On The Afternoon Show today Gavin Grace spoke with Religious Affairs Correspondent with The Irish Times Patsy McGarry about how the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin wants parents to stop extravagant spending on their children’s first holy communion. The Dublin Archdiocese has launched a new policy aimed at cutting costs, and simplifying first Holy Communion day. The policy also means parents will have to attend a number of Sunday masses before their children can receive the sacrament. While Clare FM’s Máire Moynahan spoke to people in Ennis about their views on Holy Communion – Is it too expensive? And should we go back to basics?
Gavin also spoke with a Clare FM listener – Maura in Quin, who had just received a phonecall from, what she rightly guessed was, a scam operation. They told her she had a problem on her computer and to fix it she would need to give them her credit card details. Maura contacted Gavin to warn others of the problem. To discuss the frequency of this particular issue Aoife Murphy of the National Consumer Agency explained how the agency received more than 800 queries relating to scams over the past twelve months. More than 40 per cent of those related to incidents of attempted PC phishing, where the victim’s contacted by someone claiming to represent a company highlighting a problem with their computer and asking for credit card details. Text message scams claiming the recipient has won something are also becoming more popular.
Tomi Reichental, Author and Holocaust Survivor also joined Gavin in studio today. Tomi met with up to 100 Leaving Cert students from schools in Ennis at de Valera Library today for a talk. His book “I Was a Boy in Belsen” tells the story of his life from the age of nine years old when he was rounded up along with members of his family in a shop in Bratislava and taken by cattle wagon to a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in 1944. Altogether 35 members of his family died in the Holocaust. He survived along with his mother, brother, aunt and cousin. Living in Dublin since 1959 and one of only three Holocaust survivors in Ireland, he travels the country giving talks on his unimaginable wartime boyhood experiences to Senior Students and adults.
Paul Calso Callaghan, Food Blogger and Chef who’s based in Clarecastle also joined The Afternoon Show to talk about how he will complete 16 marathons in just 12 days in a bid to raise as much money as possible for Aware. He discussed his motivations for taking up this particular challenge, why he chose Aware and about his gruelling training regime! To support Paul you can check out his charity page – www.mycharity.ie/event/calsocooksontherun/
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