Today on Morning Focus our Monthly Book Club returned, with Peter Downes and Cora Gunter of Clare County Library reviewing The Middle Place, by Kealan Ryan.
The book tells the story of a character called Chris who dies suddenly from being punched. He’s stuck in this middle place with the ability to delve into the individual lives he cares about – to know what they are feeling and thinking. He is beginning to realise that in life he wasn’t such a great guy. In death, he can’t say goodbye to his wife, toddler son and friends. He is determined to figure out how to haunt the person who killed him. Chris wants to rise again, to live again. He wants to feel his wife again, feel the air in his lungs, feel the sea again but something won’t let him go.
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Before that, on the show, we were joined on the line by Jim Madden, former FAI Junior Council Delegate as financial problems at the FAI have been highlighted throughout the year with the CSSL being one of the many leagues left short by the Abbotstown administration. Question marks of the CSSL’s finances were raised by delegates who attended last week’s General Meeting in Treacy’s West County Hotel.
Next on the show, Eugene Drennan, Managing Director of Spa Transport, Ennis, joined us in studio to discuss how security is needed to be increased to avoid hundreds of stowaway migrants coming into Ireland next year on trailers and in containers. Eugene is a council member of the Irish Road Hauliers Association and made the point that heightened security is needed to protect the drivers and the goods they are transporting.
Next on the show, Dermot Fetton of Henry’s Bistro and Wine Bar, The Market, Ennis joined us on the line to discuss how Storm Atiyah affected local trade over the weekend.
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Next, Bernard Purcell, Editor of Irish World in London joined Gavin on the line to discuss the upcoming UK elections.
Sergeant Tríona O’Rourke joined us in studio for this week’s Garda Focus also.
Next, Bernard Carey, forester and owner of plant nursery in Mountshannon, joined us in studio as he is set to be a speaker at a Burrenbeo Tea Talk, entitled ‘Scots Pine in the Burren – has it always been there?’ Scots pine was one of the first trees to arrive in the Burren after the last glaciation and has been widely planted over the last 300 years and once again makes an important contribution to our landscape. How could such a dominant tree species have gone extinct while others have not? Could some Scots pine trees have survived the last 2,000 years in isolated locations? How could such survivors be detected in the landscape today? These questions will be addressed by reviewing the history and prehistory of Scots pine in Ireland at the Burrenbeo Tea Talk on the 11th of December.
To finish Morning Focus Clare FM’s Darren Kelly joined Gavin in studio to chat the latest action locally and nationally in sport!
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