We honour the achievements of women on The Tonic today and chat with Maria Marshall who was in her eighties when she got a publishing deal for her book of poetry and then we chat with Brede Murphy who was a nurse with the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dublin when it first became a centre specialising in spinal injuries. Sergeant Peter McConnon joins us at the end of the programme to highlight fraud. The Tonic is brought to you as part of the Keep Well campaign in assocaition with Kilkenny County Council and the Older People’s Council Kilkenny