one oh three one oh three we have Merage taking your calls in texture WhatsApp the program on oh eight six two one oh three one oh three okay don't forget we are celebrating more big winners with on it dot i e and you could be next to join that big winners list you enter on on it dot i e that's all in i c on it when dot i e to be in with the chance of winning up for grabs at the moment is an amazing two night five star break there is an intent to switch bundle up for grabs and ninja foodie dual zone air fryer that's exactly we all need in our kitchen to get into the draw you go to on it when dot i e please notice for over eight

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12:19dangerously vulnerable position join me on the line is michaeli mick of course is founder of grow with yourself g i y and is a leading voice unsustainably local food at production and it's always great to have them on the program good morning to mick morning Patricia how are you i'm very well and you're welcome to the program you're warning that island is facing potential food shortages and that's despite all six sporting 20 billion in produce and we do that every year how can a country like us known all over the world for our agriculture how can we be in such a vulnerable position and yeah it's a great question i think it's kind of cracked upon us to a degree Patricia and a little bit of complacency as well like as you said in your in your intro there like we i think strategically have have sort of put all of our focus on building an agricultural economy that's

13:23that's focused on exports so as you said we have this you know almost 20 billion a year in food being exported the majority of which is meat and dairy so i think it's i think it's nearly 12 billion of the 20 billion is is beef and dairy and so it's you know that's our focus and then you know we're we're kind of obviously when you drive around the country and you see lots of fields and and we have this sense of ourselves as being a agricultural kind of powerhouse and and yet really what we're doing is growing growing cows for export and at the same time then we're importing four fifths of our calorie needs and so so if you think about a plate of food that you might be having in the evening a home you know four fifths of that on a national level is is imported so we import well over 85% of our fruit and vegetables i've been kind of very vocal about the fact

14:24that we've only around you know 60 odd commercial veg growers left in in the country which is extraordinary for a population of five and a half million people and you know we import most of our grains and our oils and our yeah i think because i do think that was to figure that kind of jumped out at me the most striking at you know four fifths are 80% of our calorie intake we're bringing it in from overseas talk to me though about what specific stables are we bringing in from overseas that we really should be growing right here at all yeah well you mentioned potatoes in your in your intro which is obviously i think is always the one that really gets people and that's that's very recently actually up up until maybe two three years ago potatoes were largely immune from from imports because you know we've got separate to the 60 commercial veg growers we have we've around 150 commercial potato farmers and so we've always been more left self sufficient but

15:29actually changing tastes have sort of changed the landscape here we're we're very big into maris piper's you know mainly because of i think celebrity chefs kind of big in them up and mentioning them and we don't grow them so well here so we're importing a lot of maris piper's and depending on the supermarket you go into you know you will see varying degrees of it but but some supermarkets you know you could have 30 40% of the potatoes they're selling are imported from the UK and so like yeah like pretty much the the ones the imports that really bother me in terms of fruit and veg are the ones that we can't grow ourselves because obviously you know we can grow bananas and we can't grow avocados and all of that kind of stuff but we can grow you know pretty much everything else we have a very good climate for veg production actually and fruit so so we can grow onions carrots you know parsnips kale cabbages broccoli tomatoes courgettes you know pretty much

16:32pretty much everything you can think of and it's those ones that I think are the are the real the real shame I suppose and at the minute it's largely a kind of a consumer choice issue but I think I think what's happening now is with the way climate change and conflict and all of the sort of the very dangerous world we live in now those those supply chains that we rely on for for bringing food into the country are very you know a very fragile we we import a huge amount of of food from the UK and from Spain both of which are countries that you know have had horrendous droughts even worse than ours this year and their own food production is very challenging and their outputs are down and their yields are down and so that means then if if that continues and if the chips are down they're going to you know they're going to prioritize their own populations first and you know that we just don't have the the growing happening here then to replace that.

17:33Yeah because as you said as you said we've seen a dramatic collapse in commercial vegetable growers at 377 down to around 60 and that's only since 1999 what was what was driving local farmers or what is driving local farmers out of Horticulture. It's it's kind of pressure from both sides so they're getting paid less for the produce they're creating and and that's driven by supermarkets using using vegetables to you know bring get you into the shop so so they'll they'll often heavily discount fetch and sometimes they they absorb the cost of that but a lot of times they don't and so so the if you if you plush the price of vegetables on a on a graph over the last 20 to 30 years they're more or less they're more or less the same price that they were 20 years ago and then you know at the rest of food inflation in general of inflation and society is obviously gone up substantially in that same period so that's the first thing the price you know the price just

18:38isn't holding and then secondly the input costs have gone through the roof and and they're competing with and you know cheaper imports from from countries where the labor costs might be a third of what they are here and so on so I think I think that's that's really what's doing it but my my argument is that we have to treat you know our food security and the and the and the ability to feed ourselves and the production of of vegetables and fruit and grains as strategically important and that needs that's a wholesale sort of mindset shift that needs to happen in government and at a national level that I think yeah and I know you just not at the moment you've advocated for you know people with a bold policies like a universal basic income for growers, climate adaptation, grants talk to me Mick how those practical measures would they be enough to encourage new entrants into small scale farming yeah well I think I think they go a long way Patricia I think you know

19:42like universal basic income for growers is not that bold in some sense because they're the only sector of farming economy that don't get us at the moment like farmers will get in all sorts of other sectors will get you know single farm payments and things like that vegetables don't get us which is which is bonkers when you think about it and you know rightly we give we give a universal basic income to artists in this country and yet the people that could you know can feed us potentially are not getting it and the kind of climate adaptation grants are are hugely important like we have a small organic farm ourselves in waterfurt which is we had to invest a lot of money this year in irrigation which is you know something you just normally don't need in Ireland but because because droughts are probably going to become a common place you know water conservation and irrigation grants would would be hugely helpful for you know small scale growers particularly so I just think government has got to get first like the biggest thing

20:47I'd like to see is like treating horticulture as strategically important and saying look we are going to set create a food security strategy we're going to set targets ambitious targets about are you know reducing that the four fifths as you said down to you know a fifth or whatever the case and then back that ambition and that vision upward practical measures to get you know there was there was a retailer grower charter signs last two weeks ago I think now by by the six major supermarkets which is good news but that's really about sort of fixing a system that I think is broken or or stabilizing a system that's broken whereas what we need is something way more ambitious than not to encourage new entrants into the markets yeah because yeah and I know that the horticulture grower retail charter which is great but it is a voluntary retailer agreement you know woman wanted us to go far enough but then I was reading make that the department of agriculture they pointed out that we here in Ireland we rank second

21:52out of 113 countries on the global food security index and that we do we produce an approach in they say to feed over 30 million people which sounds incredible are national statistics are they giving us like a false sense of security almost completely completely because they're all based you know those those figures are based on our production of beef and dairy and unlike let's be honest about what's actually happening with most of our dairy it's ending up in protein bars and states like that's that's what's going on there this is about our our our agricultural economy is largely not 100% but largely it's about these enormous you know agri business PLC's making huge profits selling selling way and milk powders all over the world that that's what's going on so so we have to get real about the fact that yes we're producing this huge amount of of milk protein but really that's not about food security that's that's just about profits and we've got to rebalance things and our food security is you know in the recent fuel protests and

23:00to a lesser extent maybe because of the weather this summer we're days away from shortages on the shelves in supermarkets like that's the this sort of current system of imports is is you know based around kind of just in time supply chains that are really really shaky and and so we we have to sort of address that vulnerability in the way that we would if this was if we were talking about oil and you know any any other critical piece of our our national infrastructure and I think we've got to do really urgently before it's before it's too late and we got caught out you know because you can't it's this is like a super tanker you can't turn this around quickly if you need you know if you've only 60-odd growers left you don't you don't get them back into the system quickly if they leave and we're we're losing all of this incredible expertise and for you know generational expertise around the production of food and you don't get it back quickly if you're ready to eat it absolutely listen we have to leave it there Mick thank you for

24:04that though and thanks for joining us on the program thanks Patricia you're more into that is Mick Kelly Mick of course is founder of Groot It yourself at GI why in a leading voice unsustainable sustainably locally local food at production and it's a lot to worry about when it comes to our national food security listening to Mick oh wait one eight one oh three one oh three we've got maray to take in your course text whatsapps oh wait six two one oh three one oh three court today on C103 now we've got an inspiring story of grit memory and a second chance of life up next on the program because currently trekking their way down the spine of Ireland from Malenhead to Misenhead two cork men are tackling the entire length of the country and they're doing it in just 15 days and today they're pounding the tarmac right here in our backyard they are somewhere on the road between Croom and Mallow now let me give you a bit of the backstory two years

25:06ago Liam Tubbs McCarthy on the winter life changing triple bypass operation a cork university hospitals cardio vascular unit now at 63 he's back on the road to give back to the team that saved him but there is a bit of an extraordinary twist Liam actually walked this exact same route nearly 40 years ago back in 1988 with his great friend Mick Ozzy Kelly who sadly passed away from heart issues today alongside lean is 29 year old Charlie Lillist and Charlie is from Killevollum and with Dara Bernzi burn on support duty the group were known as the heartfelt us and they're honoring Ozzy's memory and at the same time raising funds for CUH I'm delighted to say that Liam and Charlie are on the line and join me as they make the way down the N20 towards Mallow your boat's very

26:08welcome and they're on the one phone I'm I'm told that Charlie I think is with me first good morning Charlie morning Patricia how are you while I'm doing very well now I'm looking out at a kind of a dreary kind of a day here in the city what's what's the weather like first we've been lucky so far great but it is a bit overcast and not looking great but we're prepared for anything we're ready now you're as I say you're between chrome and Mallow today what day number of the 15 is this we're on today 11 today we are currently kind of between Kilmala and Charlie Lillist where we are we're up in the up in the back roads we kind of we try to avoid the N20 as best we could because it is a bit dodgy out there but today is number 11 okay and how are how are the feet as was the feet is probably the worst is it how they hold up the feet are bad right yet they are taking the brunt of it but they're not too bad we're we're prepared and we're taking it as we go I suppose

27:09um put you at air sore both when it's for a bigger cause you know you don't really mind the oleics and pains you're you're able to get over like I mentioned you're you're in your eight 20s and Kilvolen and at Liam who's with Yanis early 60s he's from the city how do the two of you team up for this how do that come about it's it's a long story and tops would have been a friend of my uncle and my uncle would have kids that are similar age to myself so when I was younger it would always be like tubs and james would be my uncle would bring me james's kids um off on like adventures and then we started going on on family holidays over to florida um and then tops kind of stayed around my family and ever since any time we go on any holidays tubs comes with us so I suppose he's a family friend and then uh he uh gave me this proposition on a holiday last year so he would have been one year post operation and uh his whole motivation for the operation was

28:10getting fit enough to come to our land of it us last year and of course he did but on the flight over he kind of dropped the hints that he was planning this this year and he said what would you think of walking the length of Ireland from my island to mezenhead with me and here we are so did you take land to think about it um the problem with with tubs is the minute he has said it it's kind of already planned and in motion you know he's one of these people so although it was a year ago he had the roof planned he had everything planned on the way down so I'd like to say I didn't have an option but uh and I did of course push uh your credit is exactly the no regrets uh and I also mentioned the introduction you've got a daraburn burncy behind the wheel how important is that to have a good driver in the support vehicle you know because you're covering a thing about 30 miles a day so it's about a marathon oh little over a marathon a day is what you're doing yeah so we actually as luck would have it Darra was tied up at work

29:15we're actually self-supported to disinfer the time which makes it even more complex so if we showed you know the last 11 days I don't think you believe we would have made a disfire but what we have been doing is dropping the car one tone ahead so say we started up up in malin head so the car was in bonkrana we got a boss from bonkrana up to malin head the night before stayed up in malin head and then we walked all the way down to where the car was in bonkrana jumped into the car then the minute we finished dropped the car onto the next tone find a link or a boss of some description to jump on back up to the tone and all the way down so the actual the walking has been the nicest part of it the real panic begins when we finished walking and we've to kind of figure out how do we get the car so you you've discovered public transport then and how efficient and not efficient it is in certain parts of

30:16the country it's super efficient well done well said you just put put lean tobs macartheon to us there for a second I put Liam on you thank you for that here you go thank you to all right there's no I'm my pleasure Charlie now this is Liam who really seems to be the inspiration behind all of this good morning to Liam good morning Patricia how are you I'm very well is it Liam our tub psycholia you can call me whatever you like I was just not too early as more than two years ago you underwent a triple bypass and it was at the cardiac unit at CUH what goes through your mind taking on a 50 day marathon walk across Ireland after going through something like that that is major heart surgery it is major heart surgery triple boy pass yeah it all happened so fast from being to the doctor I'm being under operating theater it wasn't for only three weeks it's a I've been in for a double pay pass but it ended

31:16up the headache and you triple boy pass away I was in there and she'd like him out maybe it's great and had you been on well before that lean no I was working right up to the end it's if somebody's waiting for sharp pains and things like that there's all different signs you could get this was only discomfort in the chest I got yeah I'm gonna explain to me afterwards it was when I was exerting the heart that the muscle was pumping fast to try and get the blood through and that's for the the discomfort coming in because when you start but settles the only bit again so you may think it's okay which I did for about four or four of wave turns but then I went to the doctor and that's when I was in for the stress test and the angiogram and all that stuff yeah and did that come like a ball towards the blue were you totally shocked by that no nothing really shocks me I went out to the hospital with a problem and they're phoned out what it was and then they're gonna try and fix it and the other option is carry on the wave is going on and 10 weeks and yeah and then this this hold this thing of walking I mean

32:20this is a new to you you did this nearly 40 years ago with your eight friends as you tell me that that was actually your run we ran it in 1980 yes same distance 30 miles a day that way you'd run three 10 miles runs each day but today we we just walk it to be and yeah I just wanted to do that run again. I'm a Kelly who died last year of a cardiac event and why did you do it with me all those years ago why was the reason for it back in the back in the eighties the maritons were big thing yeah we used to run a lot of maritons and stuff together we spend our hall days above with the new guy the last and I was up there one day and this as Charlie said tops as a for the easy main made up I was up there on hall this and I said you know at the next to make more pair we're gonna run out of this and of course make button taken and you know let's put the fire on you over you put up there plan and all don't like as you do as you do you do you drive up there and try and we'll we'll run home yeah what else do you do so did was it a

33:24fundraiser did you do for any calls our campaign at the time um fundraiser for big that train yeah yeah yeah we had no GPS we had no set now we had to do everything by map there's no more mobile phones or proper cameras we used to have to win different four do you remember that one yeah yeah I do I do and then you have time you have to hand it out to the camera fundraiser set hand for assisted free roses yeah and you did it in 50 days as well 15 days and 18 well and as the country changed much has to sell up more waterways yeah so we're spending a lot of time feigning backwards to stay away and keep ourselves alive after going through the operation cheers are on stay late for not a way you do indeed yeah we're doing grand yeah you're enjoying you sound like you're enjoying you're enjoying it I'm enjoying life so this is two years that it wouldn't have had you're hoping there's more and you're raising money for the Cardio Vascular Unit at the

34:29Corke University at hospital you're already well gone past the 10,000 euro mark I was checking it yesterday how much does it mean to you to be able to give back to that team at that you know that's giving you the second chance well when they told me that I was fit to go to the hospital again after the operation you'll be there for a whole week and you will go I told them that it was the first time I was ever in hospital I was 63 years of age and 64 if no but I told them that each and every one of them were fantastic it's a brilliant place the second to nine and decided to go I wanted to stay there for another way but I probably make go back again you wouldn't no I'll hopefully you won't you you're gonna go back to visit the fantastic place yeah it is yeah it is yeah but I would be going back from this is done yeah it literally does give people a second chance really does what what has the reaction been have you been chatting to people along the way are you getting any reaction from people on this walk um yeah people are surprised

35:34though I think I'm doing so soon after the operation but I was a fellow doctor who walked in straight away and started building myself up again um you can lay down in the bed and you'll be there forever so just get up as soon as you can and stop moving baby steps right to start off with baby steps and keep building on it and forget the just because you're going in for the series hat operation I'll be pesters meet the cellular life is over it's going to begin when you come out that's it second chance and don't ignore any of those signs don't ignore signs first step is go over and have a chat with your doctor and he'll tell you you're not in the hospital then you're going to the doctor tell him the symptoms you have he have a list of questions he'll ask you by the answers he know what happening yeah but we know that men can be great to bury their heads in the sand and say actually that's not and that'll go away not all men okay yeah I go after things straight away yeah and well listen and I really hope if not an as that message gets across to people listening to you today

36:37because as you say the work that they do and the gifted hands of the surgeons at that are that are in the cardiac unit are you right they're second to none and they are giving people a second chance of life okay the minute you go in the door have you any pain are you're not supposed to have pain when you're in there tell them if you're off pain they look after they treat you well you're giving five meals to their great views out the window because they can know what health is fantastic you're selling it well I'd recommend that I recommend that everybody listen missing head is getting closer and closer by the hour have you a time set for when you expect to finish the final finish line cross the finish line the final finish line in missing head will be on Monday and it should be around three o'clock if we're a bit later you'll pass us when you're gonna throw it out through Goliene and five to one place to lay that okay so yeah it should be three o'clock to finish playing this below missing head and people can donate how or by means they can donate I don't know that I forward slash Liam McHartley lowercase and the number two

37:45okay Liam McHartley number two as you can find all that and Charlie's page in Instagram yeah the Chancellor it's it's very easy to find it is very easy to find him listen good job to him it's good to get back on the road the both of you stay safe stay dry we hope the sunshine for the last few days but it's been a real pleasure speaking with you both good luck with the rest of the walk Liam and thank you thank you and Charlie for joining us and from Charlie myself thanks very much thank you very much for having us take care Charlie bye bye bye bye but too great gentleman for sure Liam Tubbs McHartley and Charlie Lillis if you keep keep a lookout for them as they say they're coming in to cork down into north cork on the way on the final stretch to miss an 0818 103 103 hard to believe that tomorrow it is going to be 25 years since 9 to 11 the

38:45twin towers and the other two planes going down in the states it's just had to believe that it is at 25 years ago and we will be looking back and remembering lives last and particularly lives last that had an Irish and a cork connection because of course there was so so many Irish lives that were last and people with Irish ancestry and Irish connections so tomorrow we're going to look back on a day that really changed the world forever and we want to know where were you when you heard the news I mean I think it's one of those moments for those of us that were old enough we will all remember the exact moment it was almost fact it didn't like the world at stopped some of us might have been sitting at a kitchen table others might have been driving to work somewhere watching it on TV but I think all of us when we eventually did congregate around televisions we just watched it in

39:48absolute disbelief so we're looking tomorrow for your memories and your stories and what now is a vital piece of our history and I do remember weirdly enough I remember at the time sitting watching it and thinking you know we're living through history and living through a history that none of us would have chosen to have lived through and it is now very much part of our history that is 25 years ago so you can get in contact with the program as always you can do it by phone to marade 0818103103 but feel free between now and tomorrow to text or WhatsApp in your thoughts as well 0862103103 and some might prefer to email the program with your memories and your thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 911 you can do that cork today at c103.io can I go to some of your calls and comments that are coming in and it become a variety of different issues firstly can I go back to last

40:52weekend we did talk about this both last week and we also spoke about it earlier on in the week and that was the KC Taylor fight and her wonderful KC Taylor fight was I think above all else I think how we all felt as a nation how proud we all felt as a nation and even last night if you're watching the select machine goggle box they showed a bit of KC fighting you can see all of the celebrities how proud how proud everybody was but Kathleen wants to take us all back to before KC Taylor came out into the ring and she's looking for your opinion place she wants to raise the issue of the national anthem she said did anybody else pick up on the way roxine o and ifa scott now roxine o and ifa scott are both the daughters of what is the daughter of roxine o is Mary black's daughter and ifa scott is Francis blacks daughter and they did a couple of songs didn't they before KC Taylor came out to the ring but they ended up singing the national

41:57anthem Kathleen wants to know did anyone pick up on the way they sang the national anthem she felt that roxine o and ifa scott kind of jazged it up a bit and she felt it was a little bit unnecessary she said the entire world recognizes our national anthem and they recognize it for what it is though she absolutely accepts that they are both gorgeous gorgeous singers and they have rekindled old songs and they've done fine versions of rekindling old songs but she said please could you get a message through to them don't miss with our national anthem what she's wondering is it just herself or did anybody else notice it it was a different it was jazged up is probably the right way it was during their interpretation of the national anthem they didn't just sing it standing there straight song boom as say it's traditionally song so it was a bit chazed up two chazed up for our caffeine liking you can share your thoughts on it oh 818103103

43:00do you like when you hear versions of that of the national anthem or do you like when singers keep it more traditional you can text her whatsapp oh 8 6 2 103 103 Dennis said wasn't aware of this but Dennis said did you know that yesterday representatives from all of the all island winning teams would you would have included the cork homogi at team they were all yesterday in dune beg they were invited by the trump organization Dennis rang to say he felt this was a lovely lovely gesture they played alongside some of the golfers who were taking part in the Irish open she said there's such a lot of negativity around mr trump and did but it took his organization to make this happen yesterday Dennis said thank you to them and i think it's important people know that it was done i wasn't aware of it but according to Dennis it was done not from the

44:02Irish open it wasn't there side that did it it was done on a trump and i take it the dune beg golf rather than i don't think down on trump himself what you've been there writing out the invite but maybe did maybe did get involved i don't know anyway Dennis says creditor accreditation is due thanks for that Dennis oh 818103103 we were speaking about how we should handle young people when it comes to social media young people themselves are saying educators show us keep us safe on social media but please don't ban us from it christy said we're being bombarded with continuous what christy sees as nonsense about children being abused on social media and a need for regulations and a need for government intervention on the subject i ask a question says a christy where are the parents on all of this sure is their responsibility and nobody else's obviously they don't want to obsess their little johnny's are upset their little mares by not allowing them access to a smart

45:05phone at a very young age i consider it totally irresponsible of parents no one else to hand a mobile phone to their children to play with just to keep them quiet even before some of them were able to walk our talk that is the start of it all i've seen it happen even within my own family and i've called it out that it shouldn't be so in my opinion that is where the problem starts particularly in the early years i know of a mother who despite peer pressure from her son didn't allow a mobile phone until he was 14 years of age and that particular argument i imagine there was a lot of arguments in that house that was well over four years ago if we had more of that happening it would be a start to stop the present issue about social media abuse and that's from christy in tempered planting and that is happening in some parts of the country because we have some parents who get together

46:09and they form with it's not 14 it's usually 12 before they allow their child their smartphone there are many places around the country where local schools will get together and all of the parents band together and say right we're not going to give our biochildous platform until they go into secondary school or until after their confirmation or the summer that they leave six class that is working it's in small pockets of the country but could we see more of that thank you for that now i have to say i got an email in this morning that kind of really stopped me in my tracks and i think anyone involved in the gAA any female involved in the gAA stop whatever you're doing because i wanted to hear this email obviously the background to all of this is to do with swatts going on with Mary McElise and the gAA and we know that the sports minister Patrick O'Donovan he was meeting with people yesterday he now has said that he wants a realistic time frame for the merger of the men

47:14and the women's galey games association and he came out with that after meeting all of the leadership figures yesterday and he met her Mary McElise and obviously that was in the wake of her resigning from as chairperson of the group steering committee the former president described the gAA's stalling on the agreed timelines for integration she said it was almost like a bit trail of the women in our sporting culture she stepped down after the integration steering committee meeting which the gAA representatives said that while they hand up with our hand up and said yes we agreed a 2027 timeline for amalgamation they then stood up and said sorry that can't be met and i think they said that they wanted another five years but it is still remaining unclear whether the new what that new timeline will be even after all those meetings with the sports minister Patrick O'Donovan but he's very much pushing and says he wants to get it going we've had

48:21the gAA president jara burns denying the resignation of dr mackaday cdl he says that has not exposed the crisis in the plans for integration he's just acknowledging is that it is a setback he says very disappointed about it happened but he said we are well committed to the process and we will we will move on towards integration where let's hope he does so i got this morning this email that says a lot of tuition while i am sitting down in the kitchen thinking and writing this email have to admit i couldn't sleep last night with the anger at the gAA i must rush now today to get all my jobs done around the farm around the house get the children organized from school get food ready they cost from six o'clock this evening i must go get in my car drive a good few miles to my local gAA club for training with the group of children it's raining here by the way now at the moment and i'd say it's going to make an awfully miserable evening yet again but i'm going to put my heart

49:24into it for my two to three hours with my local club with some of my neighbors and people there also will have traveled a good distance to our club to train young boys and girls and before I know what it'll be Saturday again and we'll have more training we'll have blitz matches all on the same day the gAA is the soul the body and the energy of Ireland in every corner of this country the journey to the matches have been out of training doing bag packing in our local supermarket to collect money for our local club and other charity events they all go on throughout the year the list simply goes on and on what the gAA has said and done this week is so hurting Patricia it's actually like a knife has been stuck into me but i'll go out this evening in that rain and i will train the local kids in our club and i'll not feel as a woman that i'm worthless that i don't mean anything to the gAA so i think now that this has a walk in something

50:31in every woman in Ireland particularly those that have any kind of involvement in the gAA and even those that don't have involvement i think the times will start turning and both men and women will be equal in sports and i will fight for it myself every day in my small patch of ground down here in rural west gork thank you for Patricia for talking about it and that's sound Catherine i think that is an amazing an amazing email well done Catherine and i and the pride that comes out in everything you say and it's just like it's you know i kind of read it first and went you know from an owner here and i mean that's exactly how i felt and Catherine is right those women and women like Catherine who and that's not taking from the men there's fantastic men at local level and right the way up along the structure in the gAA but women can be the backbone

51:33of many gAA clubs they are the ones bringing the children to the matches and i know so much of the focus goes on the boys and the men and the male games as opposed to the female games but if you break down all of those all of the boys games and everything that's involved in the gAA leave out the girls girls games with just the boys games but if you look back to the very beginning of those who you know who who who had the most involvement in getting those children onto the pitch making sure they turned up on time making sure they had their kit who was the one that washed the kit when they came home had the good hearty meal ready for them and yes dads do get involved but the backbone of all of those families very much relies in many cases in the majority of cases on the women so they are they really are the soul and the spirit of all of the gAA clubs so well done Catherine and i hope Catherine is right i hope it has woken up something in women i

52:38mean it's certainly woken up something in Catherine to the point that she couldn't sleep last night thinking about it and then put together that fantastic email today listen thank you a Catherine and we'd love to hear from other women as well who may perhaps feel like a Catherine and if you want to go down Catherine's route and if you'd like to email us you can call today at c103.ie you can always text them whatsapp as well oh 8 6 2 103 103 see 103 job with board gosh energy local heroes find a local hero to upgrade and replace your old inefficient gas boiler now at local heroes dot i e general operative wanted for a traffic management company that's in kinsale CVs to shone to info at trafficsmart dot i e tisdale hennessey centra and balanine they are looking for a retail assistant CVs to tiws dkl centra at gmail dot com jones agree and bala desment are looking for a general

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54:49ucc our mtu to young professions in the city everyone knows of the rental market is in full blown crisis but could thousands of spare bedrooms across the country be unlocked with one simple tax tweak now under the current rental room scheme homeowners can earn up to 14,000 euro a year tax free by renting out a room in their home but there's a huge catch if you go over that 14,000 euro threshold by even just say one euro and you don't just pay tax on the excess you get hit for tax on the entire amount now with the average room in cork now hovering around the 800 euro a month mark renting out two rooms quickly pushes homeowners over the cliff edge leaving them with obviously a massive tax bill and in many cases it makes it financially senseless to take on that second tenant the ardent south m e p billy keller her says this is a glaring floor in the system

55:55now he's already written to the housing minister james brown urging him to reform the scheme and to please do it ahead of budget 2027 so that only income above the 14,000 mark would actually get taxed and I'm delighted to say that m e p billy keller joins me on the line good morning to you billy good morning and you're welcome to the program just walk us through the mats here how does a homeowner who decides to rent out two rooms ends up facing a tax penalty that will probably leave them virtually no better off than renting just one room is is that kind of the case? yes it is actually the case Patricia I mean at the moment as you said at the outset if you rent a room you're saying cork city somewhere near a hospital or near a university and if it's a good quality room you know you could get about 800 euros a month so over a 12 year period or a 12 month period that would be nine thousand six hundred euros but if you decided to rent another room and and if the market value was 800 euros a month well then if you rent that out you would be

56:58earning 19,200 euros but it would all be taxed the entire she would be taxed because once you go over 14,000 euros you lose all the tax relief so the very minute you tip over that threshold well then you're in taxed and the entirety so in effect you actually would be no better off renting a second room if you trip over that tax free threshold of 14,000 so what I'm saying is that look what we want to do is to ensure that as much space is being used as is possible at the moment while we are in this housing challenged crisis and every room that's spare if it can be brought to the market if it can be incentivized to be used well I think that we should be doing that and this is a glaring problem here and many people like if they have additional rooms and they're renting out one you know so they're they're they're accustomed to having people in the house a different person the house well then you know if they have a condition bedrooms they may be is equally comfortable having two people in their homes right so I think it's obvious. I know how desperate the situation

58:03is particularly this year so what you're calling for is it to be turned into the standard margin of tax threshold or only the income over the 14,000 is taxed I mean why hasn't revenue are the department of finance made surely this is a common sense change why haven't they made it already well you would think it's a common sense change and an effect if you do the math on us and from a from a revenue perspective I mean this wouldn't you know cost dex check or anything because these rooms aren't being rented at the moment so in effect if you did rent at least they could be receiving tax at the marginal rate once you're over 14,000 so I believe that you know from a revenue perspective it's not a last in fact will be again because we stimulated additional activity in this rental market and more rooms will come on the market and they will be rented and then the marginal rate will be paid but like I I I wrote to a minister brown he's the housing minister but clearly this is a tax issue as well so I've asked him to engage with the minister of

59:05finance tarnished assignment Harris to see what I don't think they they would they would change this but I honestly believe it makes no sense it is a disincentive to people and many people as I said like and if you look at the statistics from 2000 or the central statistics results of the survey census on the 3rd of April 2022 it showed the number of beds beds empty in carcass loan were 139,000 additional spare beds that are unused across the city and county now as you mentioned in carc city for example we have an empty you we have the university we have hospitals we have a very strong IT sector we've allowed a young professionals come into the city and I'm quite definite in my own mind that if we change this we would see a good uptake and second bedroom is being rented out okay and the reason I said I mean there's no TD or public representative at this time of year from carc that won't have people unto them yeah from all over saying can you find some place from my son or my daughter they're going to college or they're starting nursing

1:00:09in one of the hospitals and like it just it just is forever we're at these things and I know from you know the constituents I know intimately in the city that many homes would have two and three spare bedrooms and I believe that's anything that would incentivize bringing these to the market is a good thing for everybody yeah we know the students some of the student unions here are already sending some of their students they are already sending them to the homeless shelters I mean it just seems absolutely crazy that we would have a student living in a homeless shelter initially until they find a place to stay and as you say you've written to James Brown you're hoping to engage I get him to engage with Simon Harris what kind of a pushback Billy are you expecting from finance because of course they're protecting the tax base is usually their top priority yes but I can see how this could be seen to be a last city excercere bear a mind I mean if you're not renting the second room because there is a tax cleavage you know I mean it means that you're not renting us so all I'm saying is that once you go over the 14,000 tax free thresholds

1:01:11that it will be tax at the marginal rate simply that that is the case so I mean these rooms aren't being rented at the moment so if they came onto the market they would be rented and they would be an additional tax base for for for for revenue for the state so I can see why there will be a pushback on it and particularly like we can just look at these things too from a purely from a revenue perspective we have to look at this from a societal perspective I mean I know families whose children still travel from warfords to you CC because they can't get accommodation or the accommodation is too expensive so you have you know students getting up very early in the morning getting buses from you know from you know for warfords city from Dungarvin to go to you CC and to go to M2U I mean this is just an acceptable being truthful I mean particularly when these rooms are already there there you know they have there's plenty capacity as I said the the census of 2000 and 22 highlights that very very clearly in fact in Dublin the census show that there was

1:02:12well over a quarter of a million beds or bedrooms that are unused across the capital and then the entire carcass in county 139,000 so it really is something and not only are some of these homes you know with one or two beds you know very often they may be four bedroom homes and only one bed being used you know when families have moved out etc so I think and I think it would be good for societies as well you know it would be good for society. Is there a Robert is raising an interesting point Robert says ask Pilly is there a risk that raising or softening the tax exemptions was simply encourage some homeowners to charge higher rents which will drive average room rates up even further. Well you see I'm not changing anything in a way I mean I'm still saying that the 14,000 euro tax should be there and should remain there but the additional income for the rent of a second room now this is this is for a second room this is not for the first room this is for the second room that that would be taxed so I don't believe to the start market in any way that

1:03:16would encourage people to to hike it in fact you could argue as it stands there's a temptation to hike it to as high as you can until you get to 14,000 and then you don't do any more where I'm saying more rooms are under the market in fact you know you could argue theoretically supply would drive down the cost of rooms so I don't believe there would have any inflated repressures on the cost of rooms. Okay and if the other one point that has to be made when we're talking about a rent room I mean if homeowners are taking in lodgers these tenants are covered by the license agreement not a full RTB tenancy protection and we have discussed that before in the program but does expanding this scheme is the putting ventures in a more vulnerable position because of course they don't have proper tenant rights. Well they don't have proper tenant rights but I mean primarily this is an ordinary short term as for students or for your own professionals for a period of time while they are looking for maybe more more permanent accommodation but like certainly from a student perspective I mean I don't see anything wrong with a room being rented out

1:04:18you know good quality room, shower facilities and all the things that go go with modern homes. And they're there they're there I mean it's not as if we want to do anything other than use what is already there and most of these rooms would have been lived in previously and would have rare families and you know adults before they moved out and got their own home so so this is just a continuum of that but the key issue here is that people who already have rented a room have embraced this concept and certainly a second home or a second room being rented wouldn't necessarily be a big problem on them. The other area where it might soosh as well and it might encourage so if you can rent another room if an increased income it might you might be able to then say well look we can get in a cleaner to clean the room you know you get a professional in every now and again to do these things as well so I think it could sort of organically develop an ecosystem of its own as well particularly for young professionals for a short period of time and for students attending colleges in our cities across the country.

1:05:21Yeah and it's income as well for households and in some cases if some people are retired and there's no other money coming into the house it's a great way for them to make money as well. Okay listen we've got to leave it there Billy listen thank you for that and thanks for joining us. Thank you very much Patricia. Let you know what happens thank you. Okay bye bye good morning that is Ireland so the MEP at Billy Keller on looking for the coming up for the next budget to give a tax break to people who are renting out a room oh 818103103 somebody by WhatsApp asking the question how much is the tax rate over 800 letting out a room where you were allowed at the moment you can rent out a room and you can earn tax free 14 000 a year is what you can earn so if you're doing 800 a month at the end of the year that will be just over 9 000 you wouldn't be paying any tax on that. Mora says I have an unused bedroom I'd want to share my house that listening to Billy Keller it sounds like he's saying we should all have

1:06:28we should all have to let out rooms and that's more. And fairness I don't think he's saying that he's saying for people who have rooms for a doubt and would like to rent it out and see it as a revenue of making money as well for the income but I don't think he's pushing anybody to if you have a spare room to take in a tenant oh 818103103 we've got Mora to take in your calls. Court today on C103 and this week's guard the file is presented by Sergeant Rory Gond who is at Bannon's guard the station and joins me this morning good morning to Rory. Morning. You're welcome to the program we have a list of items that we want to discuss today. Let's start with deception and fraud. Yeah so this is an incident that happened it was earlier in August in a motorvector store in Middleton and there was a purchase of a diagnostic machine

1:07:29a motor diagnostic machine most people would know if they go to garages it's it's plugged into their cars to to check kind of what might be wrong or false in the cars now this is a particularly expensive one it was it was several thousand euro worth in value and it was paid for over the phone and collected but subsequently the payment failed to to to go through by the bank and so I suppose just really maybe a shout-out to any garages any people that are in the trade and the the the make and model of the diagnostic machine is an actual LMS sorry bitch it's an actual MS 909 so I'm sure it would be well known to anyone who works in the trade and in the event that anyone is trying to yeah because this is quite a specialized you know piece of equipment it's only used

1:08:35in the trade so it's going to more than likely be offered to somebody at an octane price in the in the trade and straight away to a tradesperson that should raise their suspicions absolutely yeah yeah that's exactly it okay now let's move from that fraud to a burglary that happened last week earlier this week yeah but it was it was over the the the night of the 6th September running into the 7th so it's the lobster pot take away a van which is located on the noctune pier in the banemakota area and I'm sure it's well known to people in that naked the woods and yeah unfortunately it was broken into overnight there was a summer money taken so it's just an appeal to anyone that may have seen any sort of suspicious activity in the area

1:09:40just unusual activity as something that just wouldn't necessarily fit in so if there was anyone that has that information they can make contact with them go at the in-all are in the middleton yeah now that was the 6th and 7th that was Sunday into Monday morning just at Garn so somebody might have been driving maybe dash cam footage might have seen somebody loitering around there because it would have obviously happened in the small hours of the morning or later night yeah likely to have happened yeah um we believe that it would have been sometime between the hours of 9 pm and 7 am the following morning okay as you say y'all are middleton guided stations if people can help out there now here's a non-usual one at Rory and you want it's a report on trees that were caught down in McCromb yeah um so it's come to the attention of Gardi that's um some trees are being

1:10:44there being caught down and just left across are just left on the road um so there was incidents on the 20th of august where where in the McCromb area um in uh in uh in a hallowest and in karakukka there was i mean trees literally they were just caught and left on the roadway um and um there was a subsequent incident then um on the 4th and 5th september in clandrahad again in in the McCromb area and um they uh it seems to be somewhat um it's totally unexplained in terms of why anyone would want to do this um first of all um they're healthy trees they are um they're they're they're maybe about between 8 to 10 inches in diameter so um it seems that it's might just be that it's something that somebody could caught down quite quickly um the the belief is

1:11:49that whoever is doing this um maybe um operating an electric chainsaw so that the the noise wouldn't actually even be heard um but it's it's something that the McCromb Gardi have asked that if people are noticing um in their travels and probably early on uh going to work that um if they do see any trees that have been caught down they've been they've asked them to contact them because they believe it is something that someone is doing on purpose uh and obviously they want to uh to catch whoever it is that's trying to find out why i mean is it just been done for different? well i mean um keeping an open mind but um as it was you maybe um you would be kind of correct in thinking that maybe it is someone who just thinks that this is um a bit of fun for some crazy for some crazy and they're just being left on the side of the road i mean is there a danger that

1:12:53could cause an accident? there is yeah yeah that is part of the the the issue um and with the darker mornings now um um it it could be a problem for for road users if they come unexpectedly at upon a tree it's one thing if there's been a storm and you're going to have where we was you're not expecting this yeah and i can't find anything yeah yeah for sure yeah okay and the fourth and fifth of September that was Friday and Saturday of last weekend if anybody uh saw anything again any unusual activity anybody hanging around i mean as you say somebody taking as a chainsaw and unusual times of the day that should raise suspicions uh any with any any information it's macroom guard the station i take it is it? macroom yeah and uh i was speaking with the sergeant there this morning they they believe that there have been other instances that haven't been reported just probably because people aren't aware of it so um so they've just asked that anytime that there is an incident where they they do find a tree that has been um left on the

1:13:56walled way that um yeah give them a shout in the room and let them know okay what a move to something that i have to say i wasn't aware of it it and this is a general piece of public fraud advice you want to talk to us about point of sale overcharging this is when we go to tap and pay for something that we're also used to doing now yeah um it just came up in conversation yesterday at work and um um um one of my colleagues had indicated it it it happened to her now would it happen to her in a very accidental way and this is um a feature i suppose of um inputting amounts where an additional zero can turn something from 10 euro into 100 euro and that can be quite accidental um so um anyone who knows um the the the the tapping system will know that that the a person will will enter the amount um that you are to pay and and you just hold your card up and it goes through uh so really the only advice is um just have sight on the the the amount that

1:15:05you are tapping for um uh you know if somebody's holding um a card machine um and that you can see the actual amount it's no harm to uh just pause for a moment um and ask see the um the the the amount that's on the screen because it's as easily going to happen by accident as it may do by some um intent so um and and and furthermore later tonight uh for um any any of the demographic who are socializing um it is um it's again just something to be aware of um and uh look it'll probably be more accidental if it were to happen in you know um um in some sort of a retail setting but um if particularly someone if you're doing sort of any business with uh you know an individual um and that they are um you know in charge of their own um and some of now would be a typical example

1:16:14um just to be aware of the amount that you're tapping for so that is and I know on some apps after you tap it will come up straight away on your on your own app so you will know as well but that's that's not with every uh bank not every time uh you tap so so keep it up for us okay and very finely at rory something we certainly have spoken about a lot on this program uh was before they were inactive is the e-scouture laws they're now since this week officially in yeah so um what was brought in now this week is um is the requirement to um to have us the to have a helmet and to um where high visibility clothing um existing um regulations had been um that you needed to be 16 years or older um that the speed limit of 20 kilometers uh applied um and and

1:17:14essentially um it was every um every type of regulation that uh that applied to cyclists um would would apply to um e-scouture users uh but this since the 4th of september uh specifically um states that a helmet has to be worn um and secured it's not just that you know uh it can be um worn loosely it needs to be worn and secured and high visibility clothing um is to be securely fastened and to cover the front and the back of the person's torso so there are things to bear in mind um when anyone is either uh on on on an e-scouture um and it's to keep everybody safe that is what it's all about all right i've got to leave it there uh rory listen thank you for that and uh thanks for joining us we'll chat we'll chat again in the coming weeks that is Sergeant Rory Gone who is based at band and garland station premier league live with Trevor Welch returning on this Saturday on c103.ie powered as always by talk sport ardent liverpool versus phulum that's got a

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1:19:24is just as parent i get the feeling it's a mother but it could well be it at anyway it reads good morning Patricia be grateful if you could highlight the graduate nursing crisis on your program please imagine spending four years studying to become a nurse four years of lectures exams placements early mornings late nights stress and sacrifice four years of putting in continuous hard work with one goal in mind to qualify and then to work as a nurse and to serve the community now imagine being told there are no jobs available in your local hospital you're encouraged to apply you work hard you qualify and eventually you secure a place on the nursing you believe that your hard work is finally going to pay off and then you're told sorry there's no budget no budget to employ the nurses who have trained here studied here and want to work here this is where the situation becomes extremely difficult to understand we were told that hospitals

1:20:24such as bantry general hospital and university hospital carry had nursing positions that needed to be filled yet nurses who have gone through years of education and training are being left waiting because the HSC says there's no money available to employ them but at the same time we're seeing the recruitment of nurses from overseas and that's according to this listener and this is where i'm going to i'm getting mary to try to get clarification on this from the HSC this writer of this email says reports of approximately 36 non-national nurses been recruited to university hospital carry and 12 to bantry general raise a very serious question how could there be money to recruit internationally but apparently no budget to employ nurses who've already trained here in Ireland and are ready and willing to work in our hospitals this is not about blaming nurses from other countries they're hard working professionals and they deserve respect

1:21:26but just like every other nurse the issue is the system and the decision behind recruitment how can we tell young people to pursue nursing as a career spend four years studying take on the pressure and the responsibility of becoming a health care professional and then tell them when they qualify sorry now no budget we can't employ you yet hospitals continue to need staff it makes absolutely no sense these graduates are not asking for special treatment they're asking for the opportunity to use qualifications they've worked so hard for and the email goes on just allowing them to work that people do say it's just not fair to nurses the the listener says if they are genuine nursing vacancies that need to be filled then the government and the HSC need to explain why qualified nurses sitting on panels are being left unemployed while international recruitment continues and that's where I'm trying to get clarification because we sent this

1:22:26entire email which by the way is signed from a concerned and destroyed west cork parent of a graduate so it's somebody who has a young nurse for a son our daughter okay we sent that entire message obviously we anonymized it and it's passed on any details for the list of but we sent that entire email onto the HSC and I also think it was sent on to the department of health as well anyway the HSC is out very quickly back with a response but this frustrates me because they send this response back and I think did they even raise the email that morade sent to them anyway the responses HSC South will be recruiting all UCC an M.T.U. 2026 graduate nurses who are seeking full-time positions graduates will be offered employment insights across the integrated healthcare areas of cork and carry now they then refer to something that's making the news at the moment and they say regrettably COH made offers to a

1:23:28number of students in error the HSC South West apologises to those involved for the impact of this error on their immediate plans and I'm wondering did they think the email we were sending to the HSC South West was a very particular issue anyway they want to explain that they're setting up these staff banks and that graduates from UCC an M.T.U. if they came out this year our guaranteed a job now I don't know from the email that I got from this parent I don't know if their son or daughter has graduated this year and if they're in with that a group are not so I need to get further clarification I think on a couple of questions that are clear questions that are raised in that email so we're going to have to get back to the HSC and we'll let you know how we how we can arm with that but while I was waiting for a response from the HSC before I came in here this morning I was taking a look at the number of because I think the big issue when it is and why the system says nothing against the staff that come from overseas but it seems on

1:24:30fair why are we looking to recruit overseas if we do have nurses here so I was wondering first of all I'm thinking are the overseas nurses are they you know are they typically employed full-time are you know do they get formal contracts or could they be agency but I'm told absolutely not that the ones that come here are informal contracts because to secure a critical skills employment permit are to you know to commit that's the way you would come in with the visa overseas nurses must have signed formal contracts with the specific approved healthcare facility are with the HSC so I thought maybe this C103 cork diary with cork county council making cork county the place to live work visit sorry that came out of absolutely no it's not in the command itself anyway so I thought maybe they were they were agency staff but they're but they're not anyway then I wanted to find out how many overseas trained staff trained nurses are actually here now I haven't got a breakdown

1:25:32for the HSC south west but overall according to the HSC healthcare professionals from India Africa and other Asian countries account for 23% of all HSC nurses and midwives now the HSC say they do not publish an exempt daily headcount exclusively for overseas trained nurses but the official data highlights just how heavily the Irish health service is reliant on international staff so if you look at the broader Irish healthcare landscape which will include the the public HSC section the 39 section 39 organizations and private care the department of health and the OECD that 52 to 54% of all practicing nurses in Ireland were trained abroad out of roughly 76,500 practicing nurses in this country more than 41,000 received their primary qualifications overseas

1:26:36and of course in the midst of that you would have Irish nurses who went to England for example to train as well but still it is a very high proportion trained overseas and the reliance on international talent is accelerating this is according to the what I found on line 75% of newly registered nurses in Ireland now come from overseas the top three sources are India the UK and the Philippines so yeah we are reliant we we have to look to overseas we don't have enough nurses but I struggle if there are Irish nurses who have trained here and really want to work here because we bemoan the fact when we hear that our young graduates who have up left and have gone to overseas and we're constantly saying we need to bring our young nurses back and here we have a young nurse who wants to work here and she can't get the full-time contract 08 1 8 1 0 3 1 0 at 3 that is

1:27:39maraid taking your calls you can text our whatsapp as well to 08 6 2 1 0 3 1 0 at 3 email patrician now with your story or comment cork today at c103.i cork today on c103 and still getting in your thoughts on the g a a and what is happening with the integration of the three g a sporting bodies a west cork listener says the g a don't get it they made seven million approximately from the all-isled this year so what if the women's teams don't create the same revenue now to compare to the lads but maybe in seven or eight years they will make 50% or 75% of the revenue that the lads are currently making look across the water at the english ladies rugby team and the english ladies soccer team they basically grew the market from grassroots and now they sell out in a lot of their games the g a a need to look to the future

1:28:41denna says fishar i hope that the three g a a bodies will join up if we took the g a a out of this country we would have nothing the g a a is a great organization not perfect but who is i've a daughter in italy and for her daughter is to play soccer they have to pay and they can't even guarantee them to get them into clubs i know that this current situation will be sorted we have to remember what the generations before us have done and what the generation means to children and a couple of people including shod and maddox thought of the email from catherine who is somebody who is heart and soul buried in the g a a and spent so much time with training local children and bringing her own children to and from that just and she's just so upset by what has been going on she wrote a brilliant email earlier shan allow with other said she's a hundred percent right and well done to her now i know jane wants to get on about changes to the rules i'm not going to get into that today because they don't have time but we leave it for another day but i do

1:29:42have time to say hi to marie hello the church comes in to us what's been going on and what we've been hearing on and off the phones today now i do you watch the case you tailor fight you did did you see the girl singing the national anthem i did they sang grace wasn't it first first yeah you were so fun and then um ephem ruchin came out and they sang yeah i think it was grace they did first and they did they the national anthem oh now someone thought it was a jazzy kind of a national anthem and didn't really like it and a couple of people say taught me agree they thought it was a pop song with the action say we're doing they didn't sing as well our cork lyra would have done a better job and she should have been the one and morris says yes obnoxious national anthem was a bit different but i think that's just a style of singing they have and i'd have to agree more i thought it was lovely yeah i thought it was it was lovely as well and yeah i guess everyone has a different style and i guess some people enjoyed and others don't each to their own absolutely i thought it was lovely and it's eight meant a lot to them as well

1:30:47you can kind of see it in there oh they were dead proud you know in their faces and that like that it meant a lot to them to get that opportunity because i know west i front end first and then then i think they were announced that they were going to be with the occasion tailors choice i wonder as i know west life were and like the the two girls they're the blacks the daughters Mary and frances a Dublin family very much set in family and sitting around singing and it wonder yeah yeah yeah yeah they've grown up in yeah and that's an amazing family as frances and Mary did you know i'll present after the answer like Danny from the coronas is rochie and's brother so they're yeah they're steeped him in music now what i liked um you know what the the listener said to me on the phone was that you know she's liked the way they've kind of rekindled other songs you know that you know older songs and she's liked that but it just seems that people some people have just taken a you know a dislike to the way they did the national anthem and didn't feel

1:31:48that it needed anything extra you know that everyone knows the Irish national anthem and they maybe felt that maybe they just you know he had jazzed it up a bit and then more people loved it so it's one of these things that you know it's not going to be for for everyone i have to say that their outfits were just unreal they were they were different and their their interpretation of grace which again was a very different interpretation of grace was wonderful as well and they they recorded that with Danny as well haven't they in the name of jail they they they sang it in and isn't isn't that the song that the the other young boxer Kelly is it's not her party piece isn't didn't she do that she did that militly yeah yeah and didn't she do that after a big box who matched that she won she came down and and sang it because i thought when i heard that i said well if Katie Taylor is anything to do with that it's a nod to Kelly I'm sure it is anyway listen we won't you you won't please everyone and that's just the way it is what do you want to what's that you want to go this was a piece i heard Damien had in the news earlier

1:32:49he tried fast food deliveries into schools and it's a growing trend in schools is causing child safety concerns for principals educators they students orderly takeaways at lunch time is becoming popular and proposes a number of different safety concerns and I suppose a polar crow and we've had one on the show before he's the director of the national association of principals and deputy principals he's saying you're receiving food orders it's not the role of the school secretary so i imagine you know we'll say for it to live a rule our dilapid pizza yeah arrive on just eat like knocking on the school door and saying hi yeah we've another order here because if you think about like what i think about when i was in school down in cargoline the community school like i mean i can't i don't know exactly how many students were there there's hundreds if not you know yeah that's a big school yeah i imagine if like if we all start getting into the room to school but even even if only a small percentage even if only 50 decided to do what they all arrived at the same time 50 bags in front of the secretary like it's a lot yeah no i and like i mean i could you go out to the gate to meet them because i've got to go with it

1:33:50school to cause that could cause hassle as well for the schools what's that it now i suppose right if you think about it if you concentrate it we'll say take cargoline for example you're probably only going to be able to get things i don't even know if they have delivery there but it's just in my mind an example there's probably only a certain number of restaurants we'll say that we will be open at lunchtime for you know when schools will be there anyway so okay so that reduces selection a little bit and then in terms of distance you're probably only going to be able to order from certain restaurants so i guess in terms of a delivery you know a delivery i don't know how many orders they can carry at once i guess it depends on the size of the order in that so i suppose if there was a few ordering at the same time but it's still it's it was just one of the areas and it's you're mind that it's that a child a student is in school and i said you're just jealous that it wasn't there in your day there you go i mean it got me thinking like where would i've got the money from to be buying me to live rooms which is most of those children will have a credit card now i've reviewed it yeah i see they have it's it's i mean i and i know friends of buying with their teenage children have forever and it's really handy because it means they're never

1:34:50without money yeah it is handy so that they know but it's on the revolution yeah but like even you know i like like when i think back i'd i'd i'd i'd i'd have had to be able to say every night of the week so i could be getting me to deliver to me to every time i'm making a nice sandwich and just you just and have that can i talk about mommy making a nice sandwich because there's a very funny survey that was commissioned by cast a coffee and they went to two thousand Irish parents whose children have left for university in the past five years and they also spoke with a thousand of those young people that went away to university living away from home to ask him about texts that they sent home to their mother what was the most popular text and they've come up with the they're the 20 most popular the top five at text in a fifth place is where is the stopcock now if my son or daughter was in college and text where the stopcock i'd be ringing to say get a plumber in fourth place can you send me a hundred euro please in third place how do i read the electricity meter second place how do i know if a chicken is cooked that i would be

1:35:56the first one is can you send me 20 euro of course right to your is it a more reasonable at one now there's other ones can i eat chicken if it's a bit pink so can we just do for as a safety health and safety no you can't eat chicken if it's pink please take that on board today to check anything so and another in sixteenth place is food or was this expensive ma i love that one and then at nineteenth what's my pps number you haven't a clue and then the 20 on the list is how do i boil an egg which great difficulty dieting with great difficulty chicken one just to pick up and that would be the fear of seeing about chicken we were i remember eating somewhere with my friends couple of years ago and i'd say a past a goon around to every single person are you sure do you think that's okay try it myself talk to you about the time i came back or in the table like it was i'm just and then even if i cook at home like it's it's like i nearly put a put out a warning before we took in going i hope it's okay i it's yeah it's just the thing about it if you've passed that

1:36:57goon around how many fingers held just before i got back to you but i didn't eat it because i talked to myself i was by the end and it was sitting on a fork because it was only the fork oh right past right was like yeah it's just yeah absolutely okay and the other one you mentioned you mentioned another one there that i was boiling egg i yes number pps number my best friend rattled off her pps number when we were in school one time i didn't know mine and the minute she did that i went home and i learned it often i could i mean can you still do it today yeah i can't yeah i'm very impressed when i see somebody doing i know somebody who who will not go be named who can rattle off their credit card number because he gives it so much online rattle it off uh that's a lot easier it is dangerous i thought that i was i was with the person who should remain nameless when they did it one day and i just my was a dog saying how did one do that we'll say no more what else do you have for us uh coming up tomorrow we're going to have the wonderful rattle free you'll join us uh of course tomorrow is a September 11th 9 11 25 year

1:38:01is on i've been taking some calls from listeners telling us about you know where they were when they heard what was happening so we'll be bringing you those stories yeah that's what we're looking for because you know i mentioned it earlier it's um i'm thinking you're probably too young you were you were a child you were very young you don't yeah i was talking that listener said to your remember a certain place and i said have heard of it don't remember yeah well had you even started school got around to saying that i was five yeah had you started school i yeah i think i was four so i would have been in senior infants yeah because i'm i'm wondering about that so do you have memories of you have your parents watching it on tv i would i would you we would have tried to shadow kids from us i would have memories of you know as a definitely watching documentaries but i don't know as you're growing up but i'm not entirely sure yeah five yeah five five it's fair it's very and you would have just started school yeah you were in your first couple of weeks well yeah i would i

1:39:02think yeah i was trying to school what i was for so i would have been in senior infants and like that yeah oh you started school the year before i did yeah i did sure i was four in April and i said time everything yeah all right so all you were a big guard you weren't seeing it yeah i say my mother didn't know if i was going to stay in school or which you have to take me out and put me back in the next year was she told me i settled in okay yeah i would have been so for September 11 2001 you were in senior yeah and yeah but that's what we want to know is where were you i mean people with people would have been sitting at home you know it would have were it would have broken daytime television was and i can't remember with daytime television a really big thing at the time because well i know we ended up switching on at tv's all news channels and it was just shocking it was just it's just it's one of those moments because as i said earlier i do remember a going through my mind we are living through history i remember thinking we're living through history here and and we are and it's hard to believe where did those 35 years go so when now with the memory we want to get it into us there's a great video well i say great i

1:40:04spoke because i have an interest in news and in terms of like how it's broken and those moments are breaking news and there is a video um it's about maybe 10 minutes or so long on youtube i'm not sure what it's called with typing like you know breaking news stories it comes up and it goes through a list of some of the most standout moments you know over the years iconic moments you know we'll say when you know princess Diana with the nine-year-old identity yeah and it goes through those and it's fascinating to watch and i suppose in that that's how i kind of would have seen how it broke at the time because i really i really don't remember it and i would have i suppose you have been you know going to school and everyone would have been talking about it but as children would have gone over your heads which is which isn't a bad thing it isn't a bad thing okay so we'll talk about that tomorrow and as you say we very much welcome listener thoughts and comments you want to share and Paul has been out chatting to people on the streets as well uh find out where they were on the day so we will be and we will have Ralph on as well because one

1:41:04third of the of the nearly three thousand two died in the twin terrors they identified as Irish American Ralph has done a really special piece in the Irish independent this week so we'd be chatting to him tomorrow and you're going to have Barbara Scullion i'm really looking forward to your chat with Barbara now Barbara is coming to from Moe she's a writer and author and a broadcaster she's taken over there which comedy scene is the newest and she says this herself possibly the oldest and she knows she's a circus she is yeah so as she had a show called older bolder wiser and now she's a brand new show because i'm worth it and so we're looking forward to having Barbara on and tomorrow we were watching some of her older interviews and during the week and she's very fun she's brilliant yes we're looking forward to hearing from her and the traitor is we have we do you know what i don't think we've mentioned the traitor no we've been very good holding it holding it all for tomorrow yeah i've been out of the series earlier so she'll be joining us and tomorrow as well so we'll be talking about that and so that and a lot more tomorrow would do please get get your stories into us where you were at 25 years ago or maybe you know maybe you're

1:42:05you know like me where you don't yeah you don't have any memories yeah a little bit about it and you can you can email cork today at c103.ie you can send us a text if you want to send a voice note 08 6 2 103 103 and of course our goods have our goods have mariette it got mariette 08 1 8 103 1 0 3 thank you for that mariette and of course in the meantime if you've got a pet question get it in because dr genie will be joining us at next our resident vet 08 1 8 103 103 cork today on c103 and if you've got any pet questions anything gone wrong with any of the little animals in your house you can let us know we've got mariette in your cause 08 1 8 103 1 0 3 text or WhatsApp 08 6 2 103 1 0 3 and to answer all the queries it's dr genie the veterinary osteopath good afternoon to you genie good afternoon and you're very welcome and we

1:43:05start with poric who is on from a crew to say he has a rescue terrier who he describes as a complete sweetheart at home but he said the minute we get go out in a walk and he sees another dog he starts barking he starts really pulling on the lead poric says could you ask dr genie please how do I go about socializing a dog who might have missed out so much on that training as a pop yeah yeah that's definitely a tricky position to be in you know and particularly because when they start barking and pulling you know you can be knocked off your feet quite quickly you can hurt your arm so it's very frustrating you know so the first thing that you would do that I would suggest doing is getting up and walking them when it's quiet where they don't see too many other dogs and where they get a chance to get out of all of that energy and then maybe walk in an area where it's there might be one or two dogs and what you try to do is instead of pulling him back

1:44:06and saying don't do that don't do that you try and steer him away and you teach him that the goal you're trying to teach him is when you see another dog you leave it alone so the difficulty is is that sometimes when we meet people with dogs they run up to them and we want to say hello they want to say hello so what can be a good idea is to try and keep redirecting him in another direction or maybe if he does some tricks ask him to do those tricks instead and it's always a good idea to salute the other person and say hello I'm not ignoring you I'm not being rude I'm just trying to teach him to ignore other dogs and if you walk on kind of the same walk you'll oftentimes you'd meet the same people at the same time or creatures of habit and most definitely when I had the exact same situation with air pop here and what I would do is I'd walk the same loop we'd meet the same dogs and I would say that I'm ignoring them and then we keep saying leave them alone we leave them alone good girl plenty of praise when they leave them alone plenty of reassurance and then

1:45:07you continue on the walk it takes time a lot of time and a lot of patience but over time they get used to the idea that we just ignore the other dog we don't pull and that definitely goes along way but it's a very much patience is made with the game but never too late to train is what you say it's never too late to get them out of that habit and to teach them good habits exactly it's never ever too late it's just a question of being very patient and accepting it's along a long game okay good luck with that and as she Tony has just been on to say hi my raid and dr. Jeannie my two-year-old Jack Russell cross beagle loves being out in the back garden we live in a state and the garden is warded in but she's gone so reactive barking to any noise out the back it can just be as simple as people talking are walking around outside any suggestion to help to stop it so it's obviously

1:46:08something new that the dog has started doing yeah so if it's something new and if she is getting enough of her normal exercise and if there's beagle in there you know they need time to sniff and to smell things then that would make me suspicious that something has changed for her so what you could sometimes have there is potentially if she has a low grade ear inflammation or potentially and pain someplace what will happen is that the noise isn't being perceived as it's normal routine noise maybe it's coming out of the blue she can't hear background noise kind of like if we had it maybe a white noise machine and then we heard a dog barking on top it would just trigger you and just confuse you and when she's barking she's barking because the noise is kind of oxating her so definitely if it's a new completely new change of behavior and all of her normal routine and environment has stayed the same I will definitely get her checked out and ask the vet to check both her ears and her eyes just to see if it's more of a sensory system issue

1:47:12because she is she is too she is a young that's a reasonably young dog isn't it yeah two is reasonably young and that's kind of why you would be a little bit suspicious that something is going on okay can I check a lot of the dogs and beagles jackwassels they're prone to allergies which is one thing they're also prone to having dry eyes that can really irritate them and just have them be just crunky and adult but in being a beagles they also kind of have kind of long ears and I'd imagine that they're floppy or though this time of year I would not be so surprised if you found grass feeds inside there out and just help the grass is dying and that would really be a reason as to why they'd be so reactive okay all right time was on to say our golden retriever keeps eating grass from the garden sometimes you'll get sick afterwards should we be worried or is this just something very normal in golden retrievers lots of dogs like to

1:48:12eat grass and sometimes they will just do it just for fun but they can do it sometimes if they want to varnish and if they want to get sick though the trouble is is that golden retrievers and labyrinthors they tend to be breeds that eat first think later and so sometimes they're doing it because they have actually eaten something and they want to get sick or oftentimes if they have a low level of something in their tummy maybe like a low grade pancreatitis or sometimes it can be just a low grade and god ladder infection sometimes they will just eat the grass to purge and so the main thing to do there is to check and see the frequency of how often does that happen and because you know it's easy the days blur into each other especially this time year so I would just keep a little record and if they're always going to the same patch of grass and it's only you know when they come back from a certain area then it might just sort of be a habit that they enjoy but if you're finding that it's happening too frequently or if you're finding that it's happening maybe was a day after a family day or the day after you go to the beach well then you might be more

1:49:16suspicious that there's something in there that they're trying to get rid of and you could kind of revise it as time goes by okay and finally advise for listener to say that just this morning they found a tick on their dog it was after a walk in the woods we were able to successfully remove it but now I'm pondering do we need to bring it to a vet or will we just keep an eye on him and so ticks are really common and in our end and what happens is that they go up on grass and they sit there and then when our cats walk past or indeed when we walk past they jump on so oftentimes if they take just lands and you take it off then their potentially isn't really much consequence to us you know it's just a once-off issue but there's always the potential that if your dog's skin because it's not sterile when the tick bites into us and what can happen is that the bacteria on the skin get pushed into the skin and into the bloodstream so you can get a local reaction or sometimes they can get a temperature and that's known as tick byemia so what you would

1:50:19it's a good idea to do is to clip the area where the tick bit cleanish maybe with just some salty water and check it every kind of six hours just to make sure that they're not getting a rash they're not getting swelling it's not getting sore and then I will keep a very very close eye to see if you can find any other ticks because oftentimes the tick that we see is actually quite big and that means that it's been there and it's been drinking for a couple of days and if it's been there and drinking for a couple of days it's a possibility that it might have spread lines disease and if that's the case then you can most certainly do testing for it in time if you need to but I would also make the point and the HSC has done a campaign on this recently is that if you have ticks in your patch it's a good idea for you to check your own and skin because it's possible if you were in the same place where your pet was you wash up bit bit and two and if you do find the tick and it's a big tick or even if it's only a small tick you can put it into a jar or a plastic bag and bring it to any veterinary clinic and they can

1:51:23post it to the lab and test that tick if it has lines disease because why lines disease in our dogs it doesn't tend to be as severe and it tends to be a lot less aggressive for Austin people quite a serious debilitating disease so if you know you might have been bitten by a tick where there's a reasonable chance you can always then speak to your GP and if the infectious risk is high then you can actually start on treatment early and then kind of skip out the more debilitating side of lines disease. Yeah I've interviewed people who have already my goodness their lines have been turned upside down and because of a little bite from a tick that went on to lead to lines disease okay listen we leave it there thank you for that have a lovely week and which are too next so thanks to million that is the lovely doctor a genie who is a veterinary ask to your class for our leave you for today my thanks to a married two week for producing and we'll talk to you tomorrow for the final one of the week and 10.