The Anton Savage Show Newstalk

The Ideal Home Show 2024 is taking place all weekend in the RDS Simmonscourt with over 200 exhibitors, advice theatres, dozens of interior designers & home improvement experts. One of the people who will be on hand to give one of the many expert talks is the one and only, Diarmuid Gavin - he joins Anton to discuss.

Joining Anton to answer all of your finance related questions is Robert Whelan, Rockwell Financial Management.

68 is the number of people who have died on Irish roads this year, which is an increase of a third compared with the same period last year. While speed remains the primary factor in these incidents, alcohol, and drug consumption are also major contributors to the kind of numbers we are now seeing. Joining Anton to discuss the issue is Dr. Chris Luke Columnist with the Irish Medical Times and Retired consultant in emergency medicine & Dr. Sheila Gilheany, CEO of Alcohol Action Ireland.

Two Irish authors make up one-third of this year’s shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Anne Enright has been shortlisted for her seventh novel, 'The Wren, The Wren', with Claire Kilroy getting the nod for her novel, 'Soldier Sailor'. Claire joins Anton to discuss.

Joining Anton to run through the main stories from the Saturday papers is broadcaster and writer, Barbara Scully & Shane Dempsey, ACEI Secretary General.

Joining Anton to discuss the rise of violence & threatening behaviour by fringe groups in Ireland is Aodhan O'Riordan, Labour TD for Dublin Bay North & party spokesperson on Education and Justice & John Lee, Executive Editor Daily Mail Group Ireland.