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As a shocked community prepares to bury Det Garda Adrian Donohue tomorrow, more detail has emerged about the moments leading up his death.
It seems that Adrian Donohoe’s killers lay in wait for him before he and Garda Joe Ryan turned up to escort the staff and takings of the Lordship Credit Union on Friday evening.
Tom Brady who is security editor of the Irish Independent and he joined Pat this morning.
In recent weeks, anti social behaviour in a number of housing estates in Ennis in County Clare led to one councillor Joe Arkins reference an idea for problem families to be quarantined in a separate area of the town. These estates in Ennis once offered “dream homes” to the new residents. But now some of the residents feel they are living under siege because of the behaviour of other residents..... Brian O’Connell spent some time in Ennis last week and heard first hand the kinds of problems residents are facing and he joined Pat this morning.
The Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn is currently running a survey on the preferred choice of primary school patron. At present more than 90 percent or 3,000 schools are under the remit of the Catholic Church.
Parents of all children aged 12 and under can participate in the survey; this can be accessed online via education.ie until February 8th.
The survey initiative is in line with the recommendations of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary sector.
Back in November RTE’s Education Correspondent Emma O Kelly went to Castlebar to talk to parents about the survey....
Pat was joined in studio by Senator Ivana Bacik and by Padraig Hogan a senior lecturer in the education department of NUI Maynooth.
Valerie Cox speaks to local people about the closure of Stepaside Garda station and Shane Ross gives his reaction.
When was the last time you ate an Irish-produced chicken? Or do you know? The low-priced meat most of us buy – especially in restaurants and cafes – is often of mysterious origin and quality.
Chicken is the most popular meat in Ireland, and on average each of us eats about 30kg of it in a year. But while we tuck into our lunchtime chicken-pesto wrap, we’re usually unaware that the meat inside is most likely to have come from Thailand or Eastern Europe. Suzanne Campbell, food author and journalist, joined Pat this morning.
As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest dispassion and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. He has nevertheless remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off. The extraordinary result of this is Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death - a unique and powerful experiment in how one man has tried to understand his past (and our history).
