Country Life Wednesday 1st April, 2020 by Midlands 103

Midlands Today with Will Faulkner, Thursday April 2nd 2020 – Day Six of Lockdown here: Day 23 in Spain. How are they holding up?

Also, when does Micheál Martin want to take over as Taoiseach and Dr Eddie Murphy discusses the psychology of cabin fever.

Business owners must be vigilant during lock-down with biggest threat emanating online.

Sgt. Graham Kavanagh, Crime Prevention Officer Laois Ofaly explains how fraudsters are exploiting the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) to facilitate various types of online and telephone fraud.

An Garda Síóchána have been made aware of fraudsters sending out coronavirus-themed phishing emails and texts in an attempt to trick people into opening malicious attachments or revealing sensitive personal and financial details.

Postpone Don't Cancel is the message that local hospitality provides as Covid-19 plays havoc with their businesses.

The hashtag ‘#postponedontcancel’ is a call for pre-booked guests who cannot travel due to corona crisis restrictions to throw a lifeline to hospitality businesses.

Deferring your holiday rather than cancelling outright could be the difference between a mild case of Covid-19 closure - from which the business could recover - and a terminal bout.

Kyra Fingleton is the owner of ‘Glamping Under the Stars’ – an award-winning, family-owned boutique glampsite in Co. Laois.

The glampsite has quickly established itself as one of the best in Ireland, offering a range of quirky, luxurious accommodations including bell tents, wood lodges and a gorgeous hand-built shepherd’s hut.

Midlands Today with Will Faulkner, Wednesday April 1st 2020 – Will pulls an April Fool on Brian Cloonan, high praise for a kind Portlaoise Garda, how county councils will help you cocoon and how a simple blood test could one day reveal over 50 cancers.

Midlands Today with Will Faulkner, Tuesday March 31st 2020 – Home at last: the healthcare worker who finally reached the midlands after being stranded in Oz, why the Tullamore Show is being cancelled four months in advance and how Laois Offaly Education and Training Board will help you answer the HSE’s call.

Longford Westmeath Fine Gael TD Peter Burke has been speaking with Will Faulkner on Midlands 103.

Mind the Gap: On this episode of The Open Door Fr Joe MacDonald the liberal priest asks us to relish this lockdown so that we can get off the hamster wheel that we are caught in and bridge the gap between ourselves and our inner worlds.

Also a guide to practical education from a Laois woman who has been homeschooling her kids at home for 20 years.

Midlands Today with Will Faulkner, Monday March 30th 2020 – A Roscommon pensioner recalls the moment a man told him to “get virus and die”, Gardaí in Laois/Offaly explain how they’ll enforce Lockdown and how Portlaoise TJ Doheny plans to recapture his world title!

Midlands Today with Will Faulkner, Friday 27th March, 2020 by Midlands 103