A public meeting and rally to highlight education cuts facing Clare primary schools is taking place this Monday in the West County Hotel at 8pm
On Wednesday’s Morning Focus John Cooke spoke with Mullagh N.S. Principal and Clare INTO representative Sean McMahon to voice the general concerns of Clare parents and teachers
Principal Knockerra National School Brid Finnegan spoke about the threat of amalgamation and Martina McCarthy, Parent Spokesperson from Liscannor National School also voiced her concerns
The Gay Lesbian Equality Network yesterday published figures on the lesbian and gay couples who entered Civil Partnerships in Ireland in 2011
536 couples entered civil partnership in Ireland in the nine months from April 5th 2011, when civil partnership first became available
The 1072 people entering an Irish Civil Partnership came from Ireland and 58 other countries throughout the world, including the UK, Brazil, the United States Poland and the Philippines.
couples entering civil partnership live in every one of the 26 counties in Ireland
People of all ages entered civil partnerships: most were aged between 41 and 50, followed by those aged between 31 and 40. 5 people were aged between 18 and 20 and 8 people were over 70 years of age.
Civil partnerships took place in 25 of the 26 counties in Ireland – all except Co. Clare
There have been calls for a facility in Ennis or elsewhere in the county where civil partnerships can take place as currently, couples are forced to travel to the registry office in Limerick to exchange their vows and register their unions.
Currently Clare people are using the Civil Registration Service, St Camillus’ Hospital, Shelbourne Road, Limerick
Brian Sheehan is the Director of GLEN, he had a word with John.
www.clarevirtually.ie is a new Clare tourism promotion website that allows people to get virtual tours of accommodation and gets a Cead Mile Failte from the owner or manager – then it allows you to book the accommodation if you’re interested
Yesterday the founder Eoin O’Hagan who lives in Scarrif met with Minister of State in the department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring TD – this meeting was facilitated by Deputy Michael McNamara
The website was launched at the end of August 2011
Eoin explained the website and the outcome of the meeting.
John McLoughlin from Ennis suffers with Type II Diabetes
He found out he had diabetes in 2006 – he is also part of the local support group
Diabetes Ireland are running a new campaign to highlight the dangers of Type 2 Diabetes
Suitably for this time of year the campaign is called ‘Act Now’. Diabetes Ireland are urging people to know the symptoms and risk factors associated with this type of diabetes as non-diagnosis can seriously affect your health and your future quality of life
The number of people with diabetes in Ireland is growing rapidly. At present there are an estimated 191,000 people with the condition with approximately 30,000 of these undiagnosed. Knowing the symptoms and risk factors for diabetes is important as non-diagnosis can seriously affect your quality of life. Undiagnosed or poorly controlled diabetes can cause damage
John joined John Cooke in studio to speak about how he manages diabetes. An education programme will take place in Shannon in the coming weeks- for more information contact 071 9146001
Contact the Clare branch on 087 641 5747.
Diabetes Helpline: 1850 909 909
Elaine Newell, a Diabetes Nurse Specialist in the West of Ireland explained how Diabetes Ireland who can help listeners to understand how to both prevent and manage the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Clare Roots Society will host a talk entitled Murderers, Rebels and Drunkards: Your ancestors and the law at the Civic Rooms, Drumbiggle tomorrow at 8 pm
Brian Donovan, Director of Eneclann-an award-winning history and heritage company, based in the Trinity Technology and Enterprise Centre, Dublin, is giving the talk tonight
He spoke with John to give listeners a preview of his talk
Founded in 1998, they offer Irish genealogy and history research services to individual and corporate clients in Ireland and worldwide; digitization, archives and records management consultancy to private and public sector organizations.
Today a public seminar entitled European Economic Policy – What’s in it for Ireland? will be held at Limerick Institute of Technology
This event will feature presentations from former President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox; UCC Economics Lecturer, Seamus Coffey; and resident adviser on Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission, Nigel Nagarajan
The panel will aim to shed light on the economic situation at this crucial time for Ireland, the euro and the European Union as a whole
Ruth Deasy, Head of Press at the European Commission Representation in Ireland explained the aim of today’s seminar.
Contact Jenny on 01 662 5815 or email events@europeanmovem
Paul Wolfe of the Clare Citizens’ Information Service joined John in studio to answer listeners’ social welfare, consumer and employment law queries.
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