On Monday's version of 'Déise Today', Damien was speaking to John and Clodagh Dawson, parents of Waterford's Robin Dawson, who had a very promising performance at the Irish Open last weekend.
The 23-year-old Waterford player, just nine months into his professional career, was originally due to be playing a Challenge Tour event this week - with a purse of €200,000 - until a potential career-changing ‘phone call, as he prepared to take a flight from Rome to Senica, informed him of his late call-up into the €6 million tournaments that is part of the elite Rolex Series on the European Tour.
He holed a 15 footer for birdie on the 18th green in Friday’s second round to ensure surviving the cut and then followed up with a brilliant bogey-free 64 in the rain in Saturday’s third round, jumping up 50 places to tied-third by the time he finished.
The 23-year-old may have dropped 13 places on the leaderboard on Sunday, but still claimed a top-30 finish and a cheque for approximately €65,000
His parents talk about their pride for him and how he started off golfing at a young age, while Derry talks about how he always felt that Robin had that special talent and is hoping for more big things to come from him.
If you want to listen to that interview, you can just click here.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/11231943/damien-talks-to-robin-dawsons-parents-as
Also on the show, Damien was speaking to Aisling O'Neil and Rebecca Power about a new event taking place in the Munster Bar, this Saturday the 12th July called 'PubHD Waterford'.
At this event, Rebecca will be doing a talk called 'Food For Thought: The Cognitive Impairment Study'.
It will be talking about how food can be used not to gain more intelligence, but to help us keep on top of things and to use our brains to the maximum of our abilities.
If you want to listen to the full version of the show, you can just click below.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/11231943/deise-today-8th-july-2019
