On Tuesday’s edition of Morning Focus John Cooke spoke to Ciara Meehan, who we met on yesterday’s show. The council have issued a statement to Clare FM in relation to Ciara’s housing situation. In this the say the issue of homelessness has not come about. Patricia McCarthy from Property & Relocation Services in Newmarket-on-Fergus also joined the show to discuss Ciara’s situation. Ciara's rent allowance limit is €500 per month. the current market rent for a two bed apartment in Ennis at the moment. If a landlord wishes to offer accommodation to Ciara he/she will have to be prepared to a sign a rent allowance form stating that the rent for the property is €500 and show a lease agreement in place for this amount.
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D. has launched the Eircode, the new location codes for Irish addresses and joined John Cooke on the programme to discuss. Minister Rabbitte noted that the Eircode project involved expenditure of €24 million over ten years and stressed that at least half of this investment would go towards the improvement of public service databases bringing considerable long term efficiencies and savings. The Minister also launched the Eircode website www.eircode.ie , where further information on the design of the code is available.
Gearoid Howard, Solicitor with Crimmins Howard Solicitors was in studio for our Free Legal Advice Clinic in conjunction with Clare Citizens’ Information Centre. Today’s topics were the difficulties patients experience in seeking redress when they suffer injury or harm from their doctor and also the collapse of Setanta Insurance.
Tommy Marren is the Writer of It’s The Real McCoy, a new Irish comedy play currently touring the country and coming to the Glor theatre in Ennis on Friday and Saturday May 2nd and 3rd – It’s The Real McCoy will be presented by The Crokey Hill Players Group, which was set up by Tommy in May 2007 with the aim of providing theatre audiences in the West of Ireland with original Irish comedy productions. The story, set in rural Ireland over two days in 1964, centres on one Madge Molloy – a woman in her mid-60’s – who has lived over forty years of her life wondering why her husband Tom, whom she was married to for just five months, disappeared without trace.
Frankie Coote, Clare ISPCA Warden also joined John in studio to discuss animal welfare and in particular how three dogs have been poisoned in Clonlara. He also talked about several cases of dogs chasing livestock and how many dogs are now lost following recent thundery conditions.
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