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Cork born bread specialist and founder of the Happy Tummy Company, Karen O’Donoghue, joined Sean to explain how she has developed a special type of bread that helps to rid you of all your digestive woes.

Over the past few years we have become accustomed to the relatively new endeavour to name and categorise storms, from Ophelia to Barra. Kathy Baughman McLeod, Director of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, joined Sean to discuss a new pilot project in Seville, one of Europe’s hottest cities, which aims to classify heatwaves in a similar manner.

Barbara Scully, Declan Buckley and Sean help tackle listener dilemmas.

The summer festival season is in full swing and while everyone wants to have a fun and safe time, the HSE are asking you to be careful when taking drugs and to ‘Start Low and Go Slow.’ Prof Eamon Keenan, HSE’s National Clinical Lead-Addiction Services, joined Sean to discuss the HSE’s new drug harm reduction campaign has launched.

Gardaí have announced a full cold case review into Sophie Toscan du Plantier's 1996 murder. In 1996, French producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found dead near her holiday home in West Cork. Sean was joined by her son Pierre-Louise Baudey-Vignaud to discuss his hope that this new review will bring closure for the family.

Akin to dogs and cats, hamsters are beloved pets to families throughout Ireland and around the world. However unlike their canine and feline friends, very little was known about the general health and lifespan of these furry creatures-until now. Associate professor in companion animal epidemiology at the RVC, Dan O’Neill, joined Sean to discuss the largest ever study on the well being of hamsters carried out by The Royal Veterinary College.