Today on Morning Focus, we talked sport, as Ladies dual players face a tough choice, ahead of this busy weekend for Clare’s senior GAA sides.
There’s a choice of codes to make as the Clare Camogie have a trip to Kilkenny to take on the Cats on Sunday afternoon, while at the same time the Ladies Footballers welcome Meath to Clare in the fourth round of the league. It means that members of the teams that play in both codes have a decision between the small and the big ball. The managers of the sides have joined together in voicing their frustration that their players are, again, being put in this position. Ger O’Connell, Clare Camogie manager and James Murrihy, Clare Ladies Football manager joined us on air.
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To start Morning Focus, we were joined on air by Phelim O’Neill, Markets Intelligence Specialist, Irish Farmers Journal and Eddie Punch, Cratloe farmer & General Secretary, ICSA to discuss EU grants for farmers. Farming organisations are warning that EU grants could be cut if a proposed change to the Common Agricultural Policy spending is approved Heads of state are set to meet in Brussels this week to agree on the EU’s budget for the next seven years. The total bill for farm grants is set to rise — but countries would be allowed to divert the money to other rural developments in future.
Next on the show, we heard from Chief Superintendent Seán Colleran as figures from the Clare Garda Division covering all of 2019 have now been released and show that overall, crime detections in this county are on a downward trend. All major theft offences are down, as are the likes of road offences and public order incidents. However, sexual crimes and drugs offences are rising – something that Gardaí locally have said is down to increased faith in their services, as opposed to any particular spike in these incidents. Chief Superintendent Seán Colleran spoke with Clare FM’s James Mulhall following yesterday’s Joint Policing Committee meeting to analyse how this county is performing.
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After the 10am News we were joined in studio by Garry and Jessica Winters, a father and daughter who share an LIT lecture hall. The decision to return to education can be a difficult one for mature students – but one Shannon man who did just that found himself in a rather unusual situation. Garry Winters is a third-year student of Industrial Automation and Robotics in LIT and now finds himself studying the same course as his daughter, Jessica. She’s a first-year student at the Moylish campus and followed her father into the course after hearing him talking about it and working in EI in Shannon when she finished secondary school.
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Next, Peadar King, presenter/producer of the What in the World? joined us in studio following the publication of his new book, ‘War, Suffering and the Struggle for Human Rights’. King from Kilkee describes the root causes of ongoing conflicts in thirteen countries and argues that these wars are not inevitable, they don’t just happen: they are the result of colonial misrule, corporate greed, corruption, the military-industrial complex and big country power struggles.
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To wrap up Morning Focus, we were joined in studio by Clare County Dog Warden, Frankie Coote for an Animal Welfare Update.
