Ocean Drive With Aidan Mannion Oct 21st by OceanFM Ireland

The Friday Panel of North West Today consisted of Sligo Leitrim Independent TD Marion Harkin and the former Sligo Councillor Seamus Kilgannon.

They Joined John Lynch in studio to discuss the events of the past week/

The latest rally and protest to highlight the crisis in Donegal and to campaign for a 100% redress scheme was held in Dublin on Wednesday last.

Children played in a central role in this most recent event as they through interviews and by writing letters outlined how living in Mica houses was impacting their lives.

It was an effective campaign that made many sit up and take notice but it also annoyed many that children were deployed to the protest.

Paddy Diver is a 100% redress campaigner and earlier explained to John Lynch on North West Today why the decision was taken to let the voices of the children be heard on the mica issue.

As St Farnan's prepare for Saturday's Sligo Connacht Gold intermediate football final against St Molaise Gaels, the man who wrote the book on the west Sligo GAA Club - historian Rory O'Beirne - gives Ocean FM Sport the lowdown on the club's formation and rise through the ranks...

Ballinaglera club chairperson Padraig Loughlin gives us a sense of the excitement in north Leitrim ahead of Sunday's intermediate football final - and the challenges of keeping a rural GAA club going in bad times as well as good...

Their women's footballers won the Leitrim intermediate title last Sunday. Their junior men's footballers have reached a county decider. Now - the club's men's first team are getting ready for Sunday's Smith Monumentals IFC final against Ballinaglera. Club Chairperson Dermot O'Donohoe explains what's 'clicked' this season...

David Durkin, winner of 8 SFC titles with Tourlestrane, and Con O'Meara, a member of the last Coolera/Strandhill team to lift the Owen B. Hunt Cup in 2005, join Austin O'Callaghan to assess the possibilities in this Sunday's Homeland SFC decider at Markievicz Park.

(Picture courtesy of Eamonn McMunn - Sligo GAA)

Ocean Drive with Collie on Movies 1.Dune 2.The Boss Baby; Family Business 3.The Exorcist (1973)

Dr Paddy McGill will see you now...

Gweedore's Eamon McGee and Killybegs' Hugh McFadden are in the waiting room this week.

This week we look at 3 exciting exhibitions opening this weekend at

The Model in Sligo with its Artistic Director, Emer McGarry.

Fiddler with the band Kila, Dee Armstrong, gives us the lowdown on the annual Rock School and the Samhain Parade in Manorhamilton.

And we speak with poet, Eithne Hand, on her exhibition at Sligo City Hall, Are We There Yet?, a multi-disciplinary artistic response to the new N4 road extension arising from her artist-in-residence slot at The Hawk’s Well.

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