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Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

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Pokémon at 30: “I’ve rediscovered it now as an adult and realise it’s a great way of keeping you company”

Novelist and video game critic for The Guardian, Sarah Maria Griffin explains to Brendan how she has rediscovered the 30-year-old Nintendo game recently as a mother and has a new appreciation for it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5 min
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The Newspaper Panel

Joining Brendan to discuss the Sunday papers are Ellen Coyne, Political Correspondent at the Irish Times; Gerard Howlin, former government adviser and Public Affairs Consultant; Susanne Rogers, with Social Justice Ireland and Dan Mulhall, Former Irish Ambassador to Washington. Security Analyst Declan Power joins by phone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

54 min
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The Watchlist

Joining Brendan to discuss the best TV and films coming this week are Grainne Humphries, Festival Director of the Dublin International Film Festival and Eoin Sweeney, TV and radio producer. Previews include Niall Breslin’s new documentary ‘All That Remains’ as well as movies like Jessie Buckley’s ‘The Bride’ and ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 min
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“I thought art didn’t exist in Ireland” - artist, Dorothy Cross

Artist Dorothy Cross tells Brendan about her Cork childhood, competitive swimming, the thrill of having her art first exhibited by the Tate in London, turning 70 and the joys of the sea. She picked five songs that meant something special to her throughout her life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

33 min
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Eva Pau’s Sensational Stir Fries!

TV Chef & Asia Market MD, Eva Pau, has easy recipes for delicious stir fry recipes such as simple fried rice, black pepper beef and a veggie stir fry. She also talks through the best equipment to use when stir frying. A new series of ‘Eva Pau’s Asian Kitchen’ started this week on RTÉ Television.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 min
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Ex-Trump advisor, Anthony Scaramucci: “I was in the Epstein Files”

Where is JD Vance? Is Rubio the coming man? One week into the US-Israel war on Iran, Brendan speaks to host of The Rest is Politics US, and President Trump’s former White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

14 min
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Ireland’s Prettiest Towns and Villages

Pól O’Conghaile, Travel Editor of the Irish Independent, joins Brendan with his pick of the prettiest places to visit in Ireland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

13 min
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Leo Varadkar: ‘I think the European-Atlantic relationship is changed forever’

Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who has recently returned from the US, gives his take on the fall of the Iranian regime as the war enters its second week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

11 min

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Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.