Monthly Archives: September 2011
Secret Millionaire helps carers
Tuam’s secret millionaire a hit with viewers
By Martina Nee
The first episode of RTÉ’s The Secret Millionaire, which featured an emotional and generous donation by Galway man John Concannon, was the most watched programme on television on Monday night.
The Tuam-based entrepreneur and managing director of JFC Manufacturing is given a new identity in the programme and spends a number of days and nights in different areas of Dublin, sometimes posing as a community worker and in other instances as a handyman, on the look-out for people and charities to help. In the programme we see the cameras following Mr Concannon around his plastics manufacturing business in Tuam, with his family in nearby Kilconly, and then on to Dublin where most of the show is set with audiences seeing him working undercover.
ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
Government to impose time limit on Employment Support Allowance
Published date: 15 Sep 2011 at 2:39PM
ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) plans to introduce a time limit of one year for all but the most seriously ill people claiming ESA. The decision is likely to affected thousands of people with MS.
How singing sessions are helping people suffering from dementia
The Chron investigates how singing sessions are helping people suffering from dementia
“WITHOUT a song or a dance what are we? So I say thank you for the music,” the Abba lines are being sung enthusiastically to me by around 20 people, some of whom suffer from dementia.
They have all been brought together at a group called ‘Singing for the Brain,’ by a disease that can cruelly steal away people’s most precious memories, and can be devastating for both those affected by it, and those closest to them.
Yet listening to the jubilant singing, you would not think they had a care in the world.
