Today on Morning Focus we welcomed the second in our series of General Election Debates as another 5 of the 15 Candidates joined us in studio.
Today the candidates that joined us in studio were, Joe Carey, Fine Gael, Michael Leahy, Irish Freedom Party, Rita McInerney, Fianna Fáil, Theresa O’Donohue, People Before Profit and Joseph Woulfe, Independent.
The Election candidates will square off in a series of cross-party groupings, chosen by Clare FM, before coming together once again next week for our People’s Forum Debate.
This week’s debates are designed to give you the listener, an opportunity to hear the candidate’s views on the issues that matter the most to you, as you prepare to cast your vote on February 8th.
In a moment, we’ll discuss some of the most import issues on the doorsteps, but before that, we invite each of the five candidates in studio this morning to outline their own policies; why they’re running in this election and why they think you should vote for them. Each Candidate had a maximum of 60 seconds.
Each candidate was informed in advance of the topics we discussed but they had not been given the questions. Both the topics and questions have been chosen by Clare FM, and are an attempt to reflect some of the most important issues facing voters here in Clare. If there are any topics you’d like us to raise in next week’s People’s Forum, email them please, for our consideration, to [email protected] or you can write to us at Clare FM, Francis Street, Ennis.
The four topics for the debate today were:
– Housing & Homelessness
– Climate Action
– Pensioners
– Childcare
If you missed it, you can listen back below:
Next on the show, Ger Hannon, Jockey, Edwina O’Brien, Committee Member and Pat Smullen, Ex- Jockey and cancer sufferer, joined us in studio as the Bell harbour Point to Point takes place this weekend. The annual event will see proceeds go to the Pat Smullen Cancer Trials Ireland charity.
If you missed it, you can listen back below:
We heard from John Underhill of Burren Vets next for our Ask The Vet slot.
If you missed it, you can listen back below:
To wrap up today’s show we were joined by Clare County Arts Officer, Siobhán Mulcahy for this weeks Arts Round-up where we found out about events taking place across the county.
