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Irish Independent columnist Tanya Sweeney wrote: “I spent my 20s feeling flush and spending money on holidays, designer bags and taxis. Now I earn more but am constantly broke.” Her article struck a chord with readers with many of feeling we are in the same boat. Henry McKean has been to the commuter belt town Naas in County Kildare and he joined Sean on the show...

Another dog attack in Kerry last week resulted in the deaths of 25 pedigree Dorset ewes. The Irish Farmers’ Association are calling on government to take more action to protect their animals. Sean was joined by Pat O’Shea, sheep farmer and Kerry IFA Hill Farming Chair... 

A wide scale study has revealed feminists don’t actually hate men.   ‘The Misandry Myth: An Inaccurate Stereotype About Feminists’ Attitudes Toward Men’ has busted the myth that feminists hate men and highlights misconceptions about feminists.  10,000 participants  were asked how much they agreed with statements like “men act like babies when they are sick” and “women seek to g...

Sean Moncrieff spent last week in Somalia with Unicef. While there he met with Catriona Laing, United Nations representative for Somalia...

Sean Moncrieff spent last week in Somalia with Unicef. Today on the show he spoke about his experience and heard from some of the people he met there...

George Harrison was often described as ‘the quiet Beatle’. But with such an extraordinary life of ups and downs, it hardly seems a fair moniker. A new biography delves deep beneath the public persona. Tom Dunne was joined by Philip Norman, legendary rock biographer and author of The Reluctant Beatle...

Joshua Paul Dale is an expert in why we tend to find cute things irresistable, from the enlarged eyes of Disney characters to puppies, his new book is entitled ‘Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World'...

Pat Fitzpatrick, Journalist and Author joined Tom Dunne to discuss the release of The Crown season 6 on Netflix...

Newstalk reporter Henry McKean went out in the streets of Dublin to find out what lyrics we've all been hearing wrong.

A book club in California, that has spent almost three decades reading “Finnegans Wake” has completed the book.  Starting in 1995, the group would show up to monthly meetings at a local library and read two pages a month, eventually slowing to just one page per discussion.  Gerry Fialka who is a member of the club joined Tom Dunne.

Filmmaker and photographer, Noel McIntyre spoke to Tom Dunne about his new photo book showcasing the Fleadh. ‘RíRá Mullingar: A Fleadh Cheoil Chronicle’  captures the magic the Fleadh brought to Noel's hometown of Mullingar.

This weekend, several surviving items from the Titanic were snapped up at auction for eyewatering prices.   A dinner menu from the ship offering oysters, beef, spring lamb and mallard duck fetched £83,000 while a pocket watch owned by one of the passengers carried a price tag of £97,000.  Tom was joined by Andrew Aldridge, Managing Director of Henry Aldridge and Son to discuss.

'Dublin: Mapping the City' is a new book that explores historic maps of Dublin city, tracing its evolution through an examination of the hygiene, urban planning and even the car parking story of the nation’s capital. Tom spoke to co-author Joe Brady.

Luckily, conversation about menopause is beginning to open up in Ireland, but there is still a lot of mis- and dis- information to wade through when getting to grips with the condition.  There are ways to cope with the adverse effects of menopause, and there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Dr Caoimhe Hartley joined Tom to discuss how best to manage menopause.

Connecting with nature is also an opportunity to connect with yourself. So says ancestral skills teacher and wildlife tracker Lucy O’Hagan, whose ‘Wild Awake’ classes rekindle ancestral life ways for cultural and ecological resistance in Ireland. Think living of off wild foods, tanning animal hides, and building fires from scratch.  There has been an enormous surge in a desire to reconnect wi...

An impromptu trad session on board a delayed Aer Lingus flight last week got a mixed response online and revealed the schism in Irish culture between celebrating traditional music and scoffing at the musicians and their “diddley-eye” tendencies.   People took to X, formerly Twitter, in droves to ridicule the musicians onboard, with some saying they’d rather the plane be hijacked than hav...

The office whipround, a mainstay of offices when celebrating milestones or farewells, has undergone a massive transformation in recent times. Previously, the practice involved the simple but agonising process of collecting cash and putting it in a card.   With the advent of remote working and the decline of cash the whipround has undergone a transformation. Platforms such as Collection P...

Around 80,000 homes and businesses were without power at one stage this morning due to Storm Debi, as the storm made its way through the country overnight and through the early part of today. Were the weather warnings, which we were issued last night and through this morning, fit for purpose? To discuss, Tom spoke to Cathal Nolan, a climatologist at Ireland’s Weather Channel.

The Moncrieff show comes to you today live from Galmont Hotel for Movies and Booze with thanks to our friends in Marks and Spencer. The world of motorsport has unfairly been dominated by males since its conception. But that is starting to change. One woman on the cusp of that change is Aoife Rafferty a Galway Native and Rallycross Driver. Aoife In 2022 was selected as the first female driver into...

The Moncrieff show comes to you today live from Galmont Hotel for Movies and Booze with thanks to our friends in Marks and Spencer. As we are in Galway, Tom Dunne sat down for a chat with internet sensation comedian and local, Stevo Timothy. Stevo's Farmer Michael sketches have gained him millions of views online, gathering him a huge amount of attention on social media. The two chatted about inte...

The British aviation watchdog has given Virgin permission for a world-first transatlantic flight using only sustainable jet fuel. It'll fly from London to New York at the end of November. It's part of efforts by the airline industry to decarbonise travel.  Sean spoke to Kevin Byrne, Retired Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel & lecturer in Aviation Safety Management at DCU.

Nestlé have announced both the Caramac bar and Animal Bar will be discontinued. Newstalk reporter Henry McKean went to, Coolock, Ireland's chocolate capital, to get reaction.

A number of TDs have sported the keffiyeh in the Dail chamber over the past few weeks, in solidarity with Palestinians. The keffiyeh is considered a political statement so how does this fit with any dress code that may exist in the Dail? Gavan Reilly, Political Correspondent for Virgin Media News spoke to Sean about the Dail dress code.

An Irish chef living in Japan and has just landed two Guinness World Records, for cooking and baking marathons. Alan Fisher, a chef originally from Dundalk in Co Louth, is the new Guinness World Record holder for both the longest cooking marathon (individual) and the longest baking marathon (individual). Fisher claimed the longest baking marathon (individual) with a time of 47 hours and 21 minutes...

A clip has resurfaced from a year ago of the newly elected US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson discussing his use of an app which claims it can help people manage their porn consumption. The app 'Covenant Eyes' has now become widely used in the US. Dhruv Mehrotra, Staff writer at WIRED magazine told Sean more about the app.