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Local Rose organiser reacts to cancellation - Deise Today Tuesday 28th April

Local Rose organiser reacts to cancellation - Deise Today Tuesday 28th April
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On today's show Damien looks at the new criteria for testing for Covid-19.

Currently, only people in at-risk groups or those with two major symptoms of the virus are being sent for testing.

From next week, anyone who has just one of the major symptoms will be tested, with priority still for those people in vulnerable and at risk groups. Damien speaks to Dr Geoff Plant about these changes.

He also speaks to Nicole Flynn whose fiancé is still stationed in The Lebanon and is uncertain when he will be returning home. The pair are due to get married in September.

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Following on from yesterdays call from a woman who was trying to reconnect with a friend she met while on holiday, today Damien re-unites the pair.

And chiropodist Paul Walsh from The Waterford Foot Clinic, tells us why he is re-opening his business today.

Also on the programme, Labour TD Aodhan O Riordan discusses figures released yesterday relating to money being given to private companies for direct provision services.

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The organiser of the Waterford Rose of Tralee Victoria Walsh reacts to yesterdays news that the festival has been cancelled this year for the first time in its 61 year history.

Claire O Sullivan, the manager of Tintean house, appeals for provisions for homeless people.

And Catherine Foley has details of her live reading of "Beyond the Breakwater" which happens on Facebook each day at 5pm

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