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NATIONWIDE

Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh Image Name: Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh Image Name: Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

WEEK 14

MONDAY 30TH MARCH

OLYMPIC HOPEFULS
Nationwide meets two people who had qualified and were ready to travel to Tokyo for the Olympic Games which have now been rescheduled. Reporter Colm Flynn meets gymnast Ryhs McClenaghan and Zainab Boladale speaks to taekwondo competitor Jack Woolley.

WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

NUI Galway has started the first traveller society in a University in Ireland. Colm Flynn meets past graduate of NUIG Owen Patrick Ward to hear his story of accessing third-level education. And Valerie Waters meets a young man who is enjoying a second chance of life after a heart transplant.

FRIDAY 3RD APRIL

Presenter Anne Cassin meets a woman who is on the front line in the search for a vaccination for Covid-19 and Donal Byrne takes a look back at the Spanish flu pandemic from 1918.

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