RTÉ - Liveline
Summary: Joe Duffy talks to the Irish public about affairs of the day.
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Eugene and Marion described having the catalytic converters stolen from their cars while parked at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown.
After last week's programmes on the withdrawal of funding for Versatis pain relief patches, huge numbers of people rang in again to tell Joe how important this medication is to them. A number of doctors also gave differing views on the decision to take Versatis off the Medical Card and Drugs Payment Schemes.
More listeners tell us how Versatis helps relieve chronic pain. The HSE has decided to withdraw the drug product from the Drug Payment Scheme.
Historian Catherine Corless was upset at an inference that she was involved in a website called tuambabies.org which is run by Owen Felix O'Neill.
The decision by the HSE to withdraw the pain killing patch Versatis from the Drug Purchase Scheme is having a huge effect on chronic pain sufferers.
Noeleen Barr's brother Michael was murdered in 2016. She spoke to Joe and called for an end to the gangland violence in Dublin.
Following a debate about taxi fare increases, Stacey told Joe about catching a taxi driver who'd been caught short on the job.
Heather is unhappy with changes being made to the greenery in Dublin's Merrion Square park. One of the tree surgeons involved in the work, Graham Stanley, explained what they're doing.
Michael O'Regan of the Irish Times told Joe about getting into a Twitter spat with Piers Morgan after the chat show host publicly criticised journalist Kathy Sheridan.
Bryan gave a woman €20 when she was short of her bus fare. But he wanted to be paid back, so he got her phone number to arrange repayment. However Bryan's Good Samaritan deed still hasn't been repaid, and he told Joe that he felt this was bad form
Taxi drivers told Joe that they DON'T WANT the new fare increase being brought in by the regulator.
The residents of Kildare Town contributed a shilling each to a collection for a swimming pool in the 1960s. But the pool was never built, and the money - worth about €120,000 now - has become tied up in a legal quagmire.
The father of one of Matthew Horan's victims has been in contact with Liveline via email. He says he doesn't believe that pedophiles can be rehabilitated. Also, John Horan a neighbour of Matthew Horan's spoke to Joe.
Peter Murtagh's house was broken into on Saturday while he and his family were at home.
At 92 years of age Paddy Murray is having to move from his rented property in Tramore. He says he has nowhere to go.