There's No Business Like... - Atlantic Radio Ireland

A bank account review provided Moze M. Jacobs with some useful tips to make life cheaper so she asked the branch manager to do a radio interview. Geraldine Galvin of Bank Of Ireland, Clonakilty, talks interest rates, savings, and mortgages.

Ten years ago Frenchman Gildas Laplaud left the fishing industry and opened the Happy Go Lucky toy shop on Clonakilty’s main street.  The ocean’s loss was the children of Clon’s gain.  Gildas chats about sold-out Christmas toys, competing with online merchants, board games, Irish jigsaws, Lego, Playmobil and stocking fillers.

Moze talks to Con McLoughlin about the ‘healthy food’ shop in Clonakilty, responsible eating (“if you eat meat you’ve got to be prepared to kill it”), nutritious proteins, eating a hare and how childhood experiences in the West of Ireland informed his food philosophy. Leonard Cohen is his musical choice.

There’s No Business Like … saving animals from a gruesome fate. The West Cork Animal Welfare Group in Ownahincha has helped neglected and abused animals since 1999 and it is still going strong largely thanks to volunteers and fundraising efforts. Pub Quiz in Mickey Finns, Clonakilty on 1 December. http://www.westcorkanimals.com/

Donogh O’Loghlin views his business in an environmental light whenever he can. He is also part of the Kilkern Lake Initiative that aims to clean up the polluted lake (near Long Strand). Search ‘Kilkern Lake Initiative‘ group on Facebook to give them your support after you listen to Donogh’s story.

It’s all in the family! Moze interviews Dan and Barry O’Mahony about black belts, self-defense, confidence, keeping Ninja’s on the right track, and fitter minds in fitter bodies.

Moze talks to pilot/author Francisco Rebollo about his day job as a captain and how he mixed fact & fiction into a fantastic Science Fiction novel, Orb, set in a parallel universe. We’ll also hear some music from him!

http://www.franciscorebolloauthor.com/

Moze talks to Kevin O’Donovan of Scannell’ s Bar in Clonakilty (and formerly of Dunmore House Hotel) about pulling pints, good lunches, old-school hospitality, Strictly Clon Dancing, and Lou Reed.

(Picture Kevin O’Donovan – Shay Hunston)

Londis in Clonakilty grew out of Noel Walsh’s and Betty Brosnan’s before that. Moze talks to Eamonn Walsh and his mother Breda about three generations of hard-working shopkeepers and a love of food and people.

(Pictures Breda and Eamonn Walsh – Shay Hunston)

Moze talks to proprietor Mark Holland of Clon’s only music shop, Hunky Dory, about guitars, playing the bodhrán in the kitchen, all sorts of music and Clonakilty as the guitar capital of the Western world. Plus playlist.