Joining Máire on The Afternoon Show today was Anne Rynne and Pat O’Dwyer from the West Clare Taking Care group in Miltown Malbay. The group, who have been in operation for the last 18 months, are holding a “conversation” night in the Armada in Spanish Point on the issue of mental health and suicide. Find Your Inner Strength – a personal story with Margaret O’Connor and Mindfulness and Meditation with Bob Vernon. There will be music and song also at the Armada on Thursday December 5th at 8pm. All are urged to attend.
Natalie El Baba is an Artist based in East Clare. Her exhibition "Collective Belonging" reflects on immigration and the community. It opened on the 30th of November at Scarriff Library. The work reflects on how people migrate into, and inform the locality they settle in, becoming part of the identity of the wider community. It includes a series of oil portraits of women who have set down their roots in East Clare. Clare FM’s Denise Woods visited the Artist in her studio to speak about her work, which is featured in the exhibition.
Sonja O’Brien is based in Kilfenora and is the Author of “What to do and not to do in the Burren” – a new book that encourages young people to keep the Burren clean and sustainable. The book is being used by students of Mary Immaculate Secondary School Lisdoonvarna to rollout an innovative environmental project. The book will be launched in the Barn at Vaughan’s Pub Kilfenora at 4.30pm this Sunday (8th December). The publication is described as a Children’s Eco Picture Book and features original illustrations promoting environmental messages through animals. Dr. Eamon Doyle, Geologist at the Burren & Cliffs of Moher Geopark also spoke about the importance of education when it comes to capturing the key messages about how we can better protect the environment of the Burren. It will form the basis for an excellent project involving Transition Year Students who will visit local primary schools to teach the younger children about littering and groundwater protection in the Burren. Ahead of the launch of the new book, the Burren Ecotourism Network will be hosting a community clean-up in Kilfenora village this Sunday. Anyone wishing to participate is asked to meet outside Kilfenora Centre at 2pm.
Don Murphy from Sixmilebridge also had a word on the show as a special Christmas Market is being held in the Mart in Sixmilebridge tomorrow – all funds raised will be donated to Cahercalla Hospice. It starts from 5pm and runs until 9pm. See facebook.com/SixmilebridgeChristmasMarket
To contact the show please email afternoon@clare.fm
