Destination Newry… the morning programme… “Good Morning Newry and Mourne & the World”…the weekend in prospect…. Relaxation beckons….perhaps….. No relaxation from the effort world-wide now almost…..to tackle the ebola virus….4000 US troops to west Africa to help….the National Guard called out to follow…. But what are they to do…..against the invisible enemy…..worst case scenario they pick up the virus and take it home with them to America….the courage of all who fight ebola beyond words….what wonderful people are these nurses, doctors and health workers….dedicated….amazing…. On the programme today….the goodness of the people of Glinsk on the Galway Roscommon border…their neighbour’s child Sean Parker….eighty when he died in a council home in Kent after a lifetime of poverty in London…they brought him home to Glinsk and laid him to rest alongside his mother, Annie, who died in 1945….the final sentence in the final chapter of the story of the Parker family of Glinsk who are no more…. Antiques…why do we hanker after the excellences of bygone times…the bric-a-brac of yesteryear….. ….furniture and now reproductions… I have the story of the fifth generation Newry trading family family….how they came as market traders from Belfast….left their goods…safe…in the open in the market under a canvas cover…between Thursday and Saturday, the trading days…Raymond McCabe on his world of Antiques and world travel in search of the antiques of the modern era… Europe our home…Bernard Conlon a repatriated (Brussels to Ireland) European journalist…once more on the programme making our place in Europe a reality and relevant in our modern lives….Bernard on Europe…the story this morning…. George Kingsnorth of Gullion Media…..he has developed a blue chip distance learning media package… camerawork….editing…scripting…storyboarding…production…direction…the whole gamut……and when Australia comes on line each day another raft of undergraduates….George and his work @ 0930 BST today…. From Newry Veterinary Centre Liam joins me with a four-legged friend…on of his dogs…maybe the wolfhound…we are in for a treat…dogs and how to care for them and as we journey ever more deeply into winter….remember… “a dog is for life…not just for Christmas”…. And we end the week…well the Friday programme anyway…with our time to reflect ……on the mysteries of God that is….His message to the modern, troubled world…is He there at all…or is the God story simply a soothing balm for a troubled mind….I pose these and other questions to Rev Edward McKenzie… Rowan Hand looking forward to you stepping over the welcome mat and into Studio 1….up-to-date at home…..a link with home across the planet… Just Google Destination Newry 0730 – 1030 hrs BST weekday mornings….and all day long… Go well.. take care…by happy…bring happy with you wherever you find yourself. Rowan Hand…
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