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RCB Sports Show

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In this weeks RCB Sports Show, Adrian O’ Connor chats with Clare sports reporter, Seamus Hayes on this weekends local and National GAA. The lads chat about Naomh Eoin’s winning streak with wins over Ennistymon, Cratloe and their win against Miltown on Friday night last. They also look at the Clare Senior Footballer’s 2.20 to 1.09 win over Waterford on Saturday which brings them into the Munster Final. They look at Clare’s defeat to Limerick in Rd 1 of the Munster Hurling Championship in Ennis on Sunday. Adrian chats with Clare GAA Chairman Kieran Keating at the Clare/Limerick game on Sunday. Adrian was there on Sunday to catch Clare Hurling manager, Brian Lohan talk to about Clare’s defeat after the game in Cusack Park. 

Tune in every Monday evening from 6pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream


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Mikey’s Mix

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🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏻 Ladies and gentlemen don’t forget 2 30 p.m. live and be ready to get blown away with a variety of music 🎶🎶 click listen live on www.rcb.ie 🙌🏼🎈🎈🎉🎉🤘🏼🎶🎶🎶🙌🏼🙌🏼 Mikey’s Mix

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Community Unity with Guests Eamon Peters, Sarah Ferrigan, and Carmen Cronin.

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Audrey Spendlove (A Little Bit of Gardening ) visits Kilrush Community Gardens to find out what they are and what they do, where Eamon Peters explains the horticulture courses running at the Kilrush centre.

Mairead speaks to Sarah Ferrigan from Clare PPN who explains the Community Recognition Fund 2024 which is currently open for expression of interest, the funding application is open to various West Clare towns including Kilkee, and also details the upcoming “Connecting Communities Workshop” volunteer recruitment event on the 24th of April at Clare Education Centre Kilrush Road, Ennis, finally Carmen Cronin one of the organisers of The Clare Garden Festival gives us the low down on what’s coming up on the 28th April at Ennis Showgrounds , this year will be the 10 year anniversary of the Festival.
Brenda has the Community Diary of Events for the West Clare region.

The Genealogy Show – Irish Mythology and Folklore.

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Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.

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Community Unity featuring guests Barbara Veterano, and Roisin Horgan.

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Teresa is out and about visiting Loop Head Alpacas to meet Barbara Veterano who runs Spinning demos , Spinning and Dyeing Workshops at the Farm in Kilfearagh and tells us all about the animals at the farm.

Next, a new topic for this month at the Kilrush Citizen Information Centre, Roisin Horgan speaks about the mechanisms around power of attorney and decision making agreements.

Mikey’s Mix

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🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Friday is here peeps 🎉🎉 you know what that means,yes it’s almost 2.30pm for a blast of new new tunes 🎉🎈🎶🎶 click listen live on Www.rcb.ie and aired again@8 tonight 🎶🎶🙌🏼🙌🏼
Mikey’s Mix also on podcast when I done live 🎶🎶🙌🏼🙌🏼

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The Genealogy Show – Literature and Irishroots and Influences.

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Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.

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Community Unity with Guests Sheila McMahon and Carsten Krieger.

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Sheila McMahon, Mental Health Counsellor speaks about the upcoming event on Tues 16th April 8pm – 10pm at The Inn at Dromoland, speakers include Dr Mary Honan, Bishop Fintan Monahan, Councillor candidate Pat Barry, The Irish Farmers Association and is being supported by Haven Hub and West Clare Mental Health Association.

Local Photographer and author Carsten Krieger speaks about his new book The Whispering Land – Myth, Legend and Lore of the Wild Atlantic Way

Paulines Poems

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What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with accomplished poet Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song.Pauline is joined this week by Larry O’Bryan, Jasna Vukasovic, Georgy Paterson, Franscesca Ward, Mary Madigan.

A Little Bit of Gardening – Seaside Plants

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For all our RCB listeners, today I thought it would be a good time to talk about plants that can grow in a coastal area. Have you ever thought “What can I grow here, that will survive these conditions?” Well, you can grow many things, if you provide the right conditions. Unfortunately this will mean that you have to put the work in to get the results.
So that is what we are looking at today – Seaside Plants .……

RCB Sports Show

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Clare fans celebrate a great week for Clare Hurling with wins in last Thursday’s Clash with Waterford in the minor hurling, A win over Limerick last Friday in the U20’s hurling, Clare Senior hurlers beating Kilkenny to clinch their 5th League final victory on Saturday in Thurles and Clare Ladies football defeating Roscommon in the division 3 league final. Adrian chats with Seamus Hayes and Nicholas Rynne about those games and also the upcoming anticipated Munster clash between Clare and Limerick in two weeks time. Contact me at  with your local sports info.

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Mikey’s Mix

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🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏻 ladies and gentlemen don’t forget 2 30 p.m. live and be ready to get blown away with a variety of music 🎶🎶 click listen live on www.rcb.ie.And party on to keep warm and safe 🙌🏼🎈🎈🎉🎉🤘🏼🎶🎶🎶🙌🏼🙌🏼Mikey’s Mix

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The Genealogy Show – Child Labour

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Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.

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Community Unity with guests Susan O’Sullivan, Dr Aideen Hartney.

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Susan O’Sullivan joins us on the line today , Susan is involved with organising The Traditional Irish Music over April 19-21st in Lahinch and has the info for the weekend.
Brenda has the Commiunity Diary of Events for the area.
Dr Aideen Hartney director of National Disability Authourity currently conducting researching on a potential end to the Ward of Court system to give the individual more responsibility and choice in the decision making process when a court makes the decision that someone is not able to look after their own affairs. The NDA are currently seeking research participants for research on the end of the Wards of Court system

Melody Lounge

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Tune into the melody lounge with Lee Costelloe where he picks some of his favourite songs from all genres and eras, from the well known to the alternative, you’ll hear it here.

RCB Sports Show

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Welcome to this weeks RCB Sports Show. Adrian chats with Clare sports reporter Seamus Hayes about all GAA football this weekend. We discuss the league finals held in Croke park over the easter weekend. We look at the upcoming Clare minor and U20 Football and hurling games this week. We chat about some of the local club league games held over the weekend. We discuss the declining attendance of fans at matches around the county and nationally and the state of local pitches after a rainy month. 

For local sports news the Loop Head area, please sent in your news and results to

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GAA, ClareGAA, TippGAA, MunsterGAA


Community Unity with guests , Tom Fitzgerald, Fred O Brien, and Joe Whelan.

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On today’s show Padraig speaks to County Limerick Author Tom Fitzgerald about his latest crime novel ‘The Truth about Lies’ set in Killarney the story revolves around the dissapearance of a French student.
Fred O’Brien now retired reading a letter from the Yukon from his time working as an Environmental Officer in Canada.Brenda has the Community Diary of Events , and Padraig visits The Museum of Irish Rural Life to meet Joe Whelan Sr. for a tour of The Masssey Ferguson Museum which was opened earlier last month by William Judge the UK/Ireland brand manager at Massey Furgusson

A Little Bit of Gardening – Jobs for the Month of April

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April is a magical time in the garden, as with the rising temperatures and the increased hours of daylight, our plants start to grow steadily…
Our jobs in the garden will start to increase, as will the amount of time we will spend in our gardens.
I hope you find something of interest in this episode…