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It’s a very sad day in Dundalk - a very sad day across the country as whole – as the state funeral takes place at St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church in Dundalk of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was murdered on Friday during an armed raid on the Lordship Credit Union.
Pat spoke with friends and colleagues of Det Garda Donohoe, and Valerie Cox at our outside broadcast point in Dundalk at the Leisure Centre across the road from the Church.
Minister for Health James Reilly came under pressure in the Dail last night over upgrades to two hospitals in the constituencies of his Government colleagues Phil Hogan and Brendan Howlin. Pat was joined on the line by Sinn Fein Health Spokesman Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.
VHI customers are about to be hit with their fourth price increase in fourteen months and their fifth in two years. This time it’s going to be 6%.
So what exactly are the VHI up to and what does this mean for customers who were only just about hanging onto their health insurance before the price hike.
Pat was joined on the line by Dermot Goode who heads up the healthcare division of Cornmarket Financial Services.
Key leaders from the worlds of science, business, politics and culture will come to Ballyvaughan, County Clare next month to work on a new narrative on climate change, as according to my next guest, funding for cleaner energy is drying up and in Ireland we are unlikely to meet our 2020 climate targets, despite the fall-off in emissions associated with the economic downturn. So are we relying on the recession to keep to our Kyoto targets?
The Climate Gathering will take place at The Burren College of Art between the 14th -17th of February and will be convened by former Minister for the Environment, Eamon Ryan.
It’s been a very difficult two weeks for the food industry due to the horse meat scandal, and for those in the restaurant business the difficulties are ongoing with less people choosing to eat out in those recessionary times, and those who do go out are demanding better value.
As you have been hearing this morning, after the massive blow to Silvercrest foods of Burger King pulling their contract last week, the Ballybay plant has received another sucker punch with the announcement that Tesco has also ended their contract for burgers with the County Monaghan plant.
Matt Dempsey is editor with the Farmers Journal and he joined Pat this morning
Fergus O'Dowd, Minister of State Dept. of Communications, Energy And Natural Resources, Tom O'Reilly, Cavan GAA County Board and Valerie Cox.
