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The crisis at the BBC seems to be escalating this morning with the breaking news that the news director Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell are to stand aside over the failure to air a recent investigation into allegations of child abuse against Jimmy Savile This Follows the resignation of the BBC’s George Enthwistle at the weekend.
Joining Pat was Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster, London.
Pat spoke with Michael O’Toole, Crime Correspondent with the Irish Daily Star the ongoing investigation in to the murder of former senior detective, John Kerins
The Government will want to focus on the fact that the Children’s Referendum was passed by voters but it’s likely that opposition parties will have questions on how the campaign was handled by ministers and if they should be blamed in any way for the low turnout and the “tighter” than expected result.
Joining Pat was Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Brian Hayes; Sinn Fein’s health spokesman Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Mary Minihan from the Irish Times.
Recruitment agencies say there are an estimated 2500 job vacancies in the IT and web sector industry as Irish and international companies such as Google, Paddy Power and many others, grow their internet operations.
This morning gaming firm Swrve announced 100 new positions in Dublin and Financial Services company Fidelity is creating 200 new jobs at its offices in Dublin and Galway.
But there is a problem getting a hold of talented employees for major companies – a lack of skills in some key areas forcing recruitment agencies to look abroad.
Pat was joined by Gary Mullan of Prosperity Recruitment, Dr Michael Madden, Head of Information Technology National University of Ireland, Galway, Wendy Chin Head of Talent Acquisition with Paddy Power, and Belinda Belinberg, a recruitment consultant with CPL.
Each year the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has to deal with around twenty cases of hoarding - people who keep large numbers of animals but who can't look after them. Valerie Cox went out to one of these cases with Inspector Michael Keane.
The Overtones are a five-piece British-Irish-Australian Vocal Harmony boy band from London, formed in 2010. They were discovered by a Warner Brothers talent scout while working as decorators in a shop near Oxford Street, singing during their tea break. They have sold in excess of 500,000 copies of their first album. Well it’s nearly our morning tea break – so the lads are here to sing for us and after a storming concert last night in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre they probably need it more than we do!
