As Clare County Council issued a fresh warning for severe weather and flooding Clare, Morning Focus heard from Tom Tiernan, Senior Engineer with Clare County Council and from Pat Mason of Springfield, Clonlara.
After a bid to improve mobile phone coverage for customers around Clare who raised their concerns with Morning Focus, we revisited the topic. On November 11, Morning Focus was contacted by Mount Callan resident, Helen Rynne about the interference she, her family and neighbours, on the Three phone network, were experiencing. With Helen's permission, we sent her details to Three. We then spoke to some other affected listeners on the same network – these included Anne Fitzgerald who spoke to us from Sixmilebridge as well as John Torpey from the same area.
On December 3, we asked Morning Focus listeners to send us any complaints so that we could forward them to Three. The response was huge. We forwarded details (3-4 A4 pages) of complaints from Three customers all around the county. (*We also sent on details to Vodafone and we're awaiting a response). On December 10, we received a statement from Three Ireland saying they were aware that some customers were experiencing intermittent disruption on voice calls in the Clare area. The statement said that this issue had now been resolved and the company was continuing to monitor traffic to ensure there is no further interference. This morning, we checked in with Three customers Helen Lynne and Anne Fitzgerald to see if things had improved.
With the St Vincent de Paul National Appeal underway, Gavin spoke to John Cullinane of St Vincent de Paul in Clare.
Gavin also heard from Alderman Edward M. Burke, from Chicago, who is looking for his Irish roots.
Morning Focus looked at the Light up a Memory for Milford Hospice event and spoke with hospice CEO, Pat Quinlivan.
Our arts round-up with County Arts Officer, Siobhan Mulchahy, looked at a range of events including Clare Music Makers in the Ennis Friary and an art exhibition by Rehabcare in Shannon.
Our look at weekend events Living crib included the living crib at Carrigoran House, Newmarket-on-Fergus and a special Christmas market at Jones's Supervalu Miltown Malbay.
Our Friday Panel, made up of Claire Burke, Clare Youth Services; Dermot Hayes, Community Activist; and Manuel Di Lucia, businessman from Kilkee looked at the issues of flooding, minimum alcohol pricing, corruption in local politics and other topics.
Clare soprano Karoline O'Sullivan Soprano called to studio to perform 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' ahead of a Candelight Christmas Concert for Cuan an Chlair
