Shows
The Spin with Clare McKenna and Jonathan McCrea
Show Info:
A brand new daily talk show covering everything from news and current affairs to topical features that get people talking. Flipping from hot politics to who's sleeping with who in Hollywood, from what's in the papers to what's hot in the charts, The SPIN has it covered in it’s own unique style.
Listeners texts and calls are a huge part of the show - if there is anything you would like to say or The SPIN to cover in the future;
About Clare:
Clare holds a NCEA Diploma Theatre Studies. a B.A. in Marketing, a Certificate in Television Production & Presentation & a Post Grad Journalism & Media Communications. She began her broadcast career as a newsreader. Finding this wasn't for her she began working in talk radio with SPIN 1038 on Sunday breakfast show McKenna McCrea. She also co-presented music show “Untitled with David O’Doherty” which ran weekly on SPIN 1038 and many other radio stations around the country.
Clare is also a voice over artist, acting as continuity announcer for TV3 & a variety of radio & television ads. She also presented the Liffey Laugh for RTE TV in Feb 2006.
About Jonathan:
Not a subtle or patient man, Jonathan essentially stalked the boss of SPIN ( via email, fax, telephone, carrier pigeon etc) until he was given the chance to present quirky Sunday magazine show The Rear End in 2004 with Clare McKenna. Forming a warm yet continually suspicious alliance, McKenna and McCrea were soon upgraded to a slot on Sunday mornings. Jonathan also produces and presents We Love Movies on Sunday nights, and is a regular contributor to The Sunday Business Post. He also presents On the Box on City Channel, interviewing bands on a Thursday and reviewing games of a Tuesday. It is rumoured he never sleeps.
On the show this week
Ballet Chancers!
RTE Television are looking for hip hop dancers who are not afraid of a challenge.
Monica Loughman, one of the world's premier ballerinas, is on the hunt for hip hop dancers who feel they could make the grade in the world of ballet.
Produced by Animo Television, Ballet Chancers will see Monica & her team provide a group of hip hop dancers with expert intensive training & the chance to perform in a once off performance of The Nutcracker with the Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company in December.
Auditions take place in Dancehouse, Liverty Corner, Foley St, Dublin 1 on Saturday 19th July 2008.
Applicants must be over 16 but Monica was in with us on Wednesday and said they will take on an exceptional 15 year old!
Email ballet@animo.ie if you woudl like to attend the audition. Sucessful auditionees will be called back for a second round on Sunday July 20th.
Good luck - we'd love to have a Spin listener in there - let us know how it goes!
Michael Winslow from Police Academy!!
The legendary motormouth beatboxing genius from Police Academy that is Michael Winslow was in studio this week, check out the interview!
STI Clinics in Ireland
Hey folks, if you reckon you might need to get yourself checked for STIs maybe you've changed partners or had a bit of a random encounter, here's a few places to call. It's a smart thing to do.
We were recommended these guys by a caller, but the full list is below:
Meridian Clinics - http://www.meridianclinic.ie/home_nav_2.html
STI CLINICS
Dublin
St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
The Department of Genitourinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GUIDE) Clinic
Tel: (01) 4162315 / 4162316
Appointments / Emergency Walk-in Service
STI Clinics General
Monday & Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm
Tuesday & Thursday 1.30pm - 3.00pm (By appointment only)
Young Person's Clinic (appointment)
Thursday 10.30am - 11.30pm
Syphilis Screening & Treatment
Tuesday & Thursday 9.30am - 11.30am
HIV Clinics General
Monday 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Wednesday 8.30am - 11.30pm
New patients (Diagnostic Evaluation Unit)
Wednesday 2.30pm - 4.00pm (By appointment only)
Infectious Diseases Clinic
Friday 2.00pm - 4.00pm (By appointment only)
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7
Tel: (01) 830 1122
Monday - Thursday (STI Clinic) - 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Thursday (HIV Testing) - 10.30am - 12.30pm
Tuesday (Follow up medical monitoring for patients with chronic infectious diseases, including HIV) - 9.30am - 1.00pm
Baggot Street Clinic, 19 Haddington Road, Dublin 4
Tel: (01) 6602189/2227.
Gay Men's Health Project
Tuesday 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Wednesday 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Women's Health Project
Wednesday 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Aisling Clinic, Cherry Orchard Hospital, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin 10
Tel: (01) 620 6010
HIV Clinic - Tuesday 2.00pm - 4.00pm
City Clinic, 108 Amiens Street, Dublin 3
Tel: (01) 855 5310
HIV Testing - Monday 2.00pm - 4.00pm
IFPA
5/7 Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1.
Tel: 01 - 872 7088 / 874 2110
Fax: 01 - 872 5734
OPENING HOURS
Monday: 9.30am - 8pm
Tuesday: 9.30am - 7pm
Wednesday: 9.30am - 7pm
Thursday: 9.30am - 8pm
Friday: 9.30am - 7pm
Saturday: 9.30am - 4pm
Sunday: Closed
My Eye Procedure!!
I was blind, but now I see ... for those of you who can stomach it, here's my surgery done by those good people at Eye Laser Ireland in the Dundrum Eye Clinic.
Cool huh??
Life's a beach!
Only two weeks til the Urban Beach hits George's Dock in the IFSC. It's essentially an entire beach brought to the inner city! How cool! For more info, click here.
Now let's all pick a sun god to pray to. We're going with Surya Deva. Hinduism is so hot right now. No pun intended.
