On Wednesday’s Morning Focus John Cooke spoke with Clonmoney man Mike Fitzpatrick
Mike is a world renowned academic and curator and Head of the School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology
In recent weeks he has been appointed Interim Head of Limerick City of Culture
Mike took over the City of Culture festival following the resignations of chief executive, Patricia Ryan, and artistic director Karl Wallace
He spoke passionately about this opportunity for the Midwest to shine on a national and international stage.
Today there will be a vigil outside Dail Eireann from 1-1.45pm to mark Margaretta D’Arcy’s first week in prison
Sabine Higgins, the wife of President Michael D. Higgins, visited jailed peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy for two and a half hours in Limerick Prison and on Monday her son Finn Arden and peace activists Ed Horgan and Niall Farrell visited her
Margaretta made it clear her continued opposition to the use of Shannon Airport by US troops
John spoke with Niall Farrell of the Galway Alliance Against War to get his views.
Caranua is a new independent state agency tasked to implement a support funding scheme for survivors of institutional abuse
The agency is committed to getting the information to the approximately 15,000 survivors who can benefit from this scheme
Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua, spoke with John and urged people to contact them
Call Caranua on 1800 212 477 from Ireland or 0808 234 1303 from the UK.
Hilary Brandt is a reknowned travel writer from the UK and Author of Bradt Travel Guides
Her first book about journeying in Ireland ‘Connemara Mollie’ charted her experiences travelling around the West of Ireland on horseback and included many experiences in County Clare in 1984
She has recently released ‘Dingle Peggy’ – the follow on- in which Hilary winds through the South West
Hilary recently visited Clare again and met Morning Focus Producer Niamh McNamara to speak about her fantastic adventures in Clare with Mollie…
Managing Director of LEAP Mike Gaffney spoke ahead of a free seminar on "How to Grow Your Business" which is being held in Shannon (hosted by Management Works in association with Shannon Chamber) this Friday morning
The seminar would be extremely beneficial to business owners and management of businesses of all sizes and will introduce them to future SME, an innovative programme, which is heavily subsidised by government initiative Management Works
For more information or to book your place see www.shannonchamber.ie or call 061 708 341.
Paul Wolfe of the Clare Citizens’ Information Service joined John in studio to answer listeners’ queries
Contact 0761 07 5260 for more information.
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