The Round-Up: Friday 19th June 2020
Elizabeth Rogers discusses a survey carried out by Outdoor Recreation NI looking at how people here have been engaging with the outdoors during the lockdown. We talk to Singapore based radio presenter Shan Wee about the region’s tackling of the Covid-19 situation and how they are still being very cautious in coming out of lockdown.
The Round-Up: Thursday 18th June 2020
Public health officials say contact tracing is a key part of the response in trying to control the virus. We talk to Dr Sarah Milligan from the public Health Agency, part of the contact tracing team in Northern Ireland. We talk to Sarah Lynn, who’s community group started the Black Lives Matter support display at […]
The Round-Up: Wednesday 17th June 2020
The Bookstart programme, run by the UK’s largest children’s reading charity BookTrust NI, provides books to families with very young children and encourages positive home learning environments from an early age. We speak to the Education Minister about its importance as part educational development. Hamsavani Rajeswaren, Vice President for Equality and Diversity at Queen’s University […]
The Round-Up: Tuesday 16th June 2020
Owen Reidy from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions discusses their new document No Going Back, which looks at how we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis. This week is International Men’s Health Week. We talk to Michael Lynch from the Men’s Action Network about some of the issues around Men’s Health and how they have […]
The Round-Up: Friday 12th June 2020
Local news.
The Round-Up: Thursday 11th June 2020
The Chartered Institute of Housing NI talk about their worries of large amounts of evictions taking place when Covid-19 support schemes come to an end. We talk to Justin Cartwright about what can be done to reduce in impact to renters and landlords.
The Round-Up: Wednesday 10th June 2020
We talk to Mark Hackett about the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) launch of the #OurChangedPlaceNI, which calls on residents, parents, children, business owners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, civil engineers, planners and anyone else who is interested to post on social media your ideas of the changes you would like to see to […]
The Round-Up: Tuesday 9th June 2020
We talk to Les Allamby of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission about the implications of the proposed contact tracing Apps. We talk to Shane McCracken about the new science website called I’m A Scientist created to help young people, schools and groups connect directly with scientists across the UK during lockdown.
The Round-Up: Monday 8th June 2020
Dr Raymond Bond, Reader in Data Analytics at Ulster University, talks about modelling the spread of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland and the misrepresentation of statistics. We talk to Vedika Upadhyay, the Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney Award for Achievement.
The Round Up: Friday June 5th
Local news stories.