The Health Minister is due to officially launch the new daycare centre at Carrigoran House, Newmarket on Fergus this afternoon during his visit to the county
Minister Reilly will also visit Ennis General, St Joseph’s Hospital, Ennis Family Medical Centre and Clarecastle District Day Care Centre.
On Monday’s Morning Focus John Cooke was joined in studio by Valerie Vaughan, Manager of Daycare at Carrigoran House, who spoke about the facilities now in place for the elderly at Carrigoran.
He also spoke with Mary Morrissey of the Clarecastle District Daycare Centre who spoke about the huge excitement and preparation underway this morning ahead of Minster Reilly’s visit this afternoon when he will officially open the Fergus Wing.
John Kidd, National Chairman of the Irish Fire & Emergency Services Association, was in Shannon on Saturday to brief local public representatives and community groups on the implications of the recently introduced Keeping Communities Safe (KCS) policy for the future of emergency fire services in the country
He had a word with John about a numbers of meetings the IFESA are holding at the request of firefighters in the county who are concerned at the effects on the Clare fire services from the cuts in the KCS policy.
116 applications for care orders of children in Clare were made to the local courts over a one year period
Details of applications made regarding the welfare of children in Clare have been made available as part of the new Child Care Law Reporting Project which aims to provide information to the public on the operation of the child care system
The most recent figures available relate to 2011, and reveal that of 32 care orders made to the district court in Ennis, 18 were granted
35 supervision orders were sought with 25 of them granted, which Ennis District Court also granted 60 Interim Care orders in respect of Clare children
The orders may relate to multiple applications for the same family or the same child, but give an indication of how busy the Child care courts are here in County Clare
John spoke with Dr Carol Coulter of the Child Care Report Law Project
See wwwchildlawreport.ie
Sergeant Joe Downey, Crime Prevention Officer with the Clare Garda Division, joined John in studio to appeal to the public for information on crimes committed in the past week
Contact Ennis Garda Station on 68 48 100.
East Clare entreprenuer Eoin O’Hagan of www.clarevirtually.ie appeared on Dragons’ Den last evening to pitch the tourism promotion website to the five Dragons
The programme has an audience of 500,000 – so Eoin hopes even his appearance on the programme alone will attract people to the website.
See www.clarevirtually.ie
Mary Crawford had a word with John to make a final call to Crawford’s around the world ahead of the Crawford Family Gathering taking place in Spanish Point 30th June – 1st July
Event PRO Christy Killeen also had a word about the get together of all Crawford relations from around the world
Two days of Social, Cultural, History, Genealogy, Music, Dancing, Walks and much more is being planned.
John Murphy, Chairperson of the Clare branch of Birdwatch Ireland was in studio to answer listeners’ bird and wildlife queries- he spoke about gorse fires and the dolphins in Bunratty.
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