Today’s Afternoon Show featured The Friday Panel. Joining Máire Moynahan in studio was Mark Dunphy of Dunphy PR, Connolly, Paul Madden from The Templegate Hotel, Ennis and Mary O’Donoghue from the West Clare Family Resource Centre, Kilrush. The panel talked about how the finance minister says the decision not to take a second bailout means Ireland is getting its freedom back. Michael Noonan met his Eurozone counterparts to tell them Ireland won’t be asking for a financial backstop as it leaves the bailout. The minister says Ireland should make its exit now while economic conditions are good in the Eurozone. They also talked about today’s news that Britain’s Princess Anne has sparked controversy by suggesting we should rear horses for meat. She says it would help to increase their value and possibly cut the number of horses suffering from neglect. They also turned their attention to matters of sport as Ireland play Latvia on tonight – the Irish squads first game with Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane at the helm – and the County Football final takes place on Saturday with Doonbeg V Cratloe – the winners will face Waterford team Ballinacourty just a day later in the Munster Semi Final on Sunday!
Stylist Tess Purcell gave us style advice ahead of Christmas party season and looked at cosmetics and skincare options for the change of season. We also heard more than we bargained for from the Dainty Daisy’s Pageant, which is on this Saturday night in the Auburn Lodge. Clare FM’s Stephen McDermott is one of the contestants who are hoping to raise awareness of the services of Rape Crisis Mid West in Clare. Ahead of the pageant he had a lot of preening and primping to do so he paid a visit to Sinead Waters at Powder Puff Beauty Salon in Ennis for a spot of waxing!
Author of “The Spinning Heart” and “The Thing About December” – Donal Ryan also joined the show and spoke to Máire about how his literary career has taken off. Donal, a native of north Tipperary, lives in Castletroy and works in Clare. He is among just three Irish authors in the running for the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. He is long listed alongside Colm Tóibín and David Park, among 152 titles proposed by libraries worldwide for the biggest literary prize in the world. Ryan has just published his second work, The Thing about December, following on from the success of his first work, The Spinning Heart, which made the Booker prize longlist, following 47 rejections by publishers.
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