Dave Moore

For parents, and kids, it’s been a really tough few weeks.

Parents have had to deal with work stress, home stress and worries about families and friends.

But for children, it’s been just as tough. Some kids are facing into the fact that they won’t be going back to school for months, some won’t be going back to their school at all and some are missing their friends and the routine that school would bring.

Aoife Lee, Parent Coach with Parent Support joined Dermot and Dave for Mind Yourself Now this morning with some tips on discussing things like separation from their friends, missing school and she had some tips on when parents should end home-schooling for the summer.

Dermot & Dave's 'Ah Sure Lookit Wasn't That It' podcast is the perfect thing to keep you company over the weekend, whether you're out and about in the car, getting stuck into jobs at home or if you need to stick some earphones in for an hour to drown out the noise of your kids for some well deserved 'me time' (no judgement here!)

Jam-packed full of all the bits you may have missed the Ah Sure Lookit Wasn't That It podcast is your one-stop shop for all things Dermot & Dave.

This week Dermot & Dave spoke to a listener who was forced to watch the sex scenes from Normal People with her teenage son.

Dermot & Dave show researcher Sean revealed a question that could win you one million pounds.

And, Dave had some Bad Jokes, while Noni continued her new game show.

From Bublé on The Late Late Show to our own Paul Mescal on Graham Norton, it's going to be a bumper weekend of telly.

Dermot & Dave's producer Maria scoured the entire internet and all of the TV guides in existence so you don't have to, to bring you her top picks.

You can listen to the chat in full by pressing the Listen button on this page.

With clients including WWE diva Scarlett Bordeaux as well as performers like Bendy Kate, Sarah Scott, Kira Noire, Kildare woman Fionnuala Bourke is used to her costumes appearing on stages across the world.

But due to the recent pandemic, Fionnuala has moved from designing costumes to designing face masks alongside her father, a fire engineer, and a team of sewers.

This morning she spoke to Dermot and Dave about how they've made roughly 1000 masks in four different washable styles. All of the non-medical masks are currently being donated all over the country by a team of volunteers and Fionnuala has raised over €2000 through her GoFundMe page.

Fionnuala filmed a sewing tutorial on her Instagram page and has a pattern that’s available to download free of charge to anyone who wants to sew their own masks.

Since lockdown, our own Dermot Whelan has taken up a new hobby. Forget banana bread, forget knitting, Dermot's taken up skateboarding.

This morning, Dan Timlin aka The Goosefighter joined Dermot and Dave for an Ask Me Anything special to reveal all about being a skateboarder, and most importantly, if Dermot's any use at it!

In the midst of this pandemic, we've all had our struggles but for Karen Vickers, she has had to contend with what's happening globally but also some tremendously difficult news about her daughter Olivia.

Olivia or 'Livie' as she's known to Karen and her partner Keith, was born in August 2019 and is on the surface a happy, bubbly and chatty baby. However, in April, she was given a heartbreaking diagnosis.

Livie has been diagnosed with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), type 1. SMA is a rare condition, affecting one in every 10,000 babies and type 1 is the most severe type. Due to the current restrictions, Karen had to receive the news while on her own while Keith had to hear the diagnosis over the phone and they have had to cope with this news without the physical support of their family.

SMA is caused by a gene deletion which results in deterioration of Livie’s nerve cells connecting her brain and spinal cord to her body’s muscles. In time, the muscles she uses for things like crawling, sitting up, moving her head and even swallowing and breathing will get progressively weaker. Without treatment, it is possible that Livie won't see her second birthday.

While there is no cure, there are treatments available. Livie has already received her first dose of 'Spinraza', a relatively new treatment that Karen and Keith hope will prolong Livie's life.

However, there is another treatment available in the United States that could be a game changer for Livie and her family. Zolgensma is the world's most expensive treatment and has to be administered before she turns 2 and the earlier she can get it, the better the results would be.

It costs $2.1 million and they are currently trying to fundraise this through a GoFundMe campaign.

Speaking to Dermot and Dave this morning, Karen explained that while it's an incredible target to try to hit 'we love our baby girl so much, and we just think it's her best chance at a better quality of life'. 

Today FM listeners have been incredible since the interview aired, raising thousands in a very short period of time, and if you'd like to donate, visit the A Better Life for Livie GoFundMe page.

As we all know, the current restrictions mean that weddings all around the country have been cancelled or postponed until 2021.

This includes our own Mary Carroll, producer with The Last Word with Matt Cooper, who was due to marry her partner JP this summer.

While the big party that they had envisioned won't be happening until September 2021, Mary and JP have come up with a very special, very local day instead.

Later this summer, they'll be joined by their two children, to say 'I Do' in their local coffee shop.

Mary and JP spoke to Dermot and Dave this morning about how it all came about.

It's going to be a long wait until July 20th when we can finally get our hair done again and we're all feeling a touch bedraggled.

But one Dublin-based hairdresser has decided to do something amazing for charity, which means you can get the experience from the safety of your own home.

Gemma Kilbane is offering to do a full consultation with people looking for some hair advice over video chat and all you have to do is donate to a very worthy cause, teen mental health charity Jigsaw.

Gemma joined Dermot and Dave this morning to explain how it all works and gave us the goss on some of the hair disasters she's seen.

We've all had that moment when we've sent a sarky text only to realise that sarcasm does not translate.

Well, no more. Today in Dave's World, Dave showed us the underused punctuation mark that stops that confusion, and allows you to say 'cool story man' with confidence.

Plus, Dave has another clip that'll freak you out!

Dermot and Dave producer Maria loves herself some celeb goss, and she loves sharing it with us all.

And today, she had some very exciting news about a certain Kildare man who is starring in a certain very popular TV show...

Paul Mescal is apparently the most searched man in the world right now. He was on with James Corden last night who had to break the news to him.

 

.@mescal_paul from @normalpeople was the most searched person on the internet last week. pic.twitter.com/CDu7ZSPlH1

— The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) May 14, 2020

All that and the goss on who Kate Moss is isolating with and something to do with Denise Richards and a love whistle?