On Monday's version of 'Déise Today', Maria McCann was talking to Joanna Fortune, who is a clinical psychotherapist.
Joanna was on the show to discuss the recent decision by the World Health Organization (W.H.O) to recognise video game addiction as a 'disease'.
The organisation state that in order to be classed as addicted to video games that "For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months."
Joanna was also on the show to discuss what happened when the makers of the highly popular game 'Candy Crush', developer "King" appeared before British MPS at a digital, culture, media and sports committee last week.
King say that they don't believe that their games could be addicted but also told the committee that they were not psychiatrists.
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Also on the show, Maria was talking to driving instructor Kieran Kennedy to talk about the recent news that one in six Irish motorists were involved in a car crash while learning to drive their cars as per a AA survey.
Maria was also talking to Joe Healy, National President of the 'Irish Farmers Association' where he was talking about the organisation's huge concern over the new EU trade deal that is under negotiations with Mescour.
Speaking to reporters in Brussels yesterday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the government will now conduct a full economic assessment of the so-called ‘Mercosur Deal’.
The EU and the South American trade bloc Mercosur sealed the hugely significant trade agreement on Friday, ending 20 years of talks over one of the world’s largest regional commercial accords.
Irish farmers are not happy with this development as they fear that this could kill Irish farmers with cheaper alternatives coming in with South American meat.
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