On today’s show we spoke to several parents about the extremes of protecting your children before Tom played a special request for Marian Keyes just after 11…
Today’s Coffee Break song was once again from Marshall Crenshaw and it’s called Someday, Some Way
Tom then spoke to John Lahey about Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in Connecticut and the lack of commemoration of the Famine in Ireland
Our next guest is no stranger to Newstalk having worked on the Breakfast show before moving to Leinster House as a parliamentary assistant with his guide dog Miles. Kevin Kelly was joined in studio by Padraig Mallin, CEO of Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind
And finally on today’s show Tom spoke to Jess Thom, the founder of Touretteshero, an organisation that aims to celebrate the creativity and humour of Tourettes in order to help people to understand the syndrome. Jess has also written a book about her life entitled Welcome to Biscuitland: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero
Join the conversation: Email tom@newstalk.ie
