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Featured on this week's Inclusive Sport with Aidan Raftery; Robbie's Corner with Robbie Mulvey, Roscommon Roundup with Robbie Mulvey, World Cup Roundup with Ronan Barrett, Athlone Boat Club News with Paul O' Donovan, and World Cup with Brian Colleran.

RosFM celebrated National Community Radio Day & the Launch of it's 10 Year Licence, with music, workshops, training and Interviews. Presenter's Lovers Parmire and Joe Bambrick's guests were; Brian Greene, Chairperson of CRAOL, RosFM's Martina Dockery, Aileen Purcell, Niamh Loftus, Louis Fargo, RosFM Chairperson Bernie Kearney , and CRAOL Media Skills Trainer Deirdre Hunt.CRAOL Chairperson Brian Greene chatted with RosFM's Mike Nolan, John Ralph, Patsy McCaul and Seamus Duke about National Community Radio Day and the importance of community radio.

Clinical trials help medical professionals to find better ways to prevent cancer, to detect it earlier, to treat it with new therapies, and to improve quality of life for cancer patients, so as part of Cancer Trials Ireland’s annual campaign to encourage greater discussion between doctors and patients about available clinical trials, they hosted an online event for people with cancer on 22nd May entitled “Let’s Talk Trials”. Adrianne speaks here with Emer Mulvaney, Contracts and Public & Patient Involvement Programme Manager about this event, which can be viewed on www.cancertrials.ie/letstalktrials/ and about people getting involved in cancer trials around the country. To find information on all the cancer clinical trials currently taking place in Ireland visit www.cancertrials.ie or call the Irish Cancer Society’s FREE Nurseline on Freephone 1800 200 700.

Denise Dunne, Head of Operations with Cystinosis Ireland speaks with Adrianne about this very rare disease (only 2,000 cases in Ireland), and the supports that they offer people with the condition and their families.

‘I Wonder if I had Turned Right’ is a book by Michael ‘Haulie’ Grady, which is the story of his journey through life and a celebration of the spirit that carries us all. Haulie is a larger- than-life character who has come from humble beginnings, but has lived life to the full and, as he would say himself, has blagged his way through a lot of it. He speaks here with Adrianne about his book, a few of his memories and what the title means. The book ‘I Wonder if I Had Turned Right’ can be bought on amazon or in your local bookstores, such as Newsround and Rummage in Roscommon town.

The Summer Meals Project runs throughout July and August across County Roscommon. Backed by the Galway and Roscommon ETB and community groups, the initiative provides hot meals to children and teens (ages 10–18) attending participating UBU youth services. Ruth Griffin, ETBI Youth Services Manager chats here with Adrianne about the Summer Meals Project and what it means for some children who may have gone hungry when school finished for the Summer. Involvement in the Summer Meals Programme requires active participation in your local youth services, so sign up by going to ETBI Service Directory or visit your local Foroige or Youth Services offices and Family Resource Centres like the South Roscommon Family Resource Centre and the Ballaghaderreen Family Resource Centre frequently host community summer camps, play days, and family food events.

Since 2008, Roscommon have been hosting students from Wageningen University in the Netherlands for 2 weeks in the month of June. They are studying ‘International Community Development’, like the ‘Community & Rural Development’ work that the Roscommon LEADER Partnership engages in throughout the year. As part of their studies, the students undertake 2 weeks of field research work in the community they are temporarily living in. Adrianne is joined in studio by Anthony Dockery, SICAP Coordinator with Roscommon LEADER Partnership who runs this project and organises host families for these students in County Roscommon, she is also joined by three of these Dutch students to talk about the research they have been doing, Mart Marck who is spending his two weeks in the village of Loughglynn, and Hannah Vink and Loekla van Geleuken who are living with host families in Roscommon Town.

Featured on this week's Inclusive Sport with Aidan Raftery: Premier League Soccer and World Cup with Brian Colleran, Roscommon Round Up with Robbie Mulvey, Formula 1 with Michael O' Grady, Southern Gaels Hurling Club with Robbie Mulvey and Concussion Update with Heidi Kivimaa.

On this week's Feel Good Friday Joe Bambrick chats to Paula Corcoran from North Roscommon, who has Cerebral Palsy and is non verbal but uses a piece of technology called 'Tobii' operated with the eyes, to communicate. Paula explains how the technology works and shares her experiences of growing up with Cerebral Palsy.

Having spoken to Colin White last week from the Irish Kidney Association about the need for kidney donors and for people to carry donor cards, Adrianne is joined this week by Susan Mulligan who is an organ donor recipient. Susan talks about her life on dialysis and the kidney transplant operation she had in 2019, which has changed her life. She is so grateful to the family of the donor, who have literally given her life, and she has even gone on to have a baby, which would not have been possible before the transplant. Please register for a donor card by clicking on www.ika.ie/donorcard or support the Irish Kidney Association’s work by donating at www.supportkidneycentre.ie