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The Evening Herald has seen a draft report of the expert group looking into events surrounding the death of Savita Halappanavar at Galway University Hospital.
Fiona Hynes of the Herald’s news desk is the reporter with the story and she joined Pat this morning.
The public procurement market in Ireland is worth billions of euro and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs yet it has often been criticised for being wasteful and inefficient. So in a bid to redress this situation Brian Hayes, Minister of State at Dept. of Public Expenditure and Reform, is launching “Best Practices Guide to Promoting SME participation in Public Contracts” which aims to improve business access to public procurement and he joined Pat in studio.
It’s time for Eddi Reader’s annual Irish tour and it kicked off last night in Antrim and Eddi came into us this morning.
“It’s the match the world is waiting for” – so says Jose Mourinho. Two of European football’s heavyweights clash this evening in the iconic Bernebeu stadium as Manchester United travel to Madrid to take on Real. On top of the two teams taking to the pitch, history tells us the managers will most likely join them on centre stage.
And who better to look ahead to it with us than Spanish football correspondent, Guillem Balague.
Last week in Kerry and Cork, two more white tailed sea eagles were found dead, bringing to 12 the total number of the birds poisoned since their re-introduction to Ireland in 2007. Fears are now being expressed for the White Tailed Eagle reintroduction programme amid concern that some locals remain hostile to the success of the programme. Last weekend, Brian O’Connell went in search of the white-tailed sea eagle on the Lakes of Killarney and also heard from those most concerned at the eagles’ presence.
Pat was joined from Rome by Patsy McGarry to give us the latest on the Pope’s resignation.
How often have we heard that Afghanistan is the unwinnable war but few of us might be aware that this comes from the harsh experience of history as much as present hopeless warfare. Historian, William Dalrymple, in his sparkling new history of the First Anglo-Afghan War, draws striking parallels between that 19th-century conflict and NATO’s current Afghan impasse. “In both cases,” he writes, “the invaders thought they could walk in, perform regime change, and be out in a couple of years. In both cases they were unable to prevent themselves getting sucked into a much wider conflict.” To tease out why history has thought, but the Super Powers ignored, the lessons of history Pat was joined in studio by William Dalrymple to talk about his book the The Return of a King.
William Dalrymple will give a talk on The Battle for Afghanistan this evening in The Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street. Event booked out...
Paddy O'Gorman meets some people at the Community Welfare Office.
