On Monday’s Morning Focus Bunratty based President of the Irish Road Haulage Association Eoin Gavin and Senator Tony Mulcahy urged fuel companies to pass on expected price reductions to consumers as more hauliers and private road users feel the pinch of soaring fuel costs.
Irish women are more likely to die of lung cancer than breast cancer as the tobacco industry aggressively targets female customers
Almost one in three women in Ireland is a smoker, and the Irish Cancer Society says we’re now at crisis point
The number of women dying from Lung cancer has now surpassed the number of deaths from breast cancer in Ireland
A conference was held in Dublin last week to address the crisis of women and smoking Kathleen O’Meara of the Irish Cancer Society explained
The National smokers helpline is 1850 201 203.
Clare Connect is a new networking organisation to support unemployed people who supervisory, executive and self employed employment history
The group will meet once a month at the Information Age Park on the Gort Road
Their first meeting is this Thursday at 10am
[email protected]
John Quinlivan of St Joseph’s Conference of St Vincent de Paul and the former Regional Manager of Shannon Development joined John in studio and Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers was on the line to speak about the presenation he will be making on how to identify your career path on your CV.
Our Giveaway this week is courtesy of GIFTWORKS- the new Home and Giftware store has opened up on O’Connell Street, Ennis
From Monday to Thursday we have a daily prize of led tree Table Lamp to give away and a grand prize on Friday of A French cream Dressing Table
Log on to our webpage on www.clare.fm to see the prizes
Garda Adrian Divney of Ennis Garda Station joined John in studio and appealed for the public’s assistance with information on crimes committed in the county over the past week
Contact Ennis Garda Station on 065 6848100.
Ennis Councillor James Breen called to say he was unhappy to see disabled people standing at Cusack Park for the Clare hurling match on Saturday.
Moneygall native and Barrack Obama’s eighth cousin Henry Healy has secured a new job as a tourism ambassador for Ireland
Healy, who became affectionately known as “Henry the Eighth” after his ties to President Obama emerged, recently joined the ranks of the Irish unemployed when he lost his job working as a bookkeeper
But now the 27-year-old business graduate has joined forces with Ireland Reaching Out- an Irish genealogy campaign which aims to connect with the Irish Diaspora by contacting relatives of past immigrants
It is currently expanding into the Shannon Region as Henry explained See www.irelandxo.com or call 091 842013.
Kevin McGillicuddy of Clare FM Sport joined John in studio to take a look back on the football and hurling matches of the weekend
On Saturday evening a 14 man Clare side defied the odds to defeat Dublin by 1-16 to 0-16 in Cusack park
The home side trailed by 11 points to 7 at the break and were reduced to 14 men after Nicky O Connell received his second yellow card just one minute into the second half
However the red card spurred Clare on and when Tony Kelly’s 21 metre free on 53 minutes hit the back of the Dublin net Clare led by two points
Further points from Sean Collins, Conor McGrath and the final score from John Conlon helped Clare to their first championship win in four years and sets up a meeting with Limerick next weekend
Clare football manager Michael McDermott has called on his players to bounce back from their 3-16 to 0-13 loss to Cork in yesterday’s Munster Final
The Banner now face the back door and will find out their opponents next week
Also, Galway were crowned Leinster Hurling Champions for the first time yesterday after a surprise 2-21 to 2-11 win over Kilkenny at Croke Park.
John Murphy, Chairman of the Clare branch of Birdwatch Ireland was in studio to answer your bird and wildlife queries.
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