On Tuesday's version of 'Déise Today', Damien was talking to two organisers of Waterford's newest festival to talk about the acts that will be taking part in the festival and the details of it.
The two organisers were Neil Kelly and Jim 'Flash' Gordan. Jim runs several venues throughout the county including Oskars and also Revolution in Waterford City.
They both saw how good the 'Live At The Marquee' does in Cork City and saw the potential that something similar to this would be massive for the city. The marquee tent has been called 'Big Top Live'.
They have brought out the details on that the large 55-foot circus tent would be set up in the Gasworks in Waterford and would include acts such as Keith Barry and many others that are to be introduced over the next week.
Neil and Jim are asking for the Waterford public to get behind this initiative and you can get tickets at 'Big Top Live'.
If you want to watch that announcement, you can just click here!
Apart from that, there was plenty of discussion on a number of different topics.
Damien was talking to Stephen Collins, a political columnist with 'The Irish Times' to talk about the recent Maria Bailey controversy.
In an interview with RTE radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show she claimed that the disclosure of the legal case in a national newspaper had been “methodical, pre-planned to cause the maximum damage.”
She said she had never been looking for compensation; she just wanted to have her medical bills covered.
The first she had been aware that the story was going to break was when she received a telephone call from a journalist asking for a comment on the case. The journalist had access to private medical documents.
If you want to listen to that interview and the full version of 'Déise Today', you can just click here!
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-tuesday-28th-may-2019
