The Week: Brain Tumours to Twin Towers Attacks
We're looking back at some news and show highlights on KCLR for this past week
You’re reading The Week on KCLR, highlighting some of the stories you may have missed on-air and online.
Another busy week on KCLR but this time around we’re not just looking back seven days but 20 years…
As always, you can join our news team across the day, seven days a week, read the stories on kclr96fm.com and kclrfanzone.com or take us with you on the KCLR app.
Remembering 9/11
20 years on from the fall of the Twin Towers in the September 11th terrorist attacks, survivor Richard Funchion recounts his experience of that horrific day and the painful aftermath.
2,996 people lost their lives and a further twenty-five thousand were injured when four US commercial aeroplanes were hijacked, in an attack orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
A blessing or a curse?
Nearly €850,000 has been allocated to Carlow and Kilkenny to provide permanent outdoor dining facilities that are weather-resistant.
Kilkenny’s Market Yard gets €649,000. While Carlow is set to receive just over €190,000 for Tullow Street Upper and for the Main Street in Borris.
But not everyone’s sure it’s a good idea…
Lights, Camera: Drama
On The Saturday Show Edward Hayden caught up with actor Rob Murphy to find out about his brand new Dramatic Action Stage School which is opening in Kilkenny …
Relief for staff at St Luke’s Hospital as Covid-19 scare eases
Incurable brain tumour
What started out as a diagnosis of stroke turned out to be a brain tumor.
Catch Up
There’s plenty more from across the week here on KCLR.
You’ll find our news stories here while regular key features from programmes covering a range of topics, including travel, fitness, health care, as well as repeats of our talk shows and more can be found in our Catch Up section.
Best of all, you can read and listen to everything in the KCLR app.
