Episodes

  • Colin and Eithne Bell

    Colin and Eithne Bell
    May 24 2026
    The founders of the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust (helping bereaved families bring the bodies of their loved-ones home from abroad), explain the impact on their lives of losing their son, how their world has opened up and securing the charity into the future Kevin Bell Trust: https://kbrtrust.com
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    17 mins
  • Marie Gleeson

    Marie Gleeson
    May 24 2026
    The former Irish Navy captain explains what she learned from her years in service, losing her son Ciarán a week after his birth and life after leaving the forces. She tells her story in her memoir ‘Be Like The Sea: Life, Learnings and Leadership From An Irish Navy Captain’
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    18 mins
  • Elma Walsh

    Elma Walsh
    May 24 2026
    Chat with the mother of Donal Walsh, who had a terminal cancer diagnosis but made such an impact when he appealed to teenagers to value life and find alternatives to suicide. The book ‘I Am Me: The Donal Walsh Story’ is a mixture of Elma’s thoughts, Donal’s own writings and the testimonials of people who've been touched by what he had to say.
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    15 mins
  • Johnny Logan

    Johnny Logan
    May 17 2026
    In a wide-ranging conversation the three-time Eurovision winner chats about family background, his early start in music business, Eurovision success, career trajectory and life abroad. He plays Vicar Street on Saturday August 22 (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be podcast)
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    30 mins
  • Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

    Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
    May 17 2026
    Chat with the two authors who have just published their new novel 'Our Deadly Summer', featuring a pair of friends and their adventures on a J1 summer in Long Island. They also chat about their working partnership, their own J1 summer experiences and Emer explains how her recent ADHD diagnosis has impacted her life.
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    14 mins
  • Kathleen MacMahon

    Kathleen MacMahon
    May 10 2026
    The author chats about her previous career and her latest novel ‘Other People’s Lives’, where she turns her gaze on marriage and other people’s relationships. She also talks about the writings of her grandmother Mary Lavin, and support in the writing world.
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    17 mins
  • Donal Skehan

    Donal Skehan
    May 10 2026
    The chef chats about his life-long love of art, his sculptor grandparents and being one of the ‘Incognito Art’ artists, the fundraising online art auction for the Jack & Jill Foundation To view the collection: www.incognito.ie
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    18 mins
  • Susan Bennett

    Susan Bennett
    May 10 2026
    The author chats about the lives she and her Church of Ireland minister husband were having in Belfast in their thirties, when incredibly they were both diagnosed with MS. They spent a year travelling Europe in a camper van, which she chronicles in her book ‘One Year’ (published by Gill)
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    16 mins