On Monday’s Afternoon Show Máire spoke with Fidelma Mooney, Chairperson of the Clare Dyslexic Association. Following the successful inaugural meeting of the Clare Dyslexic Association last Thursday evening in the Clare Education Centre, the group is delighted to announce that they are now up and running as a support group for parents and children. This group aims to provide a creative Kids Club and a pool of shared information and experience for parents of Dyslexic Children. The Creative Kids Club will be a club that recognise the creative abilities of each of our dyslexic children and aims to focus and enhance their strengths. Activities will take place bi-monthly and will include hobbies such as photography, orienteering, Jewellery making, Art Lego to name but a few. The emphasis of this club is to allow parents to spend quality time in a creative environment with their child and give them an alternative learning experience. For more details contact 083 1001194.
Nicole Buckler is the Editor of Old Moore’s Almanac. The 2014 edition is out now and marks an amazing 250 years in Irish publishing life. So what has given it the staying power like no other magazine in Irish history? Mainly, it is the psychic predictions. In its time, the resident psychic has made some crazy predictions about the future. A disturbing amount of them have come true!
Philip Moreau, our Gardening Expert and Horticulturist from Glenbrook Nurseries in Tuamgraney answered all your queries regarding planting, growing and all things garden related. Text us your questions or email [email protected]
Elaine Dalton from the Clare Womens’s Network and Alfonse Basogomba of the Clare Intercultural Network joined Máire in studio to discuss “Harnessing the Hero/Shero in me,you and them”. IDEC (Intercultural and Diversity Education Committee ) will host it’s fourth conference in the ‘Humanising Rights and Responsibilities Series’: on 10th December in Cois na hAbhna, Gort Rd, Ennis from 10am to 3.30pm tomorrow. The conference will address the question ‘How we as individuals, community and society, harness or suppress human potential? This year’s conference builds on the discussions and findings of the three previous conferences, which looked at actual experience of living and learning diversity in the education system. There will also be a special screening of the documentary film – The Price of Sex at the Templegate Hotel from 7pm tomorrow night. To register or attend the events see https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y3ZzRwySXDFJF9Bo_546RgxkUO3GvMoStXupSf3YCLQ/edit?usp=sharing
Bev Truss is a veterinary nurse and animal behavourist, she set up The Hogsprickle to help hedgehogs in distress. Clare FM’s Denise Woods went to along to Shannon to speak to Bev and to find out what The Hogsprickle is all about. If you find a hedgehog in need of help or want information on The Hogsprickle please call 086 8624511 or see their website: thehogsprickle.weebly.com
John O’Brien from the Shannon Twinning Association also joined the show to let uis know about how the group has joined up with the Lions Club to produce a special 2014 calendar – featuring beautiful photos of local castles. The project started as part of the groups twinning visit to Guingamp in France and is a way for the group to raise funds for local causes. The calendar is available in book shops locally and in Shannon town centre.
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