South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius is back in court this morning where his bail hearing continues. He denies murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, saying he accidentally shot her in the mistaken belief that she was an intruder. She was shot dead at his home in Pretoria six days ago. Prosecutors contend that the killing was premeditated. A decision on his bail application is expected by Friday.
Journalist, Nastasya Tay and David O’Sullivan the Presenter of the Afternoon Drive Show Talk Radio 702 in South Africa joined Pat this morning.
Following their sold out comeback show, the newly reformed and new look PictureHouse have released their new single Hello this week.
Hundreds of fans crammed into The Village last Friday to welcome Dave Browne and his band back as they played some songs from their new album amongst all the hits from the bands back catalogue. They were over in Studio 8 this morning to give us the full band sound.
As a self professed agnostic and single mother of three, Michele Bachelet didn’t fit the mould of traditional politician in a socially conservative country like Chile. However, she still managed to work her way up to the top job becoming the country’s first female president in 2006 – a position she held until 2010. Currently she is executive director of the United Nations Division for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known simply as UN Women. She’s in Ireland this week to attend the Cities Against Poverty forum which runs at the RDS in Dublin.
Pat spoke with Dr. Frances Finnegan, Author of Do Penance or Perish and Maureen Sullivan, Magdalene survivor, following the Taoiseach’s apology yesterday.
Have you ever heard the phrase “I’m Lee Marvin out of my nogger “ or “Me belly thinks me throat is cut” well if you want to know more check out Story Bud on you tube. Joining Pat were is Jenny Keogh, who is responsible for Story Bud and Professor Terry Dolan who will give us the origins to some of the phrases.
You may recall a few weeks ago the AA did a survey of its members in conjunction with the programme to raise awareness of cars with faulty headlights.
Now the Gardai will be going after drivers of cars and other vehicles with defective lights – the one eyed monsters that have become all too commonplace on our roads, a the survey detected. Joining pat to tell us about operation “Light Up” is Conor Faulknan of the AA.
South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius has broken down in tears during his bail hearing after being charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria last week.
Police are expected to oppose his bail application at the hearing. Journalist, Nastasya Tay joined Pat from Pretoria.
It seems too good to be true. A diet comes along which means you lost weight and almost halved your risk of breast cancer,.
But it is clinically proven and at its essence is good old fashioned fasting - for two days a week.
It was developed by a Dr Michelle Harvie and Professor Tony Howell, a Manchester based dietician and a consultant oncologist and they both joined Pat this morning.
By the age of seven, Rachel Austin had already recorded three full-length cassette tapes of her own music. She’d also handwritten a book of short stories and created portraits of townsfolk of characters that she and her siblings played with instead of dolls.
Rachel’s music was born in Virginia but now calls Belfast home. Rachel has just returned to Ireland following a December / January tour of her native America. She spent 6 weeks touring around promoting her EP Age of Reason and she came into studio this morning.
