News, Current Affairs & Sport Podcasts

News, Current Affairs & Sport Podcasts:

MANX RADIO UPDATE:

• Update Monday 16 March 2025

  A round up of the day's main news with Beth Espey including the Lord Street development being given the go ahead, bed capacity at Noble's Hospital and the latest on the bus strikes.

MANX NEWSCAST: 

• Is a ‘critical shortfall’ in hospital beds putting patient safety at risk?

  Doctors on the Isle of Man have claimed a ‘critical shortfall’ in inpatient bed capacity at Noble’s Hospital is posing a direct risk to people’s lives.The Medical Staff Committee is calling for ‘immediate government intervention’ to support the simultaneous demands of emergency admissions and planned surgery.It claims that Manx Care has reduced the number of beds by 46 percent – something the health body disputes.Chief Executive Teresa Cope told Manx Radio it’s been an ‘incredibly difficult’ winter and says efforts to configure wards have come at the ‘worst possible time’:

AGENDA: 

• Agenda 16.3.26 - two MHKs’ experience at the Commonwealth Women’s Parliamentary Conference

  Michelle Hawood and Ann Corlett have recently returned from the annual Commonwealth Women’s Parliamentary Conference. It’s a sad reflection of the world we live in that it is still felt necessary to hold such events but, unlike the Isle of Man, most parliaments around the world continue to be male dominated. Find out why women continue to struggle to get equal representation on Agenda with Amy Griffiths. Are women unfairly targeted in social media just because they are women? Why is it so hard to break down centuries old prejudices? And how have the women faired in this more equal House of Keys?

MANX RADIO MANNIN LINE:

• Mannin Line with Alex Brindley - 16th March 2026

  The Lord Street Redevelopment... it's been granted approval, but the process is raising eyebrows and comment... since Manx Care took over there has been a large reduction in beds at Nobles Hospital... but just how large a reduction?... And why can't a listener get a lease on the QB pub? All on Mannin Line with Alex in for Andy.

PERSPECTIVE:

• Perspective 15.3.26 - Secondary school students debate important issues for International Women’s Day

  Last week in a special International Women’s Day junior Tynwald sitting, students from the Island’s secondary schools and UCM raised several issues that are important to them and really should be important to us all. The students voices were very powerful and the evidence presented was quite shocking. We’ll hear two of the debates, on Gaps in Women’s Healthcare and Period Poverty, on Perspective this week, and the other three debates on a future show. It takes a lot to move and inspire me in political discourse these days and these debates succeeded on both counts.

MANX RADIO SPORT:

• Saturday Sport Classified (14-03-26)

  Results, reaction and analysis to all the latest local football, rugby and hockey across the Isle of Man. Simon Quine is joined by Tony Mepham, Dave Christian and Ben Cunningham.

 

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