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Tonight we look back on the Tipp senior hurlers defeat to Limerick and our footballers draw with Fermanagh. John Coman from the Tipp supporters club and Ger Ryan from the Munster Council also join us. Brian White and David Byrnes with Jamie on soccer completes the line up. We hope you like...

We heard about concerns around the increase in the VAT rate on health supplements last week.

For four decades, supplements such as vitamins, minerals, probiotics and fish oils have been exempt from VAT.

Well, while we were speaking about this to a health shop retailer last week, my next guest contacted us to say he has been involved in consulting the government on this.

He says he too disagrees with the hikes and is warning that the health impacts of this will be serious.

Carrick-on-Suir's Professor John Nolan - who is Chair for Human Nutrition Research at the School of Health Science, Waterford Institute of Technology and Founder and Director of the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland - joined Fran on Monday.

A ten-day festival is about to get underway in Limerick to celebrate the experiences and achievements of women.

The inaugural 'Fem Fest' at Mary Immaculate College begins tomorrow and will look at the role and representation of women in film, Irish trad music, sport and history.

MIC lecturer and Chair of the festival's organising committee Dr Dorothy Morrissey spoke to Fran on Monday:

An Oireachtas committee report has found that Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools is outdated and in need of an overhaul.

The current curriculum, which was introduced in 1999 has been criticised for not adapting to changes that have taken place in Ireland since its introduction.

In particular, the current delivery of LGBTQI+ education was described as lacking.

Students speaking to RTE have said that some of them used cartoons such as The Simpsons to fill their knowledge gap around sex and relationships.

It prompted us to wonder what a lack of quality sex education - and the need for our youth to turn to outside sources to inform them - is affecting them - and Child Psychologist Majella Kennedy spoke to Fran on Monday:

Tipp Today Producer Ben Sweeney joins Fran for his latest Netflix recommendations.

Susie Murphy published her first book – A Class Apart – last year and has followed it up with a sequel, A Class Entwined.

The book is set in Ireland in 1828 – and Susie's joined Fran on Monday to tell him more about it:

'Cormac' first contacted Tipp FM a number of weeks ago.

He was in the middle of a financial crisis, having lost several thousand euro of a family members money after a three and a half hour stint in a betting office.

Cormac – which is a name we've given him to hide his identity – didn't know who to turn to or what to do next as he tried to hide what he had done from his family.

Fran spoke to him about what happened, how he tried to deal with it and how easy it can be to make such a simple mistake:

Cllr Denis Leahy has announced that he will not contest the local elections this May.

The Independent Tipp Town Cllr has spent 35 years in local politics and was elected to the district in 2014 on the eighth count.

Fran traveled to Tipp Town and to Denis' pub in the town to speak to him about his decision to retire.

Heartwise are based in the Ard Gaoithe Business Park in Clonmel.

Heartwise are different to your usual weight management method - they combine gentle exercise including yoga, weights and circuits under the watchful eye of a trained physiotherapist.

They're holding an open day this Saturday from 10am until 1pm – ahead of which owner DJ O'Dwyer joined Fran on Friday.

Tipp Today's Resident Physiotherapist Paddy O'Brien spoke to Fran on Friday.