On Friday’s Afternoon Show it was time to discuss the main news stories of the week with the Friday Panel. Cormac O’Sullivan from DNG O’Sullivan Hurley, Actor Eleanor Feely and Donal O Loinsigh from An Clar as Gaeilge joined Máire in studio to chat about the week’s events. They talked about the State visit to the U.K. by President Michael D Higgins, which formally got underway on Tuesday. He's described the visit as "emotional" and says he hopes it'll bring the two nations "ever more closer". The visit got underway when the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall meet President and Mrs Higgins at the Irish Embassy. They travelled to Windsor for a ceremonial welcome by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip where the streets were lined with Irish tricolours and union flags. That afternoon he addressed a joint session of Parliament, before returning to Windsor and the State Banquet where he addressed the gathering, along with Queen Elizabeth. Among the guests was An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
The panel also discussed a report, which was launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – regarding a new two year campaign on managing Workplace Stress. Research undertaken last year indicated that job re-organisation or insecurity was the leading perceived cause of workplace stress for Irish workers (76%) while workload was seen as the next most common cause (73%). The majority of workers interviewed (55%) believed that cases of workplace stress were rare or fairly rare in their particular workplace with 13% believing they were very common. 66% of workers felt that control of workplace stress was handled either fairly or very well in their own workplace.
Lisa Lawlor from Clare FM Sport also joined the show ahead of tonight’s Sideline View.
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