Birr

So now, the Health Service Executive and Irish Pharmacy Union is encouraging you, if you're aged between fifty-seven and seventy-one, to talk to your local pharmacy about a free bowel screen program, and more than fifteen hundred pharmacies have taken part in training to help you understand the test.

And Liam Butler runs Butler's Pharmacy in Birr.

Morning, Liam.

Liam.Good morning, Will.

Thanks, Will.

Bye-bye.

Liam Butler of Haven Pharmacy Butlers in Birr.

We've also got a story today about a solicitor in County Laois who is perhaps best known now as the promoter of Forest Fest.

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At half ten this morning, Liam Butler from Haven Pharmacy in Birr will be answering your health questions.

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Speaking of questions, there will be no shorta-shortage of them asked over the course of the next twenty-four, forty-eight hours.

Uh, the question remains, what's being done for those on lower pay?

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[rock music]David in for Will this morning, and we are joined by Liam Butler from Haven Pharmacy, Butler's in Birr, to talk about health matters.

Very good morning, Liam.

And Estonians make the trip down south to Nina, which we'll get to in a few moments' time.

University of Maynooth-Barnhall, under the careful stewardship of Adrian Flavin, Sam Cawley & Co. and Tom McKeown, got a brilliant 23 points of 22 win over City of Armagh in Parsonstown.

Moss, it's one of those ones, first off, that...

You know, you will remember as a Barnhall person where you were when this happened.

Mm-hmm.

And you were down the country somewhere in Birr.

Was it ...

What was all that about?

It was great fun.

So Birr in County Offaly has this vintage festival every year, and part of the vintage festival is an open exhibition for artists.

So Tony had submitted, and three of his works had been accepted.

And we'd been there last year, and last year a number of the townspeople had dressed up, and we thought, "That's great fun.

So, you know, Barnard will probably take a lot from this.

Yeah, Adrian Flaven's Barnhall will be licking their wounds but relishing their home debut in Division 1B in Parsonstown this weekend.

Luke Hickey's Black Rock take four points and move to round two.

City of Irma and Dublin University were 21 points apiece at full-time in the Palace Grounds.

I remember that.

Second game is Nina versus Nace.

And the third game, I've gone to Parsonstown for Barnhall and Armagh.

I am going to say Trinity and Gary Owen.

Absolutely, and probably a model then that can community business, um, focus in, in one hub, probably a model that you probably might look at expanding across Laois then.

Absolutely, and we have one, um, under construction in Birr and Offaly at the moment, um, over at the old courthouse, the last courthouse to be done in the county, um, for refurbishment.

Um, and it's obviously a very strategic kind of, um, building to be done, uh, as you approach Laois from the Tipperary and Midwest kind of area.

Um, so we have, again, that space is kind of going to be handed over to the community, kind of, um, local enterprise, local business, and there'll be an expression of interest now going out shortly in relation to that to look at and seek a partnership with the community, with the community group or an enterprise group to kind of run it and maintain it and manage it for us.

Sure.

Um, so in this clip, um, Jack and his mum and dad are in Birr Observatory, um, which is, um, an observatory in a castle in Birr, County Offaly, where the area of space outside the Milky Way was first seen through a telescope by Lord Rosse, I think.

Wow.

"When they get to the castle grounds, the sun is out, and the sky is mostly blue.

Gardaí are warning of significant traffic disruption around the site, with more than 80,000 people expected to attend each day.

Motorists not traveling to the plowing are being urged to avoid the N52 between Tullamore and Birr, as well as roads around Muckla and Scregen.

Those heading to the event are being told to follow the designated color-coded routes and Garda directions.

Drivers are also being warned not to rely on sat navs near the site, as they may not reflect the traffic diversions in place.