Tipp FM Radio

Now, we've been hearing a lot about the Sky Innovation Park in Tipp Town in recent weeks and months.

We've heard that it's ready to go and to provide a lot of jobs to the region, while many of you have been in touch to say you've visited the site and that it's full of old equipment, has damage to it and doesn't look anywhere near ready to be moved into by an investor.

Emma Pillion is the Property Director at Corajio who own the site, and joins me now to give us the latest on the site:

Twelve weeks ago, two Nenagh parents went through a truly awful ordeal when their beautiful baby Madison – their second daughter – was born with a collapsed lung.

Madison needed invasive treatment to survive and special equipment to help her breathe.

Thankfully, Madison has bounced back to health – AND has since gone on to win the Baby of the Year award, as voted by the readers of the Mum & Tots magazine.

Madison's parents, Hayley and Eoin O'Connor joined Fran in studio to tell their story.

On Friday Fran was joined in studio by Chartered Physiotherapist Paddy O’Brien – Founder of the O’Brien Clinic

Paddy has also been heavily involved in the Tipperary Inter-county Hurling set up

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail began discussions today aimed at extending the Confidence and Supply arrangement.

Ahead of that, and as he was in Nenagh to officially open Sandra Farrell's constituency office, Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin joined Fran in studio.

Martin Quinn is well known to Tipp FM listeners as a community activist based in Tipp Town.

On Monday he traveled to Dublin to take part in a demonstration calling for better supports for stroke survivors.

Martin, himself a stroke survivor, says lives are being lost due to inadequate systems to treat survivors, and he joined Fran in studio today.

Tipperary's Tom Tuohy ranked eighth at the largest amatuer golf competition of the year – the Audi Quattro Cup World Final in Austria over the weekend.

Playing alongside his son, Mark, Tom placed eighth out of 80,000 golfers who competed in almost 650 qualification tournaments.

He joined Fran to discuss it.

Philomena O'Connell has been living in a Council house in Mullinahone for over fourty years.

Due to a number of medical conditions, including medication that makes her urinate frequently in the morning and needing to carry around an oxygen tank, she needs a downstairs shower unit and toilet to be built.

However, two years after first lodging the request, and being a "priority 1” for an upgrade, Philomena was told there wasn't money to instigate the works, and she spoke to Fran on Wednesday.

We're all familiar with the idea of Halloween, but where exactly do all the stereotypes and traditions we know come from?

Well, Dr Cathy Swift is a lecturer of Medieval & Irish in Mary Immaculate College and joins me now to explain more:

Cornelius Traas of The Apple Farm outside Clonmel has been linking apples and Halloween in a unique way – he gives away around 6,000 each October to 32 Tipp schools.

He's been donating apples for over 25 years and joined Fran to explain why.

A new book charts the history of prolific women in Cahir's history.

Beginning as a project between four women who wanted to insert the information into an archive, it quickly became apparent that there was a wealth of information and a book was put together.

Josephine O'Neill is one of four editors of Daughters of Dun Iascaigh and joined Fran in studio on Wednesday.