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.
About 4,000 frontline staff, nurses, Gardai , fire officers, ambulance personnel and prison officers rejected government plans to cut premium payments at a mass rally in Dublin last night.
The Government proposes to reduce Sunday premium payment from double time to time and a half and to abolish special Saturday and “twilight” evening payments. The cuts are part of a drive to make savings of €1 billion euro over the next three years.
Jim Power chief Economist at Friends First and Seamus Murphy General Secretary Psychiatric Nurses Association joined Pat this morning.
It emerged last week that nearly half of the population is in receipt of medical cards.
As unemployment shows no sign of falling and times are not getting any easier for many, if not most families, this may not come as a shock to many.
By the end of 2013 full medical and GP-only cards are expected to cost the taxpayer €2.5bn in medical fees and drugs costs.
But can we afford to pay for 50% of the population to be on medical cards? According to Fine Gael senator, Colm Burke 90% of our income tax goes on health services.
Pat was joined by Brian Turner, Lecturer in Economics in UCC; Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Health Colm Burke; and by Sinn Fein Health spokesperson, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.
