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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 Radio 1.
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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 Radio 1.
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×Writer Henrietta McKervey and Michael Doherty, RTÉ Guide Movie Editor give Dearbhail their recommendations for the best T.V. and films to watch for the week ahead.
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1 The mystery of Sex and the City’s enduring appeal 12:05
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Writer Edel Coffey joined Dearbhail to talk about what made the series groundbreaking in the late 1990s, why female characters don’t always have to be likable and how a new generation have fallen under the spell of Carrie Bradshaw all over again.
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1 “I fought the instinct to tell an easier version of the truth” 25:41
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Novelist Joe Dunthorne’s on his book Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance, a personal story of his family’s life in Germany during the Second World War. Joe spoke about digging into the uncomfortable strands of the story and resisting the urge as a writer to ‘tidy’ it away.
On The Newspaper Panel this week,is joined by; Alison O’Connor, Columnist with the Sunday Times, Dr Graham Finlay, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations in UCD, Aideen Heydon, Housing Policy Expert and author, and former chairperson of Threshold & David Quinn, Columnist with the Sunday Independent and The Irish Catholic.…
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1 Embrace the flavour and crunch of Spring salads! 7:05
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Lorraine Fitzmaurice on getting ready for Spring salads with radishes, cauliflower, apples, kale, beetroot and more.
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1 "Nobody likes asking a friend for money owed” 13:32
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Using money apps to help split the bill when you are out socialising, with Ciara O'Brien, Technology Journalist with The Irish Times.
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1 “I knew the one thing I should be was a writer” - Donal Ryan 22:22
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Author Donal Ryan talks Dearbhail through five songs that have impacted his life from the genius of Shane MacGowan soundtracking his bucolic childhood summers to his wedding song in tribute to the strength of his wife and speaks about the realities of being a writer and a reluctant literary sensation.…
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Special coverage of the funeral mass of Pope Francis with Dearbhail McDonald and guests in Dublin and commentary from Colm Ó Mongáin and Fr. Thomas McCarthy in Rome.
The Watch List with freelance culture journalist Zara Hederman and freelance entertainment journalist Brian Lloyd.
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Nobel Laureate psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, was a pioneer of behavioural economics and among the most influential thinkers of recent decades. Professor Pete Lunn, head of the ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit, profiled Kahneman for The Brendan O’Connor Show.
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Acclaimed sports writer, Eamonn Sweeney, talks about the panic attacks and dread that overtook him some years ago, and about his gradual recovery. His book "The Last Ditch" also tells the story of the 2024 All Ireland Championships, and the place of the GAA in Irish society.
Joining Brendan to dissect the Sunday papers are Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance; Shona Murray, Europe Correspondent, Euronews; Mick Clifford, Special Correspondent, The Irish Examiner; and Larry Donnelly, Law Lecturer at the University of Galway.
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Chef and Instagrammer Alannah Sheehan explains why certain ‘sophisticated smoothies’ like Erewhon smoothies have been going viral recently and why celebrities like Sabrina Carpenter & Hailey Bieber have been making their own versions. She has recipes to make your homemade smoothie extra!
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1 “Hoover your mattress and tackle your stinky wheelie bin this Easter” 7:42
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Denise O’Donoghue, the self-declared ‘Hacks Hack’ from the Irish Examiner offers hacks and tips for some of the Spring Cleaning jobs you might tackle this bank holiday weekend.
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1 MARK LITTLE - “Trump is running the Oval Office like a reality TV show” 26:09
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Tech entrepreneur and former Washington Correspondent Mark Little is fresh off a plane from America with his observations on what he sees as a consolidation of the MAGA hardcore and why he thinks US President Donald Trump might be stuck in a nostalgic 1980s mindset of boosting the US economy by manufacturing more stuff.…
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