It's time to play the music...it's time to light the lights...it's time to launch the first EVER Tubridy screening of the new MUPPET Movie! On Monday evening of NEXT week - that's Monday February 6th - we will be taking over Movies@Dundrum at 6.30pm, filling it with people and showing the new Muppets film. If you'd like to join us drop us an email to tubs@rte.ie and mark it Muppets in the subject line and tell us why you'd like to join us. Remember, tickets are limited so don't waste any time!
Ann really enjoyed the fourth week of the Voice of Ireland last night, but she reckons the coaches are starting to slip a bit - so she put her questions to coaches Kian Egan and Bressie!
Denise got in touch to thank David Coleman for his sound advice on the show last week. Her twin daughters (aged 2 and a half) weren't sleeping since she took the baby dummies off the girls. Well good news - the twins are sleeping great!
Sandra got in touch to ask whatever happened to the old fashioned concept of orderly queuing for a bus? The fashion nowadays seems to be to stand in shop doorways, sprawl over the pavement in front of, behind or opposite the stop, then trample all over those who are standing, one behind the other, behind the bus stop (correct method!). She asks if she's just a grumpy old woman or if anyone else feels the same? Sandra is also a member of the Irish Naturist Association. She and her partner take naturist holidays - they don't bring a lot in their suitcase!
RTÉ Crime Correspondent Paul Reynolds joined Ryan on the show this morning to discuss the story of the woman whose body was found in a travel bag in Dublin yesterday. She has been identified as a 26-year-old student from Malawi. Detectives are trying to trace the woman's last movements and to establish where she was killed. Gardaí have been in contact with the Embassy of Malawi in London to try to contact her family.
Anyone with information is asked to contact gardaí on 01-6668200, or the Garda Confidential Line 1800-666111.
Marie Greene's teenage son Peter died suddenly in 1996, just after finishing his Junior Cert. A virus had attacked his heart. There may have been an underlying problem but Marie still doesn't definitely know what happened him that night while he was sleeping. In 2002, Marie founded CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) which helps families cope with sudden loss, and also funded a centre for screening in Tallaght Hospital.
Brendan O'Regan spoke to Ryan about his son Tom who died suddenly at the age of 29 in June 2010. Tom died in his sleep. He hadn't been sick and had no history of medical problems. Tom had been living in Singapore for about a year and a half, working for Brendan's IT company. Tom's death was a cruel, random event, as it always is with Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Brendan shared Tom's story with Ryan, how he was a great musician and wrote his own songs. He was a popular and well loved character, kind, intelligent and always up for the craic. Brendan now advises everyone he knows and meets to deal with any health problem they may encounter at all - no matter how insignificant it may seem.
For the month of February, the Mater Heart Appeal will encourage people to donate much needed funds online at www.materfoundation.ie or by texting MATER to 51500 to pledge a donation. In addition, people can purchase a Mater Heart Badge which will be on sale nationwide costing just 2 euro, the proceeds of which will go directly to the running of the Family Heart Screening Clinic.