Kildare Focus 22.07.21

Kildare Focus

Thursday, 22 July 2021 - 36 minutes

Owen Reidy
Assistant General Secretary, ICTU (with responsibility for Northern Ireland)
•Following ICTU’s all-island Executive meeting yesterday (Wednesday) “we have long argued that there must not be a border east/west and north/south as the 3 strands of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement must be respected.”

Kevin O’Hagan
Cancer Prevention Manager, Irish Cancer Society
•Skin cancer rates set to treble in the next 20 years
•Take care of your skin in the sun – advice on noticing changes to changes of skin’s texture etc

Victor O’Loughlin
Vice President for the Border, Midlands and West region
•Students will receive grants for school year 2021/2022, even if on PUP
•But PUP payments will be added to parents income for following year, when applying for grants

James Lawless (FF) TD
Kildare North
Chair of Justice Committee
•Oireachtas Justice Committee has decided the Dying with Dignity Bill is unfit for purpose and "doesn't stack up"

Darragh O’Dea
KFM Breakfast show presenter
Wedding DJ & member of Irish Wedding DJ Association
•Doubts that wedding guestlist can increase to 100 by 5th August