On The Afternoon Show today máire spoke with Rita Melia from Early Childhood Ireland as over 40,000 children nationwide looking forward to wearing their favourite pyjamas into preschool and crèche on National Pyjama Day on Friday 7th March, in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) Hospice Home Care for Children Programme. According to organisers Early Childhood Ireland, National Pyjama Day is one of the biggest annual fundraisers in the Irish calendar, having already raised €700,000 for the IHF and almost €2 million over the life of the programme. The money raised by National Pyjama Day for the IHF fund a network of five Children’s Outreach Nurses nationwide who support families of seriously ill children to organise the best quality care for their child at home. Monies raised also enables IHF to continue to fund Ireland’s first Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in Paediatric Palliative Care. Over 500 kids in Clare have signed up to take part and 17 childcare services.
Aidan Courtney from the Ennis Book Shop reviewed two adult fiction titles – The Boat by Clara Salamon and Special Delivery by Claire Dowling.
While Kelly Kirkpatrick from Mathletes also joined the show to tell us all about the competition and how Clare students are doing very well in it. Over 1000 students and 200 teachers are now registered to compete in the maths competition, which has captured the imagination of the nation’s students (a weekly increase of almost 50%). MATHletes will see students in each county competing online and face to face in county and provincial finals, with top scorers advancing to the national finals, which are scheduled to take place in early May. Students can register at mathletes.ie or find out more about MATHletes on Twitter @MATHletes_ie or go to the MATHletes Challenge Facebook page. Quinn Painter, a sixth class student from Clondrinagh National School is Clare’s current Mathletes leader.
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