LARRY WAS PART OF RTE’S GOLDEN AGE

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, inset, wants to put the entire country on a four-day working week or six-hour working day.

This is something that we need to look at here in Ireland.

I think people are working too hard and spending too much time switched on at their desks and at home on their phones and laptops.

Of course you have to provide for yourself and your family but you should be able to switch off to avoid burnout and be able to enjoy your family and friends. There is an argument to shorten the working week so employees have time away and come

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Snoopy back focused and productive, quality may increase while quantity decreases.

So it could end up with a win-win. It is not going to suit every line of work but it could suit certain industries.

Another option worth looking at is staggering work shifts in order to help free up the roads and eliminate traffic in big cities and towns.

People spend so long commuting to and from the office, hours spent in traffic jams only adds to stress and anxiety and neither employer nor employee benefits from that. while working. Sadly, I never had the pleasure of meeting Larry but he is somebody that I would have loved to have chatted to because of his extensive music knowledge across so many different genres and decades.

RTE has lost a lot of great talent recently with Marian Finucane dying and Gay Byrne passing away last November, so it must be a tough time for all of their friends in there.

Everyone was a fan of Larry Gogan. He always appeared pleasant and upbeat, he was the king of pop radio in Ireland and his Just a Minute Quiz was compulsive listening, as much for the wrong answers as the right ones. LEGEND

I remember Larry Gogan listening to his pop shows every week as a young lad and then he moved to the afternoon shows and I listened to him

The statistics that 10% of people have never washed their gym clothes and 44% of people reuse them is absolutely disgusting. My wife would kill me if I did either, she would never let me rewear the

People were furious when Fr Ray Kelly only got a score of eight on Dancing With The Stars last Sunday, the next lowest score was Michael Carruth with 12. At the end of the day, it was no real harm because he is only on the show for the fun of it and it is just television. Nobody was expecting celebrities to be amazing on their first week and it is not a serious competition. Fr Ray got the worst score of the four seasons from judges Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry and Julian Benson I reckon the showman in him realises that it’s just entertainment. I don’t think he will be losing too much sleep over it. None of those who signed up to the show did so in the belief they would become a modern day Fred Astaire. Those who can’t dance are doing it for the buzz and maybe to inject a bit of variety into their

careers. shorts, never mind the T-shirt or socks. I throw my gear into the wash after the gym so they are fresh for the following day. Reusing workout clothes is not good hygiene at all and I would not like to be the person training beside them.

BAPTISM OF FIRE Fr Ray Kelly with dancer

Kylee Vincent