Writer Michael Harding

On The Ray D’Arcy Show

Rayna Connery writes:

EastEnders icon Pasty Palmer joins Ray to chat about her recent return to Albert Square, far from her glamorous life in Malibu.

Kodaline frontman Steve Garrigan and author Diana Bunici join Ray in their first joint TV appearance to discuss their role as ambassadors for mental health initiative ‘Walk In My Shoes.’

Award winning author Michael Harding talks to Ray about his latest memoir ‘Chest Pain’ and how his heart attack last year gave him a new perspective on life.

Ray’s joined by two teenage climate ambassadors, Alicia O’Sullivan and Jack O’Neill, who represented Ireland at the UN Youth Climate Summit in New York this week.

Ray meets the Australian woman Michelle Bourke, who’s making international headlines by flatpacking a cutout of her late husband and bringing it on her travels around the world to fulfil his dying wish.

Former Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics legend Paul Carrack will perform a special arrangement of ‘The Living Years’, accompanied by Cór Linn.

*begins hunger strike*

The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ One at 9.50pm..

Rollingnews

This morning.

Abbey Road, London.

Marty Whelan (top) writes:

Thrilled to bits to be able to bring my original Abbey Road album back to the source at Studio 2, Abbey Road where it was recorded 50 years ago….

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Liza Geddes writes:

[Dublin’s] Girl Band. Bigger than The Beatles?!

Girl Band

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

This morning.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast rejected an appeal by a Northern Irish rights campaigner against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy.

Lawyers for Raymond McCord had said that a no-deal Brexit on October 31 would breach the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of violence on the island of Ireland.

However, Declan Morgan, chief justice of Northern Ireland, dismissed the case today, saying “it is not appropriate for this court to examine the possible outcome of the [Brexit] negotiation on the basis of political rhetoric.”

Northern Ireland court dismisses no-deal Brexit challenge (Politco. eu)

Rollingnews

Cry Monster Cry – Tides

Just ‘dropped’.

Cry Monster Cry say:

Our new live video to celebrate the release of the single Tides today. It was shot in a canoe on beautiful Lake Brienz in Switzerland, and saw us rowing out to the middle of the it in order to perform.

Nick says: Canoe dig it?

Filmed by Celia Montes.

Cry Monster Cry

Meanwhile…

Jack Jones writes:

Rock icon Liam Gallagher answers 73 questions while taking a brisk stroll through London’s Hampstead Heath.

Garbed in his traditional dress, a black parka jacket, Liam cruises through the Heath, petting dogs while talking about Oasis, John Lennon, his brother, Blur, and his children.

This episode was shot entirely in one attempt—no rehearsal, no advance peek at the questions.

Having nailed it straight out of the gate, Liam walks off legs akimbo, arms swinging side-to-side into the midday sun….

Parents are paying up to 8% more for childcare this year. Figures via the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The most expensive is Dublin, the cheapest is Carlow.

Via Irish Examiner:

Data collected from 4,000 centres across the country show average full-time fees are now costing €184 per week.

Children’s Minister Dr Katherine Zappone says parents should check the figures being released today to inform themselves about what they can expect to pay for childcare in their area.

Her Department recorded the lowest full-time fees for children aged 2-3 in Co. Carlow at €148 per week, with the highest in Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown in Dublin at €251.

Here are the average weekly childcare costs for each county (Irish Examiner)

Broadsheet.ie