🏪 Rising Costs Threaten Small Local Shops: Local listener Pauric contacts the show to share his deep concern over the future of independent village stores. He outlines how skyrocketing operational costs combined with shrinking profit margins are pushing small local shopkeepers to the brink. 🚘 Calls for “Boots on the Ground” Road Policing: Former Garda Sergeant Christie Galligan reflects on Ireland’s worsening road fatality statistics. Brendan discusses his lifelong connection to Donegal, his work within the diaspora community, and what receiving the honour means to him. Ciara discusses how such tactics perpetuate victim-blaming culture and calls for urgent reform in how sexual violence cases are prosecuted.