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Morning Focus – Thursday September 15th 2016

A fresh investigation's to be held into NAMA's sale of its loans in the North.

Ministers were concerned after seeing a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General.

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It says the loss to the Irish taxpayer was about 190 million pounds sterling.

Mick Clifford from the Irish Examiner spoke Gavin about it.

 

A new checkpoint concept, which could halve the time spent in security by millions of passengers at airports around the world, is being trialled at Shannon Airport.

Shannon is the first airport in the world to trial the new pre-clearance checkpoint, which was developed as part of the EU funded XP-DITE project.

The new approach being pioneered at Shannon – Europe’s first US pre-clearance airport – combines the European and US Pre-clearance checkpoints, replacing the two separate checkpoints which are used at present with just one. The Shannon trial will show how a checkpoint can be designed to comply with two different sets of regulations (EU and the US TSA systems).

This combined checkpoint is the first of its kind in the world and has been designed to improve customer experience. Passengers flying to the US will no longer have to queue up twice for separate security checks.

Operations Manager at Shannon Airport, Niall Maloney explained to Gavin how this new screening system will work and the benefits to travellers through the airport.

 

An Irish man arrested in connection with the murder of Gary Hutch is due before the courts in Spain.

The Dubliner was detained in a joint European crackdown on organised crime between the two countries yesterday.

Cash, documents and a yacht have been seized in the massive operation.

The killing of Gary Hutch in Marbella – this time last year – is seen as fuelling a series of deaths – in all ten people have died amid the Kinahan Hutch feud.

Gavin spoke to Cathal McMahon from Independent.ie about the co-operation between the two countries in this operation.

 

In our Medical Matters slot, Dr Maire Finn was in studio and this week she spoke about contraception.

 

'Paddy' tells the story of emigration in all its shapes and forms. The two-hour production tells the story of a young Irish emigrant called Patrick Murphy (played by Tommy Fleming) who leaves Mayo in the 1960’s in search of fame and fortune. The show follows his life in both London city and Ireland over a 25 year period.

He performs two nights at the Lime Tree Theatre on 16th and 17th September.

Gavin spoke to Tommy about the musical and his appearance in the Lime Tree Theatre.

 

Also on the show Gavin got his fortune told by Psychic Pam.

 

Morning Focus paid a visit to Cahercalla Hospice as their annual Coffee Morning was underway.

Gavin spoke to Mary Maloney who is the Fundraising Manager and she explained how much these coffee morning throughout the county mean to Cahercalla and she paid tribute to all those who get involved.

Claire Welford is the General Manager at Cahercalla Hospice and she spoke of the challenges of running the service and the increasing costs.

Gavin spoke to John O'Halloran from Ruan who's wife Patricia passed away recently and also to Lourda McKeown who's mother Jane passed away too and who were very involved with Cahercalla.

Geraldine Cummins is a volunteer with Cahercalla and she told Gavin about how she got involved.

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