Opinions Matter with Adrian & Jeremy

Are parents today just paranoid, overprotective “helicopter” parents… or are they right to be cautious because you never know what goes on behind closed doors? One mother didn't hold back on this episode, warning parents not to every allow sleepovers.

It’s Opinions Matter Extra: the Uncut Version — Episode 55 — where Adrian and Jeremy ditch the usual format and spend 10–15 minutes “shooting the breeze” completely unedited. This one goes everywhere: shout-outs (and a row over how to pronounce “Emma… Lee”), tapas menus, dessert obsessions and the dreaded pre-marriage course. Then it gets properly manky as a home microscope reveals the horrifying...

Siobhan is raging: her next-door neighbours are smoking weed non-stop in the front and back garden, and the stink is drifting straight into her house. The kids can smell it, and she says it’s got so bad they’ve had to leave the house at times. If you're a weed smoker or life next to one, this is the topic for you

A listener from Shankill says there’s a WhatsApp group doing the rounds where parents are buying stolen gear for their kids — jerseys, TVs, phones… the lot. So we ask the question: could you accept something “off the back of a lorry” if it meant saving a few bob? Adrian and Jeremy end up in a massive row, with callers admitting they’d take the bargain all day long… as long as it wasn’t robbed from...

“Most antisocial behaviour and crime happens in council estates”… and one listener says the solution is simple: stick CCTV on nearly every lamppost in every council estate. Callers are split down the middle: some say only criminals fear cameras, others say it’s a disgusting invasion of privacy and a lazy substitute for real policing. Plus: another Opinions Matter travel mug giveaway question at th...

A follow-up to yesterday’s Ballymun row — and this time, the “proof” has landed. Adrian and Jeremy confirm they’ve seen the video showing a family (believed to be Roma) being brought to view the boarded-up council house in Shangan Green… and they ask the uncomfortable question: if they move in, will they be safe? From “house the Irish first” to EU rights and the housing list, callers go at it from...

A boarded-up Dublin City Council house in Shangan Green, Ballymun has become the centre of a major row after “Only Irish house our own” was spray-painted across the front — and a protest followed, fuelled by rumours about who might be moved in. Adrian and Jeremy dig into where the story actually came from, why nobody can produce proof (or a video) of a family being “shown around”, and whether loca...

It’s Opinions Matter Extra (Episode 54) — the weekend episode made up of the random off-air waffle Adrian and Jeremy come out with while the Facebook Live is building. This time they’re raging about the most insulting thing a listener can say in Spar (“I used to love listening to you”)...Jeremy floats the idea of dyeing his hair… only to get absolutely slated for it. Then it’s onto religious relat...

Jeremy loses the plot after catching a gang of 11/12-year-olds swinging off (and basically destroying) newly planted trees in his local green… and he lets rip with a few choice words. But was he right to “verbally reef” kids he doesn’t even know — or was the Dad dead right to tell him to mind his own business? Adrian says you’ve no right to discipline someone else’s child (and definitely not with...

Penneys posted a new range of kids’ pyjamas to celebrate Eid… and somehow it sparked nearly 2,000 comments, rows, boycotts and accusations that Ireland is being “taken over”. Penneys even had to delete loads of replies and put out a statement about inclusivity. Adrian and Jeremy ask the simple question: why are people so triggered by a pair of pyjamas? Callers clash over Islamophobia, “woke” brand...

Two Burke women — Martina and Ami, mother and sister of jailed teacher Enoch Burke — are being sent to prison for two weeks for contempt of court after “shouting and roaring” so loudly the judge said he couldn’t be heard. Are they being persecuted… or is it simply consequences for wrecking courtroom decorum? Adrian and Jeremy tear into claims of a “woke government”, arguments about proportionality...

Should parents let a 16-year-old drink at home… or is it “enabling” and totally wrong? Claire (a recovering alcoholic) is furious at her sister-in-law for letting her newly-16 niece drink alcopops and wine in the house because “it’s safer than fields”. Jeremy is having none of it — and shocks everyone by saying he’ll breathalyse his own kids when they’re teenagers. Plus: today’s travel mug winner...

Damo is raging after the courts ordered him to pay €740 a month (€170 a week) in maintenance for his two girls, aged 6 and 8 — even though he says his ex earns as much (if not more) and he has the kids every weekend. Adrian says the amount sounds fair… but Jeremy sparked war by insisting dads should be entitled to “receipts” to prove the money is actually being spent on the children. Adrian calls...

It’s the special weekend “Opinions Matter: Uncut” edition — and it’s as random as it gets as Adrian and Jeremy waffle while waiting for the live show to start. First up: is it rude or fair enough to ban people from eating in your car… especially when Jeremy eats like the Cookie Monster!! Then the lads derail into “strings to your bow”, DJ gigs, wearing Under Armour is for people in council estates...

This Opinions Matter Episode is like the Jeremy Kyle Show! A woman came on air to defend her extra marital affair that broke up a family...and was then upstaged by a man who's shagging his team-mates wife!! Plus: travel mug winners, and the next giveaway question at the end.

A public sector worker is facing disciplinary action for refusing to use a new colleague’s they/them pronouns — and Jay says it’s “bullshit” and a “disgrace”. Adrian and Jeremy ask: in a workplace, is it basic respect… or forced ideology? Live callers explode the lines. Some say they’d “lose my job first”, call it delusion and bad grammar, and even argue they wouldn’t hire someone who uses they/th...

Social housing tenants in a brand-new Dublin 8 apartment complex say they’re being treated like second-class residents — because they’re blocked from the gym, sauna, cinema room and other “communal” amenities… while private renters paying up to €3,500 a month get full access. Adrian says it’s nobody’s business what a council tenants pay and that this is pure segregation. Jeremy says “you pay for w...

Four years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has Ireland’s welcome worn out? Adrian and Jeremy read a message from Andre, a Ukrainian dad who fought for six months, now runs a coffee shop here, pays tax, and says the online “go home” abuse is getting worse. Live callers are split: some say “keep the workers, send the rest back”, others argue refugees are being scapegoated while the housing cri...

A SPAR shop in Cabra has had enough — staff say they’ve been racially abused, sprayed with drinks, and even had eggs thrown at them, and they’re begging parents to find out where their kids are at night. But the debate goes up a notch when we hear from “Des”, a Dublin 24 shop manager who posted CCTV-style photos of kids he says were robbing his shop… and then had furious parents at his door threat...

This weekend episode of Opinions Matter is a totally unedited bit of madness you don’t hear on the main show. Adrian, Jeremy and Katie go from debating the Angelus (how many “dongs” are there, and who even watches it?) to Jeremy’s very questionable altar-boy memories — bell ringing rules, “tabernacles”, trousers… and Father Thomas the drinker!!!! Then it’s onto Katie’s MRI horror story (claustroph...

On this episode, a listener Slams "Braindead parents who are convinced that schools are trying to brainwash kids in LGBT Ideology"

A group of five Travellers say they were turned away from a Howth restaurant after booking a table – told their reservation was cancelled and “you’re not getting in tonight”. It raises a massive question: do pubs, bars and restaurants have the right to refuse anyone, anytime… or is that just discrimination dressed up as “management reserves the right”? We spoke to Kathleen, a Traveller in her 50s...

Gardaí are investigating a Limerick sting by “Justice Reborn” – a paedophile hunter group that confronted a man they claim was sexually messaging who he thought was a 13-year-old… and streamed the whole thing live on Facebook. So do you support these groups taking the law into their own hands… or are they risking violence, getting the wrong person, and wrecking any future court case? Adrian’s main...

Racist abuse aimed at Irish rugby player Edwin Edogbo blows up online after the Six Nations win over Italy – so bad the IRFU had to shut off comments. Born and raised in Cobh, Co. Cork to Nigerian parents, the 23-year-old is Irish… so why are some people losing their minds over that? Adrian, Jeremy and callers tear into the vile comments, the “heritage” argument, and the cowards hiding behind anon...

A UK nursery abuse case sparks a massive row on Opinions Matter: should men be banned from working in crèches to “protect children”? One article claims 91% of child abuse is carried out by men — but is banning men logical safeguarding… or just ridiculous? Callers are all over the place. Trevor says it’s “a woman’s job” and doesn’t trust male childcare workers, while others argue it’s discriminatio...