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Susan Daly, Managing Editor at Journal Media, joined Sean on the show today to recap some of the stories making the headlines this past week.

Sean was joined in Hook House Lighthouse by Jimmy Cullen, former lighthouse keeper and Lorraine Waters, Hook Lighthouse General Manager to discuss the different aspects of living and working in a lighthouse...

Pierce Turner is a well known singer songwriter who splits his time between Wexford and New York. His new album is entitled 'Terrible Good' and he joined Sean today live in Hook Head lighthouse...

It’s a staple at every school sports day, but tug of war is a very real sport and the World Championships take place this week in The Netherlands. Ireland has three teams competing, and Sean was joined by Noel Higgins, who is on the sport committee for Tug of War Ireland...

In Sydney, the city’s residents are wrangling with cockatoos who routinely open their wheelie bins causing a mess. A new study has discovered what they describe as an ‘interspecies innovation arms race’ between bird and human. Sean was joined on the show by Dr. Barbara Klump, Behavioural Ecologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany to discuss...

A vegetarian restaurant is the first in Britain to add carbon emissions to its menu. 'The Canteen' in Bristol hopes to reduce its carbon footprint by buying local ingredients and reducing food waste. Anna Blightman, marketing manager at The Canteen joined Sean on the show to discuss...

John Boyne shot to fame with his book 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' in 2006. It told the story of two boys who lived either side of a fence in Auschwitz – one a prisoner, the other, Bruno, the son of a guard at the camp. Today he publishes a sequel, 'All the Broken Places', which follows Bruno’s older sister as she reflects on her life knowing what her father had been involved in. John joined S...

The term “revenge porn” is used to describe the non-consensual sharing or the threat to share intimate images without permission. The image is normally depicted a person who is naked. Dr. Caroline West, Outreach co-ordinator at Active Consent says we should be using the term 'Image-based sexual abuse' instead of revenge porn and she joined Sean on the show to discuss...

A businessman is advertising his turf logs as “mud” in a “tongue-in-cheek” protest at the proposed ban on the sale of peat and other fossil fuels. Eric McNulty, who owns and runs McNulty Fuels, which is a petrol and fueling station in the town of Hospital, Co Limerick, is advertising “bags of decorative hardened Irish mud for sale” and says it is “for ornamental use only – not to be burned in a fi...

For this weeks 'How To' slot focuses on how to have a baby through surrogacy. Sean was joined by Annette Hickey, surrogacy solicitor...

Sara Davison, Break-Up coach and Founder of the International Divorce Coach Centre of Excellence joined Sean on the show today...

Andrew Doig, Author of 'This Mortal Coil: The History of Death' joined Sean on the show to discuss the history of mortality...

The author JD Salinger was famously reluctant to sign any copies of his most famous novel, 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Now one of the world’s only known signed copy of the book is going on sale for just under a quarter of a million pounds sterling. To discuss this, Sean was joined by Adam Douglas, Specialist in rare books at Peter Harrington Books in London...

Colm Kavanagh from Kavanagh’s Newsagents in Arklow joined Sean on the show to discuss why some shops might be stopping selling magazines and newspapers...

10 years ago, a group of pilots and aeronautical scientists deliberately crashed a Boeing 727 into a desert in Mexico, in an attempt to better understand which part of an airplane you are most likely to survive. Sean was joined by Leland “Chip” Shanle, author and pilot with American Airways, who was part of the piloting team on that extraordinary day a decade ago...

For years, discussions around the Irish language have been met with an attitude of resentment and distain. The discourse about our native tongue is often reduced down to a conversation about the curriculum. The cultural significance of Irish can be lost in what ends up being a roaring match about the Leaving Cert. Sean was joined by Breanndán Begley, Irish Musician and Native Irish Speaker to disc...

Many were surprised to see Prince Andrew emerge from Balmoral to greet well wishers on Saturday afternoon, in light of the allegations against him. But what happens to the Duke of York now that his mother has passed on and his older brother is now king? Sean was joined on the show by Nigel Cawthorne, Author of Prince Andrew: Maxwell, Epstein and the Palace to discuss...

Sorcha Killian, co-founder of The Hygiene Bank joined Sean on the show to mark the launch of National Hygiene Week...

Elaine Loughlin, Deputy Political Editor with the Irish Examiner joined Sean on the show to chat through political think-ins, philanthropy and what happens to the Queen's money?

f you’ve always wondered what your cat is trying to say, this new app might be able to help with that. Founders of MeowTalk, a new ‘cat translator’ app, say they have found a formula that can identify a cat’s meows and translate them into human languages. Javier Sanchez, Co-Founder of MeowTalk and he joined Sean on the show...

Sometimes pulling into a drive through and grabbing a burger and chips is a handy way of eating on the go. However, one Cork Councillor wants to put them in the past forever. Dan Boyle, Green party councillor in Cork City joined Sean on the show to tell him why...

Scott Drummond was 28-years-old when a botched operation on his thumb led to him being “pronounced dead for 20 minutes”. Now in his late sixties, Drummond remembers vividly the out of body experience he had while chaos unfolded around him. Scott joined Sean on the show to tell his story...

Festival goers who went to Electric Picnic are just starting to come back to reality now but some are still searching for what they left behind. If you are looking for a lost phone, wallet or passport, there is a chance it's still in Stradbally. The Society St Vincent de Paul is operating the lost and found this weekend and our reporter Josh Crosbie has been down there rummaging through the items.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, had his life turned upside down when he made the bold move to speak out against the corruption of the Russian regime – Exposing the truth about Putin’s misconduct resulted in him being stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years. Now freed, Khodorkovsky has written about his experience of standing up to the notorious dictator wi...

Your sense of smell can be a powerful thing, but imagine if you could smell a developing disease? Joy Milne, noticed her husband’s scent changed when he was 33. It turned out, she was smelling his Parkinson’s more than a decade before his diagnosis. She has been working with researchers ever since, and now they’ve developed a skin test that would identify the disease before symptoms begin. Joy joi...