Dave & Fionnuala on iRadio

Mark is very disappointed in himself when he only manages to name 3 types of hats in 10 seconds, controversially claiming that men don't wear hats unless their bald.

It’s the day after St. Patrick’s Day and Dave & Fionnuala are feeling low… but unfortunately, work still exists. So they bring in a “LinkedIn speak” translator to help you say what you really mean, the Irish way, without getting hauled into HR. “I couldn’t be arsed” becomes “prioritising my bandwidth for higher impact strategic initiatives.” Dying hungover? You’re “recalibrating after a high-e...

Katie who's a trainer in conflict resolution skills tests her Gimme 5 skills and Dave and Fionnuala turn into two nosy magpies and start testing her with a very specific “over-steamed carrots” family argument.

Morrissey cancels a gig in Spain because he “couldn’t sleep”… and Dave & Fionnuala can’t get over it. 1,500 people turn up, and he basically says: I’m too tired, go home. So it sparks a brand new obsession on the show: sleep puns. Anything goes - singers, celebs, place names, TV, songs - if it can be turned into a snooze-related wordplay, it’s in. Expect Bed Sheeran, Snora the Explorer, Restli...

Ireland mightn’t have a Rugby World Cup… but Dave and Fionnuala have discovered we’re third in the world at something else: long commutes. They dig into the Auto Trader stats (9 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes a year driving to and from work), and the real reason the roads are stressful: 70% of us reckon it’s other people’s driving. But how many miles are you doing a year?

Tommy Lynch in the UK wakes up, looks in the mirror, and realises his skin has turned blue. Panic stations: straight into A&E, on oxygen, thinking he’s losing it. Then someone comes at him with a wipe… and the “medical mystery” literally rubs off. The culprit? Brand new navy bedsheets that were never washed, dyeing him blue after two nights. Dave and Fionnuala spiral into the bigger question:...

Dave and Fionnuala are on a mission to find the ultimate “cross-generational famous” person - someone your granny knows, you know, and the kids know too. Michael D. Higgins is the early front-runner, but then it gets messy: Daniel O’Donnell, the Kardashians (as a unit), Katie Taylor, and even Kate Middleton get thrown into the mix. Rules are set: they have to be alive, and they have to be real - s...

“Herself and Herself” AKA Dympna Little and Mary Clare Fitzpatrick join Dave and Fionnuala for a chat about abandoning the Midlands for Dublin life, famous-people watching in the canteen, and one very specific problem: Dympna being mistaken for Joanne McNally on the regular. They get into how the podcast got its name, the wild episode titles, and the CSO baby-name stats. Plus: the unbelievable ori...

The stranger interaction checklist: something in your teeth, tissue on your shoe, red sauce on your face… all fair game. But a sticker on your arse? Absolutely not. Line drawn, you can't point that out.

Fiona struggles to names any songs with place names in the title, but with a little hint she manages one!

After last week’s Monaghan coffee-machine bandit sparked a tidal wave of word play , Dave and Fionnuala realise something important: ye have an insatiable hunger for puns. This time, inspiration comes from a Dublin petrol station beside an NCT centre… and a menu item called a “veg-estration”. From there it turns into a full-on pun challenge: take foods and turn them into car, road or manufacturer...

Modern cars: are they packed with brilliant upgrades… or are they just a collection of absolute headwrecking features? Dave and Fionnuala get stuck into the most hated “new” car tech going around - touchscreens that take seven taps just to do anything, electronic handbrakes (and the death of the handbrake turn), piano black trims that mark if you look at them, and lane assist that fights you on ti...

It’s the 3rd of March, which can only mean one thing: Dave’s birthday (33 on the 3rd of the 3rd). Dave shares his theory that in every couple, one person is obsessed with birthdays and the other couldn’t care less - and explains how his fiancée Niamh’s “birthday week” nearly became a full-blown birthday month. Listeners get involved with their own birthday dynamics, before the iRadio crew crash th...

Is being fashionably late actually a thing at Irish weddings, or is it a “thundering disgrace”? Dave’s not having it (especially with his own wedding coming up), and listeners weigh in with their worst delays—from 3 minutes of guilt to 45-minute “averages” and full hour late arrivals.

Ben in Cavan is tested on his Irish skills to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge, unfortunately he fails to name more than 2 body parts in Irish...

Dave and Fionnuala dig into a new RIP.ie survey that has everyone talking, from Connacht clocking double Dublin’s numbers to people in Kerry hitting a staggering 10 funerals in 12 months. What age are you and how many funerals have you been to?

Niall from the Midlands joins Dave and Fionnuala, he's very unhappy about not getting the category of sausages, because he struggles with jerseys

A man in Monaghan stole the same coffee machine three times in five days from Fleming’s Department Store, and Dave and Fionnuala genuinely can’t get over the cheek of it. Now the story’s in court, and the only sensible response is to turn it into a full-on coffee pun challenge, as inspired by Colm O Regan on X. From “spilled the beans” to “serious grounds” and “mugged off”, listeners get involved...

A commercial airline pilot allegedly flew for 20 years without the proper licence, and Dave and Fionnuala can’t get over it. Does cop on outweigh qualifications? From pilots and doctors to radio presenters, sales, and even the guards, they argue it out and take your messages.

There was a K-pop tribute show in the SSE in Belfast on Thursday, and loads of parents genuinely thought they’d bought tickets for a “K-pop Demon Hunters” show… but it turns out it was a tribute to K-pop the genre, not the film. Since then, TikTok and social media have been absolutely dominated by the fallout - and Dave and Fionnuala are here with a handy little explainer of what actually happened...

The RSA have released some of the craziest reasons people are complaining about their driving instructors, between stopping for fish and chips or inappropriate comments learner drivers have to put up with quite a lot!

Modestas is €250k richer thanks to iRadio's Cash Machine, he's working in a hotel in Galway when he gets the call. He'll be sharing the money with his wife and their triplets.

We may not be getting uber in rural Ireland so we need to get more inventive with ways we get home from a night out... What about a horse and cart?

Lent starts today and Fionnuala doesn't have full faith in Dave that he can give up sweet treats so she's called in some extra help...

It’s been a while since Dave and Fionnuala had to launch a full-on “song investigation”, but today’s mystery is a proper head-melter -sparked by a TikTok from Caoimhe Ryan (@caoimheryan02) about her mum, a piano teacher, who can’t place where a certain piece of music is from. The theories fly in: insurance ads, First Dates, the TV licence, the consent ad, even Pixar. But after a flood of messages...