100 episodes
Brendan O'Connor RTÉ
-
- News
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.
-
Artist, Dorothy Cross - “The early days weren’t easy. I was broke as a church mouse!”
One of Ireland’s most celebrated artists, Dorothy Cross, talks to Brendan about how she has cultivated a true sense of freedom, her elemental need to live near the sea and why she’s repatriating a mummy from Cork to Egypt.
-
Newspaper Panel
Joining Brendan in studio to talk through the Sunday paper are; Sunday Times Columnist Alison O’Connor, Housing Policy Expert and Former Chair of Threshold Aideen Hayden, Chairman and CEO of the Flynn Group and Member of the Housing Commission Michael O’Flynn and CEO of ESRI Prof Alan Barrett.
-
The Watch List
Freelance Culture Journalist Zara Hedderman and Dave O’Callaghan host of the From Here and Back Again podcast give their recommendations for what to watch on the big and small screens for the week ahead.
-
Why Goth Will Never Die
With the success of Netflix’s Wednesday and the popularity of Eurovision’s Bambi Thug, Head of the IFI Irish Film Archive and ‘life-long’ Goth Kasandra O’Connell chats to Brendan about the darker side of the arts and why Goth is the most enduring subculture of them all.
-
An ED doctor on coming back from burnout
Dr Emily O’Conor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, talks to Brendan about her experience of burnout and what we lose if we fail to value empathy in healthcare.
-
Eurovision Fever
Eurovision legend Linda Martin is live from Malmo to discuss all things Bambie Thug and the Eurovision experience.