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LIVELINE CALLBACK

Liveline Callback Ep 3 Image Name: Liveline Callback Ep 3 Copyright: RTE
Liveline Callback Image Name: Liveline Callback Description: Liveline Callback Joe Duffy Copyright: RTE

EPISODE 3      

Story –  “The Rent Scam”

Rebecca was a student Nurse at UCD and was on placement at various hospitals across Dublin.  Last year Rebecca and her friends were scammed out of thousands by an online Rental Scam. Rebecca rang Liveline with all the details and Joe decides to ring the scammer himself, live on air!

Story – “Margaret’s Story” (Margaret Bullen)

In 2003, Samantha Long was seven months pregnant and listening to Liveline when she heard Margaret Bullen ( Maggie), her  biological mother, had died. Becasue she didn’t get word about her mothers death  she and her sister Etta did not get to attend their mothers funeral.

Samantha spoke on Liveline many times in the years that followed.  She and her twin sister Etta were born while their mother Maggie was still going through the laundry/institution system.

They were twins adopted together but in 1993 they finally got to meet her.  They met Maggie for the first time for coffee at the Gresham Hotel, which is just around the corner from Sean MacDermott Street laundry where Margaret still lived.  A relationship was formed but it was difficult with all that had passed.  When they learned of their Moms death they wanted her story to be told.

Margaret’s story unfolded on the airwaves and led to an international campaign (Justice for Magdalenes) culminating in the McAleese report (February 2013) and an apology from the government about the treatment of women in the Magdalene Laundry system.

Story – “The Lost Suitcase”

Anne Casey, a lively pub landlady from Ballyporeen leaves her case in a taxi while on a weekend away in Dublin. Frustrated and despeate to get her suitcase back she contacts Liveline to see if there is any way she can retrieve it.