On The Afternoon Show this Thursday, Máire Moynahan was joined by Aoife Griffin, the Regional Manager for the West with the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to talk about beauty pageants and the groups view that they are leading to the premature sexualisation of children. The ISPCC is also welcoming a ban in France on such beauty pageants. The French parliament has voted to ban beauty pageants for children under the age of 16 in an attempt to protect children’s rights. The strong stance by the French government means that anyone entering a child into a pageant could face up to two years in prison and 30,000 euro in fines. The ISPCC is calling for a similar ban in Ireland to protect children from what it says is another example of the early sexualisation of children. It comes as a US beauty pageant is to be hosted in Dublin this weekend.
Pauline Dunleavy from Kilrush RNLI also spoke to Máire about how the volunteer crew in Kilrush has been kept very busy in recent days. On Tuesday the RNLI crew at Kilrush lifeboat station were called to seek a boat that lost its moorings in Glin, Co. Limerick. While on the previous Sunday they were also called out to a boat in trouble off Labasheeda. The RNLI Charity provides a 24 hour search and rescue service and is independent of the Coastguard – therefore it’s dependent on voluntary donations to maintain services.
Paul “Calso” Callaghan, Chef, Food Blogger and Writer was also in studio to answer all your baking and cookery questions and gave us tips and advice on recipes. Today he gave us advice on perfecting your apple or rhubarb crumble and gave us a tasty recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Please view thesustainablelarder.blogspot.com for more recipes and advice. The ingredients you need for his cookies are; 150g of softened salted butter, 80g of light brown sugar, 80g of granulated sugar, 2 tsps of vanilla essence, 1 large egg, 225g of plain flour. Half a tsp of bicarbonate of soda, a quarter tsp of salt and 200g of chocolate chips. Pre heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius, beat sugar and butter together, add beaten egg and vanilla, then sieve in the flour, soda and salt. Mix all together with a wooden spoon and add the chocolate chips. It’s that simple! Bake for 8-10 minutes at 190 degrees celsius and enjoy!
Catriona Lowry also joined the show for a look at what’s worth watching at the cinema, on tv and will have updates on some of the showbiz news making headlines. Today she discussed a new film – a biopic on the late Princess Diana, “ Diana” features Naomi Watts and she also reviewed Despicable Me 2
Laura Foley from The Long Way Round guided walks in Carrigaholt discussed Seafood in September, a weekend of celebrating seafood takes place in Loop Head and Carrigaholt this weekend, with artisan food, craft fair, guided walks, dolphin watch trips, cooking demos sea angling and more. Check out loophead.ie for more details
To contact the show please email afternoon@clare.fm
