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Brendan O'Connor
Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Rad...
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The Newspaper Panel
Joining Brendan to talk through highlights from the Sunday newspapers is political editor with The Irish Independent, Mary Regan; Irish Times columnis...
“Like the Kardashians on an album” - the intergenerational appeal of Fleetwood Mac
Cork singer-songwriter Lyra explains why – over 50 years after they formed - Fleetwood Mac are enjoying a resurgence with younger listeners.
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“If you’re meditating well, you’re not meditating” - Michael Harding
Writer Michael Harding joins Brendan to discuss death, mental health and the natural world – all themes in his latest novel ‘Midwinter’.
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The Watchlist
Director of the Dublin International Film Festival, Grainne Humphries, and host of the "Xtravision" podcast Andy McCarroll, discuss the best TV and fi...
What is Melatonin?
Consultant Endocrinologist Professor Mary Ryan tells Brendan about melatonin: what helps the body to produce it naturally, what impact it has, and the...
“We don’t have to like each other...” Colum McCann
Author Colum McCann, who has worked closely with two grieving fathers, on either side of the Israeli/Palestinian divide, speaks to Brendan about this...
Hearty Autumn Pasta Recipes with Catherine Fulvio
Catherine Fulvio talks Brendan through some of her favourite, hearty pasta dishes for Autumn – and answers the age-old question: does the shape of you...
‘America's Favourite Poet’
Former US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins – dubbed ‘America’s favourite poet’ – joins Brendan to reflect on his approach to writing and reads two poems,...
“I remember jumping up and down like a spoilt child” Andy Farrell
Ireland and Lions Men’s Rugby Coach Andy Farrell tells Brendan about becoming a teenage father, his own playing career and his evolution to coaching f...
“Men, we will not eat you!” Róisín and Ann Ingle
In a wide-ranging conversation filled with laughter, agony (or ecstasy) aunts, mother and daughter, Ann and Róisín Ingle, join Brendan to discuss agei...
The Newspaper Panel
Joining Brendan to discuss the Sunday papers are Dr. Laura Bambrick, Social Policy Officer, ICTU; Larry Donnelly, Law Lecturer at the University of Ga...
“I slept on a Cambodian pool table for a month” - Baz Ashmawy
Actor and broadcaster Baz Ashmawy joined Brendan to talk about first discovering funk and disco in Cairo, backpacking, the return of his TV shows ‘The...
As Taylor Swift’s frenemies decode her latest album for shade – music journalist Jenn Gannon gives us her view.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll know that Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl was released on Friday. As Swift is famous fo...
The Watchlist
Michael Doherty, RTE Guide Movies Editor and Arts journalist Zara Hedderman join Brendan to preview the film and TV highlights of the week.
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"I filmed my mother, drunk and asleep on a public bench” - Myrid Carten, filmmaker
Donegal-born visual artist Myrid Carten has made her first feature-length film, ‘A Want In Her’, chronicling her mother Nuala’s mental illness and alc...
Caring for your eyes as you age with Opthalmic surgeon, Kirk Stephenson
Do discount shop reading glasses harm your eyes? Does staring at screens really harm our eyesight? If you need glasses to eat a meal, is something wro...
“Break ups? They’re bloody hard!” - Richard Hogan
Is there such a thing as a ‘good‘ separation? What are the right words to use when breaking-up? How can we move on afterwards? What should – and shoul...
Manchán Magan's final interview
Author and Broadcaster Manchán Magan joined Brendan to open-up about his widespread cancer, his disdain for pity, drinking his own urine in the Himala...
“Swedes are like Dubs: they have notions!”
Scandanavia is an increasingly popular holiday destination, but its different countries sometimes merge into one in our imagination. So Stockholm-base...
Remembering Manchán Magan: “He didn’t fear death, like the rest of us”
Just three weeks after Manchán Magan’s remarkable final interview with Brendan, two of Manchán Magan’s friends, Blindboy and Liam Ó Maonlaí, pay tribu...
A soda bread masterclass with Darina Allen
Chef, writer and co-founder of Ballymalloe Cookery School gives Brendan a lesson in making traditional Irish soda bread, which she claims is baked fro...
The Newspaper Panel
Joining Dearbhail to discuss the Sunday papers are: Kevin Doyle, Group Head of News at Mediahuis Ireland; Lucinda Creighton, Founder and CEO of Vulcan...
The Watchlist
Irish Times Film Critic, Donald Clarke, and host of The Bellissimo Files podcast, Sarina Bellissimo, join Dearbhail to preview film and TV highlights...
Does a million-year-old skull change our understanding of evolution?
Dr Ruth Freeman, Director at Research Ireland tells Dearbhail about how the discovery of a million-year-old skull in China has upended our understandi...
“When you hit rock bottom... there is only one way up” Una Leonard
Baker, Author and Founder of 2210 Patisserie, Una Leonard talks to Dearbhail about how her own history of disordered eating and her mother’s cancer di...
How to batch cook your way to a stress-free week with chef Alannah Sheehan
Chef Alannah Sheehan joins Dearbhail to give us all the tasty tips on how to batch cook delicious dinners without sacrificing your Sunday to the kitch...
Your guide to vaccine season
As flu season rolls around, do you still need to get a Covid booster? Does the shingles vaccine have an impact on dementia? And how does disinformatio...
“My life stopped, his didn’t”- Blathnaid Raleigh, rape survivor
Activist and survivor of rape, Blathnaid Raleigh joins Dearbhail to talk about her new memoir Aftermath. She talks about how she coped in the years fo...
Are competitive people born or made? Performance coach Enda McNulty gives his verdict
As Traitors comes to an end and the presidential election heats up, performance coach Enda McNulty talks to Dearbhail about what makes a competitive p...
“There's no one way to build a house in Ireland” - Harrison Gardner
Broadcaster and self-build enthusiast, Harrison Gardner chatted to Dearbhail about the construction jobs most of us can do ourselves, from pouring con...
Zlata Filipovic - From war to MTV to 30 years in Ireland
Writer and filmmaker, Zlata Filipovic, shot to international fame when her childhood diary, during the Bosnian War saw her dubbed ‘The Anne Frank of S...
"A pompous but likable buffoon" - Alan Partridge profiled
A beloved figure will return to our screens: Alan Partridge - sports anchor, turned chat show host, turned radio DJ, turned stand-in BBC presenter. He...
"An Cailín Ciúin made me a legitimate actor" - Carrie Crowley
Actor and broadcaster Carrie Crowley joins Brendan to talk about her career, playing Mammy Walsh in the upcoming RTÉ TV series 'The Walsh Sisters', he...
The Watchlist
Film critic for the business post John Maguire, and writer Henrietta McKervey, join Brendan to talk through the week's best films and TV shows
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Newspaper Panel
Joining Brendan to discuss the Sunday papers are: Siobhán Fenton, writer and former deputy head of press for Sinn Féin; Dan O'Brien, Chief Economist a...
How to Calm Down
Neuroscientist Brian Pennie has practical tips on how to calm yourself in the moment when the red mist descends.
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Brenda Fricker at 80: "I can't remember not wanting to die."
Academy award winner, Brenda Fricker, invited Brendan into her home to talk about the events that have shaped her life. Her memoir is called 'She Died...
Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"
Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof on 50 years of the Rats, why the Ireland of his youth was a 'Banana Republic', moving to London, observing social ch...
The Newspaper Panel
Joining Brendan to discuss the Sunday papers are Pat Leahy, Political Editor of the Irish Times, Elaine Burke, Science and Technology journalist, Scot...
“Inclusive classrooms make all kids cleverer, more empathetic and happier” - Jamie Oliver on dyslexia
Having turned 50 in May, Jamie Oliver is in a reflective mood when he speaks to Brendan. He talks about his dyslexia, and shares health hacks on getti...