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A Puckane family is making waves in the snooker world.

18-year-old Mark Gleeson and his brother, 14-year-old Noel will be representing Ireland at the European snooker Championships in Israel next month.

Mark, Noel and their father John spoke to Fran on Friday.

Legendary Kilkenny kit man Dennis 'Rackard' Cody joined Fran in studio on Friday.

We heard from several members of the Society of St Vincent de Paul in advance of Christmas.

At the time, they were speculating that the society could recieve 50,000 calls for the winter period.

Well, staggeringly, that number has been reached already and there's a whole month remaining in the season.

SVP National President Kieran Stafford – who's from Clonmel – joined Fran in studio on Thursday.

Originally from Knockavilla, Geraldine Browne has been living in Toronto for nearly three decades now and has been awarded the title of 'Irish Person of the Year' there in recognition of the work she does for the Irish community over there.

She's heading back to Canada next week to begin a new job, but ahead of that she joined Fran in studio.

Victims of domestic violence who are psychologically abused will now be offered more protection.

New laws come into effect this week and include a new offence of coercive control.

However, a number of domestic violence charities have said that there are a number of gaps in the legislation such as how children in domestic violence situations will be managed and sentencing for breach of court orders.

To give their take on the new legislation Project Leader Geraldine Mullane and Court Accompaniment Michelle O'Sullivan, both of Cuan Saor in Clonmel joined Fran on Thursday.

Helen England joined Fran in studio to kick off the new year.

Historian Dr Conor Reidy joined Fran in studio on Wednesday for the January edition of Hidden Histories.

This month's topic was: 'A drunken night in Cashel and a day in the Old Bailey'.

Tennis player and coach Frank O'Keefe is behind the first Multiskillz academy and says he hopes to teach Tipperary's youth to develop critical sporting skills before they reach puberty.

Frank says he noticed a drop in basic coordination skills in his students over time and adopted the Multiskillz programme – which began in Belgium – to set up the first academy in Ireland.

For the last show of 2018 Eamonn paid a visit to "The Yanks" in Borrisokane

With Christmas 2018 just days away , Eamonn paid a visit to Ballyneale National School to chat with the Students, Teachers and parents