Show Notes
Over a dozen businesses on O’Connell Street are facing legal action due to unsightly shopfronts. After years of decline, can enforcement help to revitalise the capital’s main thoroughfare? Newstalk’s Simon Tierney has been investigating, and joins Seán to discuss.
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Legally, fireworks are illegal in Ireland, but every year in the run up to Halloween, you’ll hear them everywhere. Because they’re illegal, many of them are unregulated, and every year, there are life-changing injuries that happen to mostly young people. What are the main dangers of fireworks, as well as bonfires? Dr Ann McKenna, a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork joins Seán to discuss.
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