Thursday was the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II.

To mark this, on Saturday at 11am, Claremorris Community Radio will broadcast a live one-hour special, looking back at D-Day from Irish perspective.

Matt Macken and Bridie Sheeran will host the programme, along with Matt Masterson and Micheál McLoughlin.

The show will also feature an interview with Paddy Connolly, a 99-year-old resident of Dunmore who was resident in England during World War II.

The programme will also be repeated on Tuesday next, June 11th, at 5pm.

On Saturday, June 1st, at 11am, Claremorris Community Radio will broadcast a live one-hour special discussion looking back at the Local and European elections of 2019.

Anthony McNicholas and Micheál McLoughlin will be joined by Michael Halligan, Mary O’Boyle, Paddy McCallig, Bridie Sheeran, Jimmy Walsh and other invited guests. Together the group will parse through the results of the recent counts and also look forward to the future issues the elected candidates will face.

It doesn’t end there for election fans. On Monday morning, at 9am, the station will air a two-hour show, made up of selected highlights of Anthony McNicholas’s interviews with candidates, officials and members of the public who were in attendance at the count centre in Castlebar throughout last weekend.