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TippFM`s weekly journey out and about in the Premier County, This week Eamonn visited The Cottage in Loughmore

Commercial radio stations have been called on to improve their Irish radio broadcasting.

The pleas have been made by the authors behind the second report researching the use of the Irish language on radio.

John Walsh, a lecturer in Irish at NUI Galway and himself a broadcaster is one of the authors of the report and joined Fran on today's show.

Are you planning to get a family dog? Ever considered a retired greyhound.. Well hundreds of them have been re-homed with loving families both here and abroad

Its all thanks to the Irish Retired Greyhound Trust and people like West Tipperary lady Patricia Tobin

Tipp FM's Trudy Waters headed out to meet her and her very special brood...

An pensioner living in Tipperary contacted us on Friday to tell us his story of being the victim of an elaborate cyber attack.

He received a call from somebody pretending to be with his internet service provider and he followed their directions.

They proceeded to successfully scam him of all the money in his bank account.

He says he was shocked at how elaborate the scam was, and he joined Fran to explain his experience:

After Michael got in touch with us on Friday, Ben spoke to Cyber Safety expert Urban Schrott from ESET Ireland to get his response to it and ask what people should do to protect themselves from increasingly cunning scammers.

This Wednesday, November 21st is World COPD Day.

COPD - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - is estimated to affect almost half a million people across Ireland, with around 450 hospital entries in this County each year.

Nenagh man Danny Foley had a major heart attack 19 years ago and then discovered he has COPD.

He's since gone on to help set up the Tipperary COPD Support Group which offers a range of activities for those suffering, and he joined Fran on Monday's show.

We're all familiar with the throwaway expression 'you wouldn't put a dog out in that weather” but yet every year thousands of Irish people are living without a roof over their head.. They're homeless.

Despite the insistance of government that they're making inroads in providing housing, homeless agencies say its simply not enough.

One of our regular contributors Don regularly travels to Dublin to help out with providing food, clothing and chat to people who live on the streets but to really understand their plight he has also 'lived rough' for several days , depending on the charity and good will of others for food and the hope of a dry spot to sleep in some doorway ..

Don joined Fran on Monday's show to talk about his experience.

Cloughjordan will be the centre of a cavalcade of circus performers this weekend.

It's as the inaugural Irish Youth Circus Club Festival gets underway in the North Tipp town, the first event of it's kind to be held in Ireland.

It's the brainchild of Joanna Williams of the Cloughjordan Circus Club, and she spoke to Fran on Friday's Tipp Today.

The family of a Nenagh woman who died just under a year ago after a trial drug that had turned her life around was withdrawn, have welcomed the news that the drug manufacturer will make it available again.

'Respreeza' - manufactured by CSL Behring - will now be available to the 19 Irish people who are battling the rare disorder Alpha-1, a antitripsan deficiency.

Having greatly benefited Marion Kelly before it was withdrawn, she then died of Alpha-1 at the age of 53.

Her family have spent the time since her death leading the campaign to have the drug restored, and Marion's sister Niamh Kelly spoke to Fran on Friday about how important it is that it will now be available again.

Showband singer Sonny Knowles has died aged 86.

The Dublin-born singer rose to fame during Ireland's cabaret and showband era, and regularly performed with the National Concert Orchestra.

Showband legend Paddy Cole worked with Sonny throughout his career and joined Fran to pay tribute to the Irish music legend.

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