On Monday’s Afternoon Show Máire spoke to Margaret Desmond, a Research Specialist with the Environmental Protection Agency to talk about how the agency has released the findings of five EPA research projects on climate change in Ireland. The projects have examined the impacts of climate change, look at our vulnerabilities and set out possible actions to manage its effects. The reports show that climate change is having an impact in Ireland and this impact will increase over coming decades.
Cormac O’Sullivan of DNG O’Sullivan Hurley in Ennis also joined the show to celebrate the news that the Ennis branch has won an award – a national Gold award from the Irish Independent. They were judged on marketing, customer service and client relationship management.
Philip Moreau, our Gardening Expert and Horticulturist from Glenbrook Nurseries in Tuamgraney answered all of your gardening and growing questions. Get your queries in to afternoon@clare.fm
Jakub Kacprzak is the chief organiser of the first ever Polish Festival in Ennis. He joined Máire in studio to talk about how the festival got off the ground and what’s in store for people. The three-week long Festival will take place at the Clare Museum in Ennis from 20th September to 12th October and is being targeted at the region’s significant Polish population. There are more than 2500 Polish people living in County Clare with an estimated 19,000 other Poles living in the surrounding counties of Galway, Limerick and Tipperary. Amongst the free public events being hosted at the Clare Museum will be lectures on Poland’s World War Two experience, Polish film screenings, an exhibition of Polish modern art, and a lecture by a Polish descendant of two Clare men who were shipwrecked in the Baltic Sea coast during the 17th century.
Ruarri Joseph is a singer song writer from Scotland originally but who has spent much of his life living in New Zealand and Cornwall. He joined Máire in studio for a chat and a song as he’s on his first ever tour of Ireland. His new album, his fourth, is called “Brother”. For more details of Ruarri’s Irish tour please visit http://ruarrijoseph.co.uk
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