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Radio Beams – Nepalese Brothers Play a Fine Tune in Clare
They play beautiful music and have a chip shop on the Tulla Rd Ennis.
They also with the help of local Irish musicians produced a CD with wonderful tune in it.
Tune in every Tuesday 3.30pm www.rcb.ie
Tune In For the Tunes
Smokin’ Room Sessions
Radio Beams – Kay Murphy National Active Retirement Presedent
Kay helped out back in 1998 in Newmarket on Fergus and from then on she has worked her way up the line.
Kay talks about her work and the Corona Virus it affect on its members.
Active Retirement has over 25,000 members in Ireland and growing.
You can listen to this on www.rcb.ie 3.30pm on Tuesday .
15th September: Ireland’s Alert-level Roadmap.
Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19
Ireland is moving from a short-term emergency response approach to a medium-term approach to managing risk and repairing the damage that COVID-19 has inflicted on society.
The Framework for Restrictive Measures will help us to go about our daily lives as much as possible, while managing the behaviour of the virus. The Framework consists of 5 Levels.
The lower Levels will be activated when there is low incidence of the disease, with isolated outbreaks, low community transmission. The higher Levels will be used to deal with higher incidences of the disease.
It will be possible for different regions and counties to be at a different Level to the National Level, depending on the incidence of the virus in that particular region or county.
At all times the priority guiding the plan will be to keep our schools open, while keeping people safe and protecting the resilience of our economy and communities…More>>
Tune In For The Tunes
Smokin’ Room Sessions
The Genealogy Show Series 11 Ep 4 – Records For Rural Ireland
This episode is written and presented By: Jasmine McGarr and Produced by Lorna Moloney.
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.
Paulines Poems with Pauline, Rob, Emma, Paul & Jasna

The centre is based at St Joseph’s Health Campus on Mulgrave Street in Limerick City and will offer free testing for anyone who is referred by a GP.
Those being tested will be required to follow public health measures, including social distancing, not travelling by taxi or public transport, practising good personal hygiene and wearing a face-covering throughout (including travelling to and from the testing centre).
HSE Mid West Community Healthcare Chief Officer Maria Bridgeman, said: “We are very pleased to make this announcement, the additional pop up test centre becomes operational from today and will increase in capacity from three to seven testing bays in the coming days. This centre will help us meet the increased demand for testing at a location which is very accessible to the community. It is important the public continue to adhere to all public health guidelines as the HSE continues it’s response to Covid 19”
Appointments will be offered from 2pm to 8pm on Wednesday 9th September and the centre will be operational 7 days a week from Thursday 10th September from 8am to 8pm. The HSE would strongly urge those offered an appointment for testing to please attend.
Radio Beams – Tommy Ryan Sings for the Neighbours
Tommy has a collection of over 1,500 songs on his computer ready to play.