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Greece has done a deal on its enormous debt burden – so why can’t we? European Finance Ministers have agreed to cut the rates on Greece’s bailout loans , suspend interest payments for ten years and extend the terms of its loans to 30 years.
Pat was joined by Paschal Donohoe, Fine Gael TD and by Economist David McWilliams who argues in the Irish Independent today that we should get the same treatment.
By Liam Collins
The old saying goes that blood is thicker than water so why is it that so many family bonds break at the very mention of a final will and testament?
Your will is possibly the most important document you’ll draw up in the course of your lifetime but ironically the one that will make no difference whatever to your own life.
Well, journalist Liam Collins has just written a book entitled; ‘Battle of Wills, Irish Families at War Over Wills’ and he joined Pat in studio.
After much debate, stiff competition among rival hospitals and years of delay the Government recently gave the go-ahead to build a new national children’s hospital in Dublin.
It’s estimated the build cost on the St.James’s Hospital campus will be in the region of €500 million and the scheme will take five to six years to complete.
In the UK a new hospital purpose built for children will cost £70 million – how can this be so and why the huge variation in price?
Joining Pat was Consultant, Dr.Peter Wilson Clinical Director for Southampton Children's Hospital.
The year is almost at an end and 2012, being Charles Dickens’s bi-centenary, we are coming to an end of our year-long, monthly celebration of Dickens’s novels. His work has been read from the time he first published, first in journals and magazines, then in hardbacked volumes and they will continue to be read on the printed page, on kindle and ebook, for decades and decades to come. His novels have never been out of print. They’re big books in every way – they run to hundreds of pages and they explore the big themes such as childhood, justice and injustice, politics, corruption, family, love and every novel contains a vast range of colourful characters. This time round we’re looking at Bleak House and, as usual, Pat was joined by actors Cathy Belton, Barry Barnes and by Niall MacMonagle who will steer us through this vast novel.
As you may have been reading in the papers this morning, one of the stars of the Celtic Tiger, Hugh O’Regan, has died aged 49. He is widely credited, amongst other things, as having changed the pub scene in Dublin.
Pat was joined by Simon Carswell, Finance Correspondent with the Irish Times.
Endocrinologist and leading medical expert on obesity in Ireland, chairman of the Irish Heart Foundation's Nutrition Council
The obesity epidemic is costing the State over €1.1 billion in direct health costs and indirect costs such as absenteeism, according to a new report by Safefood which has just been launched by Minister for Health James Reilly. Joining Pat was Donal O'Shea, Consultant Endocrinologist and leading medical expert on obesity in Ireland.
Having won “The Voice of Ireland”, Pat Byrne joins the growing list of acts to emerge the other side of a TV talent show as the winner, with high hopes and hopefully a pre-established audience. The 22-year-old from Borris, Co Carlow, said that competing in the TV singing contest had been "the best experience of my life". He beat stiff competition at blind auditions, the live round, and even the popularity of his mentor Bressie to clinch victory. Pat promised then that he would not rush into releasing just any old album – well he was true to his word – his album has just been released to critical acclaim and we got a taste of it and the voice from Studio 8.
