On today’s edition of Morning Focus, Green Party Councillor Brian Meaney and Fr. Brendan Quinlivan, Spokesperson for the Diocese of Killaloe discussed prayer – specifically the prayers said at the beginning of government and council meetings. Councillor Meaney feels Clare County Council should abolish the prayer before meetings as it has become an incantation rather than a meaningful expression. The Councillor says he respects all faiths and for this reason has a problem with the translation of the prayer however Fr.

Friday 22nd July

Week 5 - Yellow Sheet

10 20 34 78 23 32 63 16 68 01

There was no winner of yesterdays prize

Tuesdays jackpot stands at €3900

This Thursday's Morning Focus came live from the promenade in Lahinch

Randy Lewis, Owner of Randaddy’s Cafe and Restuarant joined Ed to talk about how business has been this Summer
The business opened in March and created seven local jobs

Thursday 21st July

Week 5 Pink Sheet

74 22 47 69 23 48 70 83 59 11

There was no winner of yesterdays draw

Tuesdays jackpot stands at €3900

Wednesday 20th July

Week 5 - Blue Sheet

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Congratulations to Deirdre Tuohy from Scarriff

who purchased her book in Lyons Donnellan Supervalu Tulla

Tuesdays Jackpot stands at €3,900

The ESB’s West Wave Project has been selected by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources as one of the projects to go forward for evaluation by the European Investment Bank under the EU New Entrant Reserve funding mechanism
The West Wave Project aims to develop the first wave energy project in Ireland by 2015 by generating an initial 5MW of clean renewable electricity from the plentiful wave energy resource available off the west coast of Ireland

Tuesday 19th July

Week 5 - Orange Sheet

Jackpot Day- Jackpot No 44

26 28 13 36 81 06 48 78 43 68

There was no winner from yesterday

As jackpot number was not called out

next Tuesdays jackpot will stand at €3,900

The Irish charity GOAL says hundreds of thousands of hapless Somalis will die unless a way can be found to truck food deep into the East African country
This tragedy is about innocent vulnerable people, affected by war, being unable to access the food they need desperately. Air drops of food will not keep the Somali people alive

Two investigations are to be carried out after a plane skidded off a runway on landing at Shannon airport on Saturday
The Irish Aviation Authority and the Air Accident Investigation Unit will both attempt to piece together the events that led to the plane veering onto the grass median, on its second attempted landing
An aircraft inspection will continue today
All 25 passengers on board the Aer Arann flight from Manchester to Shannon escaped unharmed
Ed Myers spoke with Graham Liddy, Inspector of Air Accidents with the Air Accident Investigation Unit