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A helicopter has crashed into a crane near the river Thames at Vauxhall in London. Pat was joined by Mark Hennessy, London Editor of the Irish Times.
Some of the headlines regarding the horse meat in beef burgers stories, the Irish Daily Mirror – “Horses for Main Courses”; The Irish Sun – “Horses for Courses Nag Meat found in Supermarket burgers”; Irish Daily Star – “Beef Burger Sellers are flogging a dead horse”; Irish Daily Mail - “Who Allowed Horsemeat in our burgers?” .This story is also dominating the broadcast news. Chris Evans who broadcasts to 9 million people is discussing it this morning, it’s the top story on SKY news and the BBC.
Pat was joined in studio by Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney and by Patrick Wall, Professor of Public Health in UCD.
Conor Pope, Consumers Affairs Correspondent, Irish Times.
The novel we spoke about this morning has it all – a British soldier, an Irish Prime Minister, a leading Nazi, top level espionage and a few murders thrown in for good measure.
It’s fiction but it manages to weave historical events and personalities into the story line and in the end many readers will be left asking how much truth actually lies among the fiction. The book is simply called Ratlines and its author Stuart Neville joined Pat in studio.
Last November the Children’s Rights Referendum declaring that all children of the State should be cherished and protected equally was approved by the people.
Tomorrow a seminar will be held at University College Cork which will explore changes to adoption law. Joining Pat in studio was Dr Geoffrey Shannon, Chair of the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Dr Fergus Ryan Lecturer in Law, DIT.
