On The Afternoon Show Maire was joined by Frances Stephenson, an Elder Mediator with Later Life Mediation, a group that works with families where there can be conflicting issues around the care of an ageing parent, sibling rivalries, issues with blended families, financial issues and so on. Often the voice of the older person goes unheard. Later Life mediation aims to ensure their voice is heard and to help all family members involved. Ageing in Families is a workshop devised by the group, which is aimed at the adult children of ageing parents – it runs in Galway on Wednesday Nov 6th in the Connacht Hotel in Renmore – 10 to 4. See laterlifemediation.com or email frances@laterlifemediation.com
Mary Dillon also joined the show to tell us about how the Europe Direct Centre at Ballinasloe Library are organizing their annual soapbox competition and are calling for entries over the next 2 weeks from people in Clare. Two categories are open for entry – adults and under 18 year olds. This year’s event will again take place in the Westside Library in Galway City on Friday 15th November at 8pm. “Citizens are at the Heart of the EU” is the topic of discussion in this year’s competition and entrants may speak for 3 minutes and can either agree or disagree with the subject!
Irish Seed Savers are an association based in Capparoe in Scarriff – they were set up to protect, conserve and utilise rare heritage seed, grains, vegetables and fruit. Along with having an extensive area of beautifully landscaped seed gardens and orchards, they also hold numerous workshops from orchard maintenance to cider making. They also hold education programmes for schools to teach children on how to grow their own food. Clare FM’s Denise Woods went to the Irish Seed Savers Association to find out more about what they do. If you are interested in visiting the Irish seed savers association, they are open to the public Tuesday to Saturday from 9.30 to 4.30 or you can check them out on their website: www.irishseedsavers.ie
Dr. Maureen Gaffney, Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Society at University College Dublin joined the show to talk about how one act of kindness can have a huge knock on effect on us and those we help. Electric Ireland Powering Kindness is back and according to recent research kindness is key to happiness in society as 79% of Irish people who performed an act of kindness felt happier as a result: Older Irish women rank as the kindest category (67%) with young Irish men ranking the least kind (7%). People are most likely to be kinder to older Irish women (66%) and less likely to be kind to young Irish men (5%) Over half (54%) of those surveyed had received an act of kindness in the last month. Taking place until Friday November 8th, Electric Ireland Powering Kindness Week will see the small acts of kindness undertaken by the Irish public transformed into a donation of €100,000 for three Irish charities, Childline, Special Olympics Ireland and Breakthrough Cancer Research. Once a good deed is completed, it simply needs to be logged through the Electric Ireland Powering Kindness website (poweringkindness.ie), by text message, through the Facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/poweringkindness) or through Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #poweringkindness and tagging the selected charity.
Comedian and Performer Ger Carey also joined Máire on the show ahead of his show in Glor tomorrow. Observations From A Hedge is Ger’s hilarious new stand-up comedy show for transition year students. By observing his subjects in their natural habitat, such as leaning on lampposts, in chippers, outside chippers, in shopping centres and sitting on any kind of steps, Ger has uncovered the weird and frightening world of the teenager! Observations From A Hedge is on in Glór here in Ennis tomorrow, Tuesday 5th November from 11:20am to 13:20pm
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