On today’s edition of The Afternoon Show Gavin Grace spoke about the first day of the State Examinations with Louise Holden, Education Correspondent with The Irish Times. More than 114-thousand from both cycles have now completed English Paper One – while just over 2-thousand sat English and Communications for the Leaving Cert Applied. Over 4000 examiners will be involved in correcting 3 million test papers following the 13 days of exams across 90 subjects.
Kevin Kiersey is the National Dairy Committee Chairman with the Irish Farmers Association. He spoke to Gavin about the IFA’s views on the latest regulations that will alter the advertising of foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar during children’s television programmes. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has issued new rules, which will also restrict the volume of advertising of these foods during general programming after 6pm. Despite restrictions on cheese advertising being included in the draft code – there are to be no restrictions under the final code although there will be an on-screen message. The new rules will come into force on September 2nd. The IFA has strongly welcomed the decision to exempt cheese from the new rules for TV advertising, saying it represented a victory for common sense.
Cillian Flynn is the Press Director of the Limerick 2018 Gay Games Bid. He spoke to Gavin following the news that Limerick’s bid to host the games has progressed to the next stage. Limerick along with London & Paris has been selected as finalists in the race to host the world’s largest sport and culture festival open to all – the 2018 Gay Games. The 3 cities were short listed from a list of 5, which also included Amsterdam & Orlando. If successful in the process the 2018 Gay Games will attract in excess of 10,000 participants and approximately 15,000 spectators to Limerick and the Shannon Region in August of 2018.
Aidan Courtney of The Ennis Book Shop joined Gavin for his weekly book review. Today he discussed two photography books – The Great Blasket or An Blascaoid Mor by Daithi de Mordha and Micheal de Mordha. It’s a bilingual book featuring stunning landscapes and also Carsten Krieger’s Ireland’s Coasts. Carsten is based in Kilrush.
Congella McGuire, Heritage Officer with Clare County Council was in studio to let listeners and those interested in our local heritage know about a brand new tool to help you explore East Clare."The Lough Derg Heritage Trail” is an app that gives you detailed routes around Lough Derg (on the Shannon). The app has detailed descriptions of all the points of interest along the way and an ability to listen to a guided tour and browse great photographs of the area. There is an accompanying booklet with detailed information and a map on over 90 heritage sites around the lake as well as 3 audio DVDs. The booklet is available from cmcguire@clarecoco.ie.
Gerry Cully is the Fundraising Manager at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin and spoke about how the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation (the fundraising side of the hospital) are embarking on a fundraising campaign at present and are hoping the people of Clare will get behind them. To find out more please visit www.cmrf.org or contact the foundation on locall 1890 507 508.
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